Теодор Златанов / Ted Zlatanov

@tzz@infosec.exchange
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The Blue Tape List

We remodeled the downstairs of the house several years ago. Two rooms had walls moved to make way for additional rooms. Deep construction. Months of noise, plastic tarps, dust, and decisions. When they start applying the drywall, it starts to look like your house again, and you begin to hope for du

Rands in Repose
I was actually there for some of those conversations!! LOL. 🤓
https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114864636988785040
Jason Lefkowitz (@jalefkowit@vmst.io)

Attached: 1 image You work at Microsoft. It is 1999. You are in a meeting where an executive is telling you the Recycle Bin needs to be tilted to the right. You work at Microsoft. It is 2007. You are in a meeting where an executive is telling you the Recycle Bin needs to be tilted to the left. You work at Microsoft. It is 2020. You are in a meeting where an executive is telling you the Recycle Bin needs to be facing straight ahead

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Looks like my mom has started listening to the latest @atpfm member special. https://atp.fm/atp-tier-list-pizza-toppings
Then they came for the sarcastic people and I was like oh great that's exactly what we need right now well done to all concerned.

“In the past two years, however, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.”

“It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system, Bill McKibben writes.

The New Yorker

TIL: Ever wanted to compress data or use cryptographic algorithms but you don't want to link to C libraries or you're just plain lazy?

The Linux kernel has you covered! Create a socket of type AF_ALG, bind to your favorite algorithm, send() in your data and recv() it back!

This seems to support deflate, SHA, RSA and some more on ppc64le and additionally even zstd, chacha, lzo, hmac and more on ARM!

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/crypto/userspace-if.html

User Space Interface — The Linux Kernel documentation

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social 💬 "C'est simplement la sélection naturelle, parbleu!"
Probably my favorite hidden feature in 80’s and 90’s PC games was a “boss” key you’d press to pause the game and bring up a fake spreadsheet. Because of course you would play them at work, not at home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
Boss key - Wikipedia

Season one of #murderbot was amazing
max (of okcupid, keybase, sparknotes) is doing it again, he's wild for this one https://blog.foks.pub/posts/introducing/
Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service | The FOKS Blog

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The Four Horsemen of The Naming Soup Apocalypse are now complete.

(Spoiler: the fourth one is real - see thread)

*Edit: forgot an important Fifth Horseman, mentioned in the comments:

https://infosec.exchange/@cjust/114820379745453988

@tychotithonus aka POINT's client list.

Seriously, all my clients are either a made up word missing a shitload of vowels like INSPYR or a very boring unsearchable word like bread.

@Sempf @tychotithonus NOTHING, however, can beat the majestic idiocy of IBM's rebranding of the AS/400 minicomputer range—a multibillion dollar business—to "System i" in 2006, which kneecapped its discoverability in every search tool ever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AS/400#Rebranding

IBM AS/400 - Wikipedia

@cstross @Sempf @tychotithonus Dunkin’ Donuts (a massive chain) rebranded as just “Dunkin’” about five years ago, even though donuts are still their main product. When I search my maps app for donuts, Dunkin’ doesn’t appear. Genius.

@adamrice
Whereas even a number of small businesses near me understand the power of search:

@cstross @Sempf @tychotithonus

@tychotithonus

I really should have charged for pejorativ.com when it was alive.

Name it with a Pejorativ!

@jrconlin @tychotithonus ooo, I should name my next project "Mongsploydoing!" It's a MongoDB fork that responds to all requests with documentation about deploying itself that you already know.
@tychotithonus obligatory "CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA?" post
@cjust Ooh, yeah - totally spaced that one, it's definitely a peer of the others. Five Horsepeople, then. 😂
@tychotithonus You know when some anti-commie fuck back in the 2000's, lonvingly, handcraftedly photoshopped supermarket shelves with cans, boxes or somesuch things with plain, boring, black-on-white labels that indicated what was inside those containers and made a macro with "THIS IS THE WORLD THE COMMUNISTS WANT"? Yeah, that is actually what I want now.

@Illuminatus @tychotithonus the local Coop chain in Sweden had products like this in the 80s

https://kf.se/en-text-om-blavitt/

En text om Blåvitt » KF

Blåvita varor kom 1979 och var starten för Konsums satsning på varor med ”ständigt lågt pris”. Det blev en succé! Den tydliga ekonomiska medlemsnyttan blev förstasidesstoff i flera tidningar och de nya blåvita varorna hyllades av konsumenter, opinionsbildare och branschfolk.…

KF

@gerikson @Illuminatus @tychotithonus It seemed to be quite common in the 80s - multiple supermarket chains went all-in on "bland label" branding here. "Yellow Pack" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pack) has remained in the vernacular as meaning "cheap and generic version of a thing".

The rival Superquinn chain had fantastic graphic design on theirs; the brand was called "Thrift" and the packaging was pure black and white, with big chunky balloon lettering.

Yellow Pack - Wikipedia

@dotcolm @gerikson @Illuminatus @tychotithonus Yes. The cult movie Repo Man satirized this. In one scene, Otto pulls a can labelled FOOD out of a refrigerator.