sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 07/10/2026highlights of the new mastodon design: - filtered posts are now visible - search is now under "trending" - space-wasting "translate" button - composing new toots is shoved into a corner 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 02/10/2026>optimize some code >benchmark it >it's slower than before many such cases 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Dear @firefox.com design team, how am I supposed to get rid of the "Sign in to sync" banner or is it intended to forever take up valuable screen space in the side menu? 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 31/07/2026hot take: web servers should have built-in support for Anubis-style client challenges 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I am still very puzzled how "Find in selection" in VS Code's find dialog is supposed to be used. Because every time the search runs, it ... resets your selection. 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 24/07/2026just piping raw disks over SSH remains my favorite data migration trick 012 2
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Google's AI will also happily explain the "unofficial way" to download licensed software/firmware/installation media that is normally behind a paywall or support contract. It sure is helpful but I do wonder why they haven't been sued yet. 170 7
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 23/07/2026You can't event rent a simple cloud server these days without having to expose yourself to some US "identity verification" service. what the fresh hell 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The amount of websites that silently break if 'navigator.sendBeacon' is missing is way too high. I only found out today that this is a privacy setting I had apparently set in Firefox (beacon.enabled)... 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 08/07/2026On the same website trying to edit your personal information just tells you that this is only possible in the app and you should go download it. 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 08/07/2026actual sign-in flow I witnessed on a website the other day: - enter your email adress - we sent a code to your email address - we sent a code to your phone number - enter your 6-digit passcode (they don't have real passwords) 100 1
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 03/07/2026list of things I did not plan to do on a Friday afternoon: • hand-writing packet filters to protect a customer from a DDoS attack 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Trying to use Twitter these days increasingly feels like digging through a dumpster. Even though the gems are still plenty. 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Receiving a spam mail from <office365alerts@microsoft.com> with SPF and DKIM passing into my inbox is a new low for Microsoft, I think 000 0
Reposted by sfan5Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I wrote a new post about the privacy risks of on-phone agents like Apple’s new Siri, and how private inference isn’t any sort of silver bullet. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a...blog.cryptographyengineering.comThe future of Siri, or: why private inference isn’t private enoughYesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and… 1211850 118
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 15/05/2026the sudden realization that the Internet hasn't been the same ever since websites/apps stopped allowing you to download content by default 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 07/05/2026After the smash hit "critical Linux LPE vulnerability released on a Thursday" get ready for "critical Linux LPE vulnerability released on a Friday" 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Every year Gitlab fucks up the GPG key of their CE repo and the workaround is always just "go re-add it manually". I'm honestly wondering if they're doing this on purpose. support.gitlab.com/hc/en-us/art...support.gitlab.comDNF fails with "repomd.xml GPG signature verification error: Bad GPG signature" on RPM-based distributions after GitLab signing key expiry extensionDNF fails with "repomd.xml GPG signature verification error: Bad GPG signature" on RPM-based distributions after GitLab signing key expiry extension Description After GitLab extends the expiry of... 010 1
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I bought a new home router. It supports management via SSH which is already more than what 99% offer, but: >Unable to negotiate with 192.168.1.1 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss come on... judging by the UPnP spew it's also running Linux 3.18.21 010 1
Reposted by sfan5David Buchanan @retr0.id · 31/03/2026have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you. 262943873 2.9K
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 02/04/2026so last month Thunderbird was creating an empty "Thunderbird" folder in my ~, this month it's "thunderbird", who writes this software??? 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Very stupid bug that happened to me today: The file thumbnailer will create temporary copies in /tmp when reading an image, so if I have /tmp open in the file browser it will try to read those, create a copy, try to read those, create a copy, ... spinning one CPU core 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 17/03/2026"A security vulnerability in florp affects at least one of your repositories in the bungus organization" PLEASE SHUT UP ALL NOTIFICATIONS I EVER GET ARE FOR STATIC SITE REPOS 001 1
Reposted by sfan5David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/03/2026sending my LLM on a phishing awareness course 518130 181
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 01/03/2026t's amazing how the Internet allows me to watch videos of a guy walking his chicken on a beach instantly 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Nevermind, disabling power saving does not actually fix it. Also when this happens the kernel eats through 30 GB of RAM within seconds. Apparently this has been a problem people have been randomly having with iwlwifi since 2018 or so 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 24/02/2026very fun bug on my new laptop: ssh'ing somewhere the first few times after a boot semi-reliably caused a soft lockup in iwlwifi. the only way you'd notice without checking dmesg is because input handling would freeze. fixed by turning off power saving in the driver. 110 1
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 23/02/2026remember to scrub your RAID once in a while to keep the performance nice and soft 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 09/02/2026It will be very funny in 1 year when it turns out that this was done by another 16-year-old British teenager with too much spare time during his winter break 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 08/02/2026another 50 spam mails from Zendesk in my inbox normal Sunday I guess 100 1
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 25/01/2026It's very funny to me how you can install Windows from start to finish in 10 minutes, yet Windows Update always needs preparation time, a reboot and then another 15 min to do *anything* meaningful. 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 24/01/2026case in point: "ma" now opens Mastodon instead of Google Maps and it has ruined my UX 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 21/01/2026sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person to experience such stupid bugs, like what 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 15/01/2026According to all known laws of RFC4291, there is no way a link-local IP should be routed on the internet. The internet, of course, does it anyway because it doesn't care what the RFC thinks is impossible. 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I just stumbled upon this ubjson.org and immediately had to think of the "competing standards" xkcdubjson.orgUniversal Binary JSON Specification – The universally compatible format specification for Binary JSON. 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 05/01/2026fear of accidentally buying the same bandcamp album twice 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Surprisingly and as I've just found out, GitHub's audit log leaks the location and exact user agent of random people who comment on your repositories. 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 01/01/2026just spent like an hour setting up AFL fuzzing for some protocol parsing C code I wrote years ago and I'm very disappointed to find out that it's apparently bug-free 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Had to fix a PC yesterday where the SSD showed as too big on Windows or an empty RAID on Linux and would refuse to be erased. Turns out it was an Intel RAID volume, which persisted even though AHCI mode was configured. The RAID configuration menu was hidden - obviously - because RAID was disabled. 🤦 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Browsers should have an option to control search bar suggestions for chosen two letter prefixes, because I find myself relying on that just as much as actual bookmarks. 100 1
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Trying to keep a music playlist on youtube is actually so annoying, like what do you mean "10 unavailable videos are hidden"? 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I wonder what horrors are lurking in my Firefox profile that would cause the web process to reliably segfault upon visiting a specific website. 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 24/10/2025it's very cheeky how YouTube presumably intentionally delays video start if you use an adblocker and then has a "slow startup? find out why" popup 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 13/10/2025time spent writing code: 1m time spent picking a funny hexadecimal constant: 10m 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 22/09/2025daily reminder to make fun of any AI "artists" you come across 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 04/09/2025say it with me: I love delayed loading (seriously I had to reload the page a few times to get this to work) 000 0
sfan5 @sfan55.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Apparently Firefox Mobile does not have a native way to enter fullscreen mode on a webpage. This is a basic feature, how do you miss that? 000 0
