Notices by Bálint 🎭 (szbalint@x0r.be), page 3

Facebook is now spamming people who have setup 2FA with their phone numbers.

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/963766661466787840

Seriously, that is one thing they should have never done: fuck with security.

Ok so borgbackup is awesome, deduplication is nice, it's stable and as far as I can tell well-written.

The real reason why I like/use it in production though is because it does integrity checking, privilege / permissions separation and encryption right.

A backup you can't verify and restore under extreme circumstances (production systems and anything connected to it wiped) is no backup.

Anyone remembers the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and the planet with the overproduction of shoes?

Haha, so absurd! People would never do that! Now excuse me while I invest in bitcoins

Public transport doesn’t have to be bad.

In Vienna it costs 365 eur for a yearly pass, for five metro lines with a bunch of S-bahn local trains, dozens of tram and a hundred bus lines.

They are mostly clean, on time, metro goes during the night on weekends.

I don’t own a car here.

Switch to jemalloc to decrease memory consumption in sidekiq/puma.

See https://www.speedshop.co/2017/12/04/malloc-doubles-ruby-memory.html for a detailed explanation.

This change decreased sidekiq RSS memory size to less than a fourth of what it was before for my instance.

#MastoAdmins #instanceadmintips

Only in Hungary...

FYI if you think creating a hate account on this instance is something I tolerate, you're mistaken.

@tindall context: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-how-firefox-got-fast-again-and-where-its-going-to-get-faster/

@galaxis @kaniini

easiest thing to back up: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change

@kaniini

You think it is a joke, but a single bitcoin transaction takes more energy than powering an average home in the US for MORE THAN A WEEK.

In related depressing infosec news, big US mobile carriers are providing an api to third parties that based on your ip address provide them with your name, billing information and precise location (from the cell tower).

https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open-this-link-on-your-phone-with-wifi-turned-off-9e0adb00d024

Looks like WPA2 has it's own RNG...which is faulty as designed. Oh joy.

Details are supposed to be out tomorrow, but supposedly this allows wi-fi content decryption, content injection, connection hijacking. https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/919522184384729089