Tekniquelly correct

Politics ∪ tech ∪ security ∪ privacy ∪ O_o

Several-time EFF Tech Trivia champion.

Sysop of Free Radical.

I blog about this at https://blog.freeradical.zone/.

I’ve got your back.

Very approachable. Bring treats.

Avatar: Me, at night, with music
Website: https://honeypot.net
Keyboard: Cherry MX Blue
Pronouns: He/Him/Hey you

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Last Notes

2026-08-22 21:28:31 UTC

I took my wife and kid to a tiny restaurant in the right part of Oakland and got a burrito literally bigger than my forearm. This will also be supper tonight and lunch tomorrow.
-ito nothing, this is the whole burro.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/117/141/281/907/958/408/original/604e0b261d6b7782.jpg

2026-08-15 01:38:35 UTC

My wife just casually dropped in conversation that, in her public school system in New York state, all the boys had to be naked for swimming lessons.
What in the actual fuck? Was Sandusky also a swimming instructor?

2026-08-03 18:11:52 UTC

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Reminder: TSA doesn’t say jack about travel routers or Flipper Zero or lockpicks or ham radios or mini servers. Do be prepared to explain them to a bewildered agent though.
Also, memorize a short speech like “I’m authorized by the federal government, license [ham radio call sign]”, which said authoritatively can gloss over a lot.

2026-08-03 17:53:53 UTC

Packing, step 1: remove all the TSA-unsafe stuff from my backpack while still at home.

2026-08-01 04:59:56 UTC

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Update on the water main break. It’s something out of a sci-fi movie.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/117/018/484/922/510/101/original/86a609e2302639a3.jpeg

2026-07-31 06:18:59 UTC

The water main in front of our house broke. And for extra fun, it’s on trash pickup night so everyone’s cans were out at the curb.
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2026-07-30 18:24:26 UTC

I get invited to the most unexpected events. The more astonished I am that someone would want me at a thing, the more likely I am to accept. That’s how you open the tap to being invited to even more things later. Practice saying yes when you can.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/117/010/324/506/099/131/original/a9bac1f7c17156dd.png

2026-07-29 20:06:34 UTC

If you develop tools for use by salespeople, I probably hate you personally. Every single one I've ever touched is a fractal of bullshittery where nothing works as it's suppose to.
Like today, one tool we use just decided to stop enabling new accounts when we grant them access via Okta. Worked yesterday. Zero has changed. It still creates the accounts, but they're marked as disabled in the tool. We have plenty of licenses. It just stopped working.
Thing is, this is typical for the ecosystem.

2026-07-23 20:36:52 UTC

I logged into one of our vendors for the first time to make some urgent changes. Every third time I tried to click on something, instead of going to that thing, I got an obnoxious full-screen onboarding screen with no way to close it:
If I hit my browser’s back button, half the time I got a “submit this form again?” popup.
If you really want to thank me because you really value me as a customer, please stop asking me stupid questions and let me use the site I logged into.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/971/209/277/042/010/original/924161acb6788532.png

2026-07-17 19:51:19 UTC

I just social engineered my way into one of our sensitive vendors in front of my boss.
1. "Amazing, good job, thanks for getting us back in."
2. "And also, that support person should be fired."

2026-07-17 04:13:27 UTC

Dude.
#Scrapwire & #Veilid fun for the evening.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/933/367/421/940/806/original/df7ebf246ce70f8c.png

2026-07-16 19:36:47 UTC

That feeling when you get to the point where can tell what a company’s compliance regime is going to be like based on the layout of their trust center. “Oh, standard Vanta format. It’s probably fine.”
And then you realize that this is not an S-tier superpower.

2026-07-12 07:32:24 UTC

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This is a rough week for ancient Republican politicians.
*turns a hopeful eye toward DC and makes a wish*

2026-07-12 07:29:44 UTC

RIP Lindsey Graham. LOL jk, don't care if it's peaceful or not. Now you can't hurt anyone else.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sen-lindsey-graham-dies-71-brief-sudden-illness-rcna552722

2026-07-10 15:39:48 UTC

It's Friday and you've had about as much of this job as you can take. What to do? Come work with me instead.
I have 2 open roles reporting to me (onsite in SF), and this is the job you've been waiting for. Come help me build out our Security department.
Please do DM with questions. I don't bite!
(And please boost for viz. Let's get someone #fedihired!)
Security engineer: https://factory.ai/careers/software-engineer-security
IT operations: https://factory.ai/careers/it-operations-specialist

2026-07-07 08:31:29 UTC

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That’s true to a point, but there are a lot of minorities who’ve been directly harmed by the equivocating. I don’t love the Dem party, but they’re not stripping LGBTQ rights or legalizing abortion or deporting children. From the ground level, there are some fairly major differences.

