Gaelan Steele / is on Nostr

nerd (computer); is trans; likes trains; american (pacific northwest) going to uni in scotland

let's make the world a better place! but also get up to some hijinks while we're here

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2024-06-09 15:25:49

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@npub16ju…y8u7 yes - which is why I'm fascinated by the fact that I've always heard Cardiff pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable

2024-06-09 15:09:34

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@npub16ju…y8u7 oh interesting, I’d always assumed it was just a case of emphasizing the unique information (similar to how “borough” and “ham” get progressively shortened to “bruh” and “um”)

2024-06-09 14:50:16

observation about British (especially, but not exclusively, Scottish and Welsh) place names: usually, when places share a common prefix, the emphasis goes on the unique part:
Dun*dee*, Dun*ferm*line, Dun*keld*
Inver*ness*, Inver*kei*thing
Pen*rith*, Pen*zance*
Llan*el*i, Llan*drin*dod
Therefore, clearly, the existence of Car*lisle* implies Car*diff*

2024-05-20 23:27:06

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@npub1rv4…ft5j I assume you're familiar with cargo-buttplug

2024-03-29 18:13:10

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@npub1m4u…7sa6 debian security advisory says testing is affected: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html

2024-03-29 17:54:41

holy fuck: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
tl;dr: libxz backdoored by its maintainer; the malicious libxz detects if it's been linked into opensshd (which doesn't actually use libxz, but many distros patch it to use libsystemd, and libsystemd uses libxz) and, if so, does something (as yet unclear exactly what) to opensshd's RSA_public_decrypt()
appears to target Debian and Fedora, and didn't make it into stable versions of either, so you're probably fine unless you're running Fedora 41/rawhide or Debian testing

2024-03-28 23:02:35

this is genuinely heartwarming
https://deflector.cathode.church/media_attachments/files/112/175/793/989/214/719/original/572b3b11b98c38f4.png