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cmg

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About cmg

Personal & small-org security, Rails/PHP/JS development.

Former Technology Director @ Trans Lifeline. they/them

@cmg on the bird site

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48489887

    The closest stop to me is between a dog park and a school - scanning it would have been an awkward situation, to say the least. And as you said, for rewards that aren't worth it. I…

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    Comment #48214790

    That’s very possible. I switch between Cursor and VS Code, don’t remember which it was that day.

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    Comment #48213139

    A few days ago I saw I had an update to the Twig extension. The UI flagged it as having new executable code in the update bundle, so I didn't install the update, disabled the exten…

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    Comment #48016416

    This is correct, and interestingly enough in one of the screenshots, the OpenFirmware prompt says "To continue booting the MacOS" too. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R…

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    Comment #47979997

    My mind immediately went to chaining this with another recent vulnerability in the Ninja Forms - File Upload plugin [0] > This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to up…

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    Comment #47207230

    The fact that in the miniplayer you can't display both the album art and the track information at the same time unless the cursor is hovering over the window absolutely boggles my …

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    Comment #46402952

    From the FAQ: > You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you…

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    Comment #44791224

    I once bought one of those alarms that brighten along with the pattern of natural sunlight in the morning (and dim in the evening), as I don’t get much natural light in my bedroom.…

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    Comment #44711395

    Of 60-something Linodes in Newark across a few accounts (we don't use LKE, Node Balancers, etc) - Many came back up yesterday. Most of the rest came back up this morning. - All but…

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    Comment #44701659

    I woke up to a few hundred messages from Icinga - thankfully my phone is on do-not-disturb overnight. Some of my servers in Newark are up and responding, some are not. Happy Sunday…

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    Comment #44443576

    Archive link: https://archive.ph/ARnyu

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    Comment #43102926

    This isn't obvious at all but you can click the star next to an item that's "Linked" on DF (where the title goes to another site) to get a permalink to the item on DF itself! https…

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    Comment #42637906

    For anyone else trying this, the password is hackernews - without an exclamation point. Tripped me up. Thanks for setting this up adenta!

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    Comment #42519659

    From the article: > The new law doesn’t apply to classified code, national security systems or code that would post privacy risks if shared.

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    Comment #41276838

    With Icinga, for webservers: - apt status (for security/critical updates that haven't been run yet) - reboot needed (presence of /var/run/reboot-required) - fail2ban jail status (h…

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    Comment #41125285

    The comment I’m replying to says they’re “the only impartial observers who were in Venezuela for the election,” so I think the point stands - given their funding and connection to …

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    Comment #41125001

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40985027

    Even in messenger-type apps there's a weird setup. With iMessage, if you're in a group chat with yourself and other people (B and C): if C sends a message and B reacts to it, you s…

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    Comment #40303202

    HN hug of death? I sent an email to the address provided and over time, the page showed: Waiting for incoming email... You don't have to write us an entire love letter :-). Still w…

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    Comment #39483251

    Texting also became expensive once the carriers figured out people wanted to use it. I remember being pissed off in the mid-2000s when I posted an item for sale on Craigslist and s…

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    Comment #39473140

    My service came back around 1:30PM in Connecticut. Data and calls are working fine. I requested a 2FA code at 2:30 from a service that only offers SMS. An hour and a half later, I …

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    Comment #38939396

    And somehow I still get regular “H0ME_DEPOT Order CONFRIMATION” junk landing at the top of my Gmail inbox.

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    Comment #38079055

    Looks like a VAX 11 thing: https://documentation.help/VAX11/op_POLY.htm See also http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/vax_poly.pdf# and some HN discussion from 2015: http://simh.trai…

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    Comment #38079005

    With the right hardware combinations, the only break you'd theoretically have in the System/MacOS/macOS history from 1984's System 1 to 2023's macOS Sonoma 14.1 is from MacOS 9 to …

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    Comment #37743620

    Hey Siri re-enabled itself on my iPhone 12 Pro Max after I installed the iOS 17.0 update. It's one of the first things I turn off when I get a new phone and I would not have knowin…