Farce Majeure
vathpela@infosec.exchange
<p>Hooloovoo, kernel{, }hacker. Building better worlds. Opinions are messages from space. Facts approximate. Photos are square. he/they. 0.9x eng 🚴 :mbta: Ban cars. Sometimes I make portraits of buildings and infrastructure.</p>
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The anti-housing people sending me flyers in the mail claim one place is "mostly studios; 80% luxury". I don't think I've ever seen anything I'd call a Luxury (393sqft) Studio... Also the filed plans have 8 studio, 20 one bedroom, and 6 two bedroom units. It looks decent for small apartments.
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Any of y'all want to help run software for a transit system? https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta/jobs/5226038/deputy-director-of-software-engineering
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RIP to Tim Curry, a true Disney Queen.
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It's August, so I've said a thing about Secure Boot over here: https://blog.uncooperative.org/uefi/secure%20boot/linux/shim/2026/08/03/shim-info.html
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@Brendan @TheWarOnCars So instead she's going to get a bunch of "does not follow through on promises" criticism?
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Today in being forced to use LLMs because "vulnerability" disclosures have been produced by them: no version numbers or git revisions anywherethe reports are malformed markdown which has then been filed into a jira ticket which doesn't accept markdown anywayMany of the CVSS scores look like: "CVSS:3.1/AV/AC:L/..." where it should be "AV:L", but the bot, which again only knows statistically what a CVSS score looks like, is generating gibberish.the diffs for "...
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@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems believe it or not, Fedora is still a community distro. In any case we don't really need to speculate about all the things LF could do.
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Saw The Odyssey. Without spoiling anything, what I'll say is that if you film in 70mm and do a lot of wide open night closeup shots, you're gonna have a bunch of shots of faces that are halfway out of focus.
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It is nasty out there in Camberville. Biked two miles home and I smell like I light my house with coal.
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@occult@vox.ominous.net that is not the Red Line.
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@zwol@hackers.town oh hey, I've seen iso9660: both byte orders simultaneously with no plan for if they differ
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It is July, and I have said some things about Secure Boot here: https://blog.uncooperative.org/uefi/secure%20boot/linux/shim/2026/07/02/shim-info.html
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Dunno why this isn't what I expected ordering a spool of 100' of wire from DigiKey.
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Oh, by the way, Microsoft's 2011 UEFI CA expired last week. The world did not end.
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@xyla@shitpost.trade @mattdm@hachyderm.io so do flea markets
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TIL*: my retroreflective jacket is bad for photography. The "are you looking through the eye hole" sensor is pretty much perpetually triggered at any distance where I can reach the camera. Well, yesterday.
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So, uh, can we criminalize dropping 0days on github without doing /any/ coordinated disclosure yet?
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@eloy@hsnl.social it is the oldest comms system currently in commercial use, and it will outlive us all.
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@hughsie Well, that's not working.
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Suddenly today there were tulips. Have some #BloomScrolling
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Netgear is the first consumer router company to spam me about being compliant with Trump's FCC's policies. Coincidentally they're also a company I stopped buying routers from many years ago due to built-in backdoors they couldn't fix with a firmware upgrade.
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RE: https://void.rehab/notes/akh7k9ygiwu4eo23 Nine fives is really the difficult milestone, IMO.