Robin Tarsiger @dasyatidprime@mastodon.technology

I just saw a video ad for Google, which used a search for a Lion King trailer as its example.

Then there was a cut to text which I think was “Witness the crowning of a new king.”, though I'm not sure of the first verb.

And then it cuts to the Google logo, and then ends.

Hmm.

I forgot that #ReleasingDebianBuster is happening so soon! I've been waiting for this.

Doing a little return-follow catchup, in case some of you don't recognize why I'm following you now or requesting to. (I don't do symmetrical follow by default, but I do habitual symmetrical “check out their profile and see whether I want to”, but sometimes I don't get around to it for a while.)

A conversation with @Azure has just led to a possible new term for not-so-good homebrew crypto: “cryptographer-inspired”.

Not totally sure of the ordering, but today's #xkcd is pretty on point in the large. https://xkcd.com/2166/

You “can”.

But some of the things people say this about fall perceptibly into the category of “pushing for new social norms by broadcasting”.

So now you have a problem. If you disengage, but everyone else sees everyone boosting the popular post and goes along with it as the new norm, and you just stay ignorant… how might you act later, and how might it be seen?

Social life isn't free, and “friendly reminders” can be about as friendly as a suburban HOA.

Oh, _now_ my IPv6 starts working at home for no obvious reason. I guess that'll probably save me a call to AT&T?

Now that I have this spare machine booting with #DmIntegrity and on the way to local-signing #SecureBoot, I should consider whether I want to do the same thing to my primary laptop, which currently lacks such protections.

#Namecheap and/or #Comodo, naming the website where one enters the domain control validation code for an #X509 certificate renewal “secure.trust-provider.com” is kind of asking for it. Seriously?

This is apparently done via “Sectigo” which is some subsidiary of something, and the domain is registered under “CSC Corporate Domains”. It seems legit based on other observations, and it's not out of line with other corporate nonsense I've seen, but…

GNU Shepherd: ‘herd reload FILE-NAME’: “Unload all known optional services using unload’s ‘all’ option, then load FILE-NAME using ‘load’ functionality. If FILE-NAME does not exist or ‘load’ encounters an error, you may end up with no defined services. As these can be reloaded at a later stage this is not considered a problem. If the ‘unload’ stage fails, ‘reload’ will not attempt to load FILE-NAME.”

This feels… unconvincing.

Looking through the xbps source—the ports system / package management for #VoidLinux.

rv = RSA_verify(NID_sha1, sha256, SHA256_DIGEST_LENGTH, sig, siglen, rsa);

Wait, what? 🤔

Checking further, xbps_file_hash_raw does seem to actually do a SHA-256, it's just the signatures are… I guess using a weird NID for no reason?

Investigating #Enlightenment. What's this “Eina”? Data structure and such library for C? Hmm, why is there a module for “standard floating point numbers”? I wonder why they would want to do their own soft-float… wait a minute.

*opens header file*

“Type for floating point number where the size of the integer part is 32-bit and the size of the decimal part is 32-bit” etc.

So by “floating point”, they mean “fixed point”. That is a critical terminology mixup. Jeez.