BETA DECAY

this looks unfathomably peak wtf

beta decay is a dark, dystopian RPG where you can build spaceships, join factions, and fight for territory in a newly discovered star system. Become an engineer repairing starships, a mech pilot commanding war machines, to a syndicate leader, executing raids deep within a labyrinthic neon city.

those are some huge ambitions but what’s already there looks like a game I’d love to play as-is

Sorry to those I disappoint it will happen again yes I am trying my best no it can't be solved with more effort

using #neovim is like having a steampunk mad scientist invention that’s constantly shooting hot steam or sparking and trying to explode. it constantly breaks down and you keep having to tear through all the wires and pipes to find the specific part that was shorted by the tesla coil or melted by the charcoal burner

but sometimes if you whack it with a wrench just right, say the correct incantation, and it doesn’t feel like exploding, you can get it to do amazing things

it is way too hard to distinguish between Autism and AuDHD they should fix that in the next balance patch

incredible, this is the peak of technologic evolution in the 21st century

i was quite surprised to discover that no one had registered deleteduser [dot] com, and was curious to see how many emails i'd get if i registered it, assuming many orgs 'delete' logic probably just overwrote the email address with blahblah@deleteduser.com or similar.

The answer, is at least 3 different orgs in the hour that I've owned that domain and been listening for email.

And yes, all of those emails contain the actual PII of the person who has been 'deleted' :-D

#infosec

who here has looked at Ada (the programming language)?

the life cycle of every programming language is like that trope where someone is fiddling with a priceless antique and then it breaks in their hands and they frantically try to put it back together and hope nobody will notice

except imagine that goes on for multiple years and parts keep breaking off so they start adding superglue and duct tape until the whole thing is more duct tape than priceless artifact and also some pieces roll away, never to be seen again

This is kind of random, but I found it funny how I had a whole book named after this key, and up until this week I haven’t been aware that Microsoft once had a whole series of game controllers that came… with a Shift key (or, button), complete with a ⇧ icon.

Apparently it did sort what Shift does on a regular keyboard, e.g. you’d press it with another button to change its meaning.

can you induce a shiver?

bsky has invented a new kind of decentralized social media where you put everything through one server and if it stops working so does everything else.

we reached out to bsky for comment, this is what it had to say on the subject:

Message from server: Upstream Timeout

My internal lore: (too generic, ugh it's gonna be boring...)
My paracosm: (fancy name, what is this, ooooo shiny~)

So someone made this post on Mastodon:
https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116268399785747534

And that led another person to make this site: https://boat.horse/clock/index.html

This feels like some real old school internet stuff. For the younger folks out there, this is the kind of stuff that would pop up all the time on the internet in the late 90s and early 00s. No reason for it beyond it being cool and beautiful.

While the animated clock in the link sort of hurts my head, it still is beautiful.

I reported an insecure DKIM key to Deutsche Telekom / T-Systems. They first asked me to further explain things (not sure why 'Here's your DKIM private key' needs more explanation, but whatever...). Then they told me it's out of scope for their bugbounty.

I guess then there's really no reason not to tell you: They have a 384 bit RSA DKIM key configured at: dkim._domainkey.t-systems.nl

384 bit RSA is... how shall I put it? I think 512 bit is the lowest RSA key size that was ever really used. 384 bit RSA is crackable in a few hours on a modern PC (using cado-nfs). The private key is:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIHxAgEAAjEAtTliQYV2Xvx1OGkDyOL799BTFEuobY2dn2AgtiKCQgrh78NVK1JK
j0yRXgNnPpGBAgMBAAECMF0t+TBZUCi8xATSMij7VLTxv5Xi5OIXesNiXOKtYIRP
LkpYfR5PggaMScfbmqSssQIZAMwOhm9d7Y7Qi7I2j1AlYbiqdtqO54T7FQIZAONa
9dJFkC6lM3EPXR+0SZ4dqwwpiM0nvQIYYgz8thi5JK264ohq9sTvnu9yKvUN9I09
AhgfgMYZKcxtujRjkSZtMzUUNLYzzDmJe90CGDKwqcBI0v9ChaR8WHht+/chMdxj
7ez94w==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----