r000t

Linux sysadmin, Python developer, and one-trick Ekko. I automate the boring stuff for you.

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2024-04-24 21:49:31

Generally, hackers are marked by a drive to solve a puzzle, and script kiddies are marked by a drive for notariety or riches.
There's definitely going to be some overlap, but the difference is going to be in which one of these is the driver and which one is riding shotgun.

2024-04-24 00:29:52

Steps to Reproduce: A Programmer's Guide to Sex

2024-04-04 23:27:15

One job, guys.
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2024-03-31 00:23:27

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2024-03-16 18:21:23

Whichever KDE dev added super+L as a(n additional) default shortcut to lock the screen
I appreciate you, and you deserve ice cream.

2024-03-13 22:43:52

all my homies hate cisco

2024-03-06 04:44:50

I can solve toxicity in online games overnight.
Pass a federal law requiring a standardized API endpoint, that anybody can call, unauthenticated, that accepts a player's nickname/tag, and returns the information from their government ID.
You'll see toxicity fall off **instantly** when people can be held accountable for popping off
There are places where anonymity is welcome, even necessary. Competitive environments are not among them.

2024-03-03 20:33:17

Everyone's so busy being worried about AGI that modern encryption is kinda just falling over with no suitable replacements widely implemented.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06572

2024-02-10 12:52:57

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@npub1mh5…233h
https://r000t.com/files/bstrater_resume_2023.pdf
Patches are welcome.

2024-02-10 12:47:55

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@npub1mh5…233h
Yes this is correct.
"privileged", indeed.

2024-02-10 12:33:47

I'm up to 4,500 resumes with zero callbacks btw.
But nobody wants to work anymore, amirite?

2024-01-31 04:15:05

New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-glibc-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-distros/
Bugs like this are why I *never* consider Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerization tools to be sufficient for running untrusted code, or to keep different customers separated. They are *not* security features. They make development and deployment easier and more predictable and that's *it*.
If you actually want or expect isolation, nothing less than a virtual machine is acceptable.

2024-01-20 15:41:49

The year is 2037. Jasmine orders a taxi, and boards with her 5 children. Jasmine is a food safety inspector.
There's heavy traffic on the normal route today, so the taxi takes an alternate one.
It passes by a mural. Unfortunately, the vision model used by the taxi was poisoned during training. The mural corrupts the vision system, causing the taxi to veer off and crash, killing everyone on board.
Jasmine is replaced with the CEO's nephew who rubber stamps everything.
#microfiction

2024-01-20 06:15:23

"Don't want me corrupting your computer with poisoned public information I posted publicly for public consumption by members of the public? Ask me before consuming my public information I poisoned before posting publicly for public consumption by members of the public!"
Has the same energy as "Don't want your dog poisoned by the poison hot dogs I poisoned before leaving them in my front yard near the public sidewalk? Ask for my consent!"

2024-01-05 04:50:49

YouTube hasn't gotten the message yet
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2024-01-04 21:45:28

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@npub1qz2…nlrg
I should have gotten you the UMatic and BetamaxSP decks out of my basement before it got foreclosed on.

2024-01-01 05:19:07

Happy Year of the Linux Desktop!

2023-12-20 07:28:56

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@npub1d8y…g8p7
Actual thing I saw tonight.

2023-12-20 07:14:56

>2AM
>See a car pull up at the post office
>Ghostbusters decals on all sides
>Older man emerges, looks kinda crazy, very long scraggly beard
>Rushes in to the post office
>Goes through the second set of doors to the actual "branch", which is obviously closed at 2AM
>Doesnt need a key
What an interesting person.... Wonder what he's doing.

2023-11-07 07:34:29

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2023-10-28 00:47:59

I really am perfectly happy editing my static site in nano.
So, sell me on the idea of migrating it to Jekyll or a similar framework.

2023-10-04 22:14:11

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@npub178r…qekt
Those don't keep a bare minimum cellular connection open?
Glad I disabled it. So many things can silently go wrong and you'd have no idea you've missed a call and based on what you've said it sounds like the network wouldn't "realize" it and fall back to that standard cellular connection.

2023-09-18 06:43:40

Look, you gotta make install media *every time* you use it anyway, amirite?
So how about a DRAM-based USB storage device? It'll be much faster and since you're flashing it every time you use it anyway, who cares if the data's lost when you remove the button cell battery?

2023-09-13 01:36:10

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@npub1qz2…nlrg
Are you diabetic by any chance?

2023-09-01 03:09:11

>YouTube recommends a new video from a smaller creator about zeekill
>"oh no"
>watch it
>I'm in it
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2023-08-31 01:41:07

I got over hostnames "with meanings" about three months into my first MSP gig.
Now it's just <what it is><number padded to two digits>

2023-08-29 07:48:01

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@npub1d8y…g8p7
Short answer or long answer?

