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Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at Nvidia, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org Signal: @mjg.59 He/him
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My parents have gigabit symmetric fibre in rural Northern Ireland and I do not living two blocks from Dolores Park in San Francisco

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I used to write accessibility software and I have opinions on where modern Linux is in that respect: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72379.html

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely unhinged scenes

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Me: I have done this thing which is somewhat complicated but avoids having to do any fuckery with client systems Them: But why did you not do something else that would require you to do fuckery on all your client systems

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is a fucking crime. Whoever made this has never had a Mai Tai. It doesn't feel like they even read a recipe. At best they once saw one across a bar. The initial hit is cloyingly sweet and thick and just as you swallow it finishes with unexpected coconut. No drink has made me this angry before.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

8 hours rest 8 hours work (Mastodon posting) 8 hours leisure (Bluesky shitposting)

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Spent the evening working out how to give systems on my home network world-routeable IPv4 addresses without it costing too much: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72095.html

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

People will really call themselves computer scientists without ever having killed a traveling salesman

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Looking forward to the Trump Phone abiding by all software licensing requirements

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

another day working at the gpu factory. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the AI. buddy,

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

New corp laptop and how are we still making 14" laptops that only have 2 USB C ports

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Keeping out of the cool zone by visiting the

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Borderline Gateway Protocol

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

u have been kidnapped and a character from the last tv show u watched is trying to rescue u who is coming to save u

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

When airport security show you the X ray of your bag and you look at it for a while trying to figure out what to say and the best you can come up with is "It's a sex thing"

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

It's always a vibe when you're sitting in an airport lounge about to board and it's wall to wall footage of a plane crash

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Lots of the worst people celebrating Xorg being forked by an incompetent fuckhead who's also weirdly invested in Germany having done nothing wrong: web.archive.org/web/20190404...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Given, well, everything, it shouldn't surprise me that whenever I post something on Mastodon that gains attention a bunch of reactionary free software advocates using chan language show up and I regret to inform you that "free software nazi" does not just refer to people who refuse proprietary code

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I have occasional confusion when talking to people about how to define what reasonable protest techniques look like and then I realise most of you didn't grow up in a conflict zone where the army pointed guns at you on the way to school and it all makes more sense

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Loving Elon embracing that his spaceships are anti-indigenous weapons

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like this does not to be said to anyone at this stage but: for the love of god do not use Twitter to talk about organising protests, participating in protests, or what you did in the aftermath of protests. No social media in general, definitely not Twitter.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is just a flat out lie and everyone involved is either malicious or incompetent

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

I'd argue it's less than not great, it's bad. Since they're not using HSMs for Juicebox, and they control all the realms, they have the ability to easily brute force anyone's 4-digit PIN and get their stored secret. It's basically just backdoored.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

If your DMs are “encrypted” but one org holds all the keys, you haven’t distributed trust – you’ve built a backdoor. Juicebox only works when boundaries are real. Separation isn’t optional. Replication != distribution.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

groimes you haeve to come get me at Geetmo

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments

It would be nice if there was pride in C as well, but let's not lie to ourselves,

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Update on my previous post re: encrypted Twitter DMs - they *could* make them somewhat more trustworthy, but for no obvious reason just… haven't mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71933.html

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments