Henryk Plötz

Born between E.T. and Blade Runner, occasionally hacking and breaking things, computer scientist living in Berlin.
He/Him.

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2026-05-15 01:26:07 UTC

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One of the phrases from Dollhouse (2009) that will forever live rent-free in my head is "drawer of inappropriate starches" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216527/quotes/?item=qt0530408).
I have since striven to maintain one at work at all times.

2026-05-14 10:19:07 UTC

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Well, either that, or a bronze age Nanoraptor having a bit of fun with a T-shaped bison that only has left legs.

2026-05-05 08:51:55 UTC

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Weil wir Menschen wirklich schlecht sowohl in großen Zahlen als auch in logarithmischen Maßen sind, muss das immer mal wieder laut gesagt werden:
Der Unterschied zwischen einer Million und einer Milliarde ist ungefähr: eine Milliarde.

2026-04-17 18:04:42 UTC

Ok, fellow hackers, I propose a pact: That new EU age verification app thingy ... do NOT help improve it.
Don't publish findings. Don't responsibly disclose insecurities. Don't facilitate them making it bulletproof.
If personal data is directly at risk, by all means, slam their asses into the ground. GDPR them into oblivion.
But on its core functionality this needs to be, to become, and to stay, the most insecure, the most easily circumventable piece of shit code on the planet.

2026-03-03 13:29:36 UTC

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Fun tidbit: The opposite is true now.
In order to prevent cross-domain tracking by observing cache hits, Browsers will not use a cached Google font across multiple domains. You gain nothing from using Google Fonts.
But, because it's an extra host, the browser will need to do the whole DNS/TCP/TLS dance to fetch the file, small as it may be, so you're getting additional latency compared to just downloading the file from the server it's already connected to.

2026-01-28 09:03:36 UTC

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They also removed this paragraph from their official blog post:
> Matrix on Workers runs in production today, handling real encrypted communications for our team. It is fast, it is cheap, and it is arguably one of the most secure ways to deploy a homeserver today.
So, next time Cloudflare wants to tell us something about what they do "in production today", we'll have a frame of reference for how credible that is.

2025-12-29 17:54:36 UTC

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Na sind sie doch, aber Tag 0 hatte halt noch kein Hauptbühnenprogramm.

2025-11-18 12:49:39 UTC

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Personally, I'm very partial to this one.
(The Sovereign Tech Fund is a German government funded initiative to improve resilience of our tech stack.)
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/115/570/773/791/463/500/original/58de22297077547a.png

2025-10-01 19:33:33 UTC

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It spent 10 minutes on this?!
Now, while in principle I have nothing against sub-second, one-shot inferences, I must say that blasting a couple hundred watts for 10 minutes does not appear entirely appropriate if all you get is this kind of output.

2025-08-30 15:49:58 UTC

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I'd object even before that: Bitcoin does not exist in a vacuum. It needs a substrate. Who's going to run the miners and how are they going to pay their utility companies?

2025-05-16 07:56:36 UTC

Wir müssen *bitte was* schaffen?
https://social.bund.de/@Cyberagentur/114511939436500746
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/516/433/916/175/770/original/93a6d43bcc168a25.png

2025-03-25 07:32:29 UTC

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There's a totally hypothetical extended version of this diagram.
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/221/898/517/467/248/original/6c4298580b4e36f2.png

2024-12-31 13:29:16 UTC

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Five and a bit. Spent *a lot* of time in Kidspace, but also enjoyed walking everywhere with us.

2024-12-31 11:36:57 UTC

Ok, kid is now part of chaos. First thing she did at home is set up a sticker table for us. #38c3

2024-12-14 12:31:58 UTC

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I have the Pebblebee, and one Motorola. The Motorola UWB isn't actually active yet (scheduled for a future software update). I bought a couple more pebblebees and they work well so far (also the audio to help you find it is *much* louder than Motorola).
My biggest gripe is that it's *only* in the Find My Device app, and I can't, for example, integrate into Home Assistant.
Working on it though ;)

2024-11-22 12:45:35 UTC

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Check dmesg, there should be a more verbose kernel error. (Most likely: Your distribution did not install the module by default.)

2024-11-22 12:40:25 UTC

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Yes, Wireshark can sniff USB both on your Linux host and (I believe) the Windows guest.
On Linux you could also use the "usbmon" kernel module directly (which is what Wireshark's using).
https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB
https://docs.kernel.org/usb/usbmon.html

2024-08-24 07:42:51 UTC

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Tough choice.
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/113/015/867/489/308/852/original/0e580595cf7df9b9.jpg