floof.org

one of these days some engineer is going to be like "out of an abundance of caution we are going to burn all of our servers in a fire"
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"I had to, the computer said it was sentient"
Mycroft 🐇 • mastodon (AP)
get a security expert who knows that the best way to prevent a system from being breached is to have never had one; every other option is a risky compromise

Everyone took the shortcut through the graveyard.

It closed at night, but I was in a hurry, and the groundskeepers were busy watching The Big Game. They hadn't even seen me fall over the gate.

My phone lit the path.

A crack of wood made me jump. The gnarled hands clawing through the dirt made me freeze.

The zombie pointed at me, "Give phone!"

The rest of my walk was dark but I could still hear the zombie cheering its favorite team.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

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Pippin friendica

CW: dream injuries and violence

I had a weird dream where I infiltrated a gang of some kind, but they figured me out and one of them cut me deeply several times on the head, arms and hands with a very big sharp knife. It was so sharp I barely felt it and it hardly bled at all. I walked away, hoping to get the cuts sewn up in hospital. It's got to mean something I suppose.

Pippin friendica
Oh Youtube, why must you show me a thumbnail like this and then there's very little of wolf Kal actually in the video? I went as far as downloading the whole of season 3 of this just to find out what was going on… and there's actually very little more wolf Kal in it, pretty much all of it got squashed into this video. But oh my goodness just the way they did this is amazing. Definitely want a good fursuit even more now. And by "good", I mean want to *be* canine (or ursine, or so many others) while still being fully a person, not a mascot, like the style this is done in.

Taken just after the Kaiju Stomp at WPAFW2026, where multiple Kaiju (fursuiters) rampaged through a city (cardboard boxes of various sizes).

I'm walking a bit oddly because my right bootie has come loose inside my hindpaw and I'm trying to make it to a seat before I lose the paw completely. Of course, as soon as I sat down the bootie slid back into place and stayed there the rest of the day.

📸 - Rump

#WerewolfWednesday #WPAFW2026 #Fursuit

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@colinstu @pippin The long brown NFT fur "mane" over the shoulders and down the back was done back in 2002, but it needs sunlight to really pop.

I'm slowly replacing the shorter dark grey NFT fur on the rest of the body; for some reason it's kinked up over the years and just doesn't look good anymore.

Colin • mastodon (AP)
@pippin must be the sunlight. Yeah normally it’s been indoor pics.

longjmp? in the year of our gourd 2026, the php bug involves LONGJMP?
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Mx. Eddie R • mastodon (AP)
Goto considered harmful.
longjmp not technically goto.
Hilarity ensues.
Ronflaix • mastodon (AP)
the gift that keeps giving.

Meet Stitches! Just a handsome fox looking pretty good without even trying.

This one was done traditionally with markers and colored pencils.

I also recorded a time-lapse video of the drawing process! You can watch it in the first comment on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

As well, you can watch a longer video of the process, all the full files, and more drawings I haven't posted on my galleries, all this at supporting me on Patreon or Ko-Fi, check all the tiers and rewards you can get:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/tiers
Thank you!

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ticket machine broken

📸 Podz

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Pippin friendica

Oof. Reading this points out just how many devices won't or can't be updated to distrust the weak CA keys disclosed today. https is barely, if at all, more secure than http now, for those devices.

There's even the scenario where your phone asks Google or Apple if there's an OS update and they would like to say "yes, here's an update to your root certificate store", an attacker could now impersonate them and instead say "no, everything's fine and dandy".

Lovely.


Dairishgoat • mastodon (AP)
On Saturday I attended another Critter Céilí furmeet in Dublin. I was a little late this time, didn’t arrive until after 5pm, but I still got to meet a lot of nice people.
My photos are online here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/finbarzapek/albums/72177720336228785
If you spot yourself, feel entirely free to reuse.
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Pippin friendica
Well, I think we've all learned that randomness isn't an attribute of a number, it's an attribute of the process by which the number is chosen. 4 is neither random nor non-random. But it's definitely a stupid choice if it's meant to stay secret.
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210561 ✨ [Q] • mastodon (AP)
relevant art for today’s incidents
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Phil M0OFX • hometown (AP)
Commence countdown to eMudhra being yanked from the CA cert store...
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Content warning: vibecoding snark

