ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Happy Birthday, BASIC!
On this day in 1964, the first BASIC programs were working! https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/basic.html

Friend Who I Haven't Seen in a While: your kid's gotten so big! what is he, four?

Me: i have no idea what he's for

I'm rather proud of today's scoop. It began with a tip from a security researcher who wondered why 900,000 customer payment records were leaking from a network of sites that seemed to be related to the U.S. Postal Service.

It's been a wild ride figuring this one out. Please check out the full piece for a truly crazy story. Here's the lede:

"A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/promising-jobs-at-the-u-s-postal-service-us-job-services-leaks-customer-data/

@ironicsans

♫ I am a language model of a modern major general
I’m trained upon a giant mass of textual material
I’ve billions of parameters and answer questions various
Responses range from perfect to unwittingly hilarious
I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
As long as with correctness you’re not overly fanatical
While many complex queries I can easily elucidate
I have an awkward tendency to freewheel and hallucinate ♫

If you think you don't need to see a Muppet re-enact Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" music video in San Francisco, think again. Love this and great production values. #VanessaCarlton #AThousandMiles #SanFrancisco https://youtu.be/Vb5y-kY6nVw

"We believe it’s important for Mastodon to be good as a product on its own merits, and not just because of its ideology. If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

How do you feel about your instance admin?

We were priviledged to have seen a flock of 60 Bohemian Waxings for almost a full week whle migrating towards the north, passing through our area. No berries left anywhere !!! #ottawa #birds #birdphotography #birdwatching #nature #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography

A singularly important moment in our recent history.

I work on computers to have enough money to buy more computers.

I’m in Athens, Georgia, where the railroad trestle from the back cover of R.E.M.’s MURMUR, after being on the verge of collapsing for years, was not only saved by the city and locals but has been incorporated into a beautiful new rail trail, so if you’re wondering how we can get more bikeable and walkable infrastructure, the answer is to get more bands to put existing structures in need of repair on their albums.

Of all the recent reports on psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo's data breach cluster****, I enjoyed yours the most, @smashingsecurity 😍

Lots of chuckles, thank you. 👍🏻

#DataBreach #SmashingSecurity #imfosec #podcast

In Germany it is a long weekend coming up.

It is your chance to rewrite an OSS project. Don't let doubters distract you. We'll talk again on Tuesday!😍

I just learned there is a type of #bird in #Japan called Shima Enaga and it is so goddamn #cute I'm pissed that I'm just now learning about it. Look at it. LOOK AT IT! IT'S MADE OF SUNLIGHT AND SASS!

This is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.

Credit: NASA Johnson
More details: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands
#AltText4Me

Part of my day job is maintaining and expanding a Win32 / MFC / C++ / C app I originally wrote over 25 years ago. It works well, a couple thousand people use it every day and say nice things, and it’s backwards compatible to XP, which some of our clients still have.

This week, I started exploring a re-write, using modern Windows languages and frameworks, with the idea than surely — surely — things have become significantly less complex in the last couple of decades.

Oh.

Oh, no.

Oh, God, no.

So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.

I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.

Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.

#ikea #chair #hardware #weird

I never thought of the knight being an anti-queen before now.