2026-06-06T18:12:13Z https://yabu.me 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 https://yabu.me/npub1e0tefvfstkqceazhymt5938kk8upsy8hpq7dhywmgsvlsr4q2jysp2tl89 https://cdn.toad.social/accounts/avatars/109/338/737/235/127/379/original/40352b59b8a71570.png https://cdn.toad.social/accounts/avatars/109/338/737/235/127/379/original/40352b59b8a71570.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy6h8ffzypj6w5pmj4jxwrhe6rmgex6ydd0skqautd832l5surs7szyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjnr29sj RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116132930980342790">https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116132930980342790</a><br/><br/>It’s gonna be so funny when it turns out that Alzheimer’s is a post-viral syndrome of Varicella (brain Shingles!) and we turn out to have cured it inadvertently in recent decades by developing the Chickenpox and Shingles vaccines. <br/><br/>Herpesviruses are turning out to be a particularly nasty bunch. I just did a quickie review of their Wikipedia pages and we’re learning all sorts of ugliness. Looks like they *all* go latent in nerves and come back bad.<br/>nostr:note1dxyylmw5vdlr79c586rt0khdnthjqskf7k9v5t4q0ratywmg2hnse68zfv<br/> 2026-02-25T22:04:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd6lxhljrs27ft7za0hcstrnrduyfl4xsjgd4rlf0nmsnen46vztszyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gj30tfrr BTW: Do not do this unless you want to help Google enclose the email world. [@jmason_links](<a href="https://mstdn.social/@jmason_links">https://mstdn.social/@jmason_links</a> ) <a href="https://mstdn.social/@jmason_links/115926895528138976">https://mstdn.social/@jmason_links/115926895528138976</a> 2026-01-20T18:40:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswktngdkyqqs0m5ws9av2t2u7fssuwlv97cdym84uewrusrcrjf0szyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gj9uuc6h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfnr2hv4j7fs6mgnd26aen9jzwqtp5xwntgrnzzxe72wnwhtytdacgj6888'>nevent1q…6888</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I kinda want to try it... <br/>I mean, I use beef, bacon, beer, and beans in my best chili, so it wouldn&#39;t necessarily be bad. (The beer is part of the meat prep.)<br/><br/>But yes: Aggressively American. 2025-10-09T16:14:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyg0n0ycc0yx7vpsuw72wvnce76alrz485rhhtz2fq62088tpyd8czyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjr86tv0 It is really weird to listen to the classic This American Life episode being played this week. It is one of their early episodes, from 1997, telling of the tale of Harold Washington, the 1st Black mayor of Chicago.<br/>I&#39;ve listened to TAL forever so I&#39;ve heard this one at least thrice before. It is very good. <br/><br/>What&#39;s odd is that it is so stylistically identifiable as being *EARLY* TAL. It uses all the old bump &amp; background music that they used heavily back then. I am being earwormed. 2025-10-04T17:39:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswys3pkdtgr6xtmrf4pzrtwlrng0rpa65easjjj9v4nnm8p3fcfgczyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gj668nmf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswqettql765wfehyk8t24txxx5zrkvksqs5agnmh6uhf5fq7pc7qczurm64'>nevent1q…rm64</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Truly local ISPs barely exist any more in the USA, nearly everyone gets access through one of the major cable TV, legacy POTS, or national mobile phone providers. Those access providers don&#39;t block anything which they might get sued for. Also, a lot of domain name resolution these days bypasses access providers so domain-wise blocking would not work. <br/><br/>So this is Bluesky using one of the (imperfect) &#34;Geo-IP&#34; mapping databases to refuse service. 2025-08-23T17:18:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyvvm546g9eqjsup5mr40nc0n57evt3rx5cjkgck0hq0akr6tqgagzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjp95auk The warning signs around MRI machines are not kidding. <br/><br/>Man dies after being sucked into Long Island MRI machine <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-dies-sucked-long-island-mri-machine-rcna219720">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-dies-sucked-long-island-mri-machine-rcna219720</a> 2025-07-19T13:38:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0ftnpquk2ky6pqt4y48lumz5ldyc5mqph8xfjsad0tquhzfe0xvqzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjjetpl2 Not a word about WHY he’s paving it over. He just is. <a href="https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/114729442831614255">https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/114729442831614255</a> 