There is that famous technical interview question that goes: what happens behind the scenes when you type in a domain name and press enter? The intention is you talk all about resolving DNS of the host, TCP things and HTTP etc.

A more truthful answer would include:

- Your email address is sent to launch darkly to get applicable feature flags.
- A gigabyte of data is logged to DataDog
- Details about the way you moved your mouse are sent to segment.io
- A bunch of telemetry is sent to Sentry.
- Ads are injected from Facebook.
- Metrics are recorded to Hubspot.
- Page renders in browser.

I'm curious what the Fediverse would recommend as a resource for learning MS-DOS in 2026.

I have limited exposure to it having grown up mostly on Windows 9x, but I use a Linux CLI and these days, I always opt for Powershell in the rare cases where I use Windows because it supports Unix-like commands. As such, I'm very limited on what I know about using DOS.

I see some tutorials on Youtube, I'm just curious what y'all think.

#Retro #retrocomputing #msdos #dos #dosgaming #dosbox #freedos

trying a new thing, have 3D printed a QR code and put it on the front porch

QR code triggers a canary token

want to see if any of the delivery companies are using the drop off proof of delivery pics to train AI

#infosec

ZOMG! It's freakin Patch Tuesday again. And Microsoft has patched a staggering 167 security holes (think more people are using AI to find bugs, maybe?)

tl;dr: There's something for everyone today, like an Adobe Reader 0day that's apparently been exploited since at least November 2025; a SharePoint zero-day; and a fix for BlueHammer -- a Windows Defender bug for which there is working exploit code that no longer works if you install today's Windows updates (as per @wdormann).

#patchtuesday, #microsoft #0days

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition/