If you're dropping a major vuln at this time of year, "Shellraiser" is Right There

Johnny Mnemonic (2026)

"4"

[Credits roll]

cypherpunk Ramones starting each song by shouting out valid private keys

help I've memorised the private key for a CA cert and now my head qualifies as munitions and is illegal to take across the border

Internet-connected fridges:

What happened, Malmö?

So is running GUI applications transparently using X11 tunnelling over SSH a cool thing which we can no longer do?

#Unix #Linux

fortunately, things went from bad to horse

#HorseIdioms

Oh, they got this all wrong!

🎸🎸Ooh-wee-ooh I look just like Mary Shelley
🎸🎸Oh-oh and you're Edgar Allen Poe

Principle of Least Privilege - assume that your users have privacy concerns, limited time, disabilities, gaps in education, cheap and broken hardware, and other bills to pay

Wondering how my news intake would look if it was strictly limited to 1. things I can directly affect, and 2. things that directly affect me.

Feeling a bit too aware of everything.

putting on my bifocals to increase bi visibility

We should organise a frugal compute contest, for doing the coolest thing with the smallest amount of energy. (one side of that is obviously more subjective than the other)

Obviously the prize would have to be pretty frugal too if it was a community thing.

To be clear, I think we owe it to kids to let them roam and collectively keep them safe while they do so. This and the thread has also reminded me that I need to go on a particular longish bus trip with kid1 so that he knows the route and can do it independently in future.

Thinking about this post, there's a lot there. As far as I know, kids are not in greater danger from deliberate attacks by kids or adults than they used to be (but that's affected by the issue in the post, naturally).

We definitely *hear* about everything bad more than we used to.

There are of course more cars than there once were.

Expected parental behaviour has changed: if you are a parent, imagine something bad happens to your 8 year old a mile from home. Of course you would feel terrible, but also you would fully expect your fitness as a parent to be absolutely slated.

And kid ability has gone down - can an average 8 year old navigate a mile from home confidently even though they've never been allowed to before?

I don't know how we "re-wild" kids as a whole without just pulling a "didn't do us any harm" and denying responsibility.

https://urbanists.social/@markstos/117309062444641209

Started nodding along with the clicky beats of Aphex Twin then realised it was just a mechanical issue on one of the gym machines

gonna tell my kids this was the Gartner hype cycle

cinephile tip: never watch any sequel before III. The first two films are just the director's practice runs

Idea: programmatically find the most commonly used key chords and dedicate a single key to each. I find it ridiculous that cut/paste are second class citizens where you need to push extra buttons, particularly when Home and End aren't. Or f'ing Insert, for all those times I want to use overwrite mode.