evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

fun trick: if someone gives a hosted LLM a skill that lets it fetch web pages (directly, not through some third party scraper service) and it's hosted on AWS, you can often trick it into fetching data from the AWS instance metadata server (IMDS) at 169.254.169.254 / [fd00:ec2::254]. the higher end models tend to refuse if you give the IP, but you can just spin up a domain with A/AAAA records pointing at that IP and request that instead. if IMDSv1 isn't disabled you can get secrets out of it.

Today, Amazon effectively kills support for older Kindles. Not because the screens stopped working. Not because the batteries all died. Because Amazon decided perfectly usable e-readers should be cut off from the services that made them useful. That is not innovation. That is forced obsolescence with a checkout button. Sign PIRG’s petition and tell Amazon to stop bricking working Kindles.

PIRG Petition: https://pirg.org/take-action/tell-amazon-dont-junk-older-kindle-models/

there is a pdf of this image available here, if you are kind enough to pass it to someone who you think may benefit:

https://phobos.io/airlock.pdf

Phobos Group has a new offering!
Airlock:
a practical container architecture for teams using claude code, codex, and other tui-based, npm-heavy toolsets for agentic development, workflows and pipelines.

It's an incus-based security architecture and design created to directly address the ceaseless supply chain attacks which have been ramping up since mid 2024 or so.

If you can think of someone who would find this useful, please send them my way!
#phobosgroup #airlock

Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.

Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.

#retrocomputing

Take 6d8 email damage

502) Flouncebot. Helps you to affect a dramatic exit with its swishy cape and haughty attitude. #SmallRobotsRemastered

I will never not share this story whenever it crosses my feed. Never.

Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?

Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.

Who let me have a thermal printer?

501) Bruisebot. Keeps a record of all your bumps and scrapes so when you find a mysterious bruise, it can consult its notes and tell you where it came from. #SmallRobotsRemastered

These little striped cuckoo chicks sport plumage that mimics a pine cone.

After all, what idiot would want to swallow a pine cone for dinner?

Smart. Very smart.

#Wildlife #Birds #Nature #Camouflage

It’s a hard life being a spaniel

A slide from my talk this Thursday. How we view our role in the curl project.

https://www.meetup.com/openinfra-user-group-sweden/events/313615139/

Scientists were finally able to weigh a rainbow. Turns out it was pretty light.

i miss the times when running proof of work computations on a website without user consent was considered malicious by everyone

The perfect mug for your paintbrush water. https://eatf.art/mugs