I work too much :(
I'm new to mastodon and twitter-like social media websites. I created this account to vent about work and post information and snippets that I or others might find useful later. My workweek ends on Thursdays in theory :/
#PatchTuesday is today starting 7-8PM Kuwait local time. Pizza and pepsi for all involved! #security #microsoft #it #enterprise
Spoiler: There will be no pizza or pepsi. No one will be coming either. Just the sound of freezing air circulating an empty office.
The logical outcome of so-called "responsible" disclosure or #CVD was always going to be what Microsoft is doing now: burying vulnerabilities and hounding down researchers who dare to warn victims.
_Any_ limitations on how researchers disclose their findings will lead to this, no matter what incentives or deterrents governments employ.
You can have security or you can controlled disclosures. You can't have both.
Whatever happened to the . الكويت #IDN #cctld? There were a ton of references to it a couple of years back, but now I can't find any no mater where I look. It's as if it never existed. its not... punny.
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Okay, I'll get my bisht.
Seriously, the only references I could find were some stale example in the registrar's official policies. I wonder if there is a way to look up the registration status at ICANN.
Punycode: xn--mgbg8edvm
I just discovered that Null Island, aka PIRATA Station 13010, aka Soul buoy, was decommissioned in 2021 and no longer exists.
I know this is irrational, but I've always found real comfort in the thought that, regardless of what was going in life, there was a small buoy silently floating at geo:0,0 half way around the globe.
I hope someone replaces it. Null Island. should exist.
It may not be the fanciest but it does the job and keeps people safe. Because of that I like it.
Other light houses in Kuwait: https://ibiblio.org/lighthouse/kwt.htm
I stumbled across a really neat directory that catalogues the lighthouses of the world.
Link to the directory: https://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse
You can tell the amount of love and passion its authors put into it. Even the design (or the lack thereof) shows where their focus went.
Sites like this warm my heart, though in this case it wasn't without sadness; the lighthouses of this country were destroyed recently https://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/pse.htm
Not sure if #indieweb but def. feels like it. #lighthouse
Having worked with enterprise systems for most of my career, I am unable to fathom businesses voluntarily locking their core business functions behind google maps APIs and not falling back to GPS coordinates when those APIs eventually break.
Most global online stores work tirelessly to grind down friction in their checkout process, but here we apparently increase friction for reasons beyond mortal comprehension. The culprit here is #hypermax app. #kuwait #google #googlemaps #ecommerce #android
#Philips geofenced me from downloading an instruction manual for a cooker I bought from an official store in #Kuwait. There was no printed manual in the box.
Lesson learned. Do not buy any #Philips product unless you download its instruction manual first. If this advice sounds absurd to you, it should.
All I wanted was to easily prepare myself a warm meal after a long day . I don't have energy for this shit.
