Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)

everything's been out of whack since I got covid at the same time I had to vacate "my" room for a giant drunken bash at the house ... it's been slow to get the ship righted, although I've been able to do a little bit of paying work here & there throughout.

I think my "enlarged spleen" as a result of covid might have actually been something else, and I've been sleeping a lot, but the continued symptoms are slowly receding. my sense of smell is still very weak, though.

on a personal level I've been intensely dysphoric for a number of days. more impactful than expected covid coupled with the realization that the people I live with only give a fuck about my well-being in a very abstract way at best, coupled with delayed reprocessing of rejection by my scumbag biofamily just after my best friend died almost exactly 1 year ago. I knew *that* particular shit would be coming home to roost eventually and it chose the past 2 weeks, but seems now to be easing?

I am trying to branch out and rustle up options of somewhere else to go (to live, not just for hours or days) but it's subject to the same catch-22 that's been stepping on my neck the entire time I've been here, namely that the place where I live strips me to the bone and grinds my mind into dust and there is very little of me left over to do the necessary socializing to find other places to go. all that being said I am perhaps very illogically hopeful that something will turn up soon.

aside from all that, the next major practical concern: my car is on its lastest legs, the other neurodivergent roommate's car lease is up in 3 weeks, meaning that once my car is dead for good, I'm completely without any form of safety valve or ability to escape the never-ending shitshow here at the house, other than to hike my ass into the pine barrens and try to set up shop out there to have the requisite peace to think.

the other big portion of that catch-22 lurking below the surface is that due to my inability to consistently work where I live, plus the constant massive burnout induced by said living situation, means I have no capital to put down on a place, and I don't know how long it will take me to bounce back and start earning enough to pay my way somewhere else.

based on experience I figure my mind can bounce back in a couple months in good conditions, but it also takes time to drum up business.

the good news is - I literally *can* hike my ass out to the pine barrens and work out there so long as I can keep the rain off and, later on, the temp warm enough.

it's an extremely shitty option, but unlike the last 4 years I now have all the gear to do it, as long as I have a working sim for the lte modem.

and I'll need to take that option if it comes to that, because living here is quite literally aging me and ruining what's left of my life at this point.

anyway, that's my update.

it's probably worth adding that much of this sounds pretty negative because it is - I've been trapped in shitty no-win situations where I don't belong for well over half a decade at this point.

however: I was extremely lucky to be exposed to new (to me) ways of thinking right at the start of all this which have kept me going.

perhaps the biggest one is to not discount the positive in a negative situation. there is, was, and has been a lot of good here too. and I've learned a TON. 🤷🏻

“Downfall” bug affects years of Intel CPUs, can leak encryption keys & more

#Downfall, aka CVE-2022-40982, is similar to prior speculative execution attacks.

All CPUs based on the Skylake, Kaby Lake, Whiskey Lake, Ice Lake, Comet Lake, Coffee Lake, Rocket Lake, and Tiger Lake architectures (6th-11th gen Core) are affected, along with a few others.

For systems that use Intel's SGX feature, a firmware fix is needed; otherwise, the fix can be loaded by the OS.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/data-leaking-downfall-bug-affects-six-generations-of-intel-pc-and-server-cpus/

oh for fuck's sake, I think the CPU in this thing is throttled to 800MHz because I'm using a generic power adapter 🤬

once I have my personal shit sorted out, I have a very strong desire to be mirroring the Debian + Armbian + Raspbian repos, the Debian and Arch wikis, and presumably a bunch of similar resources, for When The Shit Hits The Fan If It Happens Slowly Enough.

@santiago I also think that an instance chooser with moderation information would be good for everybody, because people who want a block-heavy instance should be able to easily & reliably find one, just as "give me the unaltered firehose plz" types should be able to find their home easily.

@santiago I still want to build an instance chooser which offers up-front disclosure of moderation philosophy, either crowdsourced or posted by admins themselves

personally I'd be quite upset to join an instance and later realize someone I want to follow or talk to is blocked for reasons I disagree with. not everybody cares so much.

I've followed debates on moderation philosophy that went so far as to spawn new communities, going back many years to BBS days, I seem to think about it a lot!

I really look down on people who instance-block legit nodes because they use a lot of database space, but maybe this is an ignorant opinion.

if an instance is generating a ton of text posts, or a ton of multimedia posts, perhaps it's extremely difficult to expire locally cached content with Mastodon and/or Pleroma?

because otherwise, it looks like people using instance blocks to wallpaper over their inability to manage their own instance.

US uncovers “Swiss Army knife” for hacking industrial control systems

"This is the most expansive industrial control system attack tool that anyone has ever documented," says Sergio Caltagirone, a VP at industrial-focused cybersecurity firm Dragos.

While the toolkit could be used against practically any industrial environment, the focus on Schneider Electric and OMRON PLCs does suggest that it was built with power grid and petrochemical facilities in mind.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/04/us-uncovers-swiss-army-knife-for-hacking-industrial-control-systems/

#infosec

it's weird being a power user who is mostly satisfied with generations old hardware for day-to-day needs

Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus

Two weeks ago, the node.ipc author pushed a new version of the library that sabotaged computers in Russia & Belarus. The new release added a function that checked the IP address of developers who used the node.ipc in their own projects. When an IP address geolocated to either Russia or Belarus, the new version wiped files from the machine and replaced them with a heart emoji.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/sabotage-code-added-to-popular-npm-package-wiped-files-in-russia-and-belarus/

#Ukraine #NodeJS

#wikifinds