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@DianoraDianora (Diane Bruce) absolutely! No local backup is a safe backup.
@stefanoStefano Marinelli @DianoraDianora (Diane Bruce) The local backup is a remnant of the encrypted backup off network. If you can use it, it'll be faster. But you should assume you will never use it.
Security vendors: Defenders only have to make one mistake and it's game over.
Same security vendors: Please buy our agentic AI security products.
Sorry friends.
I've almost DDoSed the #BSDCafe by modifying that post...
Moving my website from Github Pages to OpenBSD this week. I've never used a BSD server, so it'll be interesting to figure out
Mental note:
Explain/Rant about in-band vs out-of-band issues faced by carrier networks, including type 2 networks.
@stefanoStefano Marinelli - you are the inspiration on this one. It's a good thing, I'll explain later.
It was BBC computers for me, back in the 80s, but yes this would’ve been great. https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115860173827226322
요즘몇개나띄어쓰기없는문서를보고읽을수없었지만혹시많이공부하면할수있어요
IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
Link: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ibm-ai-(-bob-)-downloads-and-executes-malware
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544454
The Iconic:
MOS Technology 6581 SID (Sound Interface Device) 🎵🎶
A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.
I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.
The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.
To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.
The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.
That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.
The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.
The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.
Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.
Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.
@stefanoStefano Marinelli I must repeat this Never trust in onsite backups either. Fire will destroy those. And RAID is not backup.
You know this but it bears repeating!
gutes chaos, schlechtes chaos
beeindruckend wie viel drama und emotion eine stickerbox erzeugen kann
Mental note:
Explain/Rant about in-band vs out-of-band issues faced by carrier networks, including type 2 networks.
@stefanoStefano Marinelli - you are the inspiration on this one. It's a good thing, I'll explain later.
Finale!
Blaubeere
vs
Erdbeere
Die Blaubeere ist eine echte Beere.
Saison ist hier von Ende Juni bis September, Waldheidelbeeren oft kürzer im Juli und August, Kulturheidelbeeren bis in den Herbst.
Außerhalb besser zu Tiefkühlware greifen, "frische" Blaubeeren werden dann nämlich aus Südamerika importiert.
Die Erdbeer-Saison von Mai bis Juli mit Höhepunkt im Juni ist dank der vielen Erdbeer-Stände kaum zu übersehen.
Die Erdbeere ist eine Sammelnussfrucht.
Nun, die Piraterei hat sich in letzter Zeit nicht sehr ausgezahlt…
Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/pc-building/major-japanese-electronics-store-begs-customers-for-their-old-pcs-as-hardware-drought-continues-we-pretty-much-buy-any-pc-pleads-the-akihabara-outlet
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542015
Information about Aggressive, Racist, & Ableist Bluesky User Moving to Mastodon
I was informed that a user who harassed me & others on Bluesky has moved to Mastodon, claiming she was "chased off". For transparency, I'm copy-pasting my TLDR post from Bluesky.
Mizokaya (Mizore Nakaya) is prone to aggressive behavior & violent language and, in my case, she was racist and ableist towards me. She also implied that I'm being transphobic for sharing an article from The Guardian.
Höllenplattform
남자가 좋다 2026
설마… 건설적 협의를… 건설로 이해했니…
일반 택배봉투 안되고 에어캡봉투만 된다고 하면?
This New York Times video journalism -- caution, it's graphic -- about Trump goons' murder of a Minneapolis woman is essential. No both-sides bullshit when one party -- the regime and its vile propagandists -- is relentlessly and provably lying.
I'm often hard on the Times for its relentless failures to properly cover this regime, but this piece is the real thing.
Thanks for the free 7-day trial of 2026.
I'd like to unsubscribe from whatever the hell this is.
Že by se to hovado jasně postavilo za Dánsko? 😡
헤드폰 이어폰 많이 쓰면 이명 오고 청력 손실 온다고 하죠.. 이명이 정말 온 사람은 의사 선생님이 이명 신경 덜 쓰이게 그냥 음악을 들으라고 합니다...