2025-06-23T01:24:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyhge3pd9dajmaljy0c6uaq272h7rg9zlwapwj659fu4q7gedzgwszyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjgjg4s9 Anyone who took this long to split with Trump is untrustable. They have a history of spectacularly poor judgment mixed with moral turpitude and they failed to recognize their own error for about a decade. It’s nice to have a vote change and good to have someone intimate with the MAGA mindset trying to persuade his former co-religionists, but anyone who stuck with Trump past the first quarter of 2017 has a lot of eager evil to atone for. <a href="https://beige.party/@Lana/114711292686762490">https://beige.party/@Lana/114711292686762490</a> 2025-06-19T19:21:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgpcuay8qajsmzx0h7v2u75azslhz74lt3m86520wn66axsqkp8zgzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjepms4k But, they were evil. Even if you happen to be descended from them. They did a definitively evil thing, and it was a defining choice of their lives. Everyone knew that the war was about continuing and entrenching slavery. More than any modern war, it was feasible for conscripts to escape service, either by paying or by running west.<br/><br/>I guarantee that every person reading this has some evil ancestor. <br/><br/>Get over yourself, JD. <br/><br/><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social/post/3lrdwqkhmv22x">https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social/post/3lrdwqkhmv22x</a> 2025-06-11T22:16:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswm6d8nzleenwppuvuypujp0l5f74e0uyevewhnjl0es953e2cz2qzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gj00jay3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfp4gs0pagjm8zng7a47xpkdu2cqesue9pafaw53jsm87hmnmjlpsn37chw'>nevent1q…7chw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s dependent on your installation details. However, I suspect that in your setup you need to run as root to read files in /srv/vmail/ but need to train as amavis, so the &#34;--username=amavis&#34; is required. If your setup isn&#39;t Amavis+virtual mailboxes+SQL you may need something else.<br/><br/>Incidentally, the best place to find good free help with SpamAssassin from a broad range of users with different setups is the Users&#39; mailing list. <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/spamassassin/MailingLists">https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/spamassassin/MailingLists</a> for details. 2025-05-07T14:38:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszqua6kgf3dv2x9t2rhgshsezh02323pc8e8jwtuq0zv2cad5h4ygzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjnu7jey In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstfn3xp7l0m22qqc0t9scmuxhfh8cg47wjqstdz45jne2j9kch5vs84tfyp'>nevent1q…tfyp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For many users, the Bayes plugin works well. Inherently it makes some errors but they should be manageable.<br/>One of the most common problem people have with the SA Bayes subsystem is training the wrong database. Make sure you run sa-learn as the same user that is doing the checking at delivery time. <br/>It is possible to &#34;overtrain&#34; the Bayes DB, especially if it isn&#39;t getting expired regularly. <br/><br/>(I&#39;m a contributor &amp; PMC member for SpamAssassin) 2025-05-07T13:20:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw2dp5x58qp6d87x35a7wax77543ra7ran9nz7h7k4pawdwxjd9dgzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjzxmxqr Fuck #Google and the garbage imitation of IMAP that they foist on users &amp; fuck their #SecurityTheater of demanding CASA audits of every IMAP client before they allow it to do OAuth2. <br/><br/>If you use #GMail (or Google Workspace) you are actively supporting the enclosure of #email. Google does not want independent standards-compliant MUAs to touch their mail system. Google wants all of its users using their shit web interface or their shoddy apps. They want to own your email. <br/><br/>#InfoSec #Rant 2025-04-09T13:22:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw06pc2czldp737zh84legjksa09mfa0evygketk05l27pqz4r8kszyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjv2f8wa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw2xka9k4vlmp4n3ezesx5n4c73eyzv5rvegztfrzx7f47t00e0uc5aguhj'>nevent1q…guhj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I took cross-lake rides on the Badger and its retired peers 3 times as a teen, on family road tripsin the 70s and 80s. Given an excuse for doing so again, I&#39;d jump at it. The trip really drives home the fact that L. Michigan is a real inland sea so big that shapes its own weather. 