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Soatok Dreamseeker • mastodon (AP)

They did the XKCD thing!

https://glauca.space/@q/117474051360413376


4 times the SECP384-R1 base point is (0x138251cd52ac9298c1c8aad977321deb97e709bd0b4ca0aca55dc8ad51dcfc9d1589a1597e3a5120e1efd631c63e1835, 0xcacae29869a62e1631e8a28181ab56616dc45d918abc09f3ab0e63cf792aa4dced7387be37bba569549f1c02b270ed67)

https://repository.emsign.com/certs/EMOVTLSCAG3C.crt

for the non-cryptographers at the back of the room: the private key is 4, just the number 4, nothing more

Certificate:<br>    Data:<br>        Version: 3 (0x2)<br>        Issuer: C=IN, O=eMudhra Technologies Limited, CN=emSign Root TLS CA - G3<br>        Subject: C=US, O=eMudhra Inc, CN=EM OV TLS CA - G3C<br>        Subject Public Key Info:<br>            Public Key Algorithm: id-ecPublicKey<br>                Public-Key: (384 bit)<br>                pub:<br>04:13:82:51:cd:52:ac:92:98:c1:c8:aa:d9:77:32:<br>1d:eb:97:e7:09:bd:0b:4c:a0:ac:a5:5d:c8:ad:51:<br>dc:fc:9d:15:89:a1:59:7e:3a:51:20:e1:ef:d6:31:<br>c6:3e:18:35:ca:ca:e2:98:69:a6:2e:16:31:e8:a2:<br>81:81:ab:56:61:6d:c4:5d:91:8a:bc:09:f3:ab:0e:<br>63:cf:79:2a:a4:dc:ed:73:87:be:37:bb:a5:69:54:<br>9f:1c:02:b2:70:ed:67<br>                ASN1 OID: secp384r1<br>                NIST CURVE: P-384<br>

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Pippin friendica
And there I was thinking key generators had a bunch of tests to make sure the random numbers they used didn't happen to be too obvious. Maybe they felt those ones were cramping their style. 🤷

Pippin friendica

And that's how you compromise all of TLS, worldwide, in one go. (The broken CAs can presumably issue certificates for *any* name in DNS, and it's the same for all the dozens of other CAs, even the obscure ones, because most (all?) of the CAs in the root trust stores are not, as far as I know, scoped in any way.) (I'm sure someone will correct me if these "presumably"s and "as far as I know"s are wrong.)

Go to https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ , scroll down to "Does your client still trust the compromised intermediates?" and check that your browser is correctly failing to connect to certificates from all 8 of the bad intermediates.


4 times the SECP384-R1 base point is (0x138251cd52ac9298c1c8aad977321deb97e709bd0b4ca0aca55dc8ad51dcfc9d1589a1597e3a5120e1efd631c63e1835, 0xcacae29869a62e1631e8a28181ab56616dc45d918abc09f3ab0e63cf792aa4dced7387be37bba569549f1c02b270ed67)

https://repository.emsign.com/certs/EMOVTLSCAG3C.crt

for the non-cryptographers at the back of the room: the private key is 4, just the number 4, nothing more

Certificate:<br>    Data:<br>        Version: 3 (0x2)<br>        Issuer: C=IN, O=eMudhra Technologies Limited, CN=emSign Root TLS CA - G3<br>        Subject: C=US, O=eMudhra Inc, CN=EM OV TLS CA - G3C<br>        Subject Public Key Info:<br>            Public Key Algorithm: id-ecPublicKey<br>                Public-Key: (384 bit)<br>                pub:<br>04:13:82:51:cd:52:ac:92:98:c1:c8:aa:d9:77:32:<br>1d:eb:97:e7:09:bd:0b:4c:a0:ac:a5:5d:c8:ad:51:<br>dc:fc:9d:15:89:a1:59:7e:3a:51:20:e1:ef:d6:31:<br>c6:3e:18:35:ca:ca:e2:98:69:a6:2e:16:31:e8:a2:<br>81:81:ab:56:61:6d:c4:5d:91:8a:bc:09:f3:ab:0e:<br>63:cf:79:2a:a4:dc:ed:73:87:be:37:bb:a5:69:54:<br>9f:1c:02:b2:70:ed:67<br>                ASN1 OID: secp384r1<br>                NIST CURVE: P-384<br>

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Baloo Uriza • mastodon (AP)

Exacerbated by a search engine demanding TLS in entirely nonsensical situations to stay in search listings, only to get fucked over anyway.

