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As a preventative measure following the wave of cyberattacks worldwide, the domain.nc and mobitag.nc websites have been suspended.

https://www.helia.nc/options-et-services?hl=en-US

Does anything legitimate use hostinger?

VOTE. ✅

Do NOT listen to the polls.

Do NOT listen to the news.

Remember, as long as you're in line to vote, you can still vote, even if the polls supposedly closed while you were in line.

Do NOT leave that line until you have voted.

Do NOT believe it is over until you have voted. ✅

#MidTerms #MidTerm #Election #Vote #Vote2026

Your screen cuts to static, then to a man wearing a sharp, expensive blazer over a neon-green spandex shirt. He is rollerblading in slow circles around a mahogany conference table while talking directly into what you can only assume must be a cheap phone on a selfie stick.

Man: For years, we yelled from the rooftops: HACK THE PLANET! It was a metaphor, man! It was about freedom! But then, some skid actually went and did it to your planet.

Man: shakes his head, looking disappointed

Man: I'm Emmanuel Goldstein, Esq., and if your celestial body has been compromised by a rogue Gibson-class AI, you need representation that knows how to surf the data-stream and navigate a class-action lawsuit.

Cereal Killer: Has your planet experienced:

Cereal Killer: Atmospheric scrubbers disabled by ransomware?

Cereal Killer: Your planetary core being used to mine cryptocoins?

Cereal Killer: Garbage files trashing your satellites until your orbits are fragmented so badly that Kessler is spinning in his grave?

Cereal Killer: That is universally bogus! Don't let the Plague of modern megacorporations tell you it's a "user error".

Cereal Killer: Spandex is a privilege, not a right... but financial compensation for an encrypted ozone layer? That is your right.

Cereal Killer: Call Goldstein, Cook, and Phreak Legal Services today. Because if they mess with the best, they're gonna pay like the rest!

Cereal Killer: fumbles with selfie stick, advert cuts abruptly

You see them, don't you? Posing on the covers of magazines, hailed as visionaries, architects of the new economy. You think you're looking at a titan of industry. You're not. You're looking at a script kiddie who found his parent's root password to the global economy.

He doesn't know how the machine works. He has no idea. The founder, the grandparent, the one who built it all from scrap and nerve and sixty-hour weeks? They had to know the machine. They had to lay the wiring, fix the bugs, understand the physics of the thing because their own skin was on the line. The power they earned resided in them, a result of discipline, of sleepless nights spent wondering if the whole damned thing would compile.

But the heir… the heir inherits a shell with full privileges. He doesn't write the code, he just runs the script. A script named lawyers.sh. A script named accountants.py. A script named public_relations.rb. He doesn't understand the intricate dance of supply chains or the brittle dependencies of a local economy. He just sees a user interface with a single button labeled "disrupt".

So he pushes it. Just to see what happens.

He doesn't want to build, he wants the notoriety of having built. He brute forces reality with a cheat code of inherited capital. He calls it "creative destruction", but he understands the "destruction" part about as well as a teenager with a copy of Metasploit understands the architecture of the network he's just brought to its knees.

And the consequences are the same. The script kiddie launches a DDoS attack and takes a hospital's website offline for a day. He feels a flicker of power, then gets bored and moves on, leaving others to fix the damage. The billionaire heir runs his script, "optimises" a factory out of existence to bump a stock price, and guts a town of its livelihood. He feels a flicker of validation, then gets on his jet and moves on, leaving entire communities to fix the damage.

Neither of them feels a shred of responsibility, because they never went through the discipline of learning the system they're attacking. They have no concept of the collateral damage because, to them, it's not a living, breathing system. It's just a puzzle box to be cracked for points.

Don't ever mistake them for innovators. They're not. They're the result of a security flaw - a privilege escalation vulnerability in the source code of society - and they're finding out what happens when they run every exploit they have, all at once, on the machine we happen to live inside of. Eventually it breaks.

(inspired by Ian Malcolm's speech about "inherited wealth" in Jurassic Park - I've inverted the metaphor)

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holodeck programs are just genai prompts send toot

Untitled Billionaire Game

It's a lovely day in the world and you are a horrible billionaire.

✅ Cause a limited supply of DRAM.
✅ Buy a social media platform and unban all the Nazis.
✅ Secretly fund a professional wrestler's lawsuit to destroy a newspaper.
✅ Evict everyone from a Hawaiian island.
✅ Reverse fifteen years of global emissions reductions.
✅ Kill numerous children.
✅ Deprive vulnerable minorities of human rights.
✅✅✅✅✅ Interfere with elections.

https://qdb.us/ has respawned

Hmmm. My website is working again. The TLD registry site is still down. Also whois for the TLD is down.

Chat, why did I just buy 50 micro SD cards?

Tell Sam Altman I have about a terabyte of RAM at my home. It's mine. To use as I please. I'm well aware it's not efficient. That's not the point. The point is privacy and autonomy, to conduct my affairs without monitoring or interference by fascists.

I'm amused that an ESP32-C3 is cheaper than an ESP8266 now.

It looks like https://domaine.nc/ has maybe been down for a month or two. :-(

Watching Stranger Things Season 5 with Partner

Partner: Are they Home Aloning?
Me: Did you just verb "Home Alone"?
Partner: Oh, like you wouldn't have if you'd thought of it.
Me: ...true.

Regarding No NAT November - TPROXY technically isn't NAT, right?

I have just learned about elect.horse, which is a fun game where you use totally above board tactics to make sure the horse wins reelection, independent from the popular vote!

https://elect.horse/

(This honestly seems like the best possible way to get people to understand gerrymandering)

I stole a logo:

https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/117535907099775632