silverwizard

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Father first and foremost
RPG player/hacker for fun and explicitly not profit
InfoSec for Profit
Feral Child of Unix and RFC 2324

Website That Stresses Me Out Or Is For Fun Or Maybe Both: [monsteroftheweek.ca/](https://monsteroftheweek.ca/ )
Website That Earns Me CISSP CPEs: [securingeverything.ca/](https://securingeverything.ca/ )
Pronouns: He/Him
Marital Status: Married
Political Views: Leftist
Religious Views: Christian

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2026-10-14 15:22:30 UTC

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[abstract=apub]Parenting, audio players, proprietary soft·hard·ware[/abstract]
@[url=https://post.lurk.org/users/raphael]raphaël ⁂ bastide[/url] I have a TonUINO which is a DIY Yoto player. Before that - I just used an older cellphone without network and an SD card.

2026-10-13 17:55:46 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano]Stefano Marinelli[/url] just torturing us for fun eh?

2026-10-13 14:30:08 UTC

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@[url=https://toot.cafe/users/baldur]Baldur Bjarnason[/url] Well now you're going to force me to use youtube instead of podcast RSSes :D

2026-10-07 12:34:45 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/nuintari]The Psychotic Network Ferret[/url] @[url=https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic]Cory Doctorow[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.ie/users/IanOB]IanOB[/url] target for NetBSD installs

2026-09-11 23:37:23 UTC

I'm thinking about what a Local Internet looks like. Can we build a setup, local servers, local webdevs, local helpdesk. Get local businesses to pay us to make local pages. Organize local delivery drivers. What if we didn't scale?
Could we make it work? How big a city do we need?

2026-09-10 12:36:49 UTC

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@[url=https://snac.bsd.cafe/bpl]bpl[/url] @[url=https://fe.disroot.org/users/moses_izumi]Moses Izumi (he/him)[/url] Using the heating element as a heat sink would be cool, I'm more worried about burning my kid.
But yeah, I know the original toaster just just a toaster with compute attached. But these days, for some godforesaken reason, we have toasters sold with compute attached, and I bet some of that compute could run netbsd. I'm just hoping someone has listed the compute inside different toasters, and then figured out which ones can be programmed for netbsd.

2026-09-10 02:55:55 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/users/stuartl]Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)[/url] Oh - yeah - I can put any board into a toaster and get value - but is there a board in a known toaster we can already run it on.
This came about because I was talking to a friend about "NetBSD has an existing build for MacOS power supplies" and then my son overhearing it.

2026-09-09 23:01:21 UTC

My 7 year old heard about the netbsd toaster and now wants to try to build one. Has anyone found a toaster model that has enough guts (and the right guts) to run #[url=https://convenient.email/search?tag=netbsd]netbsd[/url] recently? This is outside my baileywick so I'm hoping there's some prior art.

2026-08-03 01:17:25 UTC

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considering the amount of montage and the amount of music, are we sure this *isn't* a music video #[url=https://convenient.email/search?tag=monsterdon]monsterdon[/url]

2026-08-03 01:08:06 UTC

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Hire A Bunch Of LARPers is a pro-tier director move, more should do it!
#[url=https://convenient.email/search?tag=Monsterdon]Monsterdon[/url]

2026-08-03 01:05:24 UTC

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Ohhhh this sword is pretty handy #[url=https://convenient.email/search?tag=monsterdon]monsterdon[/url]

2026-08-03 01:02:44 UTC

First person slain #[url=https://convenient.email/search?tag=Monsterdon]Monsterdon[/url]
Living up to promises

2026-08-02 01:51:41 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] 88x31r.ing
obviously!

2026-06-26 17:53:37 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/johanpeitz]Johan Peitz[/url] Thanks for making picoCAD! My 7yo is using it to try to work on Luanti models!

2026-06-10 17:19:42 UTC

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@[url=https://fosstodon.org/ap/users/115532410310000993]ArcaneChat[/url] Look at my instance name and ask yourself "Do I want to claim, to this person, that their mail should be less convenient?"

2026-06-10 17:18:33 UTC

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@[url=https://fosstodon.org/ap/users/115532410310000993]ArcaneChat[/url] Listen. I don't use a single server for my email. My mail cluster is just fine. You handle your mail,. I'll handle my mail. However - a tool that forces me to organize my mail a specific way is going to be trashed.

2026-06-10 17:12:08 UTC

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@[url=https://fosstodon.org/ap/users/115532410310000993]ArcaneChat[/url] [quote]in any case using a single address is a very bad idea, better to use more than one address/relay for resilience[/quote]

2026-06-10 03:47:26 UTC

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@[url=https://partychickens.net/users/mason]Mason Loring Bliss[/url] They decided to give up on the "Alternate Frontend to Mail" concept and just try to handle *all* SMTP as chat. It's easier from a dev perspective but makes it worthless from a user/admin perspective.

2026-06-10 03:17:12 UTC

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@[url=https://fosstodon.org/ap/users/115532410310000993]ArcaneChat[/url] Well, that's a strange belief? What would even cause that belief?

2026-06-10 03:03:08 UTC

Welp, I guess it's #[url=https://convenient.email/search?tag=DeltaChat]DeltaChat[/url] crisis day. I guess I need to uninstall and manually fight with everyone I got on it. Or make new infra for only DeltaChat, which is, no.