@q

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Soatok Dreamseeker • mastodon (AP)

@zrb @kawazoe @FamiliarDraco They're all under 256.

Naively, a for loop that meant to write the random bytes to a buffer but fucked up the pointer arithmetic could explain it.

Soatok Dreamseeker • mastodon (AP)

For example:

void fill_random(uint8_t *buf, int fd) {<br>    uint8_t *p = buf;<br>    for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++) {<br>        read(fd, p, 1);<br>        (*p)++;<br>    }<br>}<br>

The pointer arithmetic (*p)++ fails to actually move the pointer off buf[0].

A similar version could have had them all overwrite buf[31] instead.

I'm sure the actual script they used is dumber in some other way.

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Furo • mastodon (AP)
I'll behave I swear
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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: mention of genAI

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Matt Sqwrl • mastodon (AP)
It's also good for quickly prototyping a few different approaches to something. Or donkey work, the auto complete it can do for a whole chunk of code is interesting
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Pippin friendica
Yes.

Pippin friendica
Well, I'm glad I charged the battery up to 85% at cheap rate overnight, but today is so dull and rainy it's just not going to last until tonight. It's below 50% already.
Ret • mastodon (AP)

so the “you need an EV” thing… I mean we didn’t have an EV or a charger when we signed up and they didn’t check at all! We do now though.

Indeed Go is just two rates.

I looked at Flux but it worked out a bit more expensive when I did the modelling… maybe that’s different now though.

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Pippin friendica
@Ret I don't know. I picked it last summer when I signed up and haven't changed yet. I haven't done any real "modelling" as such, just eyeballed it. Sadly I suspect I just don't have the energy and patience for any amount of rigor any more (if I ever did). I used to be able to do so much in my head I never got used to spending the time and effort to do anything complex enough that it wouldn't for in my head. Or something. I'm so tired.
@Ret

Paco Panda • mastodon (AP)

It's pumpkin spice latte season, and here's a little Kazan enjoying a lovely autumn day on a swing!

This drawing was inspired by a photo of Kazan in his fursuit, sitting on a swing and looking a lot smaller than usual!

Wishing a very happy birthday to a wonderful friend!!

I also made a time-lapse video of the drawing process! You can watch it in the first comment on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco . Also I'm sharing there the picture, taken by Koidel, the one I got inspired for this illustration.

And you can watch the full video, the scanned version, the full resolution, and more pictures I haven't posted on my galleries yet, all that at supporting me monthly on Patreon or Ko-Fi, this also helps me a lot to keep living out of this and be able to work on more projects, and I always give so many exclusives to those who supports me and join the Clubhouse
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/tiers
Thank you!!

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2 cons in a row nonstop was a ballsy idea but I’m glad to have actually had a birthday con for once nvm 2 of them. It was a pleasure meeting/spending time with so many of you as well.

Thank you #BLFC2026 and #GFM2026.

📸 - @partyote.bsky.social
#furry #fursuit

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Pippin friendica
Today seems to be a wetsuit kind of day. (Short wetsuit over full length dive skin.) Quite nice but I do wish wetsuits weren't as noisy as they are. Constant rustling sound whenever I move at all. Oh well.
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Just..re.. member that you're standing on a planet that's revolving....
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Pippin friendica
Also I just noticed a series called Monkey Wrench I think I'll try, plus there's some new episodes of Helluva Boss. So much to watch today. o.o

Pippin friendica
Also interesting, and more sci-fi/action and maybe less horror (or maybe not?)

Pippin friendica
Youtube suggested me this too, and it's quite good. I don't normally go for horror, but this is really okay.

Pippin friendica
This is surprisingly good, despite there being only two episodes of it so far. I like.

