JP Mens @jpmens@mastodon.social

The new TLDs were, as I expected, an "awesome" not enterprise https://jl.ly/ICANN/dead45.html?seemore=y

Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/11/windows-server-2019-includes-openssh/

DNSSEC validation by default in OpenBSD has been reverted

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20181207141635

It appears to be a problem with getting time (which we need for DNSSEC) but not being able to if we can’t validate DNS to get the time. #catch22

Grafana Loki: like Prometheus, but for logs https://github.com/grafana/loki

Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it secret https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html

We said August but we meant April. Be that as it may, you have 90 days so get cracking https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/ #googlePlus @killedbygoogle

Find visa requirements and document checklists https://visalist.io

Next year will, again, not be the year of Linux on the desktop: "One Frickin' User Interface for Linux" http://web.archive.org/web/20070830173313/https://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Hugh.Fisher/writing/1fui.html

"someone was able to get into the registrar account for our Linux.org domain and point DNS to another server" https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/12/08/0355227/linuxorgs-dns-got-hijacked

Thursday night he gradually came to….

Stiff as a board and in pain in the hospital’s ICU, with tubes up his nose & down his throat, wires monitoring every function and a gorgeous nurse hovering over him.
It was obvious he’d been in a serious accident.

She gave him a deep and steady heartfelt look straight in the eyes, and he heard her slowly say, “You may not feel anything from the waist down.”

He somehow managed to mumble in reply, “Can I feel your tits, then?”

While strolling round the Harbour this morning I noticed a terrorist slip and fall into the water.

He was struggling to stay afloat. Without help he’d surely drown.

Being a responsible Canadian citizen, and abiding by the law of the land that requires you to help those in distress, I informed the Police, the Coastguard, the Immigration Office and even the Fire Dept.

It is now 4 p.m., he has drowned, and none of the authorities has yet responded. I’m starting to think I wasted four stamps.

DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Operational and Privacy Issues https://www.ietf.org/blog/doh-operational-and-privacy-issues/

"Cyberstructure -- Internet, un espace politique", un livre écrit par Stéphane Bortzmeyer https://cyberstructure.fr

"Infoblox’s recommendation is that companies block direct DNS traffic—including DoT and DoH—between internal IP addresses and DNS servers on the Internet, including Cloudflare’s." https://community.infoblox.com/t5/Company-Blog/DoT-DoH-and-the-DNS-Last-Mile-Security-Problem/ba-p/15468

"The web is a sewer but some sites take things to altogether new and absurd levels [..] LifeBuzz wastes over 314 terabytes of mobile data in the US every month, costing $4,000,000 in mobile data charges" https://better.fyi/sites/lifebuzz.com/

A single DNS query results in hundreds of packets https://blog.webernetz.net/single-dns-query-hundreds-of-packets/