2026-05-11 16:11:00 UTC

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@[url=https://infosec.exchange/users/cR0w]cR0w[/url] they spent 20k on labour for the openbsd bug. I... don't have a handy source sadly

2026-05-11 16:07:52 UTC

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@[url=https://infosec.exchange/users/cR0w]cR0w[/url] to be fair, according to disclosures, that's what Mythos is. They have a bunch of kids doing the work and just having claude take they credit

2026-05-03 16:11:55 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest likes your bugs ⁂[/url] no no! My dad worked for, not owned, MWC! He was Randall Howard, the dude who wrote the kernel for Coherent. But yeah, I found out Aaron had passed by my dad saying his friend's son had died.

2026-05-03 16:03:07 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest likes your bugs ⁂[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.matrix.org/users/element]Element[/url] My dad cloned unix for a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company]softdrink company[/url] in the 90s. Companies are fake

2026-03-12 22:40:23 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/rysiek]Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦[/url] something eating me is that this is seen as pro-AI, but this is, kinda, companies hard capping their AI spend in dollars. This means AI companies can't upsell. It's smart for employers but *catestrophic* for the companies selling model access.

2025-10-09 13:57:49 UTC

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@[url=https://freeradical.zone/users/steevmi1]Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas[/url] https://mntre.com/docs-reform.html has a short list, including OpenBSD and 9Front, the options that matter.
My understanding is that @[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] knows more than me (on this topic, and probably lots more)

2025-10-09 12:42:37 UTC

Make sure we're talking about MNT Reform as an alternate to #[url=https://convenient.email/search?tag=frameworkcomputer]frameworkcomputer[/url] - alternatives that are ethical matter

2025-06-03 11:28:19 UTC

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@[url=https://toot.cafe/users/baldur]Baldur Bjarnason[/url] It's also fascinating to watch the whole industry scream "LLM Pricing Is Stable And Will Never Change! Surely OpenAI and Microsoft will never enshittify!", I can't imagine.

2025-04-22 03:45:58 UTC

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@[url=https://shellsharks.social/users/shellsharks]shellsharks[/url] Oh yeah! The web has definitely grown into that as a normal way! But I want to push against it!
I definitely am not trying to call you wrong - just trying to offer more ways for there to be a weird web!
And I really hope someone decides to use one of these!

2025-04-22 03:36:25 UTC

I just wrote a small reaction to @[url=https://shellsharks.social/users/shellsharks]shellsharks[/url]
I liked this article, but I have a few issues with it - https://shellsharks.com/be-weird - nothing world shaking - I just want a user-driven web. So here's my stance https://securingeverything.ca/styling.html

2025-03-04 20:34:42 UTC

The problem with parental controls, is that my kids are 3 and 5. I don't want them exposed to raw unfiltered internet. But I also know that they *will be*.
This means that parental controls are a war I'm trying to figure out how to let my kids win in the most gentle way possible. I want them to win without feeling smarter and better than me, and like they're invincible. I want them to become aware of the fact that the internet is a complicated place, I don't want them to fear, but I also want them to respect. I dunno - parenting is hard.

2025-02-12 19:23:16 UTC

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@[url=https://infosec.place/users/buherator]buherator[/url] @[url=https://infosec.exchange/users/cR0w]cR0w[/url] [quote]CrowdStrike identified this issue through our longstanding, rigorous security review process[/quote]
Well I'm glad this is going well

2025-02-11 00:26:34 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url]
[url=https://convenient.email/photos/silverwizard/image/166805291567aa991818354495132604][img=https://convenient.email/photo/166805291567aa991818354495132604-1.png]Image of the long emoji in Friendica[/img][/url]
Looks good here on Friendica
https://convenient.email/photo/166805291567aa991818354495132604-0.png

2024-11-06 15:14:10 UTC

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@[url=https://framapiaf.org/users/davidrevoy]David Revoy[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/greensofshade]Margret Kuarell[/url] It means the local image cache expired the image because it's two years old. I keep my images for 15 days in the cache, because it's rare I need them longer and can refetch. The alt text only is the fallback when the image is missing.

2024-10-21 18:33:12 UTC

One of the things that is destroying the web is WASM and JavaScript.
This isn't really even a joke - it's literal.
By having all these tools to make a web browser have unfettered access to the system, it becomes unsafe to allow users to generate arbitrary code. We can't have another MySpace or NeoPets User Lookup because we can't allow users to write their own HTML, because that's *dangerous*.

2024-10-17 02:34:44 UTC

Creating a 256 TLD in my home and placing a server at 192.168.90.256 just to piss of house guests

2024-09-17 12:59:04 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.social/users/Edent]Terence Eden[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/mhoye]mhoye[/url] @[url=https://epsilon-ix.masto.host/users/fuzzface]FuzzFace ☢️ :clippy:[/url] does the user have a shell?
can you try [code]ssh server /bin/sh[/code]?

2024-09-17 00:34:50 UTC

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@[url=https://dice.camp/users/malin]𝕸𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔫[/url] @[url=https://mstdn.social/users/rysiek]Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦[/url] @[url=https://exile.social/users/LydiaConwell]Lydia Conwell[/url] pathfinder is in fact an open fork of another open game!