2026-07-07 08:25:49 UTC

Yessir, I couldn’t be happier that we traded an imperfect primary process for a ruined economy and unprecedented corruption and MAHA and new losing wars and eroding rights and a dickriding SCOTUS. Sure, “lesser evil” meant about a 3 on the scale of 1 to TFG, but purity tests and whataboutism are more important than an actual lesser evil.
Harris wasn’t a perfect candidate, so we might as well get the greater evil, right?
What an unbelievably privileged take.

2026-07-07 08:14:10 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0x00string/116877647176964601
Yes, that's an excellent idea. We should punish the people we largely agree with but annoy us in some ways by electing actual nazis instead. That's worked out fucking delightfully this year. I love seeing Roe v Wade overturned, trans people getting trampled, birth control under attack, more stupid wars of distraction, DEI rollbacks, a FUBAR Supreme Court.
Yeah, we really taught 'em a lesson. That was a brilliant plan and I'm delighted we threw everything way for... something? I guess?
#note15n9…npav

2026-07-04 07:55:00 UTC

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It’s English. You can just make it up as you go and no one will usually notice. 😀
BTW, I re-read what I wrote earlier and might’ve phrased that badly. I wasn’t trying to correct you: “it’s a real word, heathen!” More like, I was trying to think of how to describe it. It’s not exactly a real word. It’s more of a real-ish word.

2026-07-04 07:18:43 UTC

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That's a, uh, somewhat-real-ish word, combining frequency and recency. Basically, links you use often, and not log ago, bubble to the top of search results.
Inspiration: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/wiki/Algorithm
But thanks! I made the app (and the policies!) that I wanted to use for myself.

2026-07-04 07:02:30 UTC

Alright, here's a sneak preview of my ADHD project du jour: https://snaggle.link/
It lets you make links between documents in different apps, even (at least some) ones that don't traditionally support deep linking.
It's like the older Hookmark app, but AGPL'd and 100% free. I'm about to submit the iOS and iPadOS apps (which are *way* better than the alternative, IMHO), and they're also completely free.
Also, in honor of Independence Day, please read the privacy policy. I'm proud of it.

2026-07-04 06:07:03 UTC

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I gave this talk at work this week. You cannot. CANNOT! Publish a website in 2026 and not expect attackers to start hammering it immediately. People use to say "publish now and tighten it up before anyone finds it." That advice is d-e-a-d dead.
Can you lock down that new website in less than 9 seconds?
The first hit came in 1.4 seconds after I ran `systemctl caddy restart`.
How fast can you type?

2026-07-04 06:04:26 UTC

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Within 9 seconds, attackers had made these GETs:
58 /
6 /favicon.ico
2 /___proxy_subdomain_cpanel
2 /login.action
2 /info.php
2 /graphql/api
2 /graphql
2 /.git/config
2 /ecp/Current/exporttool/microsoft.exchange.ediscovery.exporttool.application
2 /.DS_Store
2 /debug/default/view?panel=config
2 /console/
2 /config.json
2 /api/graphql
2 /api/gql
2 /api
2 /actuator/env
2 /about
1 /wp-config.php
1 /wp-admin/setup-config.php
1 /.well-known/security.txt
1 /_vti_pvt/service.pwd

2026-07-04 05:20:15 UTC

It’s Friday night and I’m registering a domain, as one does.

2026-06-26 17:49:34 UTC

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That was my first thought, too! But no: https://discography.ledzeppelin.com

2026-06-26 01:04:28 UTC

For the life of me, this looks like an angel reaching heavenward.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/813/717/023/809/508/original/e15ad77dd5606f1f.jpg

2026-06-21 04:33:39 UTC

The kids asked to watch it. My heart grew 3 sizes.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/786/228/061/813/943/original/2fbfaf7c1295e153.jpeg

2026-06-19 16:59:58 UTC

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Oof. At least this way they can get off at Powell and take 101 up to the bridge. Maybe. It's on holiday schedule, so godspeed.

