from my link log —
Think you can’t interpose static binaries with LD_PRELOAD? What about Qemu?
https://balintreczey.hu/blog/think-you-cant-interpose-static-binaries-with-ld_preload-think-again/
saved 2025-11-21

The SEC's decision to dismiss its lawsuit against SolarWinds and its CISO, Tim Brown, was met with immediate and widespread joy across the cybersecurity leadership community.
But experts say CISOs should start shoring up their internal defenses in case the policy or legal winds shift again.
Check out my latest CSO piece on what the decision means for CISOs. Many thanks to Joe Sullivan, Gadi Evron, Diana Kelley and Cara Peterman for their insights.
What CISOs should know…

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Back in 2018, I took the Maglev between Longyang Road and Pudong Airport. The route was so short that the train was only able to get to it's top speed for something like a minute before it had to start slowing down again. The new Chuo Shinkansen is supposed to go from Tokyo to Osaka and be faster than the Shanghai Maglev. I think that's really cool.
#Trains #Maglev #Japan

Reading the Bradley & Wirtz injury news. With Frimpong out still, will Slot go with Gomez or put Szoboszlai at RB again? Endo? Curtis Jones?
I might initially try Szoboszlai and put Curtis Jones in the middle, allowing the freedom to pivot in the second half. For me, both will be on the pitch, and I think Dom has better defensive capacity. But you sure hate to blunt his progressive impact.
#LFC

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
I think the SFTP server is down again. Expected files not in our INBOX and it happens on a semi-regular basis and usually after a weekend.
On my Linux box I had a very simple CHRON setup to run a specific BASH script. On my work WIN11 machine I have automated running a specific program every Monday morning checking for a specific item.
It should be trivial to do the same on the servers instead of buying software to verify that the servers are w…

In the time I've been offline, I've been doing a lot and feeling a lot more mentally healthy. I've been exploring nomadnet a bit, looking at reticulum. I'm definitely going to go back to my break and being online much less regularly.
I actually totally forgot about the anniversary of the shooting, which is the first time that's happened since... uh... the shooting, I think.
I've definitely realized that, on some level, I've definitely used Mastodon (and formerly Twitter) as a coping mechanism, often in order to deal with the stressful things that I've found out about on Mastodon or Twitter.
But, again, none of those things really change our core job: build community. And that's part of what I've been neglecting, and what I can focus on more when I'm not spending as much time talking to people all over the world indirectly. Like, I can just chat directly with folks and talk about this shit.
Yeah, I do think there's value in this community. I don't think it's really screaming into the void (at least, not most of the time). But I know that I need the balance to be way farther on the side of direct engagement with comrades doing and building.
So that's what I'm gonna go back to. I feel as though it's a good sign that with all the writing about getting shot that I've been doing, and all the thinking about that, that the actual anniversary of the shooting I'm actually just thinking about bread.
And that seems like a good note to leave on. I'm gonna go back to some hacker shit.

Now that we 🇪🇺 have captured Greenland, I think we should head forward and capture America again. We've done it before, ya know.

Just so you can guess where the "AI" thing is headed, look at this listing from a local community college
"AI made simple for everyday life"
... And look at what comes next:
"Flaggers certification"
The exciting thing (for bosses) is the idea that knowledge workers will be as interchangeable (and precarious) as DOT flaggers
#YouDeserveAUnion

What do people think about mattresses?
Innerspring? Foam? Some kinda hybrid?
I'm not doing water again. I don't recall ever sleeping on a foam one.
#mattress

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

#matsodon , this is part of why your friends think it's too hard & everyone stays on X or Twitter or tries out BSky.
I *JUST* want to like someone's post. I just want to give them a small amount of happy-brain-chemicals & thank them for what they wrote. Why do I have to log in again? I'm already logged in!
Yes, if I wanted to quote their stuff, I see the dangers, I could be trying to do a pile on. But I just want to give them a ⭐️. Why make it so hard???

A family member of mine made a joke about trans people and I shut it down so fast I think they are still reeling a day later.
I got extremely serious, and loud, and told them it was bullshit, and I don't want to hear that sort of garbage again.
They tried to defend it with "Oh, it's just us, we're cool" and I called bullshit on that too.
We talked about it later and I think I got my point across. I ended with "We know you're a good person, so …

> Macintosh.
> Think different.
Think Again.

It seems that Wayland is the future of the Linux desktop, but I'm too lazy to set up a WM from scratch again and understand how it works. Besides, everything is going so well for me with xorg & i3wm...
I think I'll stick with it until I have no other choice.
#linux

Outrun 2006: Clarissa's challenges
I think that's her name, anyway. I completed a few of the flagman challenges, but fancied something different so started to play some of Clarissa's heart attack missions. And they're hard. In fact, I've only unlocked about half of them so far, since you need to complete a stage in a normal heart attack event before you can replay it over and over again by itself.

Aaaand we're back. But I don't think everything is fixed. It's just running and I shouldn't touch anything again before I have at least 6 hours on hand... is essentially the current status.

@… again would you consider a peertube instance for all things Godot. I think this would really help the fediverse overall to grow? you would be the perfect place to start. (blender is also doing it https://video…

Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.

You’d think people who post “I asked AI to help me with [thing] but for some reason what it said didn’t work” reflect on their experience.
But no, most will use it over and over again.
The reason for this is that it’s designed to be an obsequious and sycophantic slave-simulator and people get high on the perceived power dynamic.
Truly a remarkable grift.

I'm making dumb shit again

What do people think about the "dark forest theory of the internet" ? https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/

I didn't think it was possible, but Google just managed to make the #YouTube mobile app *even worse*. Well done, incompetent engineers and asshole product managers. You have done it again.

I do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)
https://mastodon.mallegolhanse…

Well, today we have done two batches of pre Christmas shopping, in two different towns. Successful, if you mean hammering the bank account. But fun up until a parent emailed my wife (teacher) trying to get her to increase the predicted grade for their child. Mood darkened after that. But we are ok again now, I think.

Just in case you’re afraid AI is taking over: Ask any of them to play a round of #wordle 🤣😵‍💫

Hey Europe, are you planning to copy the US once more, allowing Very Modern Autonomous Taxis in our cities? Think again.
(Waymo taxis in San Francisco)
Video via John Berry on Bluesky.

Yesterday, I read about an innovative project to develop a special kind of road that charges electric vehicles while driving. It made me think that yet again, capitalists are two steps* away from reinventing public transportation 🤦‍♀️
* 1) let's have special cars on these special roads
2) maybe not everyone needs to buy their own such car, you can just rent them as you need them
=> 🚋 🚆 🚄

We did some cycling again. Very slow, but under clear blue sky! This time I tested recording when the camera was mounted on my new chest strap.
I think I like it! I remember when I once said that I'd feel stupid wearing such a chest strap with the camera mounted, but - to be honest: I don't care any more.
The result seems to be good. If I still like it in summer when I'm sweating? I don't know. But that's a problem for in a couple of months.

I think it’s time for new brake discs on the 2010 Tesla Roadster, these used to be slotted. The new ones are a bit bigger and come with spacers and longer bolts for the front calipers. I put the old discs on soon after I got this car in 2013, about 40k miles ago. Same AP calipers as Lotus Elise, and it was good to get some hands on wrenching time again. #WeirdCarMastodon

Just finished this, and it's extremely great throughout.
I think the one reservation I have is that it's not a narrative that promotes an inclusive growth-mindset attitude towards who can be a scientist, but being a memoir that's perhaps more reflective of the (still changing) realities of federally-funded science than of how the author would like things to work.
I learned a ton of cool facts about plants, while also being taken on a deeply personal journey of human connection and survival in hostile environments. And Jahren is just actually a damn good writer, picking again and again, as she quotes it, words that skewer the heart.

"In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa
to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to
like them, and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely
baroque feel to a continent. And they tell me it's not equatorial enough.
Equatorial!" He gave a hollow laugh. "What does it matter? Science has
achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happ…

Health Stuff

Recovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.
But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.
Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.
Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?
Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.
Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.
While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.
One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.
Much high number than the target there really.
Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.
Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.

