PSA for users of Windows 2000: don't forget to update your regional options for two digit year parsing! We're fast approaching the default of 2029.
The Chaos Computer Club, Europe‘s largest community of #hackers, has released a declaration on what is incompatible with the club’s values: “Those who aim to destroy coexistence in society and work toward an alternative society with principles based on chauvinism and nationalism are working against the moral principles that unite us as a club.
The CCC declares representing racism and fascism (…) to be incompatible with a membership in our ranks.”
apologies for some brief offline time there...
the mightiest of UPS powers and dual resilient links all bow before the accidental application of tea.
tea has now been removed from the area and everything cleaned and dried off again.
we mourn the loss of a cheap D-link 5-port gig switch (that conveniently ran so well off a USB-to-jack cable).
its duties have been taken on by its identical twin.
£6.99 well spent on having a backup I feel.
Left Meta, so I’m posting this into the void rather than to friends—but I might as well introduce myself with this pic. #handsoff
Found some teeny tiny flowers in the lawn. I like these ones, because it looks like they've just licked something unpleasant, and are trying to wipe the taste away with their fluffy hands.
Yes it does. Shush now.
Edit: apparently this post is incorrect and Oracle has, in fact, not acknowledged the breach.
Oracle finally admits its cloud was hacked https://cybersecuritynews.com/oracle-acknowledges-data-breach/amp/
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.