I wish I had a nickel for every time I hear someone say this. It's just patently not true unless you are running the worst security program imaginable. Who has only one layer of defence? Who does NO monitoring? We have been talking about defence in depth for […] [Original post on securitycafe.ca]

There's a certain Cape Town musician who has become something of a big name, and my wife is his cousin. We once tried to visit, before he got famous. He wouldn't come out of his room, because, ya know, teenagers, so I haven't met the guy. I'm sure he's lovely. But his catalogue is just dozens […]

People on film and TV dramatically doing an opsec by cracking their phone screens

Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does. Trump just stripped SpaceX […]

If someone had said “if Trump gets elected, he’ll literally bulldoze the White House” just a year ago, everyone - right, left, and center - would have told them to shut up and stop exaggerating.

Playing with Alpine Linux as a quick way to build, configure and test disposable VMs on proxmox And I think I really like it. It's so old-school that when you have to learn its way of doing things that every distro does uniquely, it only takes a single search result to a) know what to do, and […]

I, too, shall be calling for a ban on a thing that does not exist and is not coming anytime soon

It feels oddly appropriate that I looked up "Prince Andrew Surrenders Royal Titles" and “Do Klingons have two penises" on the same day. TIL that Klingons have one more dick than I thought they did, and the Royal Family has one less. #synchronicity https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/DQHyLx6CPsD

Anybody else finding that the streaming service is throwing "RequestError: Unknown channel requested" errors after upgrading #mastodon to v4.4.8?

I'm at a weird transitional moment in the lifecycle of my Urban Astronomer podcast, where I've stopped making vague promises about how I'll release a new episode one day, out of guilt, and I'm starting to actually feel a faint fizz of excitement about future recordings, maybe a format change […]

If you're reading this thread and thinking 🐇 ohhhh, my Thing isn't Important enough to run ADS for, it's just a silly little hobby, 🦝 🦝 you, specifically, are who I am talking to

Firing up a new browser that doesn't have an adblocker installed yet, thinking "Ugh, I hate ads," and then remembering no, ads are great, I love ads, what I hate is LIES. I hate CRAP THAT GETS IN THE WAY. I hate being spied on. I hate interruptions. I hate seeing reminders about Products I […]

When it broke, AWS deployed the High Incident Team. The AWSHIT.

Good morning! I am looking for contract work. If you have 10-15 hours a week of work on a well defined technical project (‘we need to move 6 websites by this date’, ‘we need to hire a team to do an infra migration’, ‘we need to complete an accessibility audit and figure out next steps’, ‘we need […]

Everybody jumps straight to "are we the baddies?" when Mitchell and Webb come up, which is fine, but "Well its not exactly brain surgery, is it?" is right there!

Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far. Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I once applied for a job to work for the guy who wrote this! I wasn't eligible, for reasons related to citizenship and visas, which is a shame. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

I'm offering a funded PhD position on nighttime lights #RemoteSensing in the Institute of #Geography at the @ruhr-uni-bochum.de#RemoteSensing#geographyttps://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/62065e5be70a916f65edd647cd1b1740b04cd72e0 I'd love for the ad to be seen by as many potential candidates as possible, so […]

Never change, Mastodon Normals: joking about how it's always DNS. Fedizens: ACTUALLY it was a bad DNS configuration in one internal network, the global domain name resolution infrastructure is actually very robust and reliable and in this essay I will

#XKCD readers know what happened to #aws#xkcd... https://xkcd.com/908/

Have you noticed that when the blame #dns meme starts flying the root is perfectly operational, there is rarely a mention of the big registry operators, BIND, Unbound, Knot, and PowerDNS are absent the conversation, and many who can craft a reasonable dig query are getting responses from local […]

the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can’t see outside their house, definitely scary” just look outside your window 😅

Meanwhile, because Mastodon server admins are all cheapskates and we're not going to pay the sort of prices for hosting that AWS charge, the Fediverse keeps on chugging away happily while the corporate internet falls apare. #aws #awsdown #fediverse

The very best Far Side of all time:

All weekend, my wordpress websites were being hammered by somebody targeting wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php The reverse proxy was sitting at 100% CPU the whole time. Actual webserver was doing fine, and serving legit requests at normal performance levels (probably because all the caching and other […]

Today's lesson: If you want all of AWS's promises about reliability and resiliency and automated failover to be true, you need to actually use those features. You need to have your databases running in multi-AZ mode clusters, you need to have everything cloned across multiple regions, with load […]

That's weird... it was a DNS problem #aws

"Use the cloud", they say. "You'll always be online", they say. #aws #awsdown

I love biographies that include details about how a youth just happened to pull himself up by his bootstraps, get hired by his father's wealthy company, then get promoted to become president upon dad's retirement, showing the world that it is indeed possible to become a self-made billionaire […]

‘The exceptionally limited edition book.’ (My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books)

I've gotten lots of notes from people today about 2 potential space debris falls. One looks like a Chinese rocket stage that fell on Australia (https://nitter.net/RaviHJagtiani/status/1979900950199386410 and https://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2025/0078.html) And one is a suspiciously high altitude […]

The president. Of the United States. Used artificial intelligence. To generate a video of himself. Defecating on the American people. And there's no mention of it. In the New York Times. Instead, they went with this pressing news.

So Trump is now posting his own anti-trump political cartoons? Is he so stupid that he thought an AI generated picture of himself using fighter jets to literly shit all over America would endear him to the rah rah red white and blue crowd?

“ZERO ARRESTS” #NoKingsDay 🇺🇸

Apparently there are people who don't realize anarchy means "no rulers" Patri-archy = men rulers Matri-archy = women rulers Mon-archy = one ruler Olig-archy = few rulers An-archy = no rulers It doesn't mean no cooperation, no agreements, no society or no community. Anarchy and communism are […]

I'm not really expecting people to get knocked down or kettled or rushed by the cops without warning. At big events like this normally (in NYC) the PD will do crowd control until the middle aged people with strollers leave only then will they go after the kids. If this has changed and they try […]

Proper gentle drenching rain, like we had in my home town. Hugely comforting, refreshing, garden rejuvenating, peaceful. But with an.undercurrent of anxiety because prolonged rains like these always led to the smaller streams eventually bursting their banks, and people drowning in them […]

I can't hang on bsky because it brings back the twitter in me. I saw someone saying that Wikipedia is bloated and inefficient because "why spend $100m on labor when the hosting is only $3m." Like a) thats an absolute bargain for a site that serves free high quality information in 27b views a […]

Okay, hear me out … Intermittent Feasting

My hot take on periodic forced password changes https://youtube.com/shorts/hk_tiR3EEUw?si=Eb_2mJLHNMQwMqXj

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job." —Joan Rivers #Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

Does anyone here know about 1930s cars? In 1940, some British paratroopers "borrowed" a car. I'm trying to work out if they needed to bypass something like a key, or if they were able to just get in and drive off. It was a large car, owned by Crown Prince Olav of Norway, so was probably a […]

I sometimes reference the hell-hole where I used to work. Just remembered one fun incident: The parent company had decided to sell us off, and the new owner installed a CEO who wanted to get a handle on the state of the company. He sent out a survey for us to complete. There were a few problem […]

Much like nobody on fedi has a normal relationship with technology, nobody here has a normal amount of money either. Fedi is either stripeysocked people who don't have two pennies to rub together because they'll give their last fiver to a starving artist and forget "oh shit wait I'M a starving […]

Imagine if the other machines in your life needed as many different sorts of fluids and pastes as a car Imagine topping off and draining out and flushing through all the chambers and tanks on, like, your phone This is literally the stuff of nightmares, this is creepypasta territory

Ever notice how, when people justify their bloated unwieldy software by saying "Disk is cheap", what they really mean is "Other people's disks" that other people are paying for?