@grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2w ago

RE: https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/117305186772703060

I can scratch my back again. I didn’t even realize that I was doing the thing that I couldn’t this morning until the itch was over.
I think that this indicates that I will not be needing rotator cuff surgery.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2w ago

Naproxen is a miracle drug. I might *enjoy* a Demerol more, but I’m pretty sure I will be able to stop these when healed.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@RnDanger@infosec.exchange @bjoreman@toot.cafe @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I do not believe any of them are AI-generated. It would be very much out of character. She’s extremely skilled at creating images which appear to be photographs of fantastical objects which never existed (but sometimes should have…)

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@ryanprior@mastodon.social @skyfaller@jawns.club @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Wet bulb temperature is lower than the real air temperature unless there's 100% relative humidity. It is the lowest temperature achievable by evaporation. For example: 35°C with 50% relative humidity is a wet bulb temp of 27.5°C

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@alan@lighthouse.co.im @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net The attacks have thwarted all of those tactics. They use UAs constructed from real UA tokens with minor variations. They have graduated from cheap VMs on Huawei Cloud and Digital Ocean to random IoTs in millions of households and mobile devices in millions of hands. A few days ago I was able to measure over a thousand simultaneous sessions, each from a different /16 network. My response to that isn’t taking the site down, but I am shedding load aggressively.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Not sure if any of these is real but I actually like the asterisk one, it would have a natural flow. I doubt the 5-speed pattern would get past safety testing, and having a stick for an automatic is silly.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

Very reminiscent of my time in Big Corp IT. I got asked for a detailed weekly report on the performance of mail servers and spam filters issued weekly. It took me months to get the report form & content just right for the manager that requested it. He left. His replacement didn’t recognize my weekly report mail as something useful and rather than telling me to stop, he just kept marking it as spam. #Sysadminnery @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01KVZBAX3H4TDKD8T0CETDEDW1

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AJ Sadauskas (@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au)

In a previous job, the head of our department wanted to impress on the C-level executive he reported to that he was a fantastic manager. (My reporting line went CEO, the C-level executive, this department head, team manager, me.) He decided the best way to do this was to produce a monthly report for his boss. So one day the department head held a meeting with all the team managers who reported into him (including my boss). Data-driven decision-making was the future, he announced. He tasked

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@writingslowly@aus.social @resuna@ohai.social @Jacob_Wren@mastodon.social Skill issue.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116901429460812549 This ransom needs to be clawed back as soon as that miserable turd is gone.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

I hadn’t built OpenSSL from source in *decades*, and I don’t recall it using so much Perl. I’ve been doing the configure/fix/configure/make/fix/make/fix.. process with a dozen yum and/or cpan invocations as the fixes. Needed on a CentOS 6.10 machine with Perl 5.10 as the base. Oh. The whole test stage of the build is Perl. Cool. #Sysadminnery

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @ryanprior@mastodon.social @skyfaller@jawns.club @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org In principle, yes. See elsethread for mention of wet bulb GLOBE temperature (bad name) which attempts to mix in the effects of radiative heating and imperfect evaporation into a metric that is supposed to represent how uncomfortable it really is. The 1st toot pointed to wbGt forecasting by the National Weather Service. The research linked to by Nelson’s toot was about wbt, which is a directly measurable value.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 4mo ago

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@isagalaev@mastodon.social @valpackett@social.treehouse.systems It enables a higher charging rate in devices that can draw more than the default limit but don’t bother including those resistors, which act as a signal to the power source. longer: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/116709994257007906

chaos.social

Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe: "@matildalove@wetdry.world @valpackett@treehouse.s…" - chaos.social

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wendynather/116835001637259625 I never noticed their absence. Weird, because they were a regular McD’s item for me when I was younger…

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Wendy Nather

@wendynather@infosec.exchange

The old-style fried apple pies are back for a short time at McD’s, so of course I had to get some for myself and the kids. 21 (making a face): It smells like old people. Me: Well, I guess if you didn’t grow up with this kind of… 21: And it tastes like something an old person would make. Me: Look, just give me the rest and go back to your room. #BoomerSnax

