ISC Diary: @malware_traffic reviews recent wave of #Qakbot using .vhd (virtual hard disk) images https://i5c.us/d29294
About one year of every #systems PhD is dedicated to learning -- the hard way -- to enable TCP_NODELAY.
After a couple notable incidents of this, I wrote "IT'S ALWAYS THE NAGLE ALGORITHM" in large letters on the UW systems lab's whiteboard to serve as a warning to others.
#chatgpt is helping me update this warning for a modern audience. Or a 19th-century one.
Human chess: https://humanchess.abcd.party/ chess variant where playing the top engine move is forbidden.
"Players can claim their opponent’s last move was a top engine move.
Claims are settled by engine evaluation of the position. If opponent’s move matches the top engine move, the claimant wins the game - if not, they immediately loose.
Checkmating loses the game, (always top engine move). Instead, players seek to force their opponent to make a top engine move. "
The navigation cameras on the Mars Curiosity Rover never fail to deliver a beautiful scene. I commanded these on Monday, they executed on Tuesday, and we get to enjoy them on Wednesday ☺️
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill
"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech
https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html
I worked at USC when the Tusk video was being filmed there. Could occasionally hear bits echoing. Had no idea it was Fleetwood Mac at the time.
You know the "Configuration Register" on #cisco systems? "config-register 0x2102" and all? This is what it looked like on Cisco's first routers - that set of jumpers to the left on the top board is confreg:
BREAKING: The European Union has reportedly warned Elon Musk that Twitter could be BANNED in Europe unless the platform abides by the EU’s strict rules on content moderation.
That sounds significant. #Twitter
“ Continuous-time neural networks are a class of machine learning systems that can tackle representation learning on spatiotemporal decision-making tasks [...] Here, we show that it is possible to closely approximate the interaction between neurons and synapses—the building blocks of natural and artificial neural networks—constructed by liquid time-constant networks efficiently in closed form”
“It may be possible for a
malicious host to trigger remote code execution in [checks notes] ping.”— #CVE-2022-23093 — Update your FreeBSDs.
So, new #Introduction, such that I have something to pin to my #Profile.
I’ve always loved #Technology. First our #Commodore64 and #Atari2600. Later, #MUDs and #Gopher on a remote #VAX / #VMS.
I was a #Webmaster for a mom-and-pop #ISP in #Ohio in the mid-#90s. We ran it out of our garage. Because you could do that then.
I learned nearly every relevant tech skill I have when I was 14 at that #ISP. #Linux, #Mac, #PC. #Networking, #Telecom. #Bash, #Perl, #HTML. #SysAdmin, #TechSupport. And on.
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This, from an article by @algowatching, is an important thing to take notice of:
"... the cost of running an instance leaves most internet users excluded from the fediverse. Social media costs a few euros per year and per user to run. The amount might be relatively benign for middle-class Europeans, but represents a not-insignificant sum for others."