When you get junk mail from Canada, it's...

In non-CVE news, here's some fun hardware I got while visiting Hong Kong. It's not the snappiest laptop I've ever used, but it holds potential!

Kernel source is all public (there's a 6.1.y and 6.6.y tree at the moment), hopefully will start working on getting it all merged upstream to make it a proper platform for others to use.

Got Linus switched over to a FIDO2-backed ssh key. You should, too!

https://korg.docs.kernel.org/fido2.html

"Purging voter registrations" is a much more powerfull election interference op than anything Russians did.

Air defence systems used by countries:

US: Patriot
Israel: The Iron Dome
Russia: Jake Sullivan

bsky is certainly uma coisa a ver tonight.

My boss: "how is that Gemini AI trial going? Are you making good use of it?"
Me: "Oh, yeah, for sure."

Time to go on another inbox taming spree. Thank you for your patience if you've been waiting on me to respond. Today is your day!

I'm not Ukrainian, but until the last Russian soldier is kicked out of their borders and the Russian government fully pays for the death, suffering, and destruction it brought -- fuck yeah I'm Ukrainian.

Happy independence day, Ukraine.

If I haven't responded to your helpdesk request it's because I'm neck deep in server migrations. Thank you for your patience.

I work in cybersecurity. Your VPN went obsolete years ago. Nobody tracks you by IP address anymore, because they can be hidden and changed. You're now tracked by your digital fingerprint, like your hardware serial numbers, which VPNs can't hide. You're spending money for nothing.

I don't know who to credit for this but it's perfect

#media #DNC2024

Me answering a simple "where are you from" question:

2005: Oh, I was born and grew up in Russia. I left when I was 18 to go to college in the US.
2008: Oh, I was born in Russia, but I've lived my whole adult life in the US or Canada.
2014: Uh, I was born in the USSR and left shortly after it fell apart. I've lived my whole adult life in the US or Canada.
2022: My mom was born in Kazakhstan and my dad is part Erzyan and part Volga German, but I've lived in the US or Canada since I was a teenager.

what happens if you hang up on matt daemon? does he reread his config file?

neovim? You mean elvis?

Me, when I start explaining DMARC, DKIM and how they work with mailing lists.

This is why you should always let us edit form fields by hand.

I'd like to propose a new game, which I call "GPTGuessr:" you post a result and people have to guess the prompt that generated it.

I'll go first:

### The Book of Deuteronomy
#### Chapter 35: The Contest of the Cups

1. In the days of the prophets, when Israel wandered in the wilderness, an angel of the Lord descended to commune with the prophet Elias.

2. The Lord, seeing the weariness of His people, commanded a game to be played between His prophet and His messenger, to lighten their hearts.

3. The Lord instructed Elias to fill ten clay vessels with wine and arrange them on a table in two rows.

4. The angel Raphael stood opposite Elias, and the Lord said, “Cast small stones into the vessels of your opponent. Whosoever spills the wine shall drink, and the cup shall be removed.”

5. Elias cast a stone, striking true, and Raphael drank from the cup, removing it from the table.

6. The angel then cast a stone, also hitting a vessel, and Elias drank, removing the cup.

7. The game continued, each casting stones and drinking the wine as the Lord had ordained, and the people marveled at the wisdom of the Lord in this game.

8. As the game neared its end, with one vessel remaining on each side, Raphael cast his stone but missed.

9. Elias, with humility, cast his final stone and struck the last vessel of the angel, spilling the wine.

10. The angel praised Elias, saying, “The Lord is with thee, for thou hast played with righteousness.”

11. The people rejoiced, seeing that even in games, the Lord's hand is present, guiding His children.

12. And so it was written, that in the days of old, the Lord showed His people that joy and faith are united in His love, even in their games.