2025-04-06T16:01:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrw7fu7e6t2c9anxeqz54s029pgsytw3qp2649j08d28pav8ut7agzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjyhht2t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs00x0g68kvj7wmdtczrfw4ytqetv40vlc75hyp088g8xdjaxvks2c6u30kf'>nevent1q…30kf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No, of course I&#39;m kidding about the violence... <br/>I would however like to understand why the automatic defaults are so horrible and why everything is presented badly. Extracting that info could get messy... 2025-03-29T21:06:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs00x0g68kvj7wmdtczrfw4ytqetv40vlc75hyp088g8xdjaxvks2czyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjec5fhj If I could find the people who created the disk prep portion of the Alma Linux installer I would spend the rest of my life in prison. It would be worth it. It bears a resemblance to something I&#39;ve used before so I guess the RH/CentOS folks are likely the perpetrators. <br/><br/>All I want is a 3-way mirror with minimal complexity on 3 SSDs. It can be done, but only by ignoring bad clues in the GUI. You can get to that setup, but it is not surfaced at all.<br/><br/>#EnterpriseLinux #AlmaLinux #Sysadminnery 2025-03-29T21:02:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp96fndhj76fw5nzz9zse5lyvqphhrmmrpzl0uyuhaxz9xaa8sdegzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjc7ck5z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqz8lkqx56ftrf9nlsc49kz0lj2a7xt7add6f4t44ylvh0pmsgysqx53yxd'>nevent1q…3yxd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The stats we collect for the #SpamAssassin project (mass-scan results from participating sites) have long shown that spammers are more consistent at making SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correct than are legitimate senders. DMARC in particular has no discernible benefit for most senders, so it is a useless signal. <br/><br/>Rejecting mail based solely on authentication failures of those deeply flawed authentication methods does more harm than good. 2025-03-23T20:20:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqp9gdlq4uep7l6lhkp6ufqhpat8fq6gg5zrrj47r2pj9trjzgr9gzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjrs7pxq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstfxd3g6v5wzetdml7tyk2vsf65kx3d4a25dht02cge4fv4a27macqf5jfj'>nevent1q…5jfj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s extremely strange. If my phone was doing that I&#39;d be investing time in Apple interaction (i.e. Genius Bar) to get a fix or at least make sure that they recognize the problem as demanding a fix. <br/>It&#39;s possible malware. I would not bet on that if you&#39;re not an individually high-value target but some untargeted iOS malware exists. 2025-01-15T14:46:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv7cxhultczw3e0lhs5uel57zkd2l2c4enr5qrdd9u7lplz3sf8nczyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjeuq8hq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrh7u70rc73adfas9sl4uzt94g99zensvhmzkue7deya5xlpnq26q9hrse6'>nevent1q…rse6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Cannot reproduce. Are you sure you didn’t accidentally hit the microphone icon in Messages? 2025-01-15T02:40:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs94c9p5z70jaylvyhftfwzrtw0tn0l9a57j0c26cxk0yx48mdktngzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjz9wt96 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy5uklrkwzeetq5vldx7mpe74t250fuuv2shpqhgyf05rtwuvq0cc4gq6kv'>nevent1q…q6kv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I did not know that. <br/>Have you tried UTM? <a href="https://mac.getutm.app">https://mac.getutm.app</a><br/>I have not tried it yet but it claims to run macOS on macOS and prompt for how to connect USB devices. 2025-01-10T22:49:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2yzrcf78nauehegck5lq53phfuu47ufyuequq0guz2htfzngamtgzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjvpekah In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2aqgdt96hnagw6szmevh3r97hpurwlnfung8httmhsn0lul4z7ngm5d766'>nevent1q…d766</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I can&#39;t say that it *works* because I&#39;ve never tried using it, but VMWare Fusion always asks about where to connect my Yubikey (VM or host) when I plug it in. So it *thinks* it can make it work. 2025-01-10T19:22:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp9suwmmu3lh25mkfyj4qp2mcuhzrv4dr7hs9h2ttudzlx2ypv8ngzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjz0npdc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswv46qlw8znhy86u26xjxfue49vkxyj3p5wn23pejgepsg72s5qncrl63jv'>nevent1q…63jv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Pretty sure that&#39;s NOT #photography, given the date and the complex color... 