The last four years have taught us valuable lessons. In the shopping mall at the “end of the world”, the three most valued goods are toilet paper, toilet paper stocks and finally, toilet paper stockpiling. Accounts of toilet paper recall options are most likely bogus.

I recovered some junked DLINK DIR 615 I1s a while back. These routers were soft bricked (on-and-off remote access). A peek online hinted at a built-in recovery/safe mode.

That failed in modern browsers. The suggestions here didn’t work either. Why? Who knows? They were made in 2012 and discontinued 2017. Using the “recreate the developer’s environment” trick, a 2012 browser (Opera) revived the custom firmware updater! Now they work again. The end.

Default firmware: https://tsd.dlink.com.tw/

The nmap command can enumerate SSL ciphers on the server.

nmap --script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 domain.example

The SSL Labs’ SSL test is similar? In debugging purgatory, there are instances where declarations in a configuration do not translate into reality and it’s not always the implementation, or the server, but sometimes exotic interactions between systems.

As for my biased opinion.. Everyone should consider foss and switch key systems to Linux and BSD for redundancy. That’d be wonderful, even if circumstances eventually optimize towards a futuristic catch 22.

I’m reluctantly coming around to the idea that spofs are a balancing act of sorts. Balance, as in misery loves company, convenience, insurance, and blame ability. The combined legal, technical, and economic consensus unwittingly incentivizes hardcore centralization.

A global single point of failure event happened recently. I’d bet there’s more concern around the gambling potential of this stock. Apologies, I’ve lost my naivete.

Dumping Windows for Linux and/or macOS wouldn’t have prevented this one. In fact, under similar circumstances, the stock, I mean software that crashed everything would’ve caused Linux and macOS (userspace) systems to panic/brick too.

If you need zero trust compliance then start here. This is not a product endorsement. I failed marketing. You shouldn’t trust anything you’ve just read.

I’m not online often. Media that repost old news do good work anew. Apparently there was a protest against Reddit over its API. Now it’s a public company.

Reddit’s CEO probably knows more about its users than the users know about themselves. A shrewd company (with good marketing) is an elegant government.

It’s amazing, the last time I lurked Reddit was for neophyte notes on Guix. Since then I’ve went back to long form blogging/note-taking offline.

Someone pointed out an unusual thing the other day. A partly foreign/government owned utility company here had Barbados’ Independence Flag as The Bahamas’ innocently circulating online. My disambiguation antics are 20/20?

I was poking around tech news today. I didn’t know that the AIs train on comments. That’s funny because brevity optimizes for snide remarks. Speaking of snide, Robert Frost has a rather gentle and tactful kind — it’s absolutely genius.

He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
Why do they make good neighbors?

Someone said a while back that the design here was cookie cutter. That means I’ve stuck the landing, beautifully. Web design ended 24 years ago and that can’t be right but it’s in fact true. Exploratory design style sheets are kept to one’s self.

People dislike non-conventional interfaces or “wheel reinventing”, as the story goes. Of course, nobody knows precisely what they actually want, but markets lie not (unless manipulated). Data says; there’s preference for the familiar, the standard, and more of the same.

Teaching how to write a link in Markdown is hard. It’s one example of the subtle horrors of horizontal complexity. Horror as in, the number of questions asked from intuition. Is it []() or ()[]?

One question becomes two, with four answers, or more. Eventually ()[] = []() = ()() = [][]. But, is it [example.com][example] or [example][example.com]?

The number of possibly erroneous actions among correct ones is a useful metric for automating (graphical) interfaces.