Notices by Bálint 🎭 (szbalint@x0r.be), page 2

Is not so humble.

I have some amazing pie everyone!!

Did you know that if you try to look at xkcd from a US Congressional IP address, it automatically redirects you to https://xkcd.com/1732/ (The Earth Temperature Timeline).

Source: https://twitter.com/neurovagrant/status/1059963185124573184

Remember that Chrome-logs-you-into-the-browser thing on a Google Service login thing?

With Chrome 70 Google removed the internal flag to disable that and implemented an opt-out button that _literally_ doesn’t work.

@viciousviscosity that made me chucke and go HEVC HEVC HEVC

Please take fifteen minutes today and make sure you have a proper backup/emergency kit for your password manager!

If you can, place it offsite.

You’ll thank me later.

https://ha.x0r.be/posts/chrome-is-a-google-service/

Starting with Chrome 69, logging into a Google Site is tied to logging into Chrome.

(I created a blog for occasions where 500 characters just aren't enough)

#MastoAdmins

Please set a password for Redis on your instance:

Add REDIS_PASSWORD to your .env.production config and use the same password in your redis configuration, with the requirepass configuration directive.

Without a password you are a single server side request forgery vulnerability away from someone gaining shell access to your instance. SSRF vulnerabilities are not that rare that it never happens.

Is there a good list of Mastodon/fediverse clients out there including a short pro/con list for each? People should know about how Tootdon sends all their posts to the a third party corporate server for example.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/

This is exceedingly good.

In case of some no-deal scenario, some people wave it away and say that the EU would smooth over the transition and ignore the border.

That is not so. Britain would be thrown into chaos on the food, medicine, air travel and basic shipping level, and I don’t mean “logistical problems” but actual shortages and empty shelves in the stores.

The EU has been telling the UK for two years now that decisions have consequences and no amount of magical thinking can override basic things.

Ah this reminds me.

Serverless architecture has a name since at least the 60s.

It's called Mainframes. You're running stuff on someone's Mainframe, in a proprietary OS.

So you’re wondering how Nigel Farage would be linked to currency manipulation?

Easy, he shorted the pound on the eve of the brexit vote: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/25/nigel-farage-denies-shorting-value-of-sterling-on-night-of-brexit-vote

That fuckstick had private exit polls but he said remain won, which led to the pound shooting up, which was taken advantage by him.

But sure, he’s just the chap you’d “have s beer with”, this fucking sociopathic monster.

This really is the stupidest fucking timeline imaginable.

1. MS can integrate github with linkedin and those green tiles people are so proud of will get super annoying

2. Github is not about git, they successfully did embrace extend extinguish on other services by building so much stuff around core git with their own cultural conventions and customs that they ended up owning much of the VCS space

So many sites do:

“Here are cookie, advertising, tracking policies. Here is an OK button.”

After not clicking the ok button but attempting to continue:

“You must agree to our tracking policy”

That is explicitly not allowed/illegal under GDPR.

American companies including the Washington Post really have a damn hard time wrapping their head around that an agreement means you can decline to agree to it, and GDRP says refusing to be tracked is not grounds for a site to refuse service.

Somewhere from tumblr.

PSA: time to delete WhatsApp. Use Signal.

We are are at the point in the scifi movie where the computerized voice says: “hull integrity at 7%. Structural integrity compromised. Catastrophic failure imminent”

Time to head for the escape pods.

This is amazing, we evolved the alphabet from pictograms to highly stylized characters to letters and now we're going full circle by incorporating emojis such as 🐂 that thousands of years earlier became "a" and 🐟 that became "d"

I wish I had the money to use Oracle SQL databases. I’d still use postgres everywhere, but damn we could spend that cash on so many other nice things

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