2024-11-25T18:47:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs055n0fugwcne443ss0wg5kg4kgwancjz3tq9mql9htm03nvghx9gzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjhs2au0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswnxu75uwkze4rsysk5vpu8tcg4jp7lp2fq2nrhpjj66cvhwrf6qcvu8vwl'>nevent1q…8vwl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Gravitational time lensing? <br/>(~30% not kidding) 2024-11-10T19:21:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs83p7qklpa4m5hz465rcemk43rrfts5kzx9rx7lyqnl5e6hnr7wkqzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjyfydap Fascists want everyone else to think there’s no point to voting. They want average people to be disgusted by politics and uninterested in policy. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/113383723684616734">https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/113383723684616734</a> 2024-10-28T17:57:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0y6vpl7k894v7ahtl8wgwq3uxl62q3w9v42tlzlvqlmzsvqj7pjczyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjcd0crz I’m appalled. Just saw an add for eye drops containing the active ingredient perfluorohexyloctane. <br/><br/>My OC is 40yo, but even I can see that is a #PFAS. The octane tail doesn’t save it. <br/>#ForeverChemicals #Miebo 2024-10-22T23:26:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspsljcrhh08pghqwkq9tdqtchn3p4yggxas2fwt84vd9tn2rfu98czyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gj3mp46l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsftjdt9sy2alu36ech6sxla65nwgf0qcjc3da308pq04huv809xvcvwqt5f'>nevent1q…qt5f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If it’s any help, I really like my Unicomp New Model M. It doesn’t strike me as a gamer kbd at all… No fancy backlights, no weird layouts or compressed form factor, just a big 100+ key traditional keyboard with the most traditional and wonderfully loud switch mechanisms in existence. 2024-10-22T19:40:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw8200rrc8xh96yjtz6sgns23gwv98h53gdpmdtq4a4gy0kppq9hczyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjwd35pg A stupid thread dominating the #Postfix ML this week has me mourning the death of my profession.<br/><br/>Some sub-bozo sysadmin really wants an official Postfix container to exist. Because he really wants to be able to manage everything with #Kubernetes. Or maybe because he wants to be the guy who maintains the official Postfix container... <br/><br/>#PSA: If you believe that your #email server can or should be managed with #k8s, or Docker, or Podman, you should reconsider your career choices. <br/><br/>#Sysadminnery 2024-10-18T13:41:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrsyy7l28kcja74pw2jgjp5t9qyckfuafetfwthd0fgpn29kt3l5szyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjj2glag Amen. I’ve read a few critiques of #Passkeys; they all seem to miss the mark. It is early days still &amp; the real problems so far are quirks of specific implementations. It also seems that some people also don’t get that the point of tying a private key &amp; cert to a specific *trustworthy* device is to make it non-portable, unlike a user+pass or user+pass+TOTP combo, e.g. in a password manager blob being tossed around like a bong with a half-ounce bowl.<br/><br/>#InfoSec #WebAuthn <a href="https://digipres.club/@dsalo/113318092325311618">https://digipres.club/@dsalo/113318092325311618</a> 2024-10-16T18:30:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszh6x2dk7zcgetlwccjnk0d6jeum4vxs7de9phcgsaghgr75jh0tszyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjzp2lmr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf0gj7k3dppywkrkv66xyzejvrne5wtdnx0wd6vd97sjujm8fxjqg69mdht'>nevent1q…mdht</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also for bank accounts. You really want to know if someone has managed to wire out your entire balance. 2024-10-05T17:22:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfhg4kj34mcc6t59xetr405zr2vm247mm7t7fm4c9hns40hn86hkgzyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gj4q2h99 TAKE THAT FLAT_EARTHERS!!! <a href="https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/113222388804243303">https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/113222388804243303</a> 2024-09-29T19:38:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0gdu9xx4wttmhhvzfsg7gn5qt3l4swd8hyku86ytzcnpzmpdwmzczyr9a0993xpwcrr852undwsky76clsxqs7uyreku3mdzpn7qw5p2gjtrkvkx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgauswy6zvp0svkzx4wznydhudeewujkmt9clsk87rn8ndq0wl5jq9k6nmz'>nevent1q…6nmz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>FWIW, archive download was always flaky. I think they must have staged all of the pending archives on low-performance systems. 2024-08-02T18:17:59Z