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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2025-01-21 at 02:10

What level of heat-death-of-the-internet is it when I need urgently need to write down some measurements before I forget them but my note taking app needs to tell me about it's new features and nag me for notification consent first?

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-11-06 at 04:44

FML, my TV somehow managed to suck down an unwanted mandatory update though my DNS blackhole.

Now I guess it gets put on a proper iptables ban.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-09-05 at 02:17

Can someone provide context on what happened with the Internet Archive recently?

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-09-05 at 02:15

My usual #foss workflow:

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-07-26 at 23:13

TIL that some mDNS resolvers fail to correctly handle psuedo-subdomains like foo.bar.local

But that's okay, because foo,bar.local is perfectly valid.

Surely this isn't cursed. I will not regret setting up my home network this way.

[#]networking #dns

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-06-21 at 21:27

I fucking hate JIRA

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-05-22 at 20:06

Okay, three hours later I finally got a response from a human, who also ignored all the context of my question and spammed me with a link to the same inapplicable help desk article that the AI did.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-05-22 at 17:29

Or put another way, I'm curious to what extent chatbots are objectively useless, vs. me just being uniquely situated to never have a question that they're capable of answering.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-05-22 at 17:23

Just had to convince an #ai chatbot to let me speak to a human for my company's internal corporate it support desk.

It was, predictably, useless, just like every other automated support system I've ever interacted with.

But I earnestly wonder how much of that is because I, and people like me, independently troubleshoot and research before we try to bother a human, so we're just hitting the filtering function for people who refuse the read the instructions.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-05-09 at 04:38

I've always felt like kind of a slacker for getting so much good information off of StackOverflow but not contributing anything back. I guess I won in the end.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-04-19 at 22:44

I would like to know what madman is responsible for inventing images that don't get bigger when you increase the scale of a webpage.

Why is this so prevalent in web design now? It seems like a LOT of work to reduce accessibility.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-04-06 at 21:35

Up to normal, not at all cursed home theater stuff

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-04-02 at 22:28

Okay, apparently this was me forgetting I'd disabled Apple's built in password manager, meaning I had zero valid passkey providers on my phone, and it was (confusingly, but usefully) offering to hand-off the challenge to another device. Neat.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-04-02 at 21:54

Okay, I thought I understood this, but then tried doing the demo on my iPhone and instead of creating a new passkey my iPhone gives me a QR code and asks me to take a picture of my iPhone with another iPhone and I'm back to being confused.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-04-02 at 21:11

In particular, I'm weary of creating a situation where my authentication is tied to a particular platform or provider, or only works on major platforms.

e.g. Is there a way I can manage passkeys myself without Google/Apple/etc. being involved? Will any of this work in Linux? Will it work on devices that don't have biometrics? Is there proprietary magic in the mix?

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-04-02 at 20:59

Can any #ITSecurity folks point me to some useful resources on how #passkey actually works?

There are plenty of guides on how to use it, usually with a focus on one particular platform, but I can find very little implications on how it works or the implications of using it, other than broad, unqualified promises that it's safer and better.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-03-02 at 17:21

Sometimes I see someone post about ADB and I get excited before I realize they mean "Android Debug" and not "Apple Desktop Bus" #macintosh #retrocomputing

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2024-02-22 at 22:36

For anyone who doesn't work in corporate America, here is your occasional reminder that yes, it's exactly what you think it is.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2023-12-15 at 18:23

TIL that M.2 wired Ethernet adapters exist and I wanted to share this information.

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Written by Growlph Ibex on 2023-12-11 at 18:27

Yup, that fills me with confidence

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