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Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.

So I'm trying something different. I'm offering free consulting time to any project that wants it. Sign up here: cal.com/scottjenson/exchange

Cal.comIdea Exchange | Scott Jenson | Cal.com Idea Exchange
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People are desperately rushing to save data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) before their Amazon Web Services go dead tonight... thanks to DOGE. That's a lot of weather and climate data.

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Possible third-level domains based on certificate issuances (thank you, @jenniferplusplus)
Possible sites/datasets based on the master NOAA github account (thank you, @Catladylilia)"

If you want to help, go to the Safeguarding Research & Culture website:

forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-s

and read the whole thread, then sign up.

[EDIT: Wait a minute! See some *good news* in part 3.]

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Well, this one was unexpected: github.com/tarampampam/error-p

I just discovered that some of my services were open to the internet, thanks to the default-backend for my ingress-nginx changing the status codes when switching from v2 to v3 of the backend container…

It's not really a vulnerability, but somehow a security issue for potentially more people. My monitoring caught it, but I didn't really understand until I looked deeper into it.

After upgrading to v3, I noticed that some of my pages, running behind oauth2-proxy in combination with ingress-nginx were experiencing strange problems. API calls would fail, some things wouldn't ...
GitHub--send-same-http-code=false considered harmful · tarampampam error-pages · Discussion #336After upgrading to v3, I noticed that some of my pages, running behind oauth2-proxy in combination with ingress-nginx were experiencing strange problems. API calls would fail, some things wouldn't ...
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Kenne Ich hier jemanden mit einer (halbwegs guten) Kameradrohne? Der mir jetzt, und in den nächsten 12 bis 18 Monaten ein paar mal wiederholt, Fotos/Videos mit der Drohne drehen könnte?

Würde gerne den Baufortschritt beim neuen Haus immer wieder mal aufnehmen, aber dafür eigens Drohne kaufen ist auch meh...

Umgebung von #Fulda, Unkosten die entstehen trag Ich.

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PSA: The #LVFS has been down from about 5AM this morning; the machine the database is running on appears to be OOMing. I've opened a ticket with the sysadmin team at the Linux Foundation and am trying some mitigations in the meantime.

No idea on the root cause yet -- debugging now. If you see error messages from fwupd or gnome-software when refreshing or downloading firmware then that's why. Some downloads may work, as AWS is starting and draining containers like crazy. Send hugs!

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ℹ️ GOOD POINT 👇🏼
Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

Project 2025 calls for using public channels of communication (like Signal) instead of secure government channels, to subvert FOIA requests and conceal damning information from the public. This was no rookie mistake. It's the plan.

I'm a bit unhappy with the coverage for CVE-2025-1974. While it might be true that ">40%" of all clusters run ingress-nginx, only a small fraction will actually at risk of being exploited. If you run an overlay network (non-IPv6) and don't let non-cluster-admins create Ingress resources, the risk is drastically reduced. Remains the risk of attacks by workloads directly talking to the webhook endpoint.

It's an exciting finding, but still… keep calm and patch.

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Trump admin uses Signal to coordinate military operations, and also accidentally added the editor in chief of The Atlantic to a group about bombing Houthi targets in Yemen that includes JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and other dipshits theatlantic.com/politics/archi

The Atlantic · The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansBy Jeffrey Goldberg
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Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

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