Ah, the joys of self-hosting mail these days. You take pains to set everything up meticulously -- SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC... and then your server gets immediately blocklisted just because it's "newly observed IP."

Abusix, what a shitshow.

Ooh yeah that'll getcha

Sums up the BBC

🖊️ Cartoon by Stephen Collins

#BBC

I feel so seen.

Canadian martial arts nazis: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/white-supremacist-conference-vancouver-9.6970604

PSA: do not upgrade to anubis-1.23 if your monitoring relies on checking /robots.txt to see if Anubis is up.

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/commit/59f1e3616756f9dbdad2a25824fbc3480c0863ec

FOSS software is not free as in beer or free as in freedom, it's free as in free kittens. You have to take care of them forever.

Today is also the 10 year anniversary of the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project. https://kspp.github.io/
I'm proud that we've gotten A LOT done in the last decade to harden Linux against security flaws.

I posted this before, but here's a review of the last ten years:
https://outflux.net/slides/2025/lss/kspp-decade.pdf
And the video:
https://youtu.be/c_NxzSRG50g

I released korgalore 0.1 -- the tool to put lore mailing lists directly into your gmail inbox using gmail's api.

Announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/tools/20251105-mottled-bizarre-marmoset-b055ae@lemur/T/#u

Docs: https://korgalore.docs.kernel.org/

I started a new helper tool to shove lore lists directly into gmail using the gmail API.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/korgalore/korgalore.git/about/

It's bare minimal on the features right now -- I'll let it run in a screen session and see what bugs I catch.

I am yet again flabbergasted how mind-blowingly difficult it is to upload a message to your own gmail account using Google's Gmail API.

I shouldn't have to create a developer account just to do this.

There's burnout, and then there's "any improvement to technology that I help create will likely just make fascism more effective."

Elon Musk is having a very bad week.

The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.

Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos.

Musk’s response?
Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question
“why are you gay”
—the rhetorical sophistication we’ve come to expect from the richest man-child on the planet having a public meltdown

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/elon-musk-discovers-what-hierarchy-actually-means/

Start calling it the Epstein Ballroom. Pass it on.

"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show."

Terry Pratchett

A funny case study of the 21st “software engineering” at its best.

As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.

Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.

When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.

And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.

Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)

breaking: city of hague offers to host the meeting of putin and trump

Ben & Jerry's needs a "Punking ICE" flavour this fall.

Asshat service of the day: spfbl.net

Not only do they have asinine requirements that privacy protection is removed from the DNS record, they want $2 for each delisting request.

Do not use.