This time Dax gets back in the punishment box on Vegon XII yet can't remember the last 24 hours.

TikTok has started censoring searches for popular peptides https://www.theverge.com/science/1014825/peptide-tiktok-search-ban

Having some landscape gardening going on under the direction of my wife. I obviously wasnt paying enough attention to the extent of the work needed to be done. Now the small digger they brought has efficiently cut the incoming fibre to our house. No internet, no telly. Ah well…😆

literally "the assets we could find on the asset store"

okay, I’m way too late to post xkcd “4” comic and still be funny, so instead I will have to write a serious post

Could this disturbingly severe mistake be because someone asked The Cat for a certificate? Hypothetically, yes. But there’s absolutely no reason to jump to that conclusion with self-righteous confidence when all serious infosec experts have been screaming for THIRTY YEARS that our programming languages are designed to maximize the probability of catastrophic mistakes in cryptographic code even when handled with care by experienced professionals.

Here’s what we know: several signing certificates from the same issuer with private keys that are, in their entirety, just a number below 256, all the way down to the comical “4, just 4, that’s not a typo, the private key is 4.” This strongly suggests a bug where the first byte of the intended key, treated as an array, was used rather than the whole key. A bug that’s absolutely, positively trivial to write in C and its descendants. I’ve seen proposals for how to gotcha yourself like this in Go as well.

I’m not saying The Cat isn’t involved, it could be. But you absolutely, positively do not have to ask a mischievous clawed agent for a random number for it to go this horribly wrong. We’ve always had the human strength within us to fuck up this bad all along

(And I do assume it’s a fuckup and not a backdoor, because there’s no reason to design a backdoor such that the next random enthusiast to run a sanity check script on public certificates will instantly spot it and start screaming)

@q3k funny how literally everyone always introduces an "l" into "Utimaco".

I do appreciate how on Linux you can usually just swap out the main storage device into another computer and it'll continue to Just Work

I did have to install the nVidia drivers of course but that's not a huge deal

if I do keep things this way I'll probably want to do some renaming, but like, yeah this AMD+nVidia box is way more powerful than the Intel NUC it's standing in for anyway, maybe I just keep it like this

you know, supernatural stuff. zombies. vampires. werewolves. those robots that build cars.

omfg they're ALL FUCKING <255

4 EM OV TLS CA - G3C OV TLS
56 EM EV TLS CA - G3C EV TLS
66 EM OV CS CA - G3B Code signing
115 EM EV TLS CA - G3B EV TLS
155 EM OV TLS CA - G3B OV TLS
156 EM DV TLS CA - G3B DV TLS
230 EM DV TLS CA - G3C DV TLS
237 EM OV CS CA - G3C Code signing

I mean, just how many instances are gonna ping the URL? Several hundred, low thousands at worst?

Unless it happens to be some very large media content or a dynamic page with no caching, I’d think the automated federation hits shouldn’t be too bad.

The influx of users that might come after a viral post though, that’s rough…

There are two proposed solutions I have seen. I do not claim that this is exhaustive, just only limited to the proposals that I have stumbled across.

FASP - Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider

The idea that mastodon has is to have a third-party service that does something like generate a link preview once and then share that to fediverse instances that need it. They have a whole spec they wrote up about these kinds of services that can be run to help out fediverse instances with different things like this, search, or discoverability. They call these FASPs - the repo with the spec is here.

I don’t yet know of any FASP that is live and running, so it is kind of a paper spec at the moment. I don’t do too much on the microblogging side of the fediverse though, so I very well could be wrong.

Federate link metadata and the post at the same time

This comes from an issue on PieFed’s repo. It is basically just an idea at this point, but it is a pretty basic one; have the originating instance fetch the link preview information and simply federate it out alongside the post itself.

if you can read this, you should upgrade your system ASAP

@jalefkowit

We destroy AI because we want to.

Murderers build AI because they want to.

GNUnet helps building a new Internet

GNUnet is a network protocol stack for building secure, distributed, and privacy-preserving applications.

With strong roots in academic research, our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack.

GNUnet provides privacy-by design

It provides [improving addressing, routing, naming and content distribution](https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/papers/65.pdf) in a technically robust manner - as opposed to ad-hoc designs in place today.

is there something that makes this different to 17 other proposals for a new internet or is it just a case of