Will Dormann

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I play with vulnerabilities and exploits.
I used to be https://twitter.com/wdormann but Twitter has become unbearable, so here I am.

I wrote a thing about a thing.

Specifically, Finding Vulnerabilities with Crassus – A Case Study with ESET.

I created Crassus on a whim a few years ago, and it's interesting to see that it still can find things.

It's also interesting (disappointing) that reporting vulnerabilities to vendors is still as painful as ever.

Dear Linux UI people:
If you want to round corners, cool.

However, if you do round corners, maybe just maybe move the point where the cursor is activated to where the corner actually is after rounding. Not where it would have been if you didn't do the rounding. 🤷‍♂️

I've always known that I'm terrible at using websites (I never know where to click). But I guess I've recently realized that this applies to apps as well.

Today's case: Paragon Hard Disk Manager.

My goal: Mount a backup as a drive letter.
After multiple rounds with support, I convinced them to indicate on a screenshot exactly where it is that I should click.

I get that I'm possibly being obtuse, but I have NEVER in my computing years been drawn to click on a thin DOTTED LINE part of an arrow with the expectation of it doing something.

And no, there was no mouse hover indication that the line had special meaning.

Shortly after switching to T-Mobile (Both faster and better than Verizon), I get a spam email linking to a fake T-Mobile website.

There are probably lots of parties that get notice of such a change. Who do I blame? 😂

P.S. Smart apostrophes? Try harder.

Me, looking at a broken tool...
I think it's the brushless motor controller board (after lots of diagnostics).

Oh, it's hard-wired in.

Oh, this is the replacement "part", which costs almost as much as the entire tool, new. Everything is disposable now, huh?

I had to get this idea out of my head. #TheyLive #LLM
My office smells of potting soil..
I may have a small problem. 😂
I can't explain why, but I get some amount of enjoyment knowing that there is a song out there titled Pale Vegan Hip Pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m_TJSvUZzM
Pale Vegan Hip Pain

YouTube

> builds a GRUB replacement in 2016
> spends 5 years breaking GRUB piece by piece
> strips LUKS encryption from /boot "for security"
> proposes to remove: btrfs, xfs, zfs
> keeps SquashFS, two CVEs, one rated 7.8 HIGH
> controls the signing keys for all of it
> Canonical promoted him.

https://www.sambent.com/canonicals-grub-saboteur-has-a-10-year-plan

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