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@shemjm@social.vivaldi.net @Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social It’s much more dangerous to be a farm worker or meatpacker than policing or soldiering.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@Alison@beige.party @Nonilex@masto.ai Extremely little. Less than anyone could measure. The Moon is smaller than the Earth, but it is still MUCH larger than anything we could ever dream of sending into space by roughly a factor of a septillion. The article equates the impact energy to 3 tons of TNT, which is far more TNT than humans should be near but is less than has been dropped on Iran on any of the “active” days of the current war.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Possible minor spoiler on the new Odyssey movie

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@pmonks@sfba.social @bignose@theblower.au But any money Government spends is money Government created. It’s a mistake to look at a national government as if it were a normal economic actor with a need to balance income and spending. It’s more useful to view those activities as destruction and creation of money in various sectors. Taxing billionaires reduces their money supply, putting deflationary pressure disproportionately on the goods and services that they purchase disproportionately, such as financial instruments.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

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@ireneista @MelissaBearTrix More importantly: Does anybody really care? About time?

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@isagalaev@mastodon.social @niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be The current is still limited, it’s just not limited as much as it would be without the resistors, which are a passive indicator. The voltage is still just 5V so there’s no risk of anything being fried.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@skyfaller@jawns.club @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @ryanprior@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Semantic difference. You can certainly get a device that will do all the needed measurements and calculations for you for WBGT, but it is doing multiple measurements: WBT (or dew point,) DBT, and "black globe bulb temperature." WBGT is defined as a value calculated from those 3 measured values. WBT is directly measured by a thermometer with a wet wick on the bulb.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online FWIW: Here in Michigan, the dispensaries are largely “local guys” who got startup/working capital from lawyers…

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/116841089967533662 It’s a bit silly to expect privacy from your employer on an employer-issued and employer-managed device. Sure, it would be nice. However, very few employers have (or are able to build) the in-house capacity to administer the nuanced policy needed to secure employer data from leakage without infringing on user privacy. Keep work and personal devices and data separate.

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knoppix

@knoppix95@mastodon.social

The White House app is being auto-installed on work phones across multiple US agencies, and employees say it cannot be permanently removed. 📱 The app previously faced security scrutiny over data sharing, and workers raised privacy concerns after it appeared on government-issued phones. 🔒 🔗 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/white-house-app-auto-downloads-to-government-phones-cant-be-uninstalled/ #TechNews #WhiteHouse #Privacy #Security #Government #MobileApps #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #Technology #OpenSource #DigitalRights #InfoSec #FOSS #Tech #US #USA #Trump #DonaldTrump

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@mcc@mastodon.social Glad to hear that it is supposed to be so obscure and arcane. Because it is.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems Obviously built before the chip squeeze…

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gattaca@infosec.exchange #ProTip: Serpentine!

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@danirabbit@mastodon.online California was a swing state until the GOP went fully racist. He’s attractive to the people who voted for Arnie and Gray Davis. Fash-Lites

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Hypothetically it’s possible for a workplace to be trans-hostile but not universally misogynistic. And in tech, anyone over 30 can face ageism. And anyone who has solid experience can be “overqualified” for lateral career moves and end up stuck. Need a control for path dependency: a trans woman who detranistioned. #RandomPedantry

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social That’s a lack of taste. Your stuff is so much better than any “AI” image generator. Always has been.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I have set up my PayPal *savings* to pull money through my credit union debit card periodically — primarily as an automatic savings measure, not loss firewalling — which effectively makes money inaccessible from the CU account. Making it spendable at all would require a manual PayPal transfer. This would be weakened if both accounts could be accessed with the content of a password vault alone. My CU uses a live face shot and PayPal uses either a device-bound passkey or TOTP.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange Unclear question, implies a single zone file. Which zone? Which view? My largest has 2874 A or AAAA records. (It's a DNSBL) My largest zone file in a publicly-visible view has 16 A or AAAA records. The same zone in the internal view has 37 A records and a single AAAA resolving to v4->v6 mapped address with an internal IP. I no longer have a second external view specially crafted for miscreants. There were some big zones there when I did... #AlwaysDNS

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online Dunno that handle, but it smells rancidly Scientological.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I think all Gothic cathedrals have that feel. They didn’t have anything like real engineering to predict whether a building would fall apart under its own weight. They had really good educated guesses based on stuff falling apart under its own weight.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

Possible minor spoiler on the new Odyssey movie

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116904106657227976 This is why I block by /20.

