i finished writing blog post on how i'm using a free tier VM (i'm frugal) to expose web app(s) running self-hosted on my local network to the rest of the Internet.
u can read it via my microblog.pub (ActivityPub) https://pub.ennui.page/articles/ccb66c2/exposing-web-apps-from-my-local-network-using-oracle-cloud-free-tier-caddy-reverse-ssh-tunnel
or via my listed.to blog https://blog.ennui.page/41850/exposing-web-apps-from-my-local-network-using-oracle-cloud-free-tier-caddy-reverse-ssh-tunnel
it is probably too long. i wanted to refine my notes for myself, but also for it to be useful to someone doing stuff like this for the first time, since i was bouncing between different blog posts and articles and other Q&As figuring this out myself. in case u actually try to do this and have any questions lmk
(sorry repost, fixed something)
zero shared 11 days ago
"stop asian hate," reactionary fuckheads
"stop asian hate," reactionary fuckheads
Just did some very cursory scrolling through the Twitter profile of a group called The Yellow Whistles, which gives out free yellow plastic whistles on a yellow scrunchy band to Asians in large metropolitan cities in the US. Self-described as giving out "symbol[s] of self-protection and solidarity in our common fight against historical discrimination and anti-Asian violence."
And like, of course, a little bit of scrolling showed me that they were organizing a vigil for a dead Asian would-be rookie cop (rest in piss), panels with Houston pigs on anti-Asian violence, giving their dingus little whistles to elected officials and of course posting about fucking Turning Red and Squid Games 
Its one twitter account and one shithead yellow whistle thing but it's such a clear articulation of East Asians as a reactionary racialized/minoritized group who depend on the carceral state to affirm their belonging in the racial project of America when xenophobia and the "forever foreigner" stereotype makes it clear that they/we cannot "truly belong" (again, I do not understand why anyone would want to belong to a nation, but that's a post for another time). I think what stands out to me about this example is that it is borrowing straight from a carceral feminist playbook of asking for help, calling 911, etc, in the face of spectacularized and individualized violence. And the fact that the organization itself eagerly partners with local cops etc points again to the ways that "Stop Asian Hate" as a slogan/hashtag has nowhere to go, no place to move but further into the carceral state. It's not even an anti-political demand. It is firmly, staunchly, desperately clinging to politics as it exists.
zero shared 12 days ago
"You can say what you like about React, and i frequently do.
No one can deny that it caused a magnificent rennaisance in loading spinner design."
zero shared 12 days ago
CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.
Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.
All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at https://acropalypse.app/
Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.
(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)
zero shared 12 days ago
Letters are invaluable to incarcerated people. So why is this jail teaming up with a for-profit company to take letters out of their hands and put them on limited tablets and kiosks? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/why-were-suing-protect-right-incarcerated-people-receive-physical-mail
zero shared 12 days ago
WE LOVE THE INTERNET ARCHIVE
& DEMAND #DIGITALRIGHTSFORLIBRARIES
WE LOVE THE INTERNET ARCHIVE
& DEMAND #DIGITALRIGHTSFORLIBRARIES
WE LOVE THE INTERNET ARCHIVE
& DEMAND #DIGITALRIGHTSFORLIBRARIES
Take action: http://BattleForLibraries.com
zero shared 12 days ago
zero shared 13 days ago
From The Onion: "ChatGPT Starting To Think Journalist Could One Day Be Capable Of Independent Thought"
https://www.theonion.com/chatgpt-starting-to-think-journalist-could-one-day-be-c-1850233914
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=yEzsg_0x6Ek
i remembered duendita today and they have a song i havent listened to yet!
zero shared 14 days ago
Impressive new work by Google's Project Zero on #Samsung #baseband vulnerabilities in various recent #Android devices.
Their basic recommendation until patches are sorted = disable WiFi calling / VoLTE.
#Pixel users, make sure to update!
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
zero shared 14 days ago
yes I have a side hustle, it's called "stay employed"
zero shared 14 days ago
zero shared 14 days ago
STOP DOING C
BEHAVIOURS were not supposed to be UNDEFINED
YEARS of CODING yet no real world use found for C99
Wanted to write unsafe code anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: It was called "ASSEMBLY".
"Yes please OVERWRITE THAT BUFFER. Please dereference this NULL pointer" - Statements dreamed up the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what C programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time. (This is real C, done by REAL C'ers)
Segmentation fault.
They have played us for absolute fools.
zero shared 14 days ago
Wow — workers at Bandcamp are organizing! https://www.bandcampunited.org/
They have ways they've mentioned you externally can support at https://www.bandcampunited.org/show-support (https://jacky.wtf/2023/3/fiDf)
zero shared 16 days ago
spent an evening with a pinephone pro testing out postmarketos.
Initially, I was really surprised how far along it felt. phosh had great polish, and things seemed to work. the UI felt responsive and I had a nice little web browser, xmpp chat, and terminal emulation device.
zero shared 20 days ago
This is absolutely heartbreaking. An independent autopsy shows that Tortugita was murdered while sitting cross-legged, with both hands in the air.
No wonder GBI has refused to release any info. This is what we suspected but just so devastating to see.
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/family-activists-hands-were-raised-when-shot-by-police-at-training-center-site/Z2XUXBOELBD5ZKCK3ZYCMBSEXY/
zero shared 20 days ago
zero shared 20 days ago
This week, I put a fully-functioning Linux in a website, running entirely in client-side Javascript!
🐧 https://linuxpuzzles.blinry.org 🐧
It's a prototype for making web-based command line tutorials. Compared to a game or tool you have to download, I hope they will be much more accessible. ✨
zero shared 20 days ago
"go fuck yourself" – weak, overused, ineffective
"I hope your favorite distro switches to snap" – OUCH
zero shared 20 days agoAs usual, @pluralistic hits the nail right on the head, this time with "The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble"