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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Looks like there’s a metasploit available. You can use that on your router to see if it’s susceptible. A quick google search indicates that this is only successful on older routers without input validation.

    In general, follow good cyber security hygiene, and update the firmware on your router. If your router no longer is supported by the vendor (no more firmware updates for vulnerabilities found), then it’s old and you should upgrade.


  • So… I’m also not a climate scientist, but I also research dynamical systems within a time-based series (computer scientist). All of the research on this is very difficult to read, but it all sort of leads up to the fact that we are approaching some sort of tipping point where the system, in this case climate, will bifurcate. Meaning things will be different and can turn into chaos (chaos theory).

    I’ve spoken with Dr. Edward Ott at University of Maryland on his work with climate change, and I’ve spoke with chaos theory researchers at University of Arizona. It’s all very abstract, and it’s difficult to predict what this actually means for the climate and for us.














  • I don’t use instagram. The article touches on the privacy issues of Meta, but doesn’t really explain why Pixelfed is a better alternative or if it’s more privacy focused. Or even why I should use this platform other than “hey, it’s not Instagram”.

    I’d trust some random people running an activity pub server just as much as I’d trust Meta with my personal photos: I won’t.

    Coming from Wired, I’d hope the article would have a more technology focused approach, explaining to people they could host their own server so they take back control of their own data. Isn’t that the part of the point of the fediverse?