The internet archive appears to have been hacked via a polyfill supply-chain attack, with potentially 31 million records soon to end up on HIBP...

[Just a quick post to get info in one place, sorry!] Info I have a GPD Pocket: running Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS with a BCM4356 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (PCI ID 14e4:43ec) with some issues: It appears like only 2.4GHz networks are being detected, and not 5GHz networks. That being said, our router is dual-band and I can’t see either network. Attempting to connect to a random 2.4GHz network crashes the network manager (WiFi icon/settings entry disappears, then reappears after a few seconds). dmesg doesn’t seem to contain anything relevant, apart from maybe: /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/netplan failed with exit status 1. Connecting a phone over USB and using USB tethering was working fine when this all started, but that seems to have stopped working too now (: Updates Did the country code change and rebooted, now is displaying 5GHz networks (or at least, my network…) — attempting to connect to it still crashes the network manager. Resolution!!! With some prompting by a littlefox, I dug through journalctl -f a bit deeper and found references to stable-ssid being an invalid macaddress for a given network (i.e. a yaml file in /etc/netplan) — at this point I was getting pissed off so I just rm /etc/netplan/*.yaml and retried connecting to a network… which worked. ...

I made a fedi post about ADHD-y burn-out earlier, and it got me thinking — we should probably try to normalise: “Today I got stuck on what should have been a really basic programming task and I needed to ask for help” in our everyday lives, if not for my own mental health, for (often newer, but not always) developers getting really down and upset because they are struggling with something. I see that way too often in the communities I’m active in and in mentoring that I do. ...

Excuse the mess, I’m rebuilding my blog using https://gohugo.io (and it’s going swimmingly)..

I synchronise my .ssh/config file between (most of) my laptops, including some Linux and macOS ones. On Mac, it’s quite nice to be able to use the UseKeychain option to store SSH passphrases in the secure keychain thing. That is, until you try to use that same config file on Linux (or Windows/WSL) and it explodes. The issue is that UseKeychain isn’t actually part of standard OpenSSH; it’s a custom patch Apple adds to the version bundled with macOS. So when “upstream” OpenSSH (on Linux, Windows, or even Homebrew) sees it, it panics. ...