@… someone (I think Oro?) messaged me telling me they've "dealt" with the situation... I checked the server again and she was still there...
I'm sorry

I have owned my 2016 EV since 2020. (I like buying my cars four and a half years old because four years is the length of a typical lease and when supply goes up, price goes down). I like the fact that (because it's an EV), beyond tire rotations, it's only been in the shop once. That one time, was due to the fact that the start button got stuck in and wouldn't come out again. The car is nearing ten years old, and I think that I might need to take it to the shop for new tires. ...

I made this pizza the other night. It's a "Grandma Pie" or whatever you call it. The results were much better than the last two times I tried it, though it could have used a few more minutes under the broiler. (Burned it last time, so I was overly cautious.)
I think I'm good for this style but... I just don't like this style. Too much dough and not enough flavor.
I may try it again but use the same amount of dough to make two pizzas, which will thin out the …

So apparently Unreal Engine is built to sell AIOs, lol.
I recently started playing The Alters. Haven't gotten super far yet. Just re-cased my PC and was testing things to make sure everything was good. Saw my CPU (AMD 7600X, 105w TDP) was hitting 90c. Eep. Realized the new case fans were all 3 pin, so no PWM. Bought all new 4pin case fans and installed them. Tested again.. still 90c. Wtf?
Didn't think the thermal paste was an issue, but I also didn't have any more so…

When we think about the improvement in team form, I would argue that it parallels Mac Allister's improvement in form. He's been very solid in consecutive games.
It also helps that Bradley is finding his stride too. I don't know what change has been the catalyst, but something has clicked.
Wirtz... looking pretty good. Should have another assist, but once again misfortunate. I really like everything about him. And we're just getting started.

I just wanted to quickly typst an example for the lecture tomorrow and suddenly I'm on #oeis again: https://oeis.org/A088138
I think this sequence is the result of the tri-diagonal determinant of twos, but it does not appear in the OEIS comments at all!
In fact, most comments are about a sequence with different signs, for example the first comment gives the generating function for that other sequence. Why?
The recursion is a_n = 2 a_(n-1) - 4 a_(n-2) and the formula is in the 2. pic, I hope.

Simple principle for digital life that anyone can follow: try not to put your data into someplace you can't get it back out again.
Interestingly this doesn't exclude a lot of proprietary software/websites, but I think making it more restrictive is impractical for most people.

I wrote a blog post again!
The style might be a bit different today. On location I made a lot of speech-to-text notes and tried to make a blog post from these.
At least it made it easier for me to remember what I felt on location. I think I'll do this note-taking more often. Especially when I don't reord videos.
Anyways. I hope you enjoy the photos and the reading.

Media stuff

Rewatched all of Buffy

Broken wrist meant I had to sit on the sofa for a month doing nothing really. I re-watched all 200 or so episodes of Buffy for the first time this decade.
What an achievement in TV production. Amazing show.
I'll watch it again next decade maybe.
Not that I read a huge amount. Hopefully more next year.
"Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, and actually also his "Not Till We Are Lost"
"Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.
Think "Severance" was the most remarkable show I watched this year, with "Trek, Strange New Worlds" also being great again.
"Pantheon" was a pretty great cartoon, haven't seen the second season yet.

oh no im doing it again
lemme close YouTube lmao

I tried getting it going again. I don't think that it's happening.

