⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

A tiny clip of lasers across the #Tyne (@seb_ly's #LaserLightCity show). We had a fair bit of drizzle in #Newcastle, but it added to the effect as it danced across the light beams.

@mempko @timbray When the dorks deactivated SMS compatibility I knew their days were numbered but I still have it on my phone for push to talk

If you like synths and javascript you're gonna love https://dittytoy.net

#synth #javascript

It’s Schadenfriday, so I pretty much had to write about Andrew Tate. But to many who didn’t know much about him until recently, there’s quite a lot to unpack. We can all breathe a little easier knowing he’s finally facing serious legal consequences. I explain in today’s piece.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-downfall-of-andrew-tate-isnt?sd=pf

Amazing photo by Paul Appleby, we're terminating the lasers from the Tyne Bridge onto the Millennium Bridge, and it's a pain to align but holy shit it looks good when it works.

In Newcastle next few nights running Laser Light City. It’s been an intense set up but we’re nearly ready for the first show tonight. 88 lasers and 1kw of laser power. HTTPS://Laserlight.city/Newcastle

2022 was a busy year for digital rights in the UK with legislative change post-Brexit and the online ‘safety’ bill. Here is the @openrightsgroup round up with a look towards 2023 https://www.openrightsgroup.org/

I never get excited for my birthday, but I do get pretty psyched for my blog birthday. Happy 12th, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

I took the occasion of today's obligatory bday post to highlight some of the more notable cybercrime stories in 2022.

A big thank you to everyone here who has supported my work over the years!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/happy-12th-birthday-krebsonsecurity/

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other equipment in that room, since we didn't have uninterruptible power supplies back then.

I made some calls and it was decided I should shut everything in the room down. Everything. I phoned the ARPANET NOC (Network Operations Center) at BBN and explained the situation, since I was about to shut down IMP #1 (essentially, a refrigerator-sized router) on ARPANET which sat in a corner of the room, and doing this could cause disruptions if done in an unplanned manner. The IMP was *always* running -- I had never seen it powered down.

I worked my way around the room, powering down terminals and disks, and printers, and the power supplies on the 11/45 (ARPANET Host #1 - UCLA-ATS) and the 11/70 (Host #129 [1+128 on IMP #1] - UCLA-SECURITY. Back then my email addresses were LAUREN@UCLA-ATS and LAUREN@UCLA-SECURITY -- no domains yet.

The usual roar of the machines gradually got quieter and quieter, until only the IMP was left. I pulled down the power switch. Now there was dead quiet except the hum of the lights, a situation I'd never experienced in that room before. Very odd feeling.

Suddenly I heard a click -- the IMP was powering back up by itself. Damn. I pulled down the switch again. Quiet for a time, then click and it came back up yet again. Before I started thinking about screwing around with its power cables or turning off breakers that could have unexpected effects, I called the NOC again to ask them if they had any ideas.

"Oh yeah. We should have told you! There's a little switch that controls auto-restart. Surprise!"

So I found and flipped that little toggle switch, powered down the IMP again, and this time it stayed down. I had turned off the ARPANET -- at least at UCLA. -L

When I started my freelancing business with #PHP and #WordPress I hung this up on my office wall too.