@david_chisnall @arafel @cstross @bjn @lauren Tangential, but perhaps worth noting: blanks can indeed kill at sufficiently close range.

Though yeah, it'd certainly be nice if the antivaxers could experiment on themselves in isolation without inflicting the effects on the rest of society.

@rk My dog has gotten accustomed to having his paws wiped and handles it pretty cooperatively. He'll calmly let me lift and wipe off each one in sequence as he stands there, but for some reason always seems to think we're done after three; the fourth is somehow a surprise to him each time.

@cks Seems a bit of an odd exercise -- using FDE in the first place would seem to imply a threat model that includes a local attacker with physical access to your hardware; given that, wouldn't it be fairly simple for such an adversary to extract the (unencrypted) SSH host key from the initramfs and use it to steal the LUKS passphrase via MitM?

Subsequent research indicates that this is known as "surface hoar": https://avalanche.org/avalanche-encyclopedia/snowpack/weak-layer/persistent-weak-layers/surface-hoar-2/

Assuming a causal relationship (naturally), the obvious question is its direction -- nominative determinism or merely descriptivism?

@rk @Grittens I think @arnd might be such an individual?

@rk Wi-Tang is for the chuldren.

@rk @spiegelmama @GossiTheDog And it's especially hilarious that they renamed the company after it.

Like a facial tattoo of a one-hit wonder band, only it's a zero-hit wonder.

@rk @cks @mothcompute I believe AFS has a similar mechanism wherein a symlink named @foo resolves to the output of runing foo as a command -- primarily used in the form of @sys, which would point to e.g. linux-i386 or sunos-sparc or whatnot for bin directories and such in the days of more heterogeneous networks.

(Granted, I wonder if it was really just that support for that particular pattern was special-cased, given what a nightmare it would be implementation-wise and performance-wise to actually execute arbitrary commands in the middle of namei() or the like...)

@arj Ah, nice...I had tickets to seem them a few years back, but then a certain suddenly-ubiquitous viral pathogen went and mucked everything up.

@rk So obviously the most appropriate place to consume baklava is on the rim of an enormous caldera -- which is exactly what I was doing earlier today, as it happens.

@diondokter @estherschindler Same here, FWIW.

@rk ...wait is that actual real-life marketing copy?

I guess we get what we deserve.

@regehr @SnoopJ ...and even without seeing the original post, my immediate reaction upon reading this was "hey, that sounds like gdrive".

Update: the tree is still good.

(From a different angle this year.)