Miguel Jacq (he/him), a freelance Linux sysadmin consultant based in Melbourne, Australia.

I work on OnionShare and a few other open source tools.

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so I guess (speculate) a common software bug doing the same wrong thing regardless of the key content 🤔 (EDIT: just saw your next message… so not all… curiouser and curiouser… failure in one part of a distributed cluster?)

2026-05-05 23:52:50 UTC

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nice work with the updates, thanks. I was looking at Quad9’s API endpoint for NTAs, and was curious, is that format of the txt file a common standard or just one adopted by Quad9?

2026-01-30 01:40:13 UTC

@npub1afm…5gp4 wanted to ask: how is your ‘new’ Qubes laptop going? (I’m still shopping around)

2026-01-13 21:12:04 UTC

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I did a little searching and came across https://github.com/VintageOps/dns-zone-compare which looks interesting

2026-01-13 16:21:14 UTC

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is this a “hey you should check out this cool thing I just discovered called The Fediverse”? From a tech podcast? In 2026?
I guess I’m still confused. Like, why only *now*?

2025-11-19 10:43:44 UTC

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✅ somehow avoided triggering it in staging/QA env

2025-11-18 22:12:04 UTC

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the Guardian’s article also had the gall to finish with “it was unlikely to be a cyber-attack as a service so large is unlikely to have a single point of failure” (despite the very article being about how it took down practically everything).
Why do better when even the media will make apologies for you?
But they have since amended the article to remove that line 😂
https://web.archive.org/web/20251118134140/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet

2025-10-09 20:11:01 UTC

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might be interesting to try and work out which have had more security vulnerabilities (login screen or screensaver lock). I suspect the latter has!

2025-09-22 20:10:14 UTC

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I’m in a similar situation and was considering a Framework, or a Nitropad v56