2026-06-19 16:38:18 UTC

Some tourists flagged me down outside the 4th and King Caltrain station to help with transit directions to Golden Gate Bridge. Their app had them walking up through the TL to catch a bus. I got them safely loaded onto a Muni to Powell to make that leg of it a lot easier. I hope. I wish they’d just taken my advice to get a cab or rideshare.

2026-06-17 23:25:47 UTC

Current status: onboarding CrowdStrike.

2026-06-14 18:36:32 UTC

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This is the keyboard: https://amzn.to/4fGCCVO
And this is the starting point of the case: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1440390-cyberdeck-raspberry-pi-4-5?from=search#profileId-1837141
(But I've changed the dimensions and moved the various port holes around.)

2026-06-14 16:27:08 UTC

Progress on the laptop.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/749/397/169/026/156/original/9ecf149e15ddfcaf.jpeg

2026-06-12 18:57:18 UTC

I cannot believe people fall for this, and yet, they must.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/738/663/082/114/460/original/71138f0c22d7a6a6.png

2026-06-12 17:25:35 UTC

Anthropic’s leaning in to the whole nanny state thing.
(This is a real, actual screenshot.)
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2026-06-09 03:34:11 UTC

This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/
Oh, so you greatly amplify very weak hyperlocal area network signals for analysis, do you? Meet my 1500W 2.4GHz emitter, aka a microwave oven pointed out the window. Amplify and analyze that.

2026-06-08 15:47:47 UTC

The World Cup potato chip bags look like a xenomorph with an underbite. It creeps me out.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/715/268/699/783/346/original/03efe77c6d94782c.jpg

2026-06-08 04:50:15 UTC

I took my wife and kid to an outdoor swap meet for a few hours around lunchtime today, and now I’m reminded that the sun hates me and wishes to smite me at every chance.

2026-06-08 00:52:34 UTC

Things in flight right now:
- Updating Scrapwire to a new Veilid point release.
- Submitting a magazine article.
- Modding the case of a laptop I'm making to better fit the components.
- Adding new apps to an app-linking project I'm working on.
- Hiring 2 brand new teams to build a new department from scratch.
- Kicking off the annual pen test tomorrow.
But other than that, just kinda chilling.

2026-06-07 22:13:35 UTC

Nonprofit hospital paid a doctor nearly $5 million. Is it a symptom of a flawed system? https://flatwaterfreepress.org/faith-questioned-norfolk-nonprofit-hospital-paid-a-doctor-nearly-5-million-is-it-a-symptom-of-a-flawed-system/
> Three other Faith doctors [...] were among the state’s highest-paid nonprofit employees [...] But Rzouq and Hartzell were the only physicians to land ahead of Greg McDermott, then Creighton University’s men’s basketball coach
The real story: a fucking college basketball coach makes more than all but 2 people who literally repair human bodies. That's obscene.

2026-06-04 20:27:48 UTC

It is morally OK to pull Facebook spyware off someone’s face and stomp it to pieces in any situation.
Q: But what if they’re prescription?
A: Make better life choices.
https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/

2026-06-03 23:59:06 UTC

Ah, that bittersweet moment in a young company's life when new employees start getting firstname.lastname email addresses instead of just firstname.

2026-05-03 15:10:27 UTC

Utah’s stupid new law “prohibits covered websites from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass age checks.”
It’s probably illegal for minors to access this site from Utah because I say some things that Utah’s leaders probably find offensive. Let me know if I don’t; I’ll work on fixing it. To access it over a VPN, follow these instructions to turn on iCloud Private Relay. Then I can’t see where you’re connecting ... https://honeypot.net/2026/05/03/utahs-stupid-new-law-prohibits.html

2026-05-02 04:58:53 UTC

Ennui.
Happy #Caturday
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2026-05-01 00:47:16 UTC

Trump Endorses Changing ICE’s Name To NICE https://theonion.com/trump-endorses-changing-ices-name-to-nice/
Nazis In Charge of Everyone. I appreciate the honesty.

2026-04-29 15:36:11 UTC

SFO now lets you walk loved ones to the gate without a plane ticket
"San Francisco International Airport is now allowing approved visitors without plane tickets to go past security, bringing back a once familiar airport ritual: walking loved ones to the gate and meeting them when they arrive."
This would (almost) win me back from OAK. That’s a brilliant perk. https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/sfo-non-ticketed-gate-22230750.php

2026-03-07 05:01:14 UTC

Whoa. UTF-8 is older now than ASCII was when UTF-8 was invented.

2026-02-22 05:16:12 UTC

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I really need to see this movie again among my fellow infosec nerds.

