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The Doctor

@ drwho @beehaw.org

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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

  • Replacing M.2 system drive (btrfs) on motherboard with single slot

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  • It would probably be more reliable to partition and format the new drive manually and use rsync to copy everything over. Updating /etc/fstab with the new UUIDs isn't a big deal (though you can also manually specify the partition UUIDs at time of format - mkfs.btrfs --uuid ...) (you didn't say what file system your /boot partition was using, so I don't want to guess).

  • Roast the security of my app

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  • If you really want folks to have a go at it, add the phrase "military grade encryption" to the readme. That'll trigger a lot of folks' Google Alerts and you'll get the eyes on your code you're looking for.

  • Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters

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  • It really depends on the company. When I was working for that company a few jobs back, we crunched the numbers and the cost of C&C and IV&V (Certification and Accreditation; Independent Verification and Validation) for an in-house TOTP had one more zero to the left of the decimal point than the Twilio bill (added up for the year). Plus, for compliance we'd have to get everything re-vetted yearly.

    That's kinda of the definition of government contracting. :) I think the only US government org that has actual govvies doing anything other than management is NASA.

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  • I was starting college (comp.sci, natch) and a hard req for the program was "Your own personal computer, with an Ethernet card and an OS that had a TCP/IP stack for remotely accessing classwork." I didn't have a great deal of money (most of it was tied up in tuition and housing) and ethernet cards were expensive (I think I paid $140us for it at the time). I couldn't afford Windows and didn't have a warez hookup for '95. A BBS I used to call had Slackware disk images for download.

    The rest, as they say, is history.

  • Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters

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  • In case anybody's curious about what those are:

    The biggest reason they use phone calls or SMS, however, is because they don't want to go to the hassle of getting an in-house MFA service (a TOTP backend, in other words), approved, pen tested, analyzed, verified... all things considered, it's faster and easier to go with a service like Twilio that already did all that legwork. A couple of years back I worked for a company in just that position, and after we did all the legwork, research, and consultation with the independent third party specialists trying to run our own TOTP would have easily doubled the yearly cost because of all the compliance stuff.

  • Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters

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  • That implies that they pass parameters in URLs... FFS.

  • Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters

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  • Mew!

  • Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters

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  • Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters

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  • Which begs the question, how often do people really change their passwords unless they're forced to? This feels like the sort of thing that somebody should have studied.

  • Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters

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  • Huh - they increased it!

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    Massive Cyber Attack On AWS Targets 230 Million Unique Cloud Environments

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  • Yeah. They're background radiation on the Net.

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    Massive Cyber Attack On AWS Targets 230 Million Unique Cloud Environments

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  • Nope. The summary is a dog's breakfast of words.

  • 84% Of Americans Want Tougher Online Privacy Laws, But Congress Is Too Corrupt To Follow Through

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  • Hence, why they call folks who actually want to make government do stuff "rubes" back home.

  • So, this cookie alert on theverge.com is both refreshingly honest and depressingly disturbing

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  • Cookie Auto-Delete helps with that.

  • Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine

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  • Businesses invest where there's money to be made. Microsoft will probably try the same with Azure in the next two or three years.

  • Lemmy predicts: Chromebooks will become the new Thinkpads

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  • Chromebooks? Built like tanks?

    Maybe if you folded origami tanks and spritzed them with water. They're cheap, they're cheaply made, and they're made to be e-waste.

  • Social-media firms are lowering defenses to foreign disinformation campaigns, researchers warn

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  • Guess I won that bet.

  • Enabling Antenna Aggregation Might Make Big Difference If Your Laptop Has An Intel Wifi Card.

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  • Thank you for posting this, I'll give it a try tonight.

  • What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

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  • I don't 'love' to 'hate' Oracle. For much of my career it seems like they've gone out of their way to make things more difficult than they need to be. If I had to calculate how much time fighting with their projects cost me (compared to everything else), they'd be at the head of the list (with one more zero at the left of the decimal point than Microsoft).

  • What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

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  • I didn't mean the license. I meant, it was a "fuck you" from Oracle.