🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦
@grumpybozo.toad.social.ap.brid.gy
Dad, Husband, Sysadmin, Anti-Spammer, Disillusioned Radical Lefty, Old GenX-er.
I'm fat and I have a headache|AntiFa Patriot|
BLACK LIVES MATTER!
Living on […]
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I'm fat and I have a headache|AntiFa Patriot|
BLACK LIVES MATTER!
Living on […]
[bridged from https://toad.social/@grumpybozo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
I really feel bad for sysadmins who don’t have great English skills. There’s no way a world of LLM translator bots can ever get all the discussions amongst English-speaking sysadmins close enough to correct. Too much jargon and more importantly too much nuance in how words are used. I’ve spent a […]
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toad.social
December 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I really feel bad for sysadmins who don’t have great English skills. There’s no way a world of LLM translator bots can ever get all the discussions amongst English-speaking sysadmins close enough to correct. Too much jargon and more importantly too much nuance in how words are used. I’ve spent a […]
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married/partnered folks who share bank accounts, how do you budget for mutual aid?
December 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
married/partnered folks who share bank accounts, how do you budget for mutual aid?
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INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files
December 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files
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i wonder if you could make a small business out of providing Forgejo Actions compute resources for projects that want to pay for what they use instead of giving control up to GitHub
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
i wonder if you could make a small business out of providing Forgejo Actions compute resources for projects that want to pay for what they use instead of giving control up to GitHub
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For the record, I hate git.
December 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
For the record, I hate git.
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So if you initiate the phone-to-phone Signal account transfer process, and it _almost_ completes, such that the _account_ is transferred, but the _data_ isn't, and then errors out ... and if you didn't have backups enabled ... then your entire chat history just vanishes into thin air with zero […]
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infosec.exchange
December 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
So if you initiate the phone-to-phone Signal account transfer process, and it _almost_ completes, such that the _account_ is transferred, but the _data_ isn't, and then errors out ... and if you didn't have backups enabled ... then your entire chat history just vanishes into thin air with zero […]
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There were many women geniuses involved in the development of computer science, including my late mother, Rosa Burnet Oliveros.
She was known as “The Legend” in her field of programming and signed her work product with her initials to avoid having it be written off because of sexism.
She was known as “The Legend” in her field of programming and signed her work product with her initials to avoid having it be written off because of sexism.
December 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There were many women geniuses involved in the development of computer science, including my late mother, Rosa Burnet Oliveros.
She was known as “The Legend” in her field of programming and signed her work product with her initials to avoid having it be written off because of sexism.
She was known as “The Legend” in her field of programming and signed her work product with her initials to avoid having it be written off because of sexism.
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Only in SF:
- bunch of explicitly anti-social, pro-AI ads show up
- people get mad
- ads had things like ‘you’re a bad parent. Just use AI to fix your kids before they go wrong’ and ‘replace humans’
- they revealed that this was all a joke to make a statement about irresponsible AI
(Phew […]
- bunch of explicitly anti-social, pro-AI ads show up
- people get mad
- ads had things like ‘you’re a bad parent. Just use AI to fix your kids before they go wrong’ and ‘replace humans’
- they revealed that this was all a joke to make a statement about irresponsible AI
(Phew […]
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hachyderm.io
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Only in SF:
- bunch of explicitly anti-social, pro-AI ads show up
- people get mad
- ads had things like ‘you’re a bad parent. Just use AI to fix your kids before they go wrong’ and ‘replace humans’
- they revealed that this was all a joke to make a statement about irresponsible AI
(Phew […]
- bunch of explicitly anti-social, pro-AI ads show up
- people get mad
- ads had things like ‘you’re a bad parent. Just use AI to fix your kids before they go wrong’ and ‘replace humans’
- they revealed that this was all a joke to make a statement about irresponsible AI
(Phew […]
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After Mamdani named Lillian Bonsignore as his choice to lead FDNY, a right-wing smear campaign began on X to undermine her because she is a lesbian.
A 9/11 first responder, Bonsignore is a 31-year FDNY veteran and headed EMS services. 70-80% of FDNY calls are EMS related. Only 10% are fire related.