2026-02-22 05:12:16 UTC

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“I thought you was black, man.”

2026-02-22 05:06:50 UTC

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“Kid, don’t threaten me. There are things worse than death, uh, and I can do all of them.”

2026-02-22 05:05:31 UTC

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“Listen guys, help yourself to anything in the fridge. Cereal has.”

2026-02-22 05:02:54 UTC

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“It’s in that place where I put that thing that time.”

2026-02-22 04:55:24 UTC

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“That’s why they call me Stallion!” 😫

2026-02-22 04:47:51 UTC

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Is Marc Anthony at the party in “Hackers” as an undercover agent, or because he’s a young guy and wants to hang out with cool hackers?
boost4vizkthx

2026-02-22 04:09:33 UTC

It’s Saturday night, and it’s been a few weeks, so that means…
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2026-02-19 00:30:36 UTC

Say what you will, but I'm never again upgrading an OpenTofu config without using AI. Life's too short.

2026-02-16 17:10:11 UTC

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The concern is they don’t know how long it’ll last, so you don’t want to avoid it when you’re 30 and then get it when you’re 75. It’d be nice if they could find that you just need a booster later.

2026-02-15 22:11:39 UTC

Study: Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults https://gero.usc.edu/2026/01/19/shingles-vaccine-slower-biological-aging/
If you don’t have a medical reason not to, I highly, highly recommend getting your shingles vax. The disease itself is horrid, like, absolutely hellish for many months straight. Imagine the worst sunburn you’ve ever had, for a year. But it turns out the vax has lots of ancillary benefits in addition to keeping you from getting shingles.

2026-02-13 22:58:57 UTC

Coworker: What's DLP?
Me: Data Loss Prevention software. It's stuff you run on your computer to make sure it doesn't work.

2026-02-12 17:25:56 UTC

Reddit post:
My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"
I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.
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2026-02-11 00:17:21 UTC

I have a Logitech Circle video doorbell that doesn't share my video.
When we had a porch pirate, I absolutely shared that video with the police. Screw that guy. But it was our deliberate decision to share the video and we decided exactly how much to give them. I like having the ability to help law enforcement. I demand the right to choose how and when to do so.

2026-02-10 18:15:38 UTC

Randy Fine calls for FCC action over Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance - USA TODAY https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/10/bad-bunny-super-bowl-show-sparks-randy-fine-complaint/88602210007/
This is stupid, but “randy fine” is an amazing name for the pearlclutcher in the story.

2026-02-06 19:28:05 UTC

This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
https://hackers-1995.vercel.app

2026-02-05 20:45:52 UTC

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I'd gotten a report from @npub14lr…e7yf about the same with Tusky. The root cause is that I recently updated the SSL cert (which expires yearly), and now it's signed with a root cert newer than older versions of Android support. Tusky is fixing this by bundling the root cert with their app.
BTW, we're using Sectigo, which has about a 25% SSL CA market share. I mention that just to point out it's not a local weirdness thing, but a widespread issue.

2026-02-05 01:02:21 UTC

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I vehemently disagree. If we could all collectively decide to opt-out, then sure. But we can't. We won't. The right will absolutely, positively, never agree to abstain from elections. Ergo, the left abstaining is mathematically identical to voting for the right.
Voting for the lesser evil sucks. Not voting for the lesser evil is implicitly voting for the greater evil.
Sometimes the lesser evil is genuinely, truly... Less Evil.

2026-02-04 21:09:43 UTC

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Nailed it all around.
The many “both sides are the same!” whiners were either hopelessly ignorant or wholly gullible.
Imagine Harris invading Minnesota. As if.

2026-02-04 19:26:05 UTC

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“But Candidate X isn’t flawless! I might as well just vote for the tyrant!”
I do appreciate when people say that out loud so I know whose opinions I can ignore from that moment on.

2026-01-28 05:35:21 UTC

Sam and Dean are growing up, and they’re still best friends.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/115/971/097/929/742/889/original/e6174eca2b90b93f.jpg

2026-01-24 18:33:45 UTC

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And that’s meant to be resisted by…
The original theory is that it’d be the 2nd amendment all the way down.

2026-01-24 17:16:56 UTC

Federal officers shot another person in Minneapolis amid immigration crackdown, governor says - The Associated Press https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minnesota-4d1499fc5962ab880f3816259e04bdbf
Hey rightwingers, *this* is what the 2nd amendment was actually meant for. Why are you letting Big Government invade an American city?

