So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

ht @mattl

We deserve better tech.

We could in fact have nice things,
if we fought for it.

So, I'm at DEFCON. I'm releasing a tool tomorrow called Freon.

Freon is intended to help international software teams resist government backdoors by decentralizing code signing.

Freon uses FROST (compat with Ed25519) and age (for encrypting each share).

If you're here, come to the DEFCON Furs at 2:30 pm. I'll be in fursuit for my talk announcing it. Should be a fun time!

(If you're not here, I have a blog post scheduled to go live at the same time.)

Either way, Freon will be open source. :3

I nominate https://docs.openssl.org/3.3/man3/d2i_X509/ as #OpenSSL's worst man page. And there's fierce competition for that award.

And in the end it does not even mention the weird behavior: it stores errors in an internal queue which mysteriously makes the *next* invoked function fail...