Posts by Gene Cash

You can certainly edit a tweet

It consists of deleting it and doing another. Just like a punch-card back in the day.

Remember when *everything* was translucent "Bondi Blue"?

This sparked a really derivative fashion craze of slapping a semi-transparent faintly blue-tinged case on everything. I think it lasted about 9 or 10 months.

I remember a nasty cheap USB hub or something, where the guts that were now on display were so shoddy that it persuaded me to *not* buy it. Great big gobs of mastic, capacitors at all sorts of weird angles, a transformer that looked only half soldered in, and other things not fit to see daylight.

Ah well, it was good while it lasted

Sigh. I remember when "you can't make money with open source" and Slashdot used to joke about Bob Young picking up a nickel off the sidewalk and declaring that as income - "Red Hat makes first profit!"

When Google killed Revolv

That killed any interest I had in InternetOfTwats equipment.

This is bullshit.

I run Fail2Ban, and when I started working from home, I noticed a ton of connections to my SSH port. Not actually trying passwords... just connected. My config has passwords turned off, and just accepts certificates, so Fail2Ban is set to insta-ban anyone trying a password.

So I wrote a cron job to ban anyone connected according to netstat, which runs every 10 minutes.

First it was Germany[*] on the 3rd, then Sweden on the 7th, the US on the 8th, Malta on the 13th, Curacao on the 17th, Belgium on the 18th, Isle of Man on the 19, the UK and the Russian Federation on the 20th, and today (the 22nd) it's Lithuania's turn to be internet assholes.

I've got 19,227 banned IPs right now, with a 3 month TTL.

This only started with the COVID crisis.

* assuming the IP geolocation was correct, but they were all from the same country each time.

Who?

> Jamstack deployment

What?

They're so niche, this is probably the most publicity they've ever had.

Thought experiment

Try altering or turning off your UA. Anything more advanced than html+css falls over, especially anything with Node and all that crap.

No forum software works because ckeditor takes a crap. Banking software dies too.

"Shopping centres/malls will become an irrelevance"

Malls were already dead here on this side of the pond. Most of them have not seen much foot traffic in 5 or 6 years and were already going bankrupt. I took a picture at one last Christmas, where there was 2 people far off in the distance and that was IT.

A lot of it is the shitty traffic system. 15 years ago, I could go from UCF (local uni) to the mall in downtown Orlando in 20 minutes after class doing a steady 35mph. It made it a valid pastime to go window-shop.

Now? It's a 45-60 minute drive through a sea of complete assholes, and by the time you get there, you're in no mood to spend money.

My fear is all the nice little restaurants are going under, like the local good BBQ or seafood joint.

Orbital pizza

There's a Questionable Content where one of the character's dad sends her a device from his space station with just a note saying "have fun"

So they press it a couple times and finally call him and ask. It's a device for requesting pizza delivered straight from orbit.

Of course they discover a ton of pizzas impacted on the roof from all the button presses.

Ah here it is: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3047

Remember serial breakout boxes?

They were about the size of a phone and an inch thick. You'd open it like a book and it'd have an RS-232 connector on each side, one female and one male. It had pins that broke out the connections that you could jumper as appropriate.

Great for quickly finding out if you needed to swap pins 2-3, for example. You'd then make a cable that duplicated the jumper arrangement.

Man, I also miss mid-80s Radio Shack. That place was heaven back then.

Personal IP rights?

He could sue (or threaten to sue) because the old company has no right to his personal IP.

If the tables were turned and Atlassian gave him access to ACME's code, you bet yer pants ACME would sue.

Still, not keeping local backups is 100% his fault.

"Unplug it and see who bitches"

Apparently in this case: EVERYBODY

> The change was made "via server-side configuration."

So does this mean Chrome phones home to check for configurations?

Or does this just mean they changed their build config? If so, why would they state it in such a strange phrasing?

Torch 'em

I don't care much for salespeople, but I hope the bloke somehow ends up with 3x what he was originally owed.

IBM needs to be beaten like a red-headed stepchild.Or maybe Ike Turner's wife.

Aerotime Hub

That website is cancer with all the popups and slidedowns. Thank god for the adblock element hider.

And below this article is one with the headline:

"Cosmology is safe and the Universe is one giant version of the Barbican

Whichever way you look it's all exactly the same, boffins confirm"

Mozilla lays off developers

So how can you tell? They remove fewer features in the next release?

autopilot disengagement during final approach

So does it tell you? Or does it silently go away while you're waiting for it to level out? That could get rough.

Also "runaway stabilizer" is short for "elevator goes to full-up or full-down" which is about as fatal as it gets.

I wonder how many issues the Boeing capsule is going to have on its next flight to the ISS... any bets?