Notices by Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz), page 20

Went sledding. Got snow up my file associations?

coincidence???????/??

And award for understatement of the year goes to:

Jim Lunsford for "My experiment of running my own Mastodon instance is over. That crowd is not law enforcement friendly."

https://twitter.com/jimlunsford/status/1121254063054753792

by the way, "holy shit that's cool" and "holy shit that's terrifying" are both appropriate responses to BadUSB and O.MG

I know you can make flash drives REALLY tiny now - the O.MG cable is a BadUSB device inside the housing of a standard USB cable (https://mg.lol/blog/omg-cable/) - so it wouldn't even really be a technology challenge, just a design one. Hmmm.

I could design an Elekk pin and have it detect the OS it's connected to and do the appropriate thing to load https://elekk.xyz/about on the device's browser :thinkmint:

For whatever reason I've got it in my head that it might be interesting to design an enamel pin that doubles as a USB drive. It could have bare USB-A and C -sized connectors built into the design, and a circuit board either on the back or internally. So you could plug it into a USB-A port or into a f-f USB-C cable and have it deliver a payload to the target device, and then pin it back to your jacket and walk away.

“But it’s been burned down?”

“Yes.”

“Twice.”

“Many times.”

“And rebuilt.”

“Of course. It is an important and historic building.”

“With completely new materials.”

“But of course. It was burned down.”

“So how can it be the same building?”

“It is always the same building.”

From https://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/12/01/edifice-complex/:

On visiting the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto, Douglas Adams was impressed at how well the 14th-century structure had weathered the passage of time. His Japanese guide told him that it hadn’t weathered well at all; in fact it had burned to the ground twice in the 20th century.

“So this isn’t the original building?” Adams asked.

“But yes, of course it is.”

Idle thought: there's probably a market for a tool that will convert databases between Mastodon<->Pleroma<->MissKey<->GNU Social<->Etc. formats.

It would be really nice to be able to try out a different AP software without having to start over - and to be able to compare directly between two servers with identically-populated databases.