A 9/11 first responder, Bonsignore is a 31-year FDNY veteran and headed EMS services. 70-80% of FDNY calls are EMS related. Only 10% are fire related.
December 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
After Mamdani named Lillian Bonsignore as his choice to lead FDNY, a right-wing smear campaign began on X to undermine her because she is a lesbian.
A 9/11 first responder, Bonsignore is a 31-year FDNY veteran and headed EMS services. 70-80% of FDNY calls are EMS related. Only 10% are fire related.
A 9/11 first responder, Bonsignore is a 31-year FDNY veteran and headed EMS services. 70-80% of FDNY calls are EMS related. Only 10% are fire related.
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I live with barbarians.
December 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I live with barbarians.
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I'm just making a note of this because I'm old enough to remember and a lot of people aren't – I saw someone claim that Google stole the name Chrome "from Firefox's internals", which makes no sense.
Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in […]
Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in […]
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infosec.exchange
December 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm just making a note of this because I'm old enough to remember and a lot of people aren't – I saw someone claim that Google stole the name Chrome "from Firefox's internals", which makes no sense.
Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in […]
Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in […]
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This all started, NYT explains, when Rubio (he of the unanimous confirmation) signed a deal w/Nayib Bukele. Nothing abt this deal makes sense (they had to invent the TdA deportees from tattoos) except insofar as Bukele had to thwart MS-13 prosecutions in the US.
Fight drug war by inventing it.
Fight drug war by inventing it.
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This all started, NYT explains, when Rubio (he of the unanimous confirmation) signed a deal w/Nayib Bukele. Nothing abt this deal makes sense (they had to invent the TdA deportees from tattoos) except insofar as Bukele had to thwart MS-13 prosecutions in the US.
Fight drug war by inventing it.
Fight drug war by inventing it.
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![last night our eldest teenager refused to go to an event we'd bought tickets for and was exceptionally rude. so we left them at home and took the router instead. it had a great time. [pic of router on the theater seat]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/bafkreibrt5pdmhso45ffdn2kzbffb6iyfpoisy4ayvmousesc3apo3zpdi@jpeg)
Someone out there really wants to down the #asf #spamassassin RuleQA web server.
Generating almost a GB/min of log.
Also generating a LOT of blockage.
#digitalocean and #huawei customers are going to have a hard time using SA. Damn shame.
Generating almost a GB/min of log.
Also generating a LOT of blockage.
#digitalocean and #huawei customers are going to have a hard time using SA. Damn shame.
December 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Someone out there really wants to down the #asf #spamassassin RuleQA web server.
Generating almost a GB/min of log.
Also generating a LOT of blockage.
#digitalocean and #huawei customers are going to have a hard time using SA. Damn shame.
Generating almost a GB/min of log.
Also generating a LOT of blockage.
#digitalocean and #huawei customers are going to have a hard time using SA. Damn shame.
I so hope this blows up in his face spectacularly.
Note that I do not believe that any LLM can become as skilled as the least skilled #infosec professional using conventional tools, so I’m quite confident this will not reach any useful goal.
I’m saying he needs to learn a lesson, and it would […]
Note that I do not believe that any LLM can become as skilled as the least skilled #infosec professional using conventional tools, so I’m quite confident this will not reach any useful goal.
I’m saying he needs to learn a lesson, and it would […]
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toad.social
December 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I so hope this blows up in his face spectacularly.
Note that I do not believe that any LLM can become as skilled as the least skilled #infosec professional using conventional tools, so I’m quite confident this will not reach any useful goal.
I’m saying he needs to learn a lesson, and it would […]
Note that I do not believe that any LLM can become as skilled as the least skilled #infosec professional using conventional tools, so I’m quite confident this will not reach any useful goal.