It's hard to make sense of stories about how AI code generation doesn't work when my default PDF reader is now one that ChatGPT wrote for me after 30 years of dissatisfaction with every other PDF reader. (Based on PDFKit of course.)
I didn't ask for a lot. Small features like:
I wanted right click on *internal* links to open the target *in the same document* in a new window so I can read linked notes without upsetting my main reading flow.
Super-light persistent bookmarks modelled on vi's <m> and <'>.
I have my baby back and IT’S HIS BIRTHDAY
ODIN IS TWO YEARS OLD !!!!
@0xabad1deaabadidea as true today as it was when i posted this almost a year ago 
Get your popcorn, it's time for another watchTowr Labs post. This one is a pre-auth RCE in SmarterMail. 
내일 가서 물어보면 되겠지
아...... 포장을 잘 한 게 맞는지 젠젠모르겠네
My two cats love watching birds come to my window feeder, but when they get excited and jump at the window, the birds get scared and fly away.
This disappoints my cats.
Squirrels, on the other hand, appear to understand glass, and show no fear as they sit in the feeder for anything up to an hour, while two predators stare at them and try to scratch through the glass to murder them.
Three options the US is considering to take Greenland
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-08/three-options-us-considering-to-take-greenland/106207610
@zkatkat tell me you find one for keepassxc
My two cats love watching birds come to my window feeder, but when they get excited and jump at the window, the birds get scared and fly away.
This disappoints my cats.
Squirrels, on the other hand, appear to understand glass, and show no fear as they sit in the feeder for anything up to an hour, while two predators stare at them and try to scratch through the glass to murder them.
Has anyone compiled the privacy policies of various LLM platforms, ideally in a comprehensive way? OpenAI said today that private health data and conversations shared by ChatGPT Health won't be used for training purposes. Does this mean OpenAI won't sell it either or give it to law enforcement when presented with a warrant? What about other AI chat services.
I'm looking for responses from experienced privacy professionals or advocates with empirical data. Please, no responses airing cynicism or grievances about AI privacy in general, no matter how valid.
그런 의미에서 페그오 그림
I used Lego to design a farm for people who are blind – like me
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4zlyqnr0o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502269
지인1이 래팝님 요즘 페그오 열심히 하시더라고요~ 하니까 지인2가 네?!저사람 페그오 열심히 하는 수준이 아니라 엄청나게 열심히 하세요!!!! 라고 하셔서 이렇게됨
@zkatkat 
@xgranadeCassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ You should add the alternative you maintain
It only took me a few days to be fed up with mailbox.org and cancel, which I couldn't even find in the UI and had to (sigh) ask a plagiarism machine.
- Painfully slow.
- Endless UI glitches.
- Confusing payment, plan upgrade, and renewal process.
- Support UI is partly not even in the language I selected.
Let's see if Fastmail is better. Luckily the switch was easier, although the alias setup in the UI was extremely confusing, so off to a bumpy onboarding. Hopefully it's the only hurdle.
Get your popcorn, it's time for another watchTowr Labs post. This one is a pre-auth RCE in SmarterMail.
Gentle reminder that EVERYONE shot by ICE or the police is innocent. Every single one. Cops aren't Judge Dredd. A person is innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT, so until a person is found guilty by a judge or jury, they're innocent. They're ALL innocent.
Its only a Mafia if its an Italian family, otherwise its just sparkling organised crime
@zkatkat today I learned that Zod, a schema validation library for JS/TS, has CLAUDE.MD, AGENTS.MD, and .cursorrules in its GitHub repo. It is also sponsored by multiple AI startups.
https://github.com/colinhacks/zod
Unfortunately, I don’t know of any good alternatives off the top of my head
한국도 삼성전자/SK하이닉스만 잘 되는 이상한 경기로 흘러가고 있어서 남의 이야기가 아닐 듯.
For those of you interested in my #OpenBSD stories, what kind of content would you prefer?
robb
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
マリオ (Mario Menti)
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