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Onno (VK6FLAB)

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Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

#geek #nerd #hamradio VK6FLAB #podcaster #australia #ITProfessional #voiceover #opentowork

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  • I used to write the software to refresh and update student labs like that. There's nothing quite as satisfying as seeing the entire lab reboot simultaneously .. and nothing quite as frustrating as seeing all of them fail at the same point in the boot process .. thanks to Microsoft.

    Proof: https://www.itmaze.com.au/articles/zen

  • Singaporean brothers build modern, unbreakable encryption

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  • Unbreakable Encryption .. so .. Snake Oil then?

  • VPNs Promised Privacy. Here's How Several Got Caught Lying

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  • While this video is austensibly about Incogni, you'll soon discover just how much it's about VPNs and who owns them.

    https://youtu.be/JFI1CfnDJxY

  • This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability

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  • .. and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux ..

  • Need advice for car in poor weather: On a standard car (no fancy tech except for a reverse camera), how do you use the side mirrors to reverse safely when it is really dark outside AND heavy raining?

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  • Add sensor motion detection lights to your driveway.

  • Alaska rules Dan Sullivan cannot run against Dan Sullivan in key Senate race

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  • And John Smith rejoices.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

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  • The beatings will continue until morale improves.

  • The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down (adressing Ken Thompsons "Trusting Trust" problem)

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  • While reproducible builds are a good thing, for a bunch of reasons the whole stack is built on top of someone else's microcode running on someone's CPU, running someone's BIOS, etc.

    During an Linux Conf in Australia I attended a talk discussing the chain of trust and the point was made that when you buy something from a manufacturer, it is assumed that it comes to you unaltered, but the question is, how would you know?

    In other words, you need to trust something somewhere and build on that.

    If you'd like to see a working example of a backdoored compiler, because to compile something, you need to also trust your compiler, here's a good discussion and show and tell:

    https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

  • Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely

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  • I've seen way worse supplier fuckups happen in multiple other industries...

    Like?

  • Google director René Mayrhofer, for Android platform security resigned, citing the company's military deals: "management has lost its moral compass"

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  • Over the years I've seen people in high profile roles resign in protest, but I've never understood it. I still don't.

    Is the whole point to bring attention to an issue and then what, hope for the best?

    Is it not being able to look at yourself in the mirror and resigning with extra steps?

    Is it a public dummy spit?

    How does resigning actually fix something, or is that not a consideration?

    As I said, I don't understand.

    Anyone?

  • Some of the door knobs in the house were installed upside down. I fixed them.

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  • If that's an example, I suspect that it's intentional that it can be installed either way.

  • TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.

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  • Here's a novel concept, stop driving cars and use public transport. The more people who do this, the better it gets.

  • What would be the most ridiculous current media future civilizations use to determine 21st culture?

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  • All of it.

    Mind you, that assumes we find a robust way to archive it and not to be funny, actually archive it, not to mention avoiding the self destruction of humanity either through the climate change catastrophe or the hubris of the self anointed billionaire Emperors and Epstein sycophants.

  • We made 75 private repos public on a timer. The internet noticed in 6 minutes.

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  • There's hardly any cost to a bot operator, malicious , opportunistic or legitimate, to hit your end-point, so once they found a reason to hit it, hitting it a million more times costs cents.

    Operators like Meta seem to make it a sport, trying to hit you with multiple parallel requests from multiple sources, across both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously, resulting in an effective DDoS for small and medium end point owners and increasing costs significantly for anyone trying fruitlessly to stay ahead of their onslaught.

    The malicious traffic by contrast, attempts to sneak in a request with dynamic rate throttling as part of their attempts to stay hidden.

    Between these two extremes are the opportunistic operators who hit the same 404 endpoint day after day, hour after hour, minute by minute, for weeks with specific blocks the only remedy.

    There are plenty of legitimate bots that quietly go about their business, hitting you every couple of seconds, leaving you alone for long stretches, incrementally crawling, honouring the robots.txt file and generally acting the way a considerate adult might. They've been getting lower and lower in numbers over the years.

    Source: I have logs.

  • Facebook and Messenger go down as users report major outage

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  • .. and nothing of value was lost ..

  • Marcus Ranum: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security [2005]

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  • A merging of the two 😁

  • AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw

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  • Nothing quite like creating a specific incentive for researchers to seek "alternative" sources of income as payment for their research efforts.

    Microsoft tried this .. seems to be working out for them .. not.

  • Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

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  • You don't think that cron and grep is sufficient?

  • Ads in New York must now label AI-generated 'synthetic performers'

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  • Just like every website has a cookie alert. Meaningless, annoying and extra work for everyone.