I’m saying he needs to learn a lesson, and it would […]
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also rob pike designed go with active contempt for his userbase, so he can also get fucked
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
also rob pike designed go with active contempt for his userbase, so he can also get fucked
He could really use a native speaker. Based on machine translation supplemented by my thin Spanish I don’t really understand the question with any specificity…
#email #spam #dkim @microblogc https://neopaquita.es/@microblogc/115790517109404606
#email #spam #dkim @microblogc https://neopaquita.es/@microblogc/115790517109404606
Microblog Castellano (@microblogc@neopaquita.es)
Para los que sepáis de seguridad informática: En su día instalé en mi servidor de correo las firmas SPF y DKIM, pero seguía recibiendo falsos mensajes como enviados por usuarios de mi servidor (para redactar/enviar un correo de mi servidor a otro hay que autenticarse, pero no se estaba pidiendo autenticación para enviar correo desde mi servidor a mi servidor). Finalmente, esta primavera instalé DMARC y PTR, y desde entonces el número de mensajes supuestamente enviados desde mi servidor a mí mismo (es decir, que mi servidor ni se molesta en verificar) se han reducido considerablemente. Sin embargo, todavía recibo algunos mensajes enviados "desde mi servidor", e incluso hay alertas en spambox de mensajes recibidos desde cuentas de mi servidor (cuentas cuyos login aparecen en filtraciones públicas pero que no existen en mi servidor, al menos desde que yo me hice con el dominio hace más de 10 años). Sospecho que esto se debe a que mi servidor es compartido (mi DNS apunta a svNNN.proveedor.com, donde hay otros servidores de correo y web.) ¿Qué más tengo que hacer para evitar que se sigan enviando mensajes spoofeando mi dominio? #fediayuda #fedihelp #email #spf #dmarc #dkim
neopaquita.es
December 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
He could really use a native speaker. Based on machine translation supplemented by my thin Spanish I don’t really understand the question with any specificity…
#email #spam #dkim @microblogc https://neopaquita.es/@microblogc/115790517109404606
#email #spam #dkim @microblogc https://neopaquita.es/@microblogc/115790517109404606
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a fucking WELCOME TO AI COUNTRY billboard, dieeeeeee
December 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
a fucking WELCOME TO AI COUNTRY billboard, dieeeeeee
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[hot take]
i don't think cryptographers should be allowed to write cryptographic specifications
i understand that this is very precise but if you're trying to implement the algorithm it adds _so_ much overhead
i don't think cryptographers should be allowed to write cryptographic specifications
i understand that this is very precise but if you're trying to implement the algorithm it adds _so_ much overhead
December 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
[hot take]
i don't think cryptographers should be allowed to write cryptographic specifications
i understand that this is very precise but if you're trying to implement the algorithm it adds _so_ much overhead
i don't think cryptographers should be allowed to write cryptographic specifications
i understand that this is very precise but if you're trying to implement the algorithm it adds _so_ much overhead
For the past week or so I’ve been following @BBC posts about the events at this years “Ashes” cricket series.
I am enjoying being quite mystified by the terminology. I know very little about the game beyond it being a distant relative of baseball with a much harder ball and wickets with little […]
I am enjoying being quite mystified by the terminology. I know very little about the game beyond it being a distant relative of baseball with a much harder ball and wickets with little […]
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toad.social
December 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
For the past week or so I’ve been following @BBC posts about the events at this years “Ashes” cricket series.
I am enjoying being quite mystified by the terminology. I know very little about the game beyond it being a distant relative of baseball with a much harder ball and wickets with little […]
I am enjoying being quite mystified by the terminology. I know very little about the game beyond it being a distant relative of baseball with a much harder ball and wickets with little […]
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every postal inspector is biding their time to come after these dipshits
Think your mail is private? In Columbus, ICE is playing "Postmaster General."
December 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
every postal inspector is biding their time to come after these dipshits
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"average person counts ℵ₀ sets a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person counts 0 sets per year. Georg Cantor, who lives in cave & counts over ℵₐ each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
December 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
"average person counts ℵ₀ sets a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person counts 0 sets per year. Georg Cantor, who lives in cave & counts over ℵₐ each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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I never knew it was called the “Moylan arrow.” But now that I know, I will call it that. It’s such a super simple, yet super valuable innovation.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2061179/inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies/
https://www.jalopnik.com/2061179/inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies/
The Inventor Of The Little Arrow That Tells You What Side The Fuel Filler Is On Has Died
The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a meeting at another building.
www.jalopnik.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I never knew it was called the “Moylan arrow.” But now that I know, I will call it that. It’s such a super simple, yet super valuable innovation.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2061179/inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies/
https://www.jalopnik.com/2061179/inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies/