rya.nc
Hacker. Enby. Administrative inconvenience. Purveyor of technically sophisticated shitposts.
Suing the UK for more gender, help with my legal bills: https://enby.org.uk/
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Non-binary trans androgynous (they/them)
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From Samir Talwar:
This is the same GitHub where any commit on any fork is accessible in the original repository, right?
I wonder if you can brick someone else's repo by forking, without even opening a PR…
functional.computer
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I identify as a problem, apparently GitHub's today.
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They don't seem to appreciate the humor of an email address that is also a shell command injection attempt or the time zone of -2456.
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I didn't say they did, I said "...I consider myself..."
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As a nonbinary person I consider myself not female and not male and therefore an nth gender, for n ≥ 3, but I will use whichever facilities I feel most comfortable in.
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FPU, trial division.
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I resorted to binary search to calculate the cube roots.
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I don't have much experience with assembly golf, so I find it hard to believe this can't be beaten.
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I posted my 164 byte solution, and I spent a few hours trying to shave off another byte from there with no success.
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Patching the SSH daemon to deny access based on the client id string and algorithm support seems to be sufficient to stop bots for the moment.
They're mostly just an annoyance, though. Noise in the logs.
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Have to do a bunch of bookkeeping that the TCP stack would otherwise do for you?
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Watching their face as the scans came in was amusing.
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Also, it picks arbitrary ports for the actual transfer, and therefore requires a NAT helper.
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It wasn't the best option, just the only option.
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I recently learned that TFTP is just about as daft.
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I gave a twentysomething software engineer a crash course on the protocol stack and socket api layers about two years ago.
Once the service was online:
"Ryan, there are so many connections that never see a request, is my code broken?"
I had them start a server with no firewall and watch tcpdump…
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FTP is extremely cursed.
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Anyway, I have forwarded the flight status notification.
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I was thinking get a bunch of individuals organized to send complaints and make it easy for them to do so.
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My plan was to mostly automate the process to send a form letter and avoid using the IPSO website entirely. Would you be interested in working with me on this? Can I have my tool submit a copy of the complaint to you as well?
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Why build a conveyor built when I can build a linear magnetic accelerator?
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I should have a go at wrapping their complaint form with some automation.
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Even filing form letter complaints would move the needle a little.
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We should get a group organized to file complaints with IPSO for every one of these articles.
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The fucking around helps with the finding out. 🤷