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Out of a sample of 69 million random IPs (port 80) 12,966 identify as PHP via X-Powered-By 70 (0.5%) PHP/4 3353 (25.9%) PHP/5 5558 (42.9%) PHP/7 3984 (30.7%) PHP/8 Extrapolating counts to usable IPv4 space: ~179,600 individual server IPs identify running PHP/5. #PHP2Shell

New fridge magnet for my power/server rack

Anyone remember Microsoft's captionbot? Capture from 2016.

Drinking game: take a shot every time you ask AI to make a minor change, but it randomly modifies or removes comments that are entirely unrelated to the requested change.

Configuring new tablet: "Couldn't connect to the internet" Meanwhile, I am dumping wifi and can see it's successfully connected to like 5 Google IPs on port 443, and it's busy downloading crap. But it couldn't connect to the internet

I have a GPU box which exhausts heat into the ceiling space of a dedicated outdoor room. During winter I disconnect the exhaust tubing, so the heat instead goes into the room. I can see the temp going up when the GPUs work hard. Keeps my cat warm. Outdoors: 12C Indoors: 19.5C

Dream: The end of a terrible 1990s revenge movie, where the female protagonist has just shot all of the bad guys. Mortally wounded, about to die... then one of them sneezes. Twice. And they didn't edit that out. Oh, if only this were real.

I passively log unexpected packets on a dedicated VPS. Provider was massively DDoSed yesterday, across multiple D/Cs. Can you tell when it started? Impressive that a little one core VPS was able to capture and log 2500+ packets per second. Until it ran out of disk space...

Why does Aliexpress send me multiple detailed updates about movement of a package that is currently transiting another country and won't see my local airport for at least another week?

Some pretty wild reverse DNS lookups here, covering an entire /24. Most or all are falsified (eg ac51.ryanairemail.com does not resolve to 173.239.211.150). I noticed because some IPs were flagged for abusive behaviour. VPN? Proxy?

Microsoft Teams: - Open file via search: read only, no explanation why - Open file manually: editable - Open file on an org PC: opens in sharepoint/web, changes AUTOSAVED - Open file outside org: opens in Teams editor, changes NOT SAVED Integration? Yes. Consistency? NO!

Facebook just reminded me of a dream I had (and documented) back in 2010. A diverse committee of what we'd now call AI agents, debating to arrive at a consensus. (The DRM thing seemed dystopian at the time, but now, who knows?)

I coded a simple #openproxy checker. It includes a unique key in each test URL. There's a particular IP that loads up the test URL immediately after my script probes certain proxies. Is something automatically capturing every page that users request via the proxy? Hmmmmmmm...

Vibe coding a trading simulation with some random cryptocoins. A +105.14% return in only 10 days by doing some basic balancing? Impressive. Very nice. You know how LLMs are prone to hallucinating facts? In this case, the LLM appears to be hallucinating money. It's all BS.

Um... why is Windows Calculator accessing the network?

Using floats for currency and pricing is never a bad idea

This afternoon's #vibecode battle. I asked it to make a modification at the very start, and the remainder of the prompts were solely to get it to actually run. In desperation, I asked it to think and reflect, which seemed to improve things drastically - working 2 prompts later.

Vibe coding: I asked Qwen3 coder to come up with a virtual girlfriend site. Floating lovehearts! Then I requested we flip it around, and make it a virtual boyfriend. Now we have lightning bolts, and fish darting around... Half tempted to ironically make this live

Why does #Windows10 currently have 2973 files open on my NAS!? The open files include: - A phone bill from 2020 - A newsletter from 2017 - A ZIP file from 2007 - A folder from 2004 Why does Windows quietly open these "resting" files, and then *keep* them open?

Using two GPUs and 43GB of VRAM to (very slowly) disassemble 16 bit DOS code seems slightly inefficient. On the plus side, the LLM *can* deduce - after several minutes of plodding along - that the code prints out "Hello world" #msdos #x86 #16bit

Google AI is cheerfully stupid, and can apparently be heavily influenced by the search query. At least it noticed that the IP 142.250.70.228 belongs to Google

I started at a new campus this week. Didn't have my security pass yet, only a basic lanyard ID. Several times, I had to loiter quietly at the secured staff entrance, and follow others in. Some staff members - who don't know me - even offered to let me in. No one checked my ID.

I joke to my offspring that The Return of the Living Dead soundtrack has probably been re-released on vinyl, artificially inflating the price of the CD. So I look on ebay, and: The Return of the Living Dead soundtrack has been re-released on vinyl, artificially inflating the price of the CD.

There's something unsettling loading a site after a month, and seeing the requested page - with personal info - show briefly, before the site demands that you log in to access that info. My Windows laptop occasionally flashes content hidden behind a lock, when it's asking for the unlock password...

I've recently discovered that if my cat is doing something objectionable, like clawing the carpet, I can roll him onto his side then gently fold his back end towards his front. He's so confused that he starts kicking his own head

TIL: If you accidentally hit maximise instead of close, you end up with a gigantic full screen calculator. This is a 1920x1080 monitor

a fly landed on my screen as i was doomscrolling. it has barely moved since, even once i resumed doomscrolling. it's like it's absorbing all the pixels flying past, through its thousands of lenses (i think it's time to close bsky and go to bed)

"Sign in to turn on offline mode again" The further you read, the more confusing and illogical this sentence seems. Huh?

Feral #cat update: She's comfortable enough to stalk me when I'm preparing her food. If I wander around the corner when she's chilling in the yard, she'll be scared, but won't dart off. Today, I called out her name, and she poked her head out from under the hut. She responded when I called. 🥹 🥹

Big Trouble in Little Butthole bsky.app/profile/hamm...

This beautiful feral #cat lives under a hut in my back yard. She had two #kittens a few months ago. They're now with a foster carer. She's been trapped, neutered, vaccinated, chipped, so she's now officially part of our family. She still keeps her distance, but the trust is slowly growing. ❤️

Feral #cat update: she initially sniffed the trap then ran off, but within a couple of hours she was in there. She's going to be desexed today, then released back into my yard. Slowly making friends with her; I hope she'll forgive me for today. ❤ Next up: trapping and socialising her tux kittens.

There are only two nights this week when I can trap a feral #cat. After I set the trap: - The wind picked up, which scared off feral kitty - The neighbour commenced an extended bout of 2 stroke lawn maintenance. Eh, it's noisy and smelly. - Then the thunder started...

I'm currently trying to befriend and socialise a couple of feral kittens living in my back yard. TIL: They really don't like Dad Sneezes. I'm sorry, I tried to hold it #cats #kittens

It's 4am in Melbourne, and it's hot. I was going to sit outside in my garden, but wondering if the police flying overhead are going to pick up my heat signature and think that I'm the person they're looking for? Nah, I'm just a dude quietly sitting in a chair, with a laptop, watching kittens play

Greetings! My name is Invalid Handle, or handle.invalid if you wish to be technically correct

Microsoft Windows: Hey, you haven't rebooted a while, so we thought we'd automatically install an app you didn't ask for, pin it to the task bar so you'd please please notice it, then reboot your computer as you slept, killing off all of your open programs. You're welcome.