@kajer never change

@kajer that's a password an idiot would use on their luggage

@kajer why is it so fabulous?

@matt I was already well left of center five years ago, but at this point I'm not sure how I could go father left.

I guess switching to a vegan diet would move the needle a little?

cargo-mommy

"Hackers" actually hired the guy behind 2600 magazine as a technical advisor. While the movie took significant liberties, the method Phreak uses to dial the operator was real. Rotary phones signal dialing by "flashing" the hook. With practice, this can be done manually on a touch tone phone.

Ramona stares at her computer screen, annoyed. There's an error from the rust compiler, telling her she may have at most one mutable reference to something.

She has a flashback to thirty years ago - a racist corrections officer "You get one call. Uno. Understand?". Asshole.

She begins to type unsafe {...

@deutrino @[email protected] running an actual catch-all will trigger anti-fraud systems sometimes, and yes they can and will check.

@Eliot_L @deutrino @[email protected] I have a similar feature set to what spamgormet offers configured on my own mail server.

I also have support for + addressing in some cases, but I can implement whatever I want.

I do not in most cases use + addressing because the extension can be stripped/altered.

For most things, I use aliases that include a random value to prevent my email addresses from being guessed.

@Hyolobrika I would be perfectly happy if the concept of a legal sex or gender were abolished.

Being legally considered something I am not and that I cannot pass as is, however, genuinely distressing.

@Hyolobrika As to it being illegal to use the wrong pronouns for someone deliberately, it is hate speech and should be legally classified as such, regardless of legal gender.

Some jurisdictions make hate speech illegal, some do not.

@Hyolobrika I do not identify as nonbinary. It is just what I am, and what I always have been.

The refusal to provide legal recognition is upsetting for many reasons, including that there is no good reason not to. It costs very little, and updating systems can be done piecemeal over a period of time.

It's just gross to be told my birth certificate is invalid.

I have government departments claiming I'm legally a sex that does not match any identity documents that I have.

It's infuriating to me, it upsets other nonbinary people, and that is enough. We don't need to be able to articulate reasons to want something that most people take for granted.

@SpaceLifeForm email service providers have required opt in for a long time

Do not spam an ex-sysadmin who was responsible for email servers in the mid 2000s.

2021: Techbro cold emails me about his startup using a unique email address generated on my website.
2024: Getting spammed at that specific address.

I report it. Email provider abuse dept says they're investigating, as they require opt in.

I sent them the 2021 email and web logs from bro's visit.

Is it worth switching from vim to neovim? I have fairly extensive customization configured with a number of my own vimscript functions.

I program mostly in Python, Rust, TypeScript, and C.

@cR0w @edolnx If it's a compliance requirement, just use MaxMind.

If that is not good enough, I don't know what would be. I can tell you how to check BGP data in near real time, but ASN registration data is not always accurate, and originating ASN can be faked (I've seen it done).

If I deeply cared about this I would probably run traceroutes to the IP in question from a bunch of known reference points and trilaterate (there is a published paper about this, nobody's bothered to commercialize it AFAIK), but then you need to wait a nontrivial amount of time (half a second minimum) for the data.

Also, it would make network operators mad.

@Foritus At the time, it seemed plausible that the bug had been deliberately added, and the people who might plausibly do that aren't people I wanted to be aware of me or the other folks involved.

The people who were going to sell it were also a concern.

@gsuberland That would be delightful.

@panda Yeah, basically via generic broadcast relay functionality. I forget where I found it, but it saved me from having to run something in userspace.