@mjg59 i tried out my buddy's airpods the other day

"nah, too cold"

@mjg59 make sure to use constant time primitives in your cryptography implementation, because it reduces audio jitter.

@mjg59 cc Andrew Robinson

@mjg59 unfortunately (now I'm very curious as to where the bug was here)

@mjg59 what about https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083?

@mjg59 I find these recent takes by the Linux “Master Race” / Community extremely toxic and damaging to the community. Open Source Software is not the answer and has shared it’s own number of recent controversies (ie XC, OpenSSL) but these seem to be forgotten about pretty quickly - just because it’s open doesn’t mean it’s secure. As a software developer and user of MacOS, Windows 11 and Debian 12, I find all 3 OS’s have their place, purpose and reason to co-exist

@mjg59 Thank you for explaining that. Now it makes more sense.

@mjg59 Interesting. So 'recall' still does the screen capture but the parts that are DRM'd just aren't visible?

@mjg59 It is a hardware design decision that tells you where their priorities lie and who they are willing to protect.

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sed -i s/elon/dipstick/Ig

"Donald Trump's election deniers boosted by dispstick Musk" 💯

"Donald Trump has been charged with multiple fdipstickies."🤔

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Since this change was designed with the use of only one brain cell it must have been made by that cat.

@mjg59 Elon fails regular expressions forever.

@mjg59 Unfortunately this is based on information we don't have as regular citizens. Meaning we don't know the benefits vs the damage from us (the West) inserting backdoors in various software projects

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer it’s like encryption backdoors, only the good nation states are allowed to add or use them. It’s fine.

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@mjg59 I feel like faking that database would have required a VM or real hardware of correct vintage, a fitting OS, being isolated from the outside world, setting the date in BIOS setup before installing the OS, and then carefully, over several reboots while warping time again in setup, making those DB entries.

And then the email problem would still have existed. I think the trickiest part there was the Gmail format change. Not insurmountable, but you'd need to be aware of the problem first.

@mjg59 that was a really good read!

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If I had been Satoshi, the *real* Satoshi, I would have checked in my public PGP key with the source code. Then I could prove authorship if the need ever arose.

@mjg59 I need a dramatic reading of this whole thread on YouTube

@mjg59 oh this is glorious

@mjg59 that was so fun, thanks for sharing. Had the perfect background music playing to accompany that exchange too.

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I remember the one year I looked in the bag and there was Marcellus Wallace’s soul. I remember it came from this weird house - Gump or Gimp, something like that on the address.

And they were like weird and kept saying “Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.”

Then they chortled endlessly and one of them fired up an electric hand saw.

@mjg59 They are all over the place.

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This reminds me time when I upgraded from Ubuntu to Debian. On remote server.

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019/01/29/upgraded-system-on-my-server/

@mjg59 "But that would have just involved me typing the same thing 5 times, while this way I learned something." This sentence was so relatable it hurts

How the fuck do you apply terms of service to a service that allows people on other servers to read the data without agreeing to the ToS

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Upgraded mine last year and also deleted an extra unused keyslot.

I was kinda worried that I'd bork the system, so I went through all the issues re luks2 first 😅 but in the end it was pretty painless.

@mjg59 Thanks for the information on LUKS keys. Extremely important especially for those using it as a cloud backup option.

Well ok I guess that's an argument you could make