Door Dasher Life Fun Facts: This might be useful to think of when you're rating your Dasher.... Who's at fault in this situation?
Let's say I accept an offer for McDonalds.
I head straight there... pull up to the store, and as I walk in the app buzzes again with a 2nd order for the same McDs.
Naturally, I accept. (not accepting reduces my Acceptance rate and potentially my ability to get new offers).
Now I have two orders at the same place! Great! Efficient!
The first order comes up quickly, I put it in my bag, 'pick it up' in the app, and wait for the 2nd order.
Now the fun begins. The restaurant says the 2nd order will be 10 minutes beyond the pickup time. I notify the app, and both customers of the wait... and I wait... and wait... if I remove the 2nd order from my app it affects my completion rate *and* means the customer has to wait for another dasher to come along.
Eventually the 2nd order is ready and I head out to make the deliveries. Both of course now late.. the first potentially cold (even in an insulated bag) *and* late.
In addition, sometimes, often a day or two later, the dasher will receive a “Contract Violation” for the lateness. 3 Contract Violations in a short period and you can be deactivated.
So... there ya go. It happens. I'm never sure what the best course of action is... unless both orders are immediately ready, which you can never predict, someone will end up losing; the store, customer, dasher, or a mix of all three.
#DasherLife #GigWork #DoorDash #Uber
P.S. It's worth noting that Door Dash is the only service I know of that is this strict. Uber Eats does not have mechanisms like this (at least in my experience). Never used Skip, so can't say on that.

I think maybe I want to have begonias in my garden again this year...
#photography #bloomScrolling #begonia #orange

There are a lot of takeaways from this:
1. Organizing locally gives you a massive advantage because you will always know your local area better than ICE ever can.
2. Be agile. You can always change tactics faster than a centralized organization.
3. Organize now. The sooner you build your networks, the sooner you can learn.
4. Identify ICE facilities and organize monitoring them directly.
But I think the most interesting one that's not explicitly in there, one that's hinted at the last one, is to go on the offensive. ICE is already afraid. If we all take the anger we have at the murder of #ReneGood, find the local ICE facility that they'll stage from, and bring that anger to #OccupyICE we might be able to just shut the whole thing down preemptively. Completely stop all ICE operations across the US. If they want to fight, they can fight *with everyone, all at once.*
Shut down their ability to operate at all. They have a logistics pipeline. They need cars, they need oil in those cars, they need to be able to move those cars to target areas. They also need money to pay those agents. All of those can be disrupted.
The regime needs your money and labor to maintain the illusion of legitimacy. They chose a bad time because you can hit both of those at once *right now* with a combination of #GeneralStrike and #TaxStrike, and then #BoycottEverything.
The regime is weaker than it's ever been. It's flailing. Their own base is demanding the release of the #EpsteinFiles. Their last gasp attempt to prevent the radical change that's coming is just to ethnically cleanse the US back to the 50's (which is what they always meant by "Make America Great Again"). Trump will do anything to stay in power, even if it means killing everyone on Earth in the process. But Americans can end it now by going on the offensive.
Now is the time.
#USPol

Ran the #Wrapstodon thing on this server.
"Oracle" for me again. 😒
Other than My most boosted post and a count of 1443 posts and 250 followers I don't think it means much on a tiny server. Everyone here is in the top 75% of users because there are two users. 😆
The categories are:

Oracle: “You created new posts more than replies, keeping Mastodon fresh and future‑facing.”

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Social butterfly (replier): You replied far more than posting originals.

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Cool‑hunter (booster): You mainly amplify others via boosts.

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Pollster: You created lots of polls compared to everything else.

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Lurker: You post and interact relatively little overall.
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Not everyone agrees...
https://youtube.com/shorts/gcO8dHeKjU0
But I think this assessment may overestimate the competence of the administration (they won't just crash things because their heads are just that full of shit), and may underestimate the ability of the administration (or really, the heritage foundation or other fash planners) to just make some shit up work around any limitation. The use of private donations on the ballroom and to fund military ops is a pretty clear test of that.
No matter what, the government will be shut down. All the things you care about will either be eliminated right now, or slowly over time. That's been happening since the 70's, and even faster since the 90's, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's happening now.
That's the scenario to prepare for, and you should prepare for it even if democrats somehow get control of the government again. Much of the public sector has been privatized and destroyed under democratic administrations.

“Scathing Polling Reveals What Key U.S. Allies Really Think of America Under Trump”
The world has changed in its stance to the USA and I am glad Canadians are leading the way.
““When asked whether the United States supports or challenges its allies, Canada again stood out as the most critical. Sixty percent of Canadians said the United States challenges its allies.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli #usa #world #eu #nato #canada