Finally got power back at home. Thinking of people in Kharkiv who have been without power for days and who still don't know if and when they will get it back.

Periodic lamentation about how stupid it is to have 80kWh sitting in my driveway and no way to use it for the rest of the house in emergencies.

Sticky snow + wind = no power for me

Generative AI seems to now be a bigger creator of disinformation than the Republican party.

Closed source software doesn’t have backdoors.

It does have “undocumented administrative features” and “development tools mistakenly enabled in production”, but not backdoors.

Yes, it is possible to backdoor the upstream kernel. No, I'm not the right guy to ask. I literally have a talk about this.

https://youtu.be/K3SVt1WCheY

I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.

If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Backdoor in xz. Wow. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

GMail hits new levels of being unusable for kernel work:

(host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.200.26] said: 421-4.7.28 Gmail has detected this message exceeded its quota for sending 421-4.7.28 messages with the same Message-ID. To best protect our users, the 421-4.7.28 message has been temporarily rejected. For more information, go to 421 4.7.28 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 me13-20020a170902fc4d00b001e0cd7403a1si1415673plb.79 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command))

Needless to say, this affects delivery of messages sent to multiple mailing lists if the recipient is subscribed to several of them.

True story.

https://www.savagechickens.com/2024/03/easter-tradition.html

From a tweet of mine from 2011, but evergreen:

I DEMAND TO KNOW WHY YOUR GROUP OF OVERWORKED VOLUNTEERS, WHICH I AM NOT A MEMBER OF, IS NOT PURSUING MY PERSONAL GRIEVANCE.

Sources: the US and UK are reviewing $20B+ in Tether transactions through Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex, as part of a crackdown on sanctions evasions (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/crypto-transfers-to-russian-exchange-worth-20-billion-probed-by-us-uk
http://www.techmeme.com/240328/p21#a240328p21

"Live honourably and die on a good day to die."

The story of Vulcan kids raised by Klingons needs to be told!

If your company uses proofpoint, you should question how well that money is spent.

A comedy in two acts:

1. (delivery temporarily suspended: host mxb-0031df01.gslb.pphosted.com[205.220.180.131] refused to talk to me: 421 Deferred - see https://ipcheck.proofpoint.com/?ip=147.75.80.249)

2. (attached)

Me, materializing in front of my past self in the early 90's: "One day, you will send thousands of mail messages via Australia just so they are delivered more quickly."
Past self: "LOL, WTF."
Me: "Oh, you'll be saying that a lot in 30 years."

Watching huge mail queues trying to deliver to gmail again...

The regime that has allied itself with Hamas, Taliban, and Iran would appreciate your support in dealing with Islamic extremism.

Yesterday my wife gave birth to lovely twin babies — a boy and a girl. We can’t choose our parents, we can’t choose where we are born. Ours were born to parents who unconditionally love them, and they were born in the capital of a free country, Kyiv of Ukraine.

But just because the nation of a neighboring country, in its absolute majority, is sick with chauvinism and has dark barbarian worldview, our newborn babies had to spent their very first night in this world in the basement of a maternity hospital along with dozens other newborns, their parents, and those who are only about to give birth; a basement which serves as an improvised shelter for more than two years already and not only saves lives, but is occasionally a place to give lives — some women give childbirth right there. Last night russia sent 11 strategic bombers to launch 29 cruise missiles towards Ukrainian sleeping cities; then, expecting that they’ve exhausted Kyiv’s air defense, they tried to break through with 2 more ballistic missiles, which they long claimed and threatened to be “impossible to intercept”. Thanks to all partners who supplied Ukraine with anti-missiles systems, and to titanic efforts of Ukrainian Air Defense Forces, all missiles were shot down over Kyiv. No people were killed, 13 were wounded, 4 hospitalized, as missiles debris damaged several buildings and burned a few cars.
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This time all our newborns are alive. But we should remember that more than 500 Ukrainian children have already been killed in this war. And it’s ongoing. Please, support Ukraine, give us more weapons to defend ourselves. This weapon is just some money that literally can save a lot of lives, and stop aggressor from doing even more evil, to stop even more newborns coming to this world in basements hiding from missiles that are targeted to kill them the very first day.
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#Ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar

The House just voted to condemn Putin’s kidnapping of Ukrainian children.

9 Republicans voted against the resolution.

Chip Roy
Andy Biggs
Tom Tiffany
Clay Higgins
Eric Burlison
Thomas Massie
Matt Rosendale
Warren Davidson
Marjorie Taylor Greene

Remember in November.