Patrick McCulley ❎ @panther_modern@mastodon.social
Autodidact Polymath
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Looking for a Head of Information Technology / Information Security for your org? Ping me! 20 years experience from warzones to cubicle farms! :D
good morning, y'all. today at 12pm EST, there is going to be a #BlackTwitterBlackout, where black twitter will lock our accs for an entire day to protest the suspention and punishment of ppl defending themselves against racist trolls and Nazi's. I hope you join in solidarity. x
Very creepy @WhatsApp, someone was apparently typing in an URL and WhatsApp was fetching it off my server char-by-char https://mastodon.social/media/96lwJ5IyFyVXx6t85qQ
Since I brought it up, that swanky new pixel video game from the Xbox One X presser? Don't buy it and a big fuck you to its head developer https://mastodon.social/media/E2UbiDc6lQe_qkfudmQ https://mastodon.social/media/si9G5Nkkb71mQlINfWc https://mastodon.social/media/Jx7FiwrNmVkxGhdslhk
Want a Keybase.io invite? Ping me, peeps.
Technicians in Japan walk on a seismically-isolated floor in a Datacenter during the 2011 earthquake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwQSCStRaw
Seemingly-un-intentional-keylogger in HP/Conexant audio driver saves log to C:\Users\Public\MicTray.log 😂😬😭 https://mastodon.social/media/nPx2tcMJSlutU509PTo #infosec
netstat -planout
The most useful switches in an easy-to-remember mnemonic :D
We're looking for a new Comms Director! 😀 Know anyone who is qualified and wants to help tell the world about Tor? 🤓 Please help us spread the word. 👍
@panther_modern Had that myself yesterday but on this (xyz) instance, seemed to be tied in with some gateway 504 errors. No idea of that helps, ended up refreshing and my timeline came back.
@panther_modern This is happening to many people; there are swap issues going on behind the scenes. It's not you, it's the server.
Have I been shadowbanned or something? O_o My tweets do not seem to appear on the Local or Federated timelines, and it says I am following nobody, although I'm following 40+ people. O_o
Anyone else having the problem where it says you are not following anyone - yet you are? I follow 40+ people, but my timeline isn't functioning.
I really like draw.io, a free Visio alternative, which also works fine in *offline* mode as a Chrome app (I tested it in offline VM).
But it would be even cooler if there was an easy way to package Chrome Apps as RPM or DEB, as then it could be easily installed in a template VM for use in many different AppVMs. Anyone knows how to do that?
(The diagram below is for an upcoming post on Qubes Compromises Recovery, BTW)
Why is Mastodon saying I haven't followed anyone yet even though I've followed many...? O_o
Remote Code Execution on any #Linux platform via crafted UDP packets
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10229
I've written 'toot', a very simple command-line utility to allow Mastodon posts to be sent from the command-line: https://www.npmjs.com/package/toot
Yo yo yo! Remember I promised to write about scaling mastodon.social to 43k users? I did it! https://medium.com/@Gargron/scaling-mastodon-1becde463090
Damn, Google Play Music removed #Metal from its categories of New Releases :(
"A Unix system administrator of my acquaintance once got curious about what people were putting into /dev/null. I think he also may have had some notion that it would contain secrets or other interesting material that people wanted thrown away. Both of these ideas are stupid, but what he did next was even more stupid: he decided to replace /dev/null with a plain file so that he could examine its contents.
The root filesystem quickly filled up and the admin had to be called back from dinner to fix it. But he found that he couldn't fix it: to create a Unix device file you use the mknod command, and its arguments are the major and minor device numbers of the device to create. Our friend didn't remember the correct minor device number. The ls -l command will tell you the numbers of a device file but he had removed /dev/null so he couldn't use that.
Having no other system of the same type with an intact device file to check, he was forced to restore /dev/null from the tape backups."
