I am sure plenty resent Big AI companies calling themselves 'labs'.

So I was, until I realised this was as in meth, not research.

Whew! I just finished porting 2,852 lines of PDP-11 assembly to C by hand over the past week!

This is for form/fed, a form letter editor and generator with template substitutions, introduced in 1971. It's the largest UNIX utility that was never ported to C, and has since been forgotten.

1/6

#unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #reverseengineering

October 2026: the month we learned the NIST ECC curve seeds from 1997, which had significantly more entropy than some 2025 intermediate ECC certs

hey @steph check this good idea

eth0 should rebrand to eth4 to enhance the security posture

I regret to inform you that Eternal September has ended, we're now in Black October

By the way, this part of the eMudhra story doesn't get the attention it deserves: Google hired Daniel Bleichenbacher, he wrote a tool to identify insecure cryptographic artifacts, and Google did not use it regularly to check certificates and intermediates trusted by Chrome's root store.

I was thinking that some programmers and hardware designers should probably see this

reading wikipedia when

early 21st century Blu-ray technology

bitch who writes like that. what century is it 💀

Because eMudhra is in the news, I am sharing a screenshot of a footer of an email I once received from them in reply to my query about my PAN card (a government-issued tax identity and card). #eMudhra

floef

Remote code execution

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For the commercial service, see [[cloud computing]]

internet taken offline by huge pulse of smugness from static site operators

so it turns out the dispaly supports up to 255 line segments, so you can just split an image into lines and (veeery slowly) send them all to the display :neofox_woozy:

I love that during this mess eMudhra still find time to vote on the BRs (but not complete a root-cause analysis on the number 4)

James Bond his license to kill is incompatible with free software because not being alive infringes on freedom zero, amongst others

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@brian_greenberg/117490965037977801

Tor is still totally fine for browsing, the problem with SSH is that people are used to ignoring the warnings because stuff often changes due to config changes, reinstalls, etc.

DNS based host key verification would have prevented this

can we please end cyber security awareness month I have been made aware thanks

for the people who have never seen the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Il2LVvhzo