codesections @codesections@fosstodon.org

Like I don't need a special day to declare my love of my spouse, I don't need a special day to declare my love of FS. I love them both everyday.

I'm looking for a new TV. Why are ALL TV's on the market "smart"? I don't need that at all. I have an hdmi cable if I want to connect something to it, I have chromecast if I want to stream. There is no need for an operating system on my television.

Okay, I know what some will say you: some may not like GLib or D-Bus, or maybe can't use them because $REASONS, and/or maybe you want something smaller with less dependencies…

Did you know that OpenWRT has a small message bus which has been seriously battle tested? Enter ubus: https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/ubus

I don't get it why people constantly push operating systems down each other's throats. If y'all just used Guix we wouldn't have this problem.

It was a stormy weekend so I took the opportunity to move to Arch Linux. Now I run the lightest, fastest and smoothest Gnome I've ever seen. And I can say I use Arch btw.

Here's how I switched from macOS to #linux after 15 years of Apple https://markosaric.com/linux/

It's funny how when Google provides enterprise management profile templates, that they're no longer fucking valid. What a joke. NONE of the preferences set in the template work.

Just a heads up, to suppress the first-run dialog, you just have to set two preferences:

DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled: true/false
MetricsReportingEnabled:
true/false

More info in an upcoming blog post like, within the next month, I wanna say?

Anyway, going on about this brings up an amusing anecdote of one of the most "you did what?" methods of mitigating an attack ever.

Basically since DNS uses UDP, it's really hard to validate responses. Popular DNS servers are really vulnerable to cache poisoning attacks where an attacker just spams the resolver with unsolicited responses for popular domains until they get lucky and match the query ID number for a request currently active. Then the spoofed answer gets cached.

Enter "0x20" or "mixed case recursion". Someone eventually realized they could add more entropy to the puzzle by randomizing the case of the domain being resolved.

This is the kind of "mitigation" against really destructive attacks the entire internet is built upon. Don't even get me started on SMTP.

@crash_override @z @djsundog

You sed it!

Working on a proposal for my partners employer to host a local Nextcloud server. I pitched the idea in passing and their jaws dropped at how well it would fit into their business.
It’s beyond their IT staff’s skills so I would be building/maintaining it.

Exciting!

To those of you who use Wayland, what has been your experience using it? Why do you use it over X? What are its advantages and disadvantages? Is there anything you can't do with Wayland that you can do with X, or vice versa?

federated git repository hosting, a.k.a. tarballs and patches

"Every platform dies off some day. Geocities, LiveJournal, now Yahoo Groups. One day, Medium, Twitter, and even hosting services like GitHub Pages will be plundered then discarded when they can no longer grow or cannot find a working business model"

https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/

#screenshotsunday
#nvim
#toot
#imv
#pcal (a persian-jalali-khayyam calendar)
#cal a cli calendar
And my new background picture: tomb of hafez (a Persian poet 1315-1390) photo by myself

#sway
#wayland

schlaft gut

I think I need to write a fully open-source video game. Seeing the same ones at the top of the Game of the Year lists is cool and all, but I think we can do better.

You: NextCloud, ownCloud, SyncThing
Me, an intellectual: rsync