2026-01-23 02:11:50 UTC

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I like reminding Reagan-worshippers how much Reagan would’ve hated this guy.

2026-01-23 01:29:02 UTC

Trump sues JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon for $5B over alleged 'debanking' https://www.npr.org/2026/01/22/nx-s1-5685151/trump-jpmorgan-chase-jamie-dimon-debanking
I never expected a Republican president to so viciously hate free market capitalism.

2026-01-21 02:18:08 UTC

Privilege is seeing the guy manspreading across 2 seats on a packed subway car, and feeling safe sitting down practically on his lap and making him move his damn leg.
What's the point of having privileges if you don't use them to make the world nicer to live in?

2026-01-06 21:44:11 UTC

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I'm so envious. Our local vet prices are extortionate now after PE ruined it. We needed to have some relatively minor treatment for our dog last year. I did the math and it would have been cheaper to fly first class to a Midwest city, stay at a 4-star hotel, have the work done, and come home than to pay the local vet.
No doubt about it, PE is literally killing pets. Everyone wants to do right by their furry friends, but when you get a quote for $10K, you start to weigh options.

2026-01-04 17:20:43 UTC

I realized today that I’ve accidentally de-Googled myself without deliberately meaning to. I’ve never used Gmail, but host my mail elsewhere with a domain I own. I use my phone’s own calendar, contacts, and photos apps. I pay to search the web with Kagi. Apple Maps has been great for years. Chrome is only for broken websites. My home NAS is way nicer than Google Drive.
I hadn’t actively tried to do this. I just don’t use any of their stuff anymore. I don’t need it and haven’t missed it.

2026-01-02 04:07:22 UTC

Because Santa graced me with a new ham radio, I’m spending this evening doing the nerdiest thing I know: hanging out on a weekly emergency radio net and getting talked into going to an in-person meeting Saturday morning.

2025-12-29 20:07:23 UTC

I just tried Marmite for the first time, and I ask as a friend: what's wrong with you people? Is peanut butter illegal where you live or something? Was a famine involved? Dire times and zombies, perhaps?

2025-11-27 02:33:44 UTC

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In practice, rogue registrars were busted frequently creating fake certs on behalf of governments and other spies. Now browsers generally won't use root certs from CAs which don't publish their certificate logs. It's bad if your or my server gets pwned. It's horrible if gmail.com gets compromised and a malicious actor can gather credentials from millions of users at ones. That's the kind of thing the logs are meant to protect against. And that's not just hypothetical, sadly.

2025-11-26 23:09:27 UTC

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My bad. I meant the cert pinning thing that was a fad a little while back, and fortunately seems to have been abandoned. But yeah, that’s exactly the idea. If you see that Tiny Registrar has issued an invalid cert, there are ways to report it. That’s critical feedback that must exist.
I think the general takeaway is that we’ve collectively ripped off the “obscurity” band-aid. That’s just not a thing anymore. Before you put anything on the ‘net, make sure it’s secure.

2025-11-26 18:19:23 UTC

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Those are legit arguments. I understand them and the concerns behind them. Counterarguments:
1. The attacks will come in moments anyway. Consider things like Shodan that continually scan the entire IPv4 space.
2. It's not just google.com. yourownsite.com could be spoofed, and the main tools preventing that, HSTS and cert preloading, are fraught with peril. Need to update to a new cert? Don't screw up the HSTS or no visitors can come to your site for the next 13 years!

2025-11-26 16:30:11 UTC

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I think it’s good on balance. It keeps me from issuing www.google.com without anyone noticing. And we’re going to get those malicious requests in minutes anyway.

2025-11-24 17:05:19 UTC

This is what the emails look like when scammers offer to buy your reputation.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/115/605/760/866/155/028/original/7466bc5e6018d342.png

2025-11-22 03:45:59 UTC

Another new Let's Encrypt-secured website, another case of getting 82 hacking attempts in the first 30 seconds after it came online for the first time ever.
Do. Not. Kid. Yourself. "Oh, I'll delete the config files once I get it working." "Eh, I'm just some nobody. Who's going to care?" Yeah, I'll tell you who: people who watch for new sites come online and then immediately slam them with hacking probes.
"I'll get to it soon" means you better do it within 3 seconds.
https://honeypot.net/2024/05/16/i-am-not.html

2025-11-22 00:48:33 UTC

I really wish Rust’s coroutines/generators/yieldybits were stabilized. I have a use case where if I were using Python, I’d absolutely be reaching for generators instead of threads etc., because they’d make the code vastly simpler and more readable.