Sharkie • mastodon (AP)

I write science fiction with a furry aesthetic!

Assassins and stewards, hackers and security, pilots and pirates, mercenaries and zealots, dictators and freedom fighters, lovers and lost souls, dragons and kobolds, all set in a far future universe.

Check it out—
https://www.goodreads.com/series/449350-the-draconyma-cycle
https://app.thestorygraph.com/series/11614700
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRMPJQ7R

All books are available as paperback or eBook on Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Nook, and so on.

#furry #scifi #furrywriter

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Thumper ➡️BLFC • mastodon (AP)

🎶Oh, I-I-I, I don't wanna think about distance,
I just wanna be in your existence,
So give me your electric touch, oh!🐰🎶

#BLFC2026 #Fursuit

https://youtu.be/NEP2KedGy2c

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Pippin friendica
For someone who remembers the days of the fursuit mailing list, when there were a few dozen fursuiters in the world, the sheer *number* of fursuits and fursuiters nowadays is just overwhelming. And it's so common at cons it's sadly unremarkable a lot of the time. Good on you for highlighting so many.
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Thumper ➡️BLFC • mastodon (AP)
@pippin I'm here for it. :)
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I wholeheartedly believe that every man should watch this video, because i bet none can grasp quite how terribly women get treated, even at work, without being challenged

@thisisjofrank:
“I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment.

With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording:”

https://youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0

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Ramkumar Ramachandra • mastodon (AP)

FWIW, I'm acutely aware of the infractions against women in general, not just in tech, and still remember each of my personal infractions, although they were arguably minor: I also know what perimenopause is, and none of this was new in any way.

It's easy to blame bystanders, but it's very hard for a man to stand up against other men exhibiting sketchy behavior. Think about it: where are the unwritten social norms that what the man did was objectively an infraction? You're once again hitting the same barrage of "the woman doesn't mind; who are you to mind?" or "it's just banter" lines of reasoning, even as the man.

@artagnon “come on man that’s not right” is very quick and easy to say to “bants” and if that guy is hearing it more often it may stop him before he hurts someone again.
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Is there a german translation? I am afraid I'll miss many things when I need to listen to it on english...

Pippin friendica
Today is one of those days where the answer to "how are you?" is "do I have to answer that?"

Pippin friendica
Neat. They made a new colour, and a few people have actually experienced it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)

Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: a client uses LLM

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Juggling With Eggs • mastodon (AP)

What I still don’t understand is why you would design a fridge to be able to store food at over 50C…

In recent years I’ve seen my local Coop have problems with its fridges regularly malfunctioning. Was this a thing before we decided to operate them remotely?

But yes, this is a warning to citizens their analogue governments have no idea how to keep them safe in this downward spiralling #AI infiltrated world.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/17/who-hacked-frances-supermarket-fridges

#AI
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Juggling With Eggs • mastodon (AP)

@BashStKid

I did wonder whether there was an assumption that you didn’t need to bother selling a commercial freezer in the UK to work above 35C. I generally have a lot of respect for my local East of England Coop - they retain staff for years (some have been there the whole decade I’ve lived around the corner) and there is a guy who has funded his entire politics PhD working there. But I worry about the infrastructure - the staff openly swear about it in front of customers!

BashStKid • mastodon (AP)

I have some commercials myself, and it’s very noticeable that old ones are superior in their working temp range, and also noted as ok for outbuildings.
Newer ones openly say on the label they’re for indoor nonambient use only, and with a rather pathetic op range (I think they assume their freezers will live in a chilled dedicated room)

Selling tat doesn’t stop them raising prices stupidly, of course.

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A purr and a twitch of the whiskers, gold-brown eyes wide with interest.

A shadowy figure slumped above the bed, one with the dimness.

Delicate paws reached up to bat at a lock of long black hair.

The shade reached out a thin gray hand, fingertips stained red. Reaching towards the small distracted cat, which was now trying to groom the hair, strands caught on its tongue.

A pale finger tapped the feline's nose. "Boop," giggled the ghost.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Caturday

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Dairishgoat • mastodon (AP)

Some pics from NordicFuzzcon 2018 taken by Lea Fjord.

#FursuitFriday

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