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Since about a week, Cloudflare Turnstile (their "Verify you're human" device verification) has been looping indefinitely in my webkit-gtk based browser.

timer [-w] [-c clockid] interval command [arguments...]

Note: I'm not a lawyer so this is to be taken as an opinion on a topic that's far from being settled.

consumption The act of eating, drinking or using.

WebAuthn, also marketed as passkeys for a subset of it, is something that seems rather scary to me from an interoperability perspective.

"Third Place" as a term and concept has always felt weird to me.

Suing and other legal processes Hobbyists typically can't sue or even worse, afford to be sued.

One of the few traps of the web is how the <noscript> element doesn't provides the right behavior.

One key difference I found useful when git added support for ssh-signature is the fact that you now can just drop an authorized_keys file in the repository, and configure it as a source of public keys.

Those are the question I always ask myself prior to picking a dependency: Are other people using it?

Once again I was wondering why Mozilla was so out of touch with it's community.

In late April 2024, I started working on bootstrap-initrd to build a small development environment capable of building a minimalist distro with the least amount of binaries involved and priority over straightforward bootstrap path to ease reviewability.

A common way security disclosures are done -specially in the proprietary world- is to only give a heads-up notification to your licensees or maybe even a specific sub-group of them (yikes), and to continue doing so until the last moment.

Could also be titled “I'm never going to use Firefox ever again”.

Nearly 4 years ago in Late-February 2020 when I got my first payroll and my previous laptop, a hands-me-down HP Pavillon dv6 from 2012 with pretty much no aftermarket spare parts had several broken keyboard switches, touchpad with loss of sensivity, Intel…

WASM, a language-agnostic bytecode format oriented for Virtual Stack Machines, could sound great and part of me really wishes I could like it.

Warning: This is a rather thorny question, in the same style of debating if a particular product or software is under a FLOSS license or not.

Using Firefox or any other browser, isn't going to do anything against "Web Environment Integrity" Let's say again what DRM and other broken-by-design copyright protections mechanisms under the DMCA means: Circumventing the DRM is illegal Typically if you…

Software and Hardware have pretty clear definitions, but when it comes to firmware… I ended up with the horribly vague definition that it's about software that's usually hard to modify or just external to the OS or just scary to update in case of failure.

Here's an incomplete summary of what I did in 2022 that I want to highlight.

Update on Pleroma Maintainance Update 2022-08-31: This historical article was written for the sole purpose of explaining what was going on in the drama between 2021-12 and ~2022-02.

cve.mitre.org, the CVE database website I was using instead of NIST's website to avoid a bit of JavaScript started showing NOTICE: CVE website transitioning to new “CVE.ORG” web address.

(Semi-)Automatic opening of Files The current status on major systems To guess the filetype, most user environments rely on the file extension, a cue largely made by humans for humans.

BadWolf, two years later Google-WebRTC × Mozilla Firefox Pandemic happened so instead of AFK meetups I sometimes had to use BigBlueButton and Jitsi (Meet), which require WebRTC, that WebKitGTK doesn't have yet because of licensing issues with Google's Bor…

I've started self-hosting in 2012 because I wanted to put my own stuff on the internet without depending on some garbage-of-the-day gratis service and renting an extra machine (managed or not) didn't make sense, specially back when I was a minor.

Some of the folks that knew me from around 2014 know that I wasn't impressed with Wayland and really didn't see the point of it.

real names This post is sponsored by Contributing to Libre Software (and using OpenPGP) feels like Facebook all over again. 🙃️ Whatever the fuck is a "real name", is my handle unreal?

Linux Audio Output APIs About a month ago I took a long afternoon being like "Okay whatever let's see how deep the rabbit hole of linux audio playback goes" (previously, previously).

2020-05 Summary OpenPGP → reop; pass(1) → secret(1) I never really used OpenPGP for email but now you can email me (much more) securely via reop, my key is available on /reop.pub.

blocking cloudflare IP-range be like So, like an absolute madperson I tried blocking cloudflare IP-ranges on my laptop, cloudflare nicely provide the list their website (otherwise there is stuff like peeringDB and ISPs looking glasses).

