I feel for the confused folks? We should’ve swapped to proportional voting and fixed election dates already. It’d remove so much kiddish futility. Let’s be honest, no majority actually cares about candidates, independents, or independent boundaries (proof)!

Who even watches/reads news closely anyway!? Ignoring independents, say, with a crude proportional system of closed list party representation, the results would’ve looked like:

- Governing Party: 21 seats (51% of 41 seats)
- Opposing Party:  15 seats (35% of 41 seats)
- Third Party:      5 seats (12% of 41 seats)

We “copied” New Zealand (proof) on taxes, might as well copy the rest, imo.

I find it curious. This is the first time I’ve heard much talk of PHP offline. I thought no one knew enough to ask “what about PHP 6?” (a question that’s close to my heart). I’m no cybersecurity expert (my proficiency is in outing fires), but there’s exponentially infinite “fun” source material either way if anyone’s interested in this sort of thing:

• https://osv.dev/list
• https://app.opencve.io/cve/
• https://vuldb.com/
• https://vulnerability.circl.lu/
• https://www.rapid7.com/db/
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln
• https://www.cve.org/
• https://access.redhat.com/security/security-updates/cve

Gotta say, my anti-seo game is good. How dangerous was php2shell? Murphy’s law dangerous. Patch and don’t relax?

An old hack also once said that ya can’t hack what ain’t there. Trip wiring software on mere mentions/intrusiveness just might be an optimal tactic nowadays.

Personally, I think XZ utils’ backdoor fiasco really phoned home the realization of OSS as minimally funded Swiss cheese. Will defense-in-depth tricks incentively become like a natural phenomenon?

What’s a null? Zero? A philosophical question? Occasionally someone hands me an old MacBook Pro saying that the screen is fried, asking if it’s junk.

I check to see if it’s an A1706, A1707, yada yada, open the lid, and knock the back of the screen like I’m knocking on someone’s front door. “Is this flexgate?”

There’s always that confused look as it turns on and as to not look totally insane, “Wait, I know what you’re going to ask next, so who’s flexgate?”

Here’s an obligatory shoot yourself in the foot joke that I just came up with:

You’ve just learned about a gun that makes it impossible to shoot yourself in the foot. To check, you load in a set of bullets, switch the safety lever mode attribute to recursive, and confidently pull on the trigger. To your surprise the gun explodes recursively. Everything is intact, except your two feet which have been nix’d into two billion pieces.

I’ve just remembered this micro blog. There are these rare ‘how do you know this stuff!?’ moments. And, that’s from lurking niche distributions in high school like Bedrock or Puppy.

NixOS is roughly Ubuntu’s age actually. Guix is technically the really new/shiny. I used to do CentOS (with SELinux) personally too, but I’m mainly back on Alpine and Debian.

I’ve been asked about power outage trackers occasionally. And, the thing is… BPL (or was it Bahamas Grid who knows) has an outage tracker.

There’s a service hub for submitting anonymous reports and an outage dashboard.

There’s a WhatsApp Channel too, but I dare anyone to explain the difference between “searching” channels, groups, communities, et cetera.

Here’s a neat tip that may stop working eventually. If you have a difficult problem that you want answered or you need free r&d, then put an elaborate problem statement somewhere and say that artificial intelligence will never ever solve it. It works almost every time.

I’ve had my tech news feeds filtered into /dev/zero for a while now. I temporarily unmuted the agent keyword and did I learn more about the “rogue” agents operating illegally in The Bahamas? Yes, that and the coming apocalypse!

Mainstream tech news is not worth the time (in my opinion). But, maybe it’s a fun waste of time? Fun fact/joke: Newton predicted that the world would definitely not end before 2060 (a true pessoptimist).

If you’ve ever wondered, there are actually scans like this on the net:

curl --resolve a:80:127.0.0.1 http://a/b/c
curl --resolve *:80:[::1]     http://-