2023-08-29 07:16:30

Why yes, I *do* print out all the negative comments I get on League and bring them to the gym with me. How did you know?

2023-08-13 22:19:13

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2023-08-06 06:39:34

Did a web IQ test. I got status 200, which I'm guessing is OK.

2023-07-15 16:16:10

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2023-07-14 19:21:33

Oh good, now they can get rid of the Microsoft answer forums. Where every answer is "Have you run sfc /scannow about it?"
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/110/714/060/288/782/104/original/b86c7d3ad5a52831.jpg

2023-07-11 19:17:15

Seriously though, what flags do I gotta put in my bio so that my problems actually matter?
What identity do I have to assume in order to get a *job*?!
I don't wanna hear how "privileged" I am, ever again.

2023-07-09 13:44:31

YOUR MASTODON SECURITY UPDATES (probably) AREN'T (quite) DONE YET
There were changes to the default nginx conf. This obviously doesn't get updated when Mastodon does.
Just add these lines to your nginx configs. Reload nginx. You're done.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/fed9cbfd2ba8db8bffb03f554c24d83b6f8aa059 #mastoadmin

2023-07-04 11:31:26

The single biggest problem people have with me is that I don't put up with double standards.
I think unacceptable behavior is unacceptable. Period. It doesn't matter if it's towards "the right people" or if one has the proper keywords in their bio.
If you do it to others, don't cry when someone does it to you. If you fault others for doing it, don't do it yourself.
It really is that simple.

2023-07-04 06:54:13

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@npub17lg…9uux
Gargon just calls me poor when I report security vulns so... I stopped.

2023-07-01 00:11:00

Lol. Lmao, even.
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2023-06-06 21:08:56

It's the ten year anniversary of the Snowden leaks.
But for some reason, some strange, strange reason.... No news about it.
Plenty of articles about the super harvest wolf spider blood moon w/ cheese tho.
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2023-05-14 14:58:07

Do I know anybody who
1) Owns a Nintendo Switch
2) Actually has an interest in playing Ekko's platformer https://convrgencegame.com
3) Would otherwise be unable to obtain it?
Despite double-checking, I preordered for Switch instead of Steam.

2023-05-08 13:18:47

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@npub1um2…6jsa
No, they said my "clothers" were bad and that I should buy a nice suit. Then they bragged that they got a gig with a 6 week "boot camp" cert and that the reason I'm not getting callbacks is because I play video games.

2023-05-08 13:14:08

As a reminder, tech is *not* a "flourishing industry" nor is it "in demand"
I've submitted over 3,000 resumes since 2018. In that time I've gotten zero callbacks. This is with years of experience being a top performer. That's roughly how "in demand" tech is.
Coercing your children to play with STEM toys won't guarantee them a place in this saturated field. Skills certainly didn't guarantee me one.

2023-05-06 16:49:03

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@npub1yf8…5j7z Being on the default instance is part of the problem.
And every user on a centralized instance that participates in this drama is a force multiplier for those who continue it.

2023-05-01 05:46:37

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@npub1w0k…z3sz
Wat

2023-05-01 05:33:23

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@npub1w0k…z3sz
Agnostic here, but I love tabletopping things like this.
Quick, tell me how QEMU works, but you can only use measurements from inside of the VM. No documentation or QEMU source.

2023-04-16 22:21:32

>With the advent of ChatGPT, academia must now focus on reflection of learned concepts rather than rote memorization and testing
Ah, that thing you should have been doing literally the entire time but didn't because it doesn't scale as well as prepared slides and a scantron form?

2023-04-09 12:17:25

Don't let anybody tell you tech is an "in demand" field.
It's not. This is a lie. You are being lied to.
Here's reality: I'm an IT professional, top performer everywhere I've been. I've submitted over 3,000 resumes over the past 4 years. In that amount of time, I have received 0 (zero) callbacks.
Tech is not an "in demand" field. There is no demand. You are being lied to.
And if you're wasting money on a *degree* in this barren wasteland, oh man are you in for a rude awakening.

2023-04-02 11:48:56

One of the earliest Internet April Fool's jokes was "RMS-Lint", a tool that tests documents against Richard Stallman's correspondence rules.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040824191650/http://www.iglu.org.il/IGLU/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=33&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

2023-04-01 12:50:43

Offering $200 in ETH or BTC or Zelle to anybody who can get a video to play on a mobile device after a user gesture, as the documentation for every browser swears up and down is possible.
It's super simple stuff: User clicks a button, video autoplays.
I've gotten this to work precisely once. I then changed the code, then changed it back. Now it does not work. I don't like debugging quantum things that change when I observe them.
Offer's open for the next hour.

2023-03-14 13:36:20

Markets are looking a tad.... non-euclidean today
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