h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Working on another sticker for #37c3 - found this image a while ago, but only as a lowres jpg, so I re-did it as a vector graphic.

#infosec #devops #sticker
We do not test on animals, we test in production.

"In Memoriam of Python 2

Today, on the Day of the Dead 2023, we at the Internet Archive honor the death of Python 2. Having mostly emerged from one of the greatest software upgrade SNAFU’s in history—the migration from Python 2 to Python 3—we now shed a tear for that old version that served us so well."

https://blog.archive.org/2023/11/02/in-memoriam-of-python-2/

Enjoy, sickos

New legislative articles, introduced in recent closed-door meetings and not yet public, envision that all web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

#EIDAS #eidas2

Middle-of-the-night silly idea:

If Unicode had dedicated code points for hexadecimal digits, separate from the ASCII digits and letters, you could make a font in which the hex digits had width greater than the decimal ones by a factor of log(16)/log(10).

Then you could write the hex and decimal versions of a number side by side and they'd take up about the same amount of space. You could judge by eye how many digits of one base it took to match the precision of a number specified in another!

Like Microsoft, Google really needs to get a handle on criminals paying them to spread malware disguised as legit software. These paid results are so dangerous because they show up before any organic search results. e.g., woe to those who recently searched for KeePass.

Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/google-hosted-malvertising-leads-to-fake-keepass-site-that-looks-genuine/

It's gonna be wild when discord finally runs out of VC money and 10 years of conversation history and random file uploads are lost forever.

Some more recent #retronetworking and #retrocomputing book acquisitions

Technically

Hydrogen boiler push to continue despite verdict of UK watchdog | Energy | The Guardian
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Hydrogen for home heating was never going to happen, yet the government and gas companies continue to push it. It requires 5-5 times as much energy as using a heat pump and massive infra upgrades to make even remotely safe. It's time to call time on the gas grid.

#ClimateChange #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/21/hydrogen-boiler-home-heating-uk

I did my first ride home from the gym in the dark tonight. The fairy lights made a group of runners laugh and I noticed pedestrians pointing.
It's so silly, but I really like that it makes people smile. Hopefully it spreads a bit of positivity 😁
#BikeTooter #Cycling #ActiveTravel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXWMjIA59c - If you like computing history and revere Alan Turing but don't know the names of people like Tommy Flowers, maybe give this video a quick watch. It's roughly 8mins long. #Collossus #History #Codebreaking