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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

My instance (and my blog, etc) will be going offline tomorrow as I disassemble my servers to relocate them. Here's hoping everything comes back online afterwards!

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

@lemmyradio seems to not be showing comments on non-local posts from the last several days. I don't know enough about how Lemmy works to offer any sort of helpful feedback, but if I view a post from Lemmy.radio, it shows 0 comments, while viewing the same post from another instance shows all the […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@b0rk following the scary fingerprint warning: `ssh-keygen -R [host]` will clear there previous fingerprint for [host]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@litchralee_v6 Definitely a drawback. I lost my old GPG key a while back, and had I actually been using it for anything at the time, it would have meant gaining trust for an entirely new "identity." The same is true for #TOR and #I2P if I were to ever lose control of those keys. This presents […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@litchralee_v6 That's very fair. For context, though, my thought process was more from a TOFU perspective. That is, a perceived known (trusted) site that could be later compromised. For example, say that I've decided to trust example.com. I bookmarked the address and so I assume that as long as […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@litchralee_v6 good points. I think your TOR example is more akin to typosquatting, though. You are not hijacking or intercepting a known TOR domain, you are tricking a user into connecting to an entirely different address. With TLS, on the other hand, a CA could issue an illegitimate […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

"Don't Trust, Verify" Or "Validating origin and integrity without public CAs" blog.k3can.us/posts/2026/aug/donttr… Just playing around with couple methods of validating data origin and integrity without blindly relying on public CAs. It's sort of a follow-up-to-a-follow-up […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Demonstration of the potential risks of using a third-party proxy (a la Cloudflare) when #selfhosting websites or services: blog.k3can.us/posts/2026/aug/acloud… * Possible alternate title: a demonstration of our flawed reliance on CA's and web browser UIs in modern #TLS […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Recently started geo-locating the IPs accessing my servers. Notably this includes hits on my GoToSocial instance, which is likely accounting for the huge cluster in Europe.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

As someone who values privacy and enjoys hosting my own services, I tend not to use Cloudflare for anything beyond a domain registrar. I'm going to need to relocate my servers, soon, however, so I may have found a handy use for a Cloudflare worker […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

University system just told me I needed to update my "Security Questions" and wouldn't let me finish logging in until I did. Really? Security Questions? I feel like I'm back in the 2000s. And literally all the question options are based on information of public record. So dumb.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

I Reverse-Engineered Ring’s “End-to-End Encryption” — What I Found Should Terrify 40 Million Households | by suicidal_teddy | May, 2026 | Medium suicdalteddy.medium.com/i-reverse-e…

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

What happened to all the cool 5.25 bay accessories? I there used to be VU meters, speakers, cup holders, displays, even cigar lighters... Now the most exciting options are some SSD bays or maybe a couple fan controllers. I want computers to be fun again!

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Didn't have any white wine, so I substituted apple cider vinegar. Basically the same thing, right? Lol

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Operation "Jerryrig a Scampi" has been a mild success. Definitely could have been worse. It's 100% eatable.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

As if I have any idea how a "reduction" works.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Just pretending I know how to cook.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Me: "What's the seasonal for Sam Adams?" Waitress: _Stares at me for a moment_ "...It's beer." Me: _Stares back at the waitress_ "Okay...I'll have that"

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

And by "figured out," I mean that I read the official documentation that explains how to do it.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

I think I figured out how to add custom emojis... :sm_hehe: #gotosocial

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

*pulls the ball out of the trackball on my desk* **FUSHIGI!!!**

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

I've been using #Fedora #Linux for _years_ , but today was the first time in a while that I've done a full fresh install of #workstation. I'm really impressed how quick and simple it was!

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

It's such a weird hobby. I own a dozen radios, I listen to ham radio podcasts, I follow ham radio blogs, I host ham radio related websites, and I ramble to coworkers and colleagues about the absolute **magic** that is ham radio... ...All while averaging less than 100 QSOs a year, myself.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Stats on modes. Despite trying to make AM contacts a number of times, I've never succeeded in making a AM qso. Digi is mostly FT8, with a smattering of digital voice, PSK31, and JS8 thrown in.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Got my tech license in 2018, then upgraded to general in 2019. #hamradio

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

I swapped out the curved monitor that I had been using for a few years for a flat one, but I guess my eyes had gotten used to the curved display, because now the flat one looks like the middle is bulging out at me. Very strange illusion.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Anyone like #Fallout? My wife is a bit of a #Fallout3 fan...

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Just wanted to share how my weekend started. * Woken up by cats at 5:30. * Go down stairs, start coffee, feed cats, go to bathroom. * Return to kitchen, observe that my usual travel mug is still in the sink. * Look over at the coffee maker which has brewed 16 ounces of coffee onto the […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

Just updated #Wavelog using the `update_wavelog.sh` script and now the cron management page throws a 500 error. Everything else works fine, though. Hmm...

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

Less than an hour until the start of the first #EveryHam #AmateurRadio #Contest!

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

I received this #magloop antenna today, _allegedly_ rated for 20w transmit. After taking a peek inside, I think that rating is a bit too... _generous._ #HamRadio friends, I can't find any printing on the caps themselves, but just based on their size, what do […] [Original post on social.k3can.us]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

Well, it looks like the update wasn't without _some_ victims. #Hugo seems to have stopped working since updating Fedora, so I can't create any new blog posts for the time being. It seems to be a panic caused by Hugo's image renderer, but I'm not savvy enough to make out much beyond that. :-(

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

Just updated to #fedora44! #Fedora 43 was a really rough upgrade, and required an amount of manual intervention before it would boot correctly, but 44 was back to the normal, easy-peasy Fedora upgrade process I'm used to! # System Details Report * * * Hardware Information: * **Hardware […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

After more tinkering, it's getting returned. The threads on the PL259 are so loose that it it can actually slip on-and-off the connector without twisting. That lack of connection might be part of what was causing issues. The PL259 is integral, so it can't be easily replaced.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

New #antenna was delivered late yesterday. It's in the style of an mfj 1899t, with a telescoping vertical element and a loading coil with a jumper. It sort of works. It's nearly impossible to get a reasonable SWR on by following the instructions, but I can get it kind of close and then finish […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Just waiting for my new antenna to arrive... #hamradio

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

@PurpleJillybeans Does it? I thought standard upgrade was just for minor application upgrades, while dist-upgrade (alias for full-upgrade) was required for major versions and kernel upgrades. TIL, I guess.

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

@PurpleJillybeans @OrionKidder Isn't it a kernel vuln? Probably want `apt dist-upgrade`, no?

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

The first "official" #EveryHam #AmateurRadio #Contest is next weekend, 09 MAY 2026, 0000-2359 UTC. If you’re new to amateur radio contests or are just looking for something that feels more casual, the EveryHam contest is for you. Boosts appreciated! Rules and philosophy are available at […]

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Adam @me.social.k3can.us.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

We grew a bed of grass in a long bucket and the cat seems to be a fan.

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