2025-11-13 10:45:15 UTC

TIL: SFO doesn’t open until 3:15. It never occurred to me that it closed.

2025-11-10 16:58:31 UTC

Mom would never have described herself as a feminist. The local politics made that unlikely. She just didn’t see any reason why she couldn’t do the same job as the men at the railroad, so she went for it — and excelled. She was the first Wire Chief there, responsible for keeping the surprisingly huge and complex communications systems up and running, and therefore the trains rolling.
She was the first computing ... https://honeypot.net/2025/11/10/mom-would-never-have-described.html
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2025-11-09 22:18:07 UTC

My mom passed away this morning. We knew this was coming. She’d been sick for a while. The last stages were mercifully brief and comfortable.

2025-11-07 03:15:43 UTC

Rats. The email client on my Supernote Nomad 1) requires setting an entire email address for the IMAP/SMTP authentication username, and 2) doesn't allow setting a different From: address than the authentication email address.
I've reported the former as a feature request, and the latter as a flat-out bug.

2025-11-06 15:29:05 UTC

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Yep! “You’re censoring me!” “No. You can still speak. We’re just choising not to listen.”

2025-11-04 15:56:20 UTC

“You call everyone a Nazi who doesn’t agree with you!”
Meanwhile, in reality…
And yes, I suspend these accounts the moment they pop up without waiting to hear what they have to say. WTF of interest could this jackwagon possibly have to offer? A nuanced take on Gaza? Thoughtful insights on immigration?
LOL, fuck that guy. They can still speak if they wish, but they don’t have the right to make me spend the resources to hear them.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/115/492/243/169/601/513/original/d3bc3a72c9510cbc.png

2025-10-20 01:46:01 UTC

Mrs Tek and I are having fun playing “Pokémon Legends: Z-A”. I made the mistake of looking at its online reviews and the hate it’s getting is surprising to me. While it’s not the best game I’ve ever seen, we’re enjoying it.

2025-10-09 20:48:07 UTC

One of my coworkers just seriously asked what a floppy disk is, and I'm going to go take a nap and cry.

2025-10-02 15:02:42 UTC

JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.
Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/

2025-09-24 13:57:24 UTC

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro
Don’t lose track of the idea that while we may live in tumultuous times, they are also full of miracles.

2025-09-20 20:25:14 UTC

I loathe these ads trying to convince Californians not to all us to redistrict in response to extremist rightwing states. Yeah, let’s just sit here and let Texas and Missouri and friends totally rig all future elections while we sit here and smile smugly.
Taking the high ground when the opposition is cheating is just another way to spell “losing”.

2025-09-19 15:33:24 UTC

I cannot stress this enough: if you have more to your name than fits in your pocket, and you have more than one person in your immediate family circle, have a will made.
I have ringside seats to what happens when you don’t, and it’s horrible. Money can make survivors lose their damn minds.

2025-09-18 16:51:34 UTC

No, they won’t, because there’s no plausible scenario by which that bullshit will ever enter my house.
I’ll be damned if I’ll buy a home appliance that shows me ads.
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/

2025-09-18 01:30:19 UTC

I just sent this to the office Slack:
"Meta debuted their new AI-powered glasses today. Please do not acquire and wear these to work. We do not wish to have Facebook’s (or anyone else’s!) cameras viewing our monitors as we look at code, docs, and customer information."
If you're in the position to do the same at your office, I strongly urge you to do so.

2025-09-17 15:17:47 UTC

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Rats. Tossed and turned imagining an algorithm that would make a certain solution a lot prettier, and also faster, and woke up excited to try it, and quickly realized why it wouldn’t work.
But thinking on it showed how I could still improve the current implementation a lot, and now I can’t wait to get home and try it.
I’d still trade that for a better night’s sleep.

2025-09-17 07:07:46 UTC

Spent the evening writing a Python module to merge long lists of IP networks into the smallest set possible that covers the exact same ranges. You’d think that’d already exist but I couldn’t find one that didn’t invent its own IP address classes, or have O(n^3) runtime, or give the wrong results by missing lots of mergeable networks, or look like a Java programmer’s first Python project.
I’ll pack it up and put it on PyPI tomorrow if I have time.

2025-09-10 00:30:15 UTC

Kitty update: eyes wide open! #CatsOfMastodon
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/115/177/174/601/303/223/original/d24063a7b36caf3b.png