2020-04 Summary Badwolf 1.0.0 is so ready it feels like it's going to pop-out at any moment, only thing is few tweaks as I dogfood it, you can probably expect it very soon™.

BadWolf, one year later Bits of History and Present A bit more than a year ago I started writing my own browser based on WebKitGTK, which I named Badwolf (the name is actually from ~2013, similar project but it didn't went far).

2020-03 Summary Pleroma Finally 2.0.0 is released (with a bunch of great pleroma-tan drawings), which means that old OStatus code got removed, it broke a bit of current federation with some instances but all software including GnuSocial are ActivityPub-co…

T495 So I bought a Lenovo T495 few weeks ago and received it on 2020-03-05 afternoon, as when you order from Lenovo you can customize it, here are my specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U OS: Windows 10 Familly 64 (EN/FR/DE/NL/IT) Integrated RAM(soldered): 8…

2020-02 Summary FOSDEM Was a great weekend, specially meeting other pleroma contributors and users (we got an actual pleroma gang of at least 20 people…) as well as some operating system booths (you could compile your own badge at gentoo's), will definite…

HTTP3 First thing first: Well done, this is the first article where I had to drop a letter from the title to keep the orthogonality between the title and the filename.

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Bootstrapping signify for my assets As you might know, I'm not a huge fan of OpenPGP so when I learned about OpenBSD's signify(1) I wanted to use it on doing my next software release, now is the time.

2019-09 Summary Gentoo Bumped few things in GURU, done a clean of my overlay as pkgcheck is now quite more usable than it was, sent patches for mksh without klibc (as the ebuild is quite deprecated on gentoo) no answer yet will ping about it a month after…

2019-08 Summary I managed to take it quite easy this month, which well is quite nice, mainly watched animes, (re)watched some movies, re-readed entire webcomics (Rain and El Goonish Shive), discovered some (The Legend of Jamie Roberts (same author as Vali…

Rust sucks as a system language I've been ranting against rust on social media from time to time and I quite want to put down why I just basically ban rust and specially consider it harmful as a system language, by that I mean stuff like libraries, as I m…

2019-07 Summary So, third monthly summary, started it seriously late.

2019-06 Summary Okay, here goes the second summary, started it a bit late IMHO, maybe I should try taking notes in a draft when I feel like there is something important in the month.

2019-05 Summary I'm trying to start regular summaries of what I done, for now I think theses will be done monthly but might be done each two-weeks instead as that's what I was used to for four years until a year ago (at the "Lycée Expérimental de Saint-Na…

Install Gentoo via Floppy Okay, so here are the files I generated for it: make-initrd-smol.sh: a slightly modified version of make-initrd to only copy a static busybox init: the init file I wrote, included in the initramfs of the floppy image, could be do…

My email setup NightmareMoon: Desktop machine, plagged with broken rDNS minion: BananaPi Server (offline at the time of writing) cloudsdale: VPS at Hetzner NightmareMoon OpenSMTPd: 6.4.1_p2, patched to accept non-root owned certs libasr: 1.0.2 (with res_r…

Pretty Bad Privacy This article is in early drafting process, made public so I get comments and more people can be aware OpenPGP Pretty Good Privacy standard, derives from the original PGP implementation.

AtlAASian: The Bullshit factory This is a port of a loose-thread I made on the Fediverse while trying to delete an account on codacy.com that was supposely linked to BitBucket (Atlassian service).

I’m removing defaults to eternal cryptographic signatures Quick Notes on how to git: Make sure commit.gpgSign isn’t set.

Email to graphics-dev@chromium.org about nouveau blacklisting Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 01:54:46 +0100 From: Haelwenn Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me> To: graphics-dev@chromium.org Subject: Nouveau blacklisting Message-ID: <20190106005446.GA22465@cloudsda…