ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Amazing

The holidays can be a really tough time. The advice I often heard was, "Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Help others. Get out of your head." It's perfectly fine advice, but unhelpful if the mere thought of interacting with people is overwhelming. Anyway, here's a thing I did one year that did help:

I bought a Cookie Monster costume, went to the airport, and waited at arrivals with a sign that said "COOKIE"

Didn't have to talk to anyone and boy did I get to watch people's faces light up.

Reports this week illustrate how threat actors consider Microsoft Exchange as a prime target for gaining initial access to corporate networks to steal data and deploy ransomware.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-december-23rd-2022-targeting-microsoft-exchange/

Got inspiration for some new insults from this pet store. (Tag yourself, etc)

Do you know what style guide is most common in book publishing in the UK?

@ijk64 @unamccormack @wleisner @Scifibulletin Nah. I don't take sides on commas. But you don't wanna get me started on semicolons ... 😊

Oh good the fractals are here

When you ride a bicycle, you're part of the neighborhood.
When you're in a car, you're just passing through.

(Winter frostbike edition)

Decorate your process tree.

pstree() { e=$'\e' ; o=( 🔴 🔵 🔶 🟢 💠 🟣 🔘 🔆 📍 🔔 🎀 ) ; [[ "$1" == "--xmas" ]] && command pstree -U | { printf "🌟\n" ; cat | while IFS='\n' read line ; do d="${o[$(( $RANDOM%${#o[@]} -1))]}"; r1=$(($RANDOM%${#line})) ; printf "$line\n" | sed -r -e "s/^(.{$r1})/\\1$d/g" -e "s/^/$e[42m/" -e "s/$/$e[0m/" ; done ; printf "\e[0m 🟫 \n 🟫 🚂 🎁 🎁 🎁 🎁 \n"; } || command pstree $@ ; };pstree --xmas

@kevinswiber My thoughts on this are that we need to stop devaluing online relationships. Written communication can be just as rich, if not more, than verbal communication. Why is a relationship with the random person who moved into the home next door more important than the one with someone I met in an online community that has a shared interest? Just as society have dismissed remote work as been lesser than in person, we are going to discover that digital friendships are valuable

most brutal take on mastodon yet

I am once again asking you to stop using LastPass. The company has a history of security issues dating back years, and has yet to make holistic security improvements — or heck even investigate incidents properly.

Good alternatives:

- 1Password is my #1 rec, best for most use cases
- Bitwarden if you want open source
- KeePassXC if you want local vaults and open source
- I hear ok things about Dashlane but don’t know a ton

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

LastPass users: Your info and password vault data are now in hackers’ hands https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/lastpass-says-hackers-have-obtained-vault-data-and-a-wealth-of-customer-info/

PARENT: "Have you finished writing your letter to Santa?"

CHILD: "I don't believe in Santa anymore. Now I believe in a decentralized network of independently operating elves who federate using an open protocol called ActivityPub to share information about children's Christmas wishes and source gifts to fulfill them"