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jwz

@jwz@mastodon.social

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@OliverNoble@mastodon.world @n1xnx@tilde.zone @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social Electric knives designed for carving large meat were a thing. Higher amplitude and lower frequency vibrations.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @futurebird@sauropods.win @DM_Ronin@mstdn.social For half a century we used information technology to address huge high-value problems. As a consequence, we have a technology worker class accustomed to high compensation and endless work to earn it. However, we’ve 80% solved all of the readily-addressed big problems, so there’s a glut of skills being applied to the easy parts of every problem that highly-compensated workers have, even the stupid ones.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@sergiodomeyko@mastodon.online @Nonilex@masto.ai There are already multiple bags of astronaut shit there… And some USA flags, and the landing gear of all the Apollo landers and I think they left all the “moon buggies” there as well.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 4d ago

Replying to

@mcc@mastodon.social exactly. What’s particularly odd is that Patient 0 did not apparently recognize their illness as plague. It’s a treatable disease, caught early.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2w ago

Looks like the insane server scanners have moved from GCP to Oracle Cloud. I hope no legit mail comes from 161.118.0.0/16…

#InfoSec #spam #WhackAMole

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@poppyhaze@girlcock.club But Mpox was next… #RandomPedantry

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 1mo ago

Replying to

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social @kingocounty@mastodon.bsd.cafe TTS, like Apple has been doing since 1984? I’m not a vendor partisan but I am a longtime Mac user and have never not had the ability to make my computer speak arbitrary text in a broad selection of voices. I cannot believe that is a unique feature in a Linux distro in 2026. I’ve never tried to do it because the Linux machines I manage all sit in racks far from any humans.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange Oh, and then there's the 100k-record adblock zone, also internal and all CNAMEs I do NOT have a DNS problem. Really.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

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@Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca @DarkWebInformer@infosec.exchange I think it is only “upsell” ads for their own products and mostly happens on newly-purchased machines: Apple REALLY wants everyone to get a free trial of EVERY one of their subscription products. That’s all I’ve ever seen on any of my Macs, and most of the upsell stops in 90 days. Exceptions are Music and News, which have in-app upsell efforts forever.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@fedward@distraction.party @mcc@mastodon.social They’re nicer hairless.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

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@zwol@masto.hackers.town @djfiander@code4lib.social @mwl@io.mwl.io @b0rk@social.jvns.ca Add one to the count of people who’ve lost data due to a ZFS error, but I’m not sure that it was the lack of fsck to blame. As I understand it, ZFS lacks the metadata redundancy it would need to figure out how to fsck the problems that can happen. OTOH, it as been a very long time since ZFS lost data on me. 18 years at least, since it was on an early version of Solaris 10. Sun originally claimed that the only way for ZFS to lose data was simultaneous disk failures.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 5mo ago

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@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net @unlofl@mstdn.social @tholindeth@wizzzard.online Step 1: Find someone whose mind works similarly to that of Stephen Wolfram. Good luck with that…

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Generically: 2 accounts, one of which can debit the other but cannot be directly spent from & which the source account cannot touch. BOTH have multi-factor authentication with a second factor NOT stored with username & password.

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 1w ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/117366743784179806 Despite the fact that he’s been gone for over a year. USPS is one of those entities like aircraft carriers, where a decision to change course is implemented with substantial delay.

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jwz

@jwz@mastodon.social

The continuing downfall of USPS. For the third or fourth year in a row, it is October and USPS has issued new Christmas stamps but there are *no* Halloween stamps on sale. I'm sure this is also DeJoy's fault. https://jwz.org/b/ylAO

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 @grumpybozo@toad.social

· 3mo ago

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@banshee@woof.tech @tael@yiff.life LMGTFY… First real link.

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