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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Reading Chaucer's treatise on the astrolabe last night, I was reminded of the wonderful old English word "mileway." It means "the time it takes to travel a mile on foot," and in the astrology of Chaucer's day it meant exactly 20 minutes, a third of an hour. The OED labels it "obsolete," but I'd […]

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

holy shit I got a free NordVPN subscription and their macOS client installs an endpoint kernel extension that just hangs around after an uninstall. There was a constant com.nordvpn.macos.Shield process. I had to boot into recovery and disable SIP to get rid of it. Part of that is on macOS that […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026

done correctly, open source is a gratitude practice which may occasionally produce software

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

"AI is inevitable." they say. Yep. I've seen this one before. It's inevitable in the way spam is inevitable. As a problem that needs solving.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

An operational style question for my DNSopy friends. I am reconfiguring my authoritative servers for my personal zones. I *always* write all the zone files on my laptop and push them out from a well-automated script; I never edit zone files on the authoritative servers. In this modern age, is […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I am putting a zippy Ethernet NIC into a refurbished mini-tower for work. I ordered both from Amazon. The NIC arrived today, the mini-tower will get here early next week. I distinctly remember that feeling on Christmas morning when I was about 7 when the giant box for me behind the tree had a […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I feel like I just live in a continuous AI nonsense headache. Bill Gates recently called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this on planet Earth in the year of our Lord 2026. It's been a year of fires, floods, famine, really endless disaster. He said this against a […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

“Our software went rogue!” No. You programmed it wrong.

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Of significant interest to all my taper friends and 60’s/70’s music friends: www.inoreader.com/article/3a9c6e767… Hint: a large new cache of unreleased soundboards from the Family Dog on the Great […]

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

A stereotype map of New England

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

A report from the field: I had to listen to two intelligent friends of mine go on and on about AI while I was putting together a bench from kit. One is a retired programmer, and he is putting together a personal use app using Claude and is amazed how well it worked with Tkinter, better than he […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

“The United States, Denmark and Greenland said late on Friday they had entered into an agreement for the US to develop a significant military presence on Greenland, while prohibiting US adversaries from building their own bases on the island.” Does this mean that Russia is allowed to, at least […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/11728632914… I'm not much of a meme reposter, but when I do, it is often the one on which this one is based.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

There are people at #1password and #DigitalOcean whose job is to weigh the risks and benefits of making public donations to nonprofits. Those people have badly failed their employers and should be out looking for new jobs right about now.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@sphcow/117234613225975367 I’m still so glad I didn’t really get into the identity morass before I realized that other good people could do it better.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@atoponce/11720267031… Of possible interest to the @homebrew folks, given how well Homebrew packaging works on Debian.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

It's 1997 again in the IETF. We will survive; we will possibly also thrive. In the interim, however, there will be a lot of unkind words aimed at "the other side".

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

30 years ago, when you bought a new small computer, you ended up with a serial cable that you probably didn't need. Today, you end up with an HDMI cable.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@nextdayvideo/11718… I cannot emphasize enough how useful this 30 minutes is to anyone who might ever write a simple tool that they want to share. It's Python-centric, but the ideas are not Python-specific. Even though it is full of practical advice, the […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

come to FOSS! the fucking exhausting world where brexit happens every week and nobody learns a god damn thing from the outcome

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Or *BSD, which is also (last time I checked) a huge pain in the ass to install and supports a small fraction of the hardware the Linux supports. I get it, we're all (myself included) pissed off about Debian's non-decision decision about genAI. But please understand that in the real world most of […]

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Listen, folks… If you're trying to convince people that there are alternatives to #Debian #Linux that aren't using AI, you're probably not going to get far by suggesting distributions that literally have no installer and expect you to install Linux by hand from an empty drive, or that haven't […]

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

>>> import math >>> import strings Vladimir Mayakovsky >>> This was a surprise! Of course it was my fault for launching the interpreter in a directory full of short-named code samples. #python

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

For many of us, the lyric "because I wanted to be dressed just the same" in the stage show transitively applied to Frank-N-Furter.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

May his memory be a sexually liberating blessing.

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

People who plug text into "AI detector" sites: you are making a fundamental error of reasoning. Think about why you are trying to detect it, how the detectors could possibly be implemented. It's the same con.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

If you want to add/change tags on MP3s and so on, I'm finding Kid3 (kid3.kde.org) quite wonderful. From the intro: If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Matroska/WebM, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA/WMV, WAV and AIFF files […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

#homebrew on Debian works insanely well. I probably should not be surprised, but I am.

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Here’s the other tech thing I had to help my mom with. She said that when she goes to the phone app, she can’t see any of the numbers to dial. That’s weird. It’s totally true. This is an #iPhone 13 or so. Running the latest iOS because she has auto update […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Video showing what I describe. You see me set light mode, go to the phone app, and the digits are all black text on black background. Then you see me switch to dark mode and go back to the phone app. The digits are white and readable.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

The machine my dentist is about to use to create a crown for me proudly runs Windows 7.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

pastcatalogs.com I saw this, saw the 1967 Heathkit catalog, and immediately started badly missing my father. We built one of the shortwave receiver kits from this. And big props to my mother for letting us commandeer a table for few weeks while we nerded out for something that she knew […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/08/2026

Please buy a copy of this book for your boss. Clockwork orange them if you have to. This insight is so true that it's upsetting to me; the entire industry is so OBSESSED with individual performance, with "meritocracy", that almost all the *actual* outstanding historic results achieved by this […]

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Clark Breyman (he/him) @clark.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

I’m committed to pronouncing it giþub going forth.

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rsalz @rsalz.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

OH at IETF: TLS now stands for "totally lost it's sh*t"

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

tfw your friends ( @ambv) take killer photos of you and then share them with you as memes

Photo of me, PelleK and David Seddon at EP 2026, over my laptop with a meme text:

Now watch, I told the slop PR troll to go fuck himself

Let’s see if he does

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I'm happy to announce another RFC publication, but this time I didn't write it. www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9955, "Hybrid Signature Spectrums", describes the rather messy security considerations when you try to create signature schemes using two algorithms. Even if you don't want to read […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

My middle-sized suitcase has a big blotch on it where I removed a sticker that was put there by a tour company. The only sticker of appropriate size that I have that would cover the blotch says "This machine kills fascists". I would be tempted to use it but don't feel safe with that either in […]

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Saturday news that many of us nerds can relate to: I'm that guy who thinks vacation time suggests tackling long overdue projects around the house and there's been a whole lot of that including dragging some new cabling throughout the house. In trying to widen an existing hole from the outside […]

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Really would have liked it if journalists made the point that according to Trump Balogun should never have been able to play for the US team to begin with, because (again, according to Trump), he should not be a US citizen.

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Paul Hoffman @paulehoffman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

I am never sure how to feel about a major WordPress hoster who badly screws up the site I manage at least yearly, but their tech support is excellent and thoughtful and explains the problem they created.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/07/2026

like if you're a reporter writing sentences like "the Trump administration is working to create guardrails and a policy framework for AI safety" you should never be taken seriously on any subject ever again

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