jbrown @roguelazer@mastodon.technology

I wrote up some observations on the new California digital vaccine record, in case anyone was curious exactly how they worked: https://www.roguelazer.com/2021/06/cdph-digital-vaccine-record/

net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports is cool, yo. How did I not know this existed before?

I wonder if CircleCI understands quite how weird all of their marketing emails about "private orbs" sound.

All I can think of is that weird Trump orb from 2017

Why is `factor` in GNU #coreutils? Are there really a lot of people looking to get prime factors in their bash scripts?

This tool isn't even very good. I passed it the modulus from an RSA4096 key and it hasn't even finished yet.

Very sad to see that #Phabricator is shutting down; I guess Even Priestly finally got tired of doing it all himself. I'm still a big fan of the software and I really hope a healthy community-run fork starts up.

I found an irritating issue in GNU tar: https://www.roguelazer.com/2021/03/surprising-behavior-in-gnu-tar/

Finally got iTunes running on my #AppleSilicon MacBook today

The new behavior where you have to reinstall Developer Tools after every #macOS Big Sur point update is absolutely maddening!

Since I had a power outage last week, my USB DAC disconnects and restarts itself every ~10 minutes. I have no idea why the one would be related to the other, but it's absolutely infuriating.

The #sudo CVEs are pretty amazing. https://www.qualys.com/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156/baron-samedit-heap-based-overflow-sudo.txt is great.

Sheesh, even the Slack documentation is down. I wonder what they did this morning?

I gave in to consumerism and replaced my perfectly-good Intel MacBook Air with an ARM64 MacBook Pro.

Pros: battery doesn't seem to ever drain; can compile neovim and all dependencies from source in under 2 minutes; every closed-source tool I use except Dropbox is already arm64-native

Cons: very few OSS tools have pre-built universal binaries, so clang gets a lot of exercise

Ugh I am so not enthused to switch off of CentOS. I really hope either Rocky Linux or CloudLinux ends up being a hassle-free migration before CentOS 8 gets EOLed.

#aws in us-west-2 appears to be fixed now

Did ec2 in #aws us-west-2 just die? 5xx's from Describe and Launch APIs for the last ~10 minutes...

The flow in Safari on #macOS Big Sur and #iOS 11 for #WebAuthn via native Secure Enclave (TouchID / FaceID) is extremely nice. Not enough for me to dump Firefox, but extremely nice.

I miss working in an office

https://www.roguelazer.com/2020/11/i-miss-working-from-the-office/

My kid was in daycare for one week before he brought home a cold to the whole family (don't worry, we got negative COVID tests). I was really enjoying not having colds since lockdown began...