Remember the AWS outage from just a couple weeks ago and how much of the Internet it took with it. Cloudflare's turn. The original decentralized Internet is looking awfully good right now.

The Independent

Cloudflare down latest: ‘Fix’ update issued after X, ChatGPT and more go down

Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline

McDonald's advertising Debian GNU/Linux #debian #gnu #linux

Great write-up on the reverse engineering of Twitter's E2EE protocol. It comes with significant drawbacks that compromise the promise of E2EE for Twitter users. It's not: - forward secure - post-compromise secure - MITM resistant It's trivial to get snarky and claim "of course Elon is reading your DMs", but it's another to actually dig into a black box protocol and put the claims to the test.

Can Elon Musk Read Your X Chat Messages?

I’ve reversed-engineered the X Android app to find out whether it is as secure as claimed. It is not.

I've been holding on to the same OpenSSH known hosts file since I started with my current employer, 13 years. I wonder how much of this is old cruft: % wc -l ~/.ssh/known_hosts 1803 ~/.ssh/known_hosts #linux

Something is stealing my DNS in Brave and I cannot for the life of me figure out what. When I type in the URL in a normal window, the TLS cert fails because it doesn't match the domain. Brave alerts me to the problem and prevents it from happening, asking me to proceed. When I type the URL in a private window, everything behaves normally. I've disabled all extensions, cleared cache, cookies, history, etc. yet the problem remains. Anything I can do in the developer tools to investigate?

Running the #ChicagoMarathon tomorrow. Here's the spread. #Running #RunnersOfMastodon

Never underestimate #Linux neckbeards.

Stay in school kids. #math

Tor is introducing a proof-of-work defense to onion services with the release of 0.4.8. Just one question: do I get Bitcoin after closing the browser?

Introducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | Tor Project

Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterren...

<rant> The clock in the OS works by having the time updated based on the counter in the RTC. Sun with #Solaris Zones made every object inside the kernel have a zone context and then very carefully abstracted and hardened any exchange across zone boundaries so that there isn't even a handle on global resources inside a zone. So it followed that each zone could have its own clock object spawned and all existing software would seamlessly work inside a zone. 1/2