Topher 🌱

@topher@infosec.space
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120 Following
240 Posts

Just a random person and their much cooler dog around whom their world revolves. Interested in privacy and security.

Growing food 🚜
Subverting spyware 🕵️
Fixing stuff 🔧
Torturing myself with Linux 🐧
Eating plant-based foods 🌱

If you harvest my personal data without my consent, I will send my dog to pee on your server. 🐶

MIMEperson/x-generic
Topher 🌱Apr 14
Michael Lucas Apr 14

BSD: "netstat!"
Windows: "netstat!"
Linux: "oh, we threw netstat away. ss is the new hotness that's just like netstat, except it's not"

#sysadmin

Topher 🌱Apr 1

In response to my constant abject frustration with Linux desktop, combined with my severe deficit of spoons to fight for hours with my computer to accomplish even the simplest of tasks, I'll be switching back to macOS.

This is:

An April fool's joke
30.8%
Not an April fool's joke
7.7%
Both?
61.5%
Poll ended at .
Topher 🌱Mar 24

Can someone at #GNOME please make it so that if you don't have nautilus installed, xdg-desktop-portal just falls back to using the GTK file picker instead of just failing with no errors or log messages whatsoever to even be able to know what's broken?

I just spent 40 minutes figuring out why "Save file as..." and "Save image as..." wouldn't work in any web browser, only to discover that you HAVE to have nautilus installed now, whether you want it or not, to be able to use even other applications, starting with v47.

I do not want Nautilus on my machines. Further, I strongly dislike the new Nautilus file picker anyways.

You should be able to use an alternate file manager on your #Linux desktop if you want, without it breaking everything and still needing the one you hate and do not want installed on your computer. This is getting seriously absurd to the point where you are not allowed to change or customize anything or even use the applications you prefer. Seriously, wtf?

Topher 🌱Feb 27
Treat all software like it's malware and you'll never be disappointed.
Topher 🌱Feb 26
Apple may be a deranged cult but when you walk into an Apple store at least they're fucking nice to you.
Topher 🌱Feb 17
It's painkiller and snuggle on floor with dog bed as pillow o'clock.
Topher 🌱Feb 14

Ok, for those of you who already know how to computer, here you go - this should be pretty damn good (pending a few additional things I'll be reviewing and potentially tweaking/adding).

Put these on your outbound and/or forward chains with reject or drop targets and enjoy not being able to reach Facebook/Meta properties.

I'll be publishing an actual script as well as all my notes and reference on these ranges, the netblock names, link to the SEC filings to confirm the names of their subsidiaries, so forth.

#Facebook #FuckFacebook #Meta #Firewall

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Topher 🌱Feb 14

Hey lovely peoples,

I am having fun with CIDR updating my anti-facebook outbound firewall lists and will have fresh new scripts for you incoming soon 

Topher 🌱Feb 9
Upgrading computers is a scam. Your 20-year-old machine buried in the back of the closet is honestly still probably just fine.
Topher 🌱Feb 8
Michael Lucas Feb 8
"Oh, ads don't put that much burden on your browser! You're exaggerating how bad they are!"