Laurent Bercot

ska@social.treehouse.systems

<p>Grumpy Frenchman, C/Unix addict, author of s6 and other software at skarnet.org.</p><p>Good tech (so, probably not the tech you're thinking about), energy transition and climate change, leftist politics, psychology and self-improvement, pillow philosophy, songwriting and production, mechanisms of storytelling, video games as an art medium, shitposting.</p>

Posts

Post #4445302
Never underestimate the health benefits of going back to sleep.
Post #3493278
Me, every single time. 🤦‍♂️
Post #3365762
PSA: if a website makes you fill a form with privacy-invading questions, with data that it has no business gathering and will not help you transacting with it, and you can't/don't want to spend time and energy fighting it, calling them, looking for another site, because this is still the most convenient for you... ... it's perfectly okay to lie. Be creative. Have fun. Tell wild tales. Chances are nobody's looking at the information anyway, it's being sold to a data broker....
Post #2326158
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@iagox86/116536084585506332 The FRP client is restarted by cron every minute if the process dies. It cannot be stopped without also removing the cron entry or undeploying the Greengrass component. Even if a user or researcher kills the process, it restarts within one minute. You know it's gonna be good when you see half-assed supervision done via cron.
Post #1819615
skarnet.org will be down until further notice - it may take up to 10 days (!) I wanted to reboot the server on a newly tailored kernel to avoid CopyFail shenanigans. The shutdown failed right before rebooting (because of a small oversight in s6-linux-init that is easy to fix and will not impact anyone else). Normally that wouldn't be a problem: log in to the web interface to the VPS administration, press the reboot button, done. Except, Gandi added 2FA since I last logged in, and did not n...
Post #1574477
Hot take: anyone who believes there is no artistic value in programming is someone whose judgement about code I do not trust or value. Not on the artistic side, and not on the engineering side either.
Post #1563459
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116404712213309413 This thread is WILD. One more proof that data protection on the larger 'net is an absolute joke.
Post #1043769
So, systemd's NOTIFY_SOCKET readiness notification mechanism has a sort of authentication mechanism by pid: it doesn't like it when the notification is sent from another process than the main one, unless you add the NotifyAccess=all directive. Okay, fair. Except that even with this directive, it still can fail for some reason: if an auxiliary process of the unit sends an sd_notify() message and immediately exits, the service manager might not be able to properly attribute the message t...
Post #777508
s6 will never add an age tracking field anywhere.