🍅 Craig @smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz

I just realised my intro went when my instance crashed all those months ago.

Anyhow, hello (again) I am #Debian developer and a #FOSS programmer including #procps and #psmisc I write stuff in #C #python and #PHP

Besides #programming my interests include bike riding, #cooking or #baking and reading, mostly #scifi There is also a starting interest in #infosec

My day job is a senior #networkengineer working on some very large and strange computer networks.

#introductions

5G lunatics are the best lunatics.

The latest thing I've heard is the somehow linked coronavirus with 5G!

It goes something like coronavirus ➡️ corona ➡️ electrical corona ➡️ something something electrical ➡️ 5G

Apparently it is #ilovefs day and what better thing than to work on #freesoftware

Of course its a C program so you know what that means? Finding why the thing runs over its buffer, because its C.

WaPo has an article on previously one of the leading vendors of old school encryption equipment used by governments and others around the world.

The twist? It was secretly owned by the CIA and BND. They rigged the encryption so they could listen in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/

#infosec #crypto

I recently finished reading 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.

You can never say the world building is done by half and there was a lot of that going on. However the plot and the flow of the story suffered because of it.

It's great for reading about some cool ideas about living in space but as a story it was a bit of a chore, especially the last few chapters. The fragment chapters, John Brunner did this way better 50 years ago.

Think Blue Mars in a broader area and no politics

#books #scifi