ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.

the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.

so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:

it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.

Over 19,000 end-of-life Cisco VPN routers on the Internet are exposed to attacks targeting a remote command execution exploit chain.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-19-000-end-of-life-cisco-routers-exposed-to-rce-attacks/

Okay, I got my shit together and blogged about this thing.

I want a fridge that won't join a botnet
https://rys.io/en/164.html

> I could put such devices on a special VLAN, or behind a Pi Hole, but 99% of people can’t. Plus, it’s work. Plus, most importantly, you can bet that “smart” devices will start coming with SIM cards and 4g/5g modems very soon — cars already do. Why does my fridge need Internet connectivity in the first place?

#IoT

New on #FOSSAcademic: my first post about the Social Web Working Group, the group that gave us #ActivityPub (among many other things). I've read *all* their meeting minutes and am sharing notes on them in a series of posts:

https://fossacademic.tech/2023/01/20/ActivityPub1.html

Comments welcome! Responses to this post will appear as comments on the blog unless you set them to "Followers Only" or DM. CWs will work.

U.S. airline accidentally exposes TSA No Fly List on unsecured server: the discoverer blogged about how she used Shodan to find the exposed server, AWS credentials, and S3 buckets https://www.dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list-us-tsa-unprotected-server-commuteair/

Have a picture of a waterwheel turning, covered with thick ice.

(Fulenbach, January 20, 2023. It's cold and Small Child forced me to go and see this last night after dark.)

@ijk64 @fluffy @owen @mcc In some systems, one is simply a simlink to the other.

Less is, in fact, more.

I am very sorry.

Germany yet to make decision on sending tanks to Ukraine https://bbc.in/3J3mU6D

I wrote a uBlock rule to fix the new Wikipedia theme.

To me it felt like the text was kinda floating in the void, not anchored to anything (especially once you're scrolled down the page), so I added a vertical rule between the sidebar and the content:

wikipedia.org##.mw-table-of-contents-container:style(border-right: 1px solid; border-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, white 0%, #a2a9b1 10em) 1;)

Australia's 'Toadzilla': Record-breaking cane toad found in Queensland: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64341453?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Photobomb of the year!
Photo: Bill Furey