mastodon 4.7.2+glitchPerson of illegal gender with an interest in media and technical topics of all kinds. Follow requests are just a precaution, if you have a profile and some posts that don’t give bad vibes I’ll probably okay it. Go read my intro post.
Do not feature me in any “starter packs”.
Toots mostly auto-doot after two weeks.
Ken Thompson, 1984: you know we trust compilers a lot since we use them to compile our compilers; if you hid something in the tool that we use to build our software it could be really hard to find if it covered its tracks well enough
The entire software industry, 2026: lmao hold my beer
If you are sharing something you want other people to use or purchase, the landing page should explain what it is and does. This sounds obvious, but a catastrophic number of open source projects and even businesses fail to do this
I cannot count the number of times someone has dropped into a technical channel/forum/whatever with their thing and I have to ask them multiple times “okay but what does it do” even after reading all obvious material and I am usually surprised by the answer
(subtooting something on another platform)
replying to everyone who says “political violence has no place in (whatever)” with “awesome to have you aboard the movement to abolish the police!!”
DID YOU KNOW??
if you are a low-level member of an organization with the credentials to access authoritative accounts for that organization,
and the organization is 95% people who hate what the 5% of leadership is doing,
you can just post whatever you want??!
You don’t have to make “leadership” happy to do what they want!!
AMAB (All Managers Are Bastards)
RE: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
you should read “cloudflare” in much the same way you read “nestle” and set your disposition towards their products accordingly, especially those that make you reliant on them
but here’s the thing: the default key bindings are one of the worst, least usable tire fires I’ve ever had the displeasure of using
but you can install evil!! and this fixes the problem
except in the places it doesn’t
and in every single package which tries to emulate the default bindings
and yes I could redefine every key in every mode I ever want to use but jeeeeeeeeeezus christ
I’m watching Shrek and Farquaad’s blue and white colors and giant f logo make this incredibly facebook-coded which fits honestly
the only people who have any kind of obligation to not block someone upon thinking for the first time “this shit again??” are democratically elected politicians
sick new CVE/exploit dropped, http://copy.fail
reliably turn unprivileged shell into root on any(ish) Linux kernel released 2017-2026 (~I need versions, dambit~ 4.14 until 6.18) in less than a kilobyte of python
that’s going in the back pocket forever. how many IoT devices do you think will update their kernel? now if you can get unprivileged shell then welp