Cloud, IPvX, Passkeys, Brother, SQLite3, SimpleX, Restic, OIDC

1. Cloud comparison, and price offer tuning. Lots of discussion with different cloud providers about discounts and so on. Comparing features on paper, and real world performance etc. Unfortunately I've got nothing to disclose publicly.

2. IPv4 vs IPv6 - I think I've said this before, but here's it once again. - I see this just as repetition of the 32 bit vs 64 bit operating systems. Why would anyone want to use 64 bit operating system? Instructions are longer, it requires more cache, RAM, disk space and so on, making performance worse. Nobody actually wants 64 bit systems. Endless problems with drivers, programs, etc.

3. Chrome finally brought passkeys (@ Wikipedia) login. Awesome. Now waiting for Firefox next. Anyway, I don't know if it's just Microsoft policy(tm), but O365 + Firefox + Linux, passwordless login doesn't work. But it does work with every other service, so I assume it's just Microsoft policy to disable it for nuisance.

4. Brother printer firmware and drivers. It seems that they're probably on purpose totally ruined gray scale printing. Now everything has to be printed in color. Because the printer basically only supports black and white, anything containing any gray scales will be turned into black. - Thank you for this "improvement" guys.

5. Watched a very nice presentation about IPv6-only servers from mythic Beasts running Raspberry Pi clusters. And how expensive it would be to provide IPv4 addresses for the servers. 

6. Bug in SQLite3 (@ philipotoole.com). Yes, when you do things, and find something isn't working. That's classic question. So many teams just want to avoid doing anything, and then it's up to others to implement workarounds. Been there, done that, countless times. Because fixing the root cause would require some effort. My personal opinion is that if things stink, there's probably something there that would need fixing or investigation.

7. SimpleX.chat now provides client authentication, making it possible to run private servers for closed groups. IPv6 support is also finally here. Great!

8. Restic (@ restic.net) finally added compression, lazy prune and options to create larger data packs. This is awesome. These are exactly the features which kept me earlier from using Restic. I would prefer Duplicati on Windows, but it's data corruption issues are unbearable. Even though I think there are 1-3 overlapping serious bugs causing the corruption problem. First something goes slightly wrong, then wrong action is taken to remedy that and then it's totally unrestorable. Even if no data loss would have occur, so even recovery code is broken. - It seems that the latest version fixes a few things about the data corruption, but a few things still remain.

9. Finnish Police joins The Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) (@ europol.europa.eu) taskforce.

10. CVE-2022-37958, so nice! Wormable authentication remote code execution exploit on Windows. What could go wrong with such quality code?

11. Information Security - Read summary national cyber security incident report for summer. (ISAC = Information Sharing and Analysis Centre) - Attended InfoSec training for public sector in Finland.

12. Matrix is adopting OpenID Connect (OIDC) (@ Wikipedia) and Sinuna.fi (no link on purpose) authentication provider is also trying to push OIDC in Finland forward hard.

13. Checked PeeringDB, Starlink is going to be a big ISP. See: AS18747 (@ peeringdb.com).

14. Something different? Read long documentation about all air plane gauges again. Yet most of those were completely familiar as their analog forms from my childhood. Many articles about state and governments hacking activists. Somehow that shouldn't surprise anyone. More weapon systems: Baykar Bayraktar Kızılelma (@ Wikipedia), Polonez (multiple rocket launcher) (@ Wikipedia), AGM-183 ARRW (@ Wikipedia) and Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) (@ Wikipedia).

2024-01-07