Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

wow
I am exhausted

by slightly different I mean, you unscrew piece X then Y this time, then Z then Y then X next time

So here's what blows my mind, tearing apart 20+ spinning platter hard drives tonight: all though all of them have mostly roughly the same shape, they're all *slightly different* in their construction, and in the steps to take them apart.

Kind of satisfying... each one is a tiny, fairly easy puzzle ;)

*DING DING DING*

"Oh hi neighbor! Uhm, don't mind me. I'm not crazy, even though I appear to be smashing the sidewalk with this sledgehammer. There's a hard drive platter there! Hence the bell noise! I do computer things where security matters sometimes...!"

*DING DING DING*

"... honestly, this is normal behavior, I promise!!!"

*DING DING DING*

by the way the answer is: 21 hard drives

now I remember why I just moved all my old computers with me every time

"I should finally not bring a giant pile of old computers with me just because I haven't bothered to destroy their old drives this time. I'll just gut all of them and see how many drives I have to destroy"

*pile of gutted metallic corpses to the side, beholding a tower of spinning platter babel*

"oh my god"

Apparently I can't email hotmail addresses anymore. My IP and domain aren't listed on spamhaus. I have no idea why I'm being rejected and I don't see any recourse to find out.

I hate the centralization of email :(

ActivityLog2: Free software health tracker, written in Racket https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2

Also check out this map widget demo, using OpenStreetMap tiles: https://alex-hhh.github.io/2018/06/a-racket-gui-widget-to-display-maps-based-on-openstreetmap-tiles.html

Backdoored images downloaded from DockerHub 5 million times https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/backdoored-images-downloaded-5-million-times-finally-removed-from-docker-hub/ https://kromtech.com/blog/security-center/cryptojacking-invades-cloud-how-modern-containerization-trend-is-exploited-by-attackers

Malware installed through DockerHub can also escape the container, so may continue to run.

Friends don't let friends install unreproducible black box container images.

Unix domain sockets are still perimeter security, but are a bit less likely to be exploited because many services may accidentally do http requests against localhost and won't realize how many things they can fuck up