Posts by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
(DIR) Post #ASkTZoegoN6luIUjM8 by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-02-16T20:49:39Z
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@tek The system which changes the colour is down.
(DIR) Post #ASkTxMbekSBjrgIvKK by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-02-16T20:53:53Z
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@tek “Fake it till you make it, right team? 100% uptime is our goal!”
(DIR) Post #ASlgGJZXe8RGZ54u3M by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-02-17T10:45:27Z
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@vik $400K for one #Arduino Uno isn’t that ridiculously high. Have you seen the cost of shipping electronics out of the USA to New Zealand lately?
(DIR) Post #ASurlxALKtQOG2Dhdg by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-02-21T21:07:53Z
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@tek You took a photo of the invisible woman’s ankles.
(DIR) Post #ATeVlkQb10BbNSlxvU by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-03-15T21:37:59Z
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@tek Has she been scouring your house for any unused Mason jars so that she may fill them with twine and brown paper?
(DIR) Post #ATouhPi0XzUIOWXvRQ by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-03-20T22:04:33Z
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@tek Linux and it’s I/O stalls with slow devices are real. It’s been over a decade and still a problem. More important: SD cards and SSD have different design targets. On an SD card a hardware fault slams the entire thing into read-only mode to safeguard your data whereas a SSD could mark the blocks bad and shuffle it elsewhere. Much more reliable. https://lwn.net/Articles/572911/
(DIR) Post #AUOEwJl9druHpCnL6W by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-03-28T23:18:32Z
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@lightweight From reading on fyi.org.nz I see that the NZ Police host their body camera data on US-based evidence•com , which is an interesting jurisdiction for sure!
(DIR) Post #AUOEwOJKijchwMogvw by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-03-28T23:23:57Z
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@lightweight They don’t seem to have made the transition to Mastodon which is a shame because I used to follow a number of data sovereignty, privacy, indigenous knowledge experts, and of course, Don Christie, and they were not impressed with the rush to give all our data and money to foreigners. Just this weekend I was explaining COPPA to kids and how it’s not even our law but it affects them. Now I also need to explain CLOUD Act? Hell no.
(DIR) Post #AV3guvicoOHVdJbWPA by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-04-26T23:02:52Z
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@tek I do like the clouds parting, especially when it’s AWS.
(DIR) Post #AV5dLlvBKrY7Z5wPiK by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-04-27T21:32:10Z
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@tek I had a service on a high port that went untouched for years and then one day I accidentally forgot to close port 80/tcp after a Let’s Encrypt certificate renewal. Shodan visited port 80/tcp, followed the redirect to the high port, and then I started to get a huge number of attacks on the high port. Time To First Attack is crazy low for well known ports (80, 22, 25). Remember how Windows XP could be exploited before the installer had completed, if connected to the Internet.
(DIR) Post #AWuUZHNxlynckxt8F6 by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-06-21T08:14:37Z
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@mjg59 It’s an epoch but it counts how many milliseconds since Google last killed a product.
(DIR) Post #AWzsCCLRi1nZw2z42y by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-06-23T22:34:37Z
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@tek People who had literally billions of options and chose the option that ended in their death: good fodder for jokes. People with no options and who died due to circumstances out of their control: not funnyAlright, time to share your favourite billionaire submariner jokes!
(DIR) Post #AXI0q3cyJwRv1MeTmi by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-07-02T05:56:28Z
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When you buy a device with a cheap battery and the battery goes flat and leaks, corroding the terminal, what’s the best way to recover that?Flushing with water? Sanding down the corrosion?It’s not gone long enough that the metal is fatally compromised, just long enough that it’s got a very nice rust patch where the battery should touch.
(DIR) Post #AZwHAsVeO3G3WzbqeO by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-09-19T22:31:59Z
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@tek Thanks for this advice. I did apply vinegar with a cotton bud. It was awfully fiddly. The corrosion had set in quite well. I gave it a quick sand to remove the worst, then a rinse and dry. Still had some battery contact issues that got resolved by jiggling it around. Not brilliant but better than no torch.
(DIR) Post #AaSwckN0v20MYBcNn6 by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-10-05T08:12:26Z
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I hope that fibre isn’t important. I’m sure it’ll be fine. (This is a FX line between two towns. Major enough to be on the ITU map.)
(DIR) Post #AaTHTaTYR2WsIJ9QQa by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-10-05T20:40:50Z
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@tek Quite possibly! The far end of that line is about 60km away. There might be a local POP for some of the schools. The whole bundle got severed when the local fibre was pushed through a couple of years ago. See that discarded plastic ring on the ground? That’s from where they had to replace a water pipe just out of frame.
(DIR) Post #AascF4ELG6nu2nKytE by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-10-18T01:59:22Z
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@mjg59 It hasn’t ruined your repo. It has revealed the inconsistent state of the file system underneath your git repo.
(DIR) Post #AbmMO2yea2vMpGzW3E by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-11-13T23:02:10Z
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Ridiculous Fedi-bot idea. You have under 24 hours to implement.It toots the current Unix timestamp. Name: “Current Unix Timestamp ± 300”Then every few minutes it edits the toot with the correct timestamp. Due to propagation delays it will probably cause a lot of load and callbacks and storage issues, hence the “ ±300” on the end there. Tomorrow we roll from 16999…” to “17000…”. Better implement it soon!
(DIR) Post #AboHw9iVuyB07Uo544 by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-11-14T21:26:53Z
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The cost would be in transmission lines then. @kwf
(DIR) Post #Abzcq9DXdiz62gSITo by acyberexpert@freeradical.zone
2023-11-19T21:10:21Z
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If the loudest company in generative LLMs, OpenAI, is looking for a new leader that brings:✅ many years of experience with the state of the art in AI including LLMs and chat bots ✅ published author✅ research scientist ✅ has worked for Google✅ great follow on MastodonThey really should get in touch with Janelle Shane https://www.aiweirdness.com/