Notices by arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)

The debate about apps blocking their users from using them with particular servers is really about #NetNeutrality. The principle here is that software makers and network operators don't make decisions for users about who and what to connect with. This principle is most important to those with the least social power. If domains can be blocked in one app for being "fascists", it sets a precedent for other apps to block domains for being anarchists, or blacks, or queers etc.

The service manuals of old professional equipment are truly amazing, the schematics are shown in three different abstraction levels, every single connection is shown, waveforms at 100 different test points are drawn, every single component is listed, with step-by-step test and calibration guidelines. You can almost remove everything from the board and put it back together with a service manual.

Something that today's consumers can only dream of...

#retrocomputing #crt

@lohang Personally I am hoping for the return of a real website. I can live without all the bells and whistles if a blogging platform and I believe that if you have content worth reading you should be willing to go through the effort of coding it. But I am evil like that

I finally got the chance to sit down and watch the new trailer for Star Trek: Picard. It was a little frenetic, but I guess that's how trailers are. I do hope the series manages a more thoughtful pace. Not going to comment or speculate on plot, plenty of other people are doing that.

My boss asked me for some work account's password once. "I don't know," I said, "I don't know any of my passwords. I use a password manager and passwords that exceed 32 characters if possible."

My boss thought that was silly. Today, breaking a SHA-256-encoded hash for a 12-character password takes less than an hour.

Services that limit password length give away hints about their shoddy password hashing practices. Do not trust them.