Notices by Michael W (Warren) Lucas (mwlucas@bsd.network)

If you have a .org domain name: go renew it now. For the full 10 years.

Registration rights for .org were just bought by a private equity firm. And as part of that contract, the price caps were removed.

Anything in .org will get much more expensive, soon.

A ten year renewal will cost you a bit over a hundred bucks. Which is probably less than one year will cost you in the very near future.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

A white supremacist forum got hacked and leaked.

The contents are now... searchable?

https://ironmarch.exposed/

:birdsite: is suspending accounts that share it.

Spent the snowbound drive listening to NPR's A1. This episode, on testosterone and masculinity, was excellent.

https://the1a.org/shows/2019-11-11/the-evolution-of-thought-on-testosterone-and-masculinity

Me: "I'm so glad I'm not one of those hyperaggressive testosterone-ruled jerks!"

Them: "Testosterone causes status seeking, not aggressiveness."

Me: "Oh, that's not me. I only want to write all the books, all the best books, and crush anyone who seeks to compete with them. CRUSH THEM. I'm harmless." :flan_eyeroll:

Yes, authors are dependent upon book reviews for sales.

But we also depend on them for warm fuzzies. Really, nothing gives us warm fuzzies like a review from a reader who love the book.

Like this one, for #terrapinSkyTango

"With a (literal) break-neck plot, filled with explosive set pieces and hard-driving characters, author Michael Warren Lucas returns to the thriller genre as if he had something to prove. He really doesn’t."

https://amzn.to/33xf2lZ

Sexual harassment was wrong in the 50s. It was wrong in the 80s. It is wrong today.

There is no statute of limitations on social interactions.

The Internet is helping people come together to claim their power and hold those *in* power accountable.

I hope that this is only the beginning.

And I hope that racism gets the same treatment.

The lesson I want people to take from RMS' jump-before-pushed resignation:

"Your heroes and role models will be held accountable for being a jerk. If you emulate their behavior, you will also be held accountable."

The lesson the problem people will take: "SJW waaaaah!"

I think it's important that we repeat the better lesson.

Anyone who suggests using 0.0.0.0/8 or subdividing 127.0.0.0/8 doesn't understand the real world Internet. Those addresses would be unusable for decades. We still have devices that don't speak CIDR, and that's 25 years old.

Add IPv6 and be done with it. #sysadmin

You can tunnel anything inside SSH.

You can tunnel SSH inside DNS.

You can tunnel DNS inside HTTPS.

So, with #DoH, allowing web access means allowing everything. #sysadmin

Campbell influenced by life and my work. As a kid, "Who Goes There" was among my favorite tales.

It's time to retire him to history. Stack him right next to H Rider Haggard.

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/20/needed-saying.html

My SSH dream:

The best solution I've seen to SSH attacks is NetBSD's libblacklistd.

Log parsing solutions are inherently fragile. But a solution that lets a server program explicitly declare "Hey, this IP is being a jerk, please fubar it" is :flan_hearts:

I truly hope that one of the #OpenBSD devs will develop this itch and make something like it part of #OpenSSH, so it spreads and becomes a standard.

“Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review

https://mwl.io/archives/4378

"The company owner often comes in groggy and trembling after a night stuffed with spectacular oligarchic debauchery, and there’s no way for a lowly sysadmin to keep him in line. He gets extra chances to enter his password and no timeout." #sudomastery

In sudoers, TIMEOUT is not a tag. TIMEOUT is its own special critter that *looks* like a tag, and *reads* like a tag, but has very slightly different syntax. #sysadmin #screamingInRageWhileStaringBugEyedAtEtcSudoers :flan_hacker: :flan_rage: :flan_set_fire:

If your Code of Conduct team is overwhelmingly straight white guys guided by straight white guys, your CoC is probably worthless.

You need a variety of threatened minorities on your CoC team, and you need to listen to them.

It seems that the admin of fosstodon.org is a jerk, and fosstodon is going to disappear from much of the fediverse soon.

SOON.

I've interacted with a couple fosstodon folks. Y'all seemed nice. But your admin lets the assholes run free.

If you want to stay on the main fediverse, I'd advise you to move to a less sucky server post-haste.

Also, I fully support bsd.network blocking problem sites like yours.

A bookstore was attacked by a white supremacist for hosting, among many other themed childrens' story events, Drag Queen Story Time.

This is the bookstore's official response.

https://bookbarblog.com/2019/06/29/bookbars-extremely-official-response-to-extremely-negative-comments-with-book-recommendations/

@GinnyMcQueen

And the post is now down.

They've posted what's probably meant as a more thoughtful followup, but still: no apology.

I've worked with blocklists since 1995 (for other protocols). You learn to apologize early on.

Something like this, you post a followup saying "so-and-so that we accidentally blocked/mishandled/whatever is cool, check out their stuff." There is ZERO reason not to be nice... unless you really don't like the person.

Seems that Skinny Puppy's "VivisectVI" drowns out the sound of me shrieking "fuck you you fucking fuck" even though the windows are open.

When played at sufficient volume, that is. :flan_drummer::flan_keyboard::flan_drummer::flan_keyboard::flan_drummer: #CentOS

Okay, time to crank up some Skinny Puppy and FLA and make the words.

:flan_drummer::flan_drummer::flan_drummer::flan_keyboard::flan_keyboard::flan_keyboard::flan_guitar::flan_drummer::flan_keyboard::flan_writing:

Turns out that I developed a catch phrase at Penguicon:

"The world belongs to people who finish things."