Senselessly Tooted Disinformation

This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.

Discoverability and Archiving

Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.

Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.

Gluttony Section for Search Engines

[RSS] Micropatches Released for Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509)

https://blog.0patch.com/2026/01/micropatches-released-for-microsoft.html

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Is it just me or Win11 stopped reporting DLL load errors (VC runtime in particular)?

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@airwhale if you enforce TLS checks you'll get a lot of complaints from avg users because shit stops working for random reasons (time desync, cert issued by some new CA etc). My gut tells me that Syn would have disabled verification even if the lib had it on by default (as it should have, we agree on that).

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@airwhale Participating in P2O as a vendor is a thing to be respected in the first place. They also wrote a blog about their efforts, but the link is broken - you can probably get it from an archive:

https://blog.synology.com/the-efforts-synology-made-in-pursuit-of-data-security

This is a more technical analysis from the attackers view:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MYCNVKkNETkqS-cLJsqHE43Sfm4LZbCO/view?pli=1

In short: they took significant steps forward during the past years, they probably ignored active network attacks (on LANs this may make sense, for Internet comms not so much).

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...because y'know, in this day and age restarting a computer doesn't *really* restart it

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It's 2026 and I'm restarting my Windows VM the second time hoping that it'll finally recognize it's 2026 already

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I thought the Linux scheduler has always worked like this o.O

RE: https://bird.makeup/users/lauriewired/statuses/2015880031227281872

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