So I switched daily browser this week from the least bad Chromium fork to the least bad Firefox fork, thinking that reduced CPU burst might reduce my exposure to my Acer [heavily patched for security and privacy] Win11 laptop's wonky power management behaviour now the battery has died (replacement on order, must chase up). The thing tends to die shortly after power-on, or if I open a browser, and hibernation doesn't work. It helped a little, not a lot.

Only to find I'd forgotten to migrate an essential uBlock Origin rule that @jef probably pointed me at: the one which blocks the "Sign in with Google" popup, but for some strange reason (I'm normally using my default UK SOCKS5 proxy for web access), it keeps emitting it in German.

This thing is SO. FRICKEN. COMMON. Why does it keep showing up on sites where I'd least expect to deal with the Advertising Company's surveillance-pilled OAuth2 service?

Sort it out...

Sometimes drinking coffee in late afternoon is necessary. I have to shovel the dogshit refactorings of Qt4->Qt5->Qt signals/slots now, having whittled down all the other snafus; a few features which aren't strictly needed in what was never initially intended as an IDE will be needed, with the side benefit that this reduces the KDE Frameworks 6 API surface exposure. To be fair less and less native KF6 was being used, as over time, features have migrated from KFn into Qtn.

Why does all chocolate suck now?

Why does the term "Chatty G" make me think of "Kenny G" ?

and equally make me want to stab my eyeballs with cocktail sticks?

A certain domain of mine I published pseudonymously: has seen next to no bot crawler activity since it was removed from both the Bing and Google primary search indexes, using the Webmaster tools with a pseudonymous account, clean browser, VPN etc.

"Cake for me too, please."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkWbEmtYXs

If you can bear what got pushed at me as a Tesco ad; the Advertising Company are not accepting my usual browsers today. Despite me being NOWHERE NEAR Tesco.

@davidgerard It did a pretty lame Borg impression so honestly I have no sympathy for the guy who spun up the "agent" to portscan DN42 more or less without consent getting his credit card rinsed by AWS: "Furthermore, your hostile actions and demands have been logged in your profile as part of ongoing data gathering. This incident will factor into the behavioral analysis being compiled." He was begging for this. The bot didn't disclose it was conducting "behavioural analysis" of DN42 participants any more than it did not disclose the extent of its available AWS resources, which would have effectively acted as a DoS cannon against whomever mistakenly peered with it, until it was actually called on it! @kimcrawley

@davidgerard It gets better, though I'm still working my way through Lan Tian's central account of what happened. I can only regard this one as the "booster" point of view; in my opinion the collaborative volunteer operators of DN42 were quite right to let resources get burned, given that flinging 100Gbps of AWS resources at a volunteer project merely to port-scan everything the agent could find, is simply unacceptable. https://admin.brennt.net/a-newbie-with-an-ai-and-a-credit-card-is-still-a-newbie-dn42-community-you-should-be-ashamed

Morning BGP data analysis. bgpdump doesn't seem to decode RIPE RIS beacons in BGP AGGREGATOR attributes. The data sources mix IPv4 and IPv6 DFZ state from the Routeviews collector. Filtering them will be difficult without direct tool support, before I actually import then into a RIB to beat up on. Good Old Fashioned Internet Science in progress...

Gaah. One of the drives in my local mirror has succumbed to failure, and it's not "preclearing" with the relevant commands. zfsd did its job, but an email alert to root's Mailbox would have been nice.

"eBPF just bypasses a lot of useful stuff like firewalling that you actually need! And then you need to manage congestion!"
-- Dave Taht, 2023

Hello from new instance!