Brutkey

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

ICYMI: #openzfsmastery sponsorships are now open. #sysadmin #zfs

https://sponsor.mwl.io

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

Cashel makes magnificent whiskers look easy. Don't be fooled, it's not. #petRats #rats

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

My latest novel: a spoof of a bad 70s movie and a satire of the 1980s, Laserblasted.

https://mwl.link/laserblasted.html

My latest tech book: Run Your Own Mail Server, about... uh... running your own mail server. Yes, it can be done.

https://mwl.link/run-your-own-mail-server.html

List of all my publications, in date order: https://mwl.io/book-index

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

Substack is implementing their writer lock-in right now.

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/substack-changes-frustrate-publishers-one-option-is-terrible-for-us-the-other-is-terrible-for-our-readers-/s2/a1274464/

Writers, leave while you can.

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

Updated all my book pages on https://mwl.io so that each book has a separate page with a description and buy links. That lets me clean up the book's main description.

I want to reduce the main mwl.io catalog down to just titles and book covers. If you click on the book, you get the detail page.

I was planning to do that with a popup.

This morning, thinking that a popup is too heavy. I could just link to the per-book page and give that page a "return to catalog" link near the top and bottom.

Thoughts?

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

Inspired a conversation I'm tagged in: a Wordpress host getting hammered by crawlers hosted by AWS.

For an average web site, is there any reason to have AWS-hosted systems reaching your site? My site is for end users, not for servers.

My web site might initiate connections to AWS hosts, sure.

Pondering a script to load AWS IPs into my packet filter, blocking ports 80 and 443.

Ditto for Vultr, Hetzner, etc. But AWS is an easy place to start.

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

"This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog.

We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise."

Note that this is three attempts to match current quantum computing records, not a single attempt utilizing all three tools.

(The IACR is a legit cryptology organization. Been around for years and years.)

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

(h/t @cstross@wandering.shop )

so, #sysadmin sorts: chill your quantum computing worries

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

I smell a new edition of #sshMastery https://www.openssh.com/pq.html

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

Yes, I have been informed.

https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/717965/microsoft-crocs-windows-xp-bliss-wallpaper-theme

Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:
@mwl@io.mwl.io

For the record:

Nazi hackers really can fuck off.