Didn't take too many pictures of Sydney, since it rained pretty much the entire time I've been here. I think they need the rain more than I need the sun though. So no photos of the succulent garden (who wants to see a wet cactus?) or sad elephants at the zoo. And I've got pictures of pretty much everything on my other, other phone anyway. Also discovered my newer phone has the disagreeable habit of changing screen brightness as I'm framing a shot, so some of the exposures are all wrong. Ah well. Adios!

Clock o'clocks

This is a real place.

Somebody might actually support something other than rsa for http signatures? 2020 could be the year of 21st century crypto!

All you see is past

DZ: pants ahead

I took snippets of the DEC BASIC-8 manual for the TSS/8 operating system and inserted them into a poetry generator. This is the poem. (The randomizer runs the same every time (no seeds though I could fake it) so this is in a sense *the* output.)

Enter here

The blue banded bee & torenia flower

This is a nice overview of the digital clock aboard the Soyuz spacecraft. It was made in 1984 and it was a remarkable look at Soviet era electronics

http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html

#RetroHardware

"Yeah, but it's a warm rain" is even dumber than "it's a dry heat".

It's just as ridiculous in person.

Distributed denial of decorum attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22075336

One thing you can say for scrum, it has elegant solutions for a lot of the problems it introduces
GonzoHacker

I suppose I need to announce that I never told you to use honk, so if you do, that's your fault, and none of this "but you promised" bullshit when I stop working on it.

Welcome to fedi! To finish your application, please differentiate between circles, groups, lists, and aspects. Your usage license should be available shortly after approval.

I went after the nameserver hiding in usr.sbin/bind/lib/dns ​

67 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 87889 deletions(-)

which brings the total since I started up to:

574 files changed, 2082 insertions(+), 165046 deletions(-)

Build time is now down to 1m23.94s real from about 2m05

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Really hope the AUD exchange rate is about what I think it is.

New pseudo-driver dt(4): dynamic tracer

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157920008000433&w=2

#OpenBSD

Multicore OCaml will ship this year guaranteed or your money back" -- KC Sivaramakrishnan

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/where-is-multicore-development-happening/4997/8

Wish this had been 4 years ago I would have lapped it up now I’m not sure how I would fit this in … next year perhaps!

Mission report: I believe I've made contact with the local honker.

Location: -33.87 151.21

Rain jacket acquired. Good thing I didn't pack one or now I'd have two.

Heh, the pine phone has serial over headphones. I've got one of those cables somewhere around the house.

Welcome to sunny Sydney.

Location: -33.88 151.21

Welcome to sunny Sydney.

Location: -33.88 151.21

Need to add no images mode to honk for edge data speeds.

Oh man, flight is overweight and they need sixteen people to fly tomorrow.

16 packets transmitted, 11 packets received, 31.2% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 804.789/1146.421/1579.524/245.577 ms

If I had real system monitoring setup, instead of grepping log files every few weeks, I'd probably fix things faster. But then I'd have more stuff to do.

I'm looking into what it takes to build a silent PC, and... A 25 foot HDMI cable is $15?

There is now a red dot on my Firefox icon. Starting it gives no indication of what the trouble may be. But the dot remains, stubbornly persistent. I love software.

Sometimes I reply to someone's post to increase visibility, then I remember mastodon hides replies. Oh well.

Activitypub openid bridge so I can connect honk to my Shopify when?

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/01/today-in-cadt-apple-edition/

Time fixes all bugs. One way or another.

So that was moderately cool. Scanned my passport with my phone with NFC by holding them together. Not sure this is really worth all the complexities and risks involved, but for about six seconds there I was living in the future.

I have 200 lines of javascript to add a touch of responsiveness to a page that CSS can't quite handle. Is it worth rewriting in typescript and adding the entire TS toolchain to my build process?

TS fanatics: unqualified yes!

Microsoft's Chain of Fools

https://blog.lessonslearned.org/chain-of-fools/

> This post is a quick day one recap of what we know so far about CVE-2020-0601, what Microsoft has dubbed the Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability. I haven’t heard a catchy name yet, so I vote for Chain of Fools with a dutiful nod to the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin. The analyses presented (my own included) are only as good as the information we have on hand, which so far is still fairly thin on technical details. This is by no means intended to be exhaustive or authoritative, just a curated selection of information sources from people who are technically credible or experts in the field.

#auth #crypto #security #turtles #windows

The three people at the table next to me have been conducting a meeting for five minutes, and I have no idea what it's about. Pull up the email, review the feedback, refresh our objective, realign the mission, orient the target. Laying the foundation for greatness, surely. I can't wait to find out what it is they're working on.

Software developers, project maintainers please listen to my plea:

If you break your users's config because it's insecure, YOU DID A GOOD THING FOR THE PLANET

Change the defaults. Make them better. It's more important admins wake up to a broken service that is easily corrected than having severe data loss, cryptolockers, etc etc destroying this society.

Let's see if everything is working... Activate the Pub! Pub the Activities!

tedu added 40 photos to downington laboratory and vacations and bon voyages.

DTLA

Walking around LA for a day.

DZ: self portrait

"What's an Orgeron?"

If I'm honest with myself, most of the photos I take are similar enough I could probably train a tensornetflowneuron to upscale, and then only upload thumbnails to save bandwidth.

IRL traceroute complete. Found the exchange between home and server.

New spam: you may lose your rights in 2019!

At this point, I think I either have or I haven't, no may about it.

When someone explains why they didn't convert to python 3 ten years ago, I'm not sure "this is false since Python 3.6" is the best rebuttal.

Almost forgot, today marks right years since apostrophe elision resulted in the collapse of Western Civilization. Remember kids, when you omit apostrophes, old people find that painful and debilitating.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2086128/Waterstones-O-apostrophe-art-thou-.html

Current status: llegado

I cannot express how much I love that the transport situation at LAX changes literally every time I come here. A fresh new mystery full of delightful intellectual stimulation.

Location: LAX 33.94 -118.41

Today's flight was made a little extra thrilling by the fact that the noise cancelling on my Sony headphones is adjusted by an app, and the app requires you to agree to the privacy policy, and it can only do this while it is connected to the internet.

Just spitballing here, but maybe there's another way to make these things?

Six minutes to clear airport security, curb to gate. Disgraceful.

Apparently most, or even all, AMD Epyc processors have 4x 10gbe on chip, but it's disabled on all but the designated 3000 series processors for embedded systems. And it's hard to find systems that actually connect them to the outside world. Most just seem to still rely on a separate 1gbe controller.

And forgot again that the elephant refuses to acknowledge your existence until you add the webfinger endpoint.

Along the Spree

A few buildings from my walk along the Spree. Fall 2019.

Wheeee! #openbsd TSC sync for MP systems.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=156536401524562&w=2

The long hard road to getting here: https://marc.info/?t=156163735700005&r=1&w=2