Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@ajmartinez Reminds me of an old Simpson's quote from the Max Power episode: "There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way." "Isn't that the wrong way?" "But faster!"

AI-controlled weapons are coming. For a preview of their "ethics" take all the recent stories of bias in AI, only instead of not hiring a minority candidate or granting them bail, the computer shoots them. #doomed https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/02/17/pentagon-funds-killer-robots-but-ethics-are-under-debate/

Dropbox decided to take a one-time $400 million hit to cancel leases and follow other tech companies in the exodus from SF toward remote work: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/18/dropbox-takes-400-million-charge-on-real-estate-as-it-goes-virtual.html

@micahflee If he's anything like my son, once things go back to normal and you socialize again, you'll find him setting up an impromptu lockpick training session at your next party.

Oh, gonna log it on, hackin' you, baby
I wanna log it on
You don't have a password that's too long
If the guesses miss you
Let me phish you good
Let your password out
Oh, log me on, come on

They are all insecure passwords with so much to guess
People think they're secure
Since they have to be, complex, I love it
There's nothing hard with me hacking you, baby no no
And guessin' passwords, to me, can never go wrong
Unless the factor's two.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful auth can be,
I'm asking your website to log it on with me,
I ain't gonna worry, I ain't gonna fuzz, I won't fuzz you baby
So come on, log on, log on, log on, log on, baby
Stop beating round the bush, hey

Happy Valentine's Day to my red team and pentesting friends! Here's a little something to put you in the mood:

I've been really trying, baby
Trying to go hack this login for so long
And if you feel, like I steal baby
Come on, oh log on, ooh

Let's log it on, ow baby
Let's log it on, guess "love" baby
Let's log it on, "secret"
Let's log it on, woo

@0x1C3B00DA This is a discontinued Nexdock 2. It currently works w/ an external hub in "Raspberry Pi mode". The (also now discontinued) Nexdock Touch works directly with a USB-C cable but touchscreen doesn't (yet) work. It seems each model has differences in how it negotiates, which requires a lot of testing and troubleshooting for our team, so I can't say ahead of time how well the next model will work.

@Azt3c It's not a laptop, but a Librem 5 phone attacked to a Nexdock2 laptop dock. All the software is running on the Librem 5, the laptop shell is just providing a display, keyboard, mouse, and battery

@rgk @crunklord420 The phone is driving the "laptop" as the laptop dock is just a display, battery, keyboard and mouse in a laptop shell with no CPU of its own.

I attached a USB-C hub to my laptop dock using a flattened IKEA bracket and some 3M tape. Now I can easily use it and see both screens from my lap. A bit hacky but it works.

@jlcrawf That phrase wasn't a happy coincidence :) #punalwaysintended

I was *this* close to writing up a parody of Britney Spears's "Toxic" covering today's news story about heavy metals discovered in baby food. I restrained myself this time as it seemed like it might be in bad taste.

Chromium accounted for 60 *billion* DNS queries per day and a code change resulted in a 41% drop in global root DNS server traffic: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_cleanup_drops_dns_traffic/