Matthew Garrett

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 06:38 UTC

Nonthreatening (complimentary)

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:43 UTC

We're hearing that Rishi Sunak is currently in a white Ford Bronco circling the M25, avoiding resignation

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:11 UTC

Ok look tonight does not leave me feeling positive about the future but Rees Mogg losing is objectively fucking hilarious

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:27 UTC

For this run we're going to be exploiting the "First Past The Post" mechanic by splitting the Conservative vote, this does have the problem that it would enable the rise of fascism in the 2029 edition but thankfully we don't have to worry about that in this playthrough

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

Hi welcome to Summer Games Done Quick, tonight we're going for Labour majority any %

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

Attempting to explain UK election results to my spouse and realising that I'm going to need to start in the 17th century

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 10:42 UTC

Look do not ask me to make my trolls intellectually rigorous

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 07:36 UTC

I bet you can

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 06:56 UTC

Bwahahahahaha

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 04:53 UTC

Thinking about how much absolute damage the Cheeky Nando's meme did to British culture

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 01:24 UTC

My "Julian Assange is a criminal" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt, and boy is it helping me figure out who to avoid talking to ever again

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 01:16 UTC

Considering doing @edjeff.bsky.social's edjefferson.com/winning-the-... but taking the actual lottery numbers for each week and re-ordering his posts to (a) maximise payout and (b) define the canonically correct order to watch every Nicolas Cage film as a result

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 20:59 UTC

Because I clearly hate myself, I wrote a thread elsewhere about various common misconceptions about the Assange cases: nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/11267...

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

If it's our patriotic duty not to disclose vulnerabilities that an allied government wants to use, it's presumably also our patriotic duty to ensure that vulnerabilities exist in the first place. Therefore, Rust is unpatriotic.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

poppopret.org/2024/06/24/g...

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:34 UTC

"Sometimes an exploit burned is also a human resource burned. Sometimes it’s a human killed" and sometimes a vulnerability burned is also a human saved what the fuck is wrong with you

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:33 UTC

"It's inappropriate to burn exploits that are being used by western governments" is *way* too close to "It's legitimate to introduce deliberate vulnerabilities for the use of western governments" for me to take anyone arguing it seriously

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 07:09 UTC

Ah fuck why is this without context enough for me to know what you're talking about

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 07:25 UTC

(In this case the breakage is that one of the three US credit bureaus believes I lived at an address in Somerville in 2016, which is probably a false positive from my ex-wife, but means any identity validation where that address I had never previously heard of shows up is one I fail)

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 07:23 UTC

I keep trying to do entirely normal things like obtain phone service and I keep hitting entirely bizarre obstacles and I still do not understand whether I am unusually unlucky or whether this happens to everyone and we just never talk about how opaquely broken *everything* is

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

Fucking screaming

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 05:29 UTC

Cops:fentanyl :: Elon:OpenAI

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 03:18 UTC

It's actually possible with recent openssh but it's kind of awkward

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 03:03 UTC

I wrote about how you can just use the SSH agent protocol to forward whatever the fuck you want from a remote system: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/69646.html

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 06:27 UTC

Who wins, Cliff Wife or Flag Wife

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 02:59 UTC

Got home and this is in the fridge?

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

Yup

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 15:13 UTC

So cursed that the reference implementation was forced to become bug for bug compatible with the Microsoft implementation because that's all that was tested against

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

(ACPI has entered the chat)

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 12:54 UTC

Capital city of a prosperous EU nation and there's still a station where an auld fella has to come out and close the gates whenever there's a train coming

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 11:42 UTC

I appreciate that seeing these two posts without the original still left me knowing exactly what the picture would be

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 00:00 UTC

Labour: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is taxed.... Please.... Sunak: *points at seagull flying past* taxed

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