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Ten year old fort in a metals-poor area. Thus, trade was essential, for what is a dwarf without access to metals? Unfortunately my nobles had annoying demands and export prohibitions on key stone goods, so I mostly ignored these and decided that I don't care if my nobles are irate. Those gushy noble bedrooms aren't going to pay for themselves.

Well, years later I finally got around to assigning a captain of the guard, and shortly after I noticed that my 20-cage dungeon was full. Reports of injuries from beatings and soon my two-bed hospital was overwhelmed. Years of export violations finally caught up with us, including the Queen. Production collapsed as key dwarfs were jailed and injured.

We will recover in time, but what a mess! I didn't expect to see that much fallout.

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I bought some better quality socks (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 months ago by henfredemars@infosec.pub to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

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I work on my feet almost every day, so I wear through socks like nobody's business. Jogging is one of my main forms of physical activity, and that certainly does not help my socks last either. Around the house I'm always wearing socks. I need a new pack of socks nearly once a month just to keep up. Prices are going up too, and I don't want to buy socks like this anymore.

I received some wool socks for my birthday that lasted notably longer than cotton socks, but I tore through these too in a few weeks. Finally, after wearing through another pack of ten, I decided to try some purpose-built work crew socks.

Here you might expect me to write about how much better these socks are, but I don't know yet. I hope they will last longer.

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Lost Fort to a Child's Pet Cat (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by henfredemars@infosec.pub to c/dwarffortress@lemmy.cafe

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Evil tundra fort, 89 units strong, although 20 of which were children that all seemingly showed up within the first year. Indeed, I unpaused the game and got two weddings within the month! It was going relatively well, excluding an unfortunate incident with the children in the mines when attempting to breach a magma tube... but that's not what brought down the fort. The child mining accident was a harbinger of disaster to come.

One autumn, the merchants of the mountain home decided that the best way into my fort would be to path directly through a horde of bear man thralls. You see, the evil biome randomly spawns evil fogs and devilish ash weather that causes an incurable "opposed to all life" condition although it's unclear to me whether the afflicted were truly undead. I had really been meaning to do something about them, but I had been busy properly expanding the military with bronze. And so, I closed the gates to protect my young and inexperienced fighters from the conflict/shield their eyes to prevent the blood lust that would cause them to charge into battle and also their deaths.

The merchants fought valiantly, and one by one they fell in glorious battle. In time, the bear men wandered off the map, and so the coast was clear for some time. I eventually decided to open the gates and allow collection of those spoils that did not interest the bear men. My busy fort was in a rapid expansion phase. The children were mostly the only ones idle, and so about two dozen children wandered out into the frozen wasteland to collect the wares.

One of those children had a cat.
The ground was spotted with devilish ash.
Cats don't wear shoes.

As the group returned to the fort, the cat suddenly went wild presumably after grooming itself and attacked the nearby children. The fighting appeared to spread the illness extremely quickly. Within the day, half the fort was dead or dying. There was no hope to mount a response of any kind. Anyone who entered the fray became enthralled themselves.

In the future, with syndrome-bearing contamination, I think it would be best to keep the pets locked away.

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I wish I could freely play any game that ever would be released at any time of my choosing. (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 months ago by henfredemars@infosec.pub to c/monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz

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I hate waiting for updates.

"Works for me" by henfredemars in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 320 points 1 year ago

If your website only works with Chrome, it’s not a website. It’s a Chrome site.

You didn’t design for the web. You designed for Chrome.

John Roberts’ secret Trump memo revealed in huge SCOTUS leak by henfredemars in c/politics@lemmy.world

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 408 points 2 years ago

Hey guys I know it’s wild but there might be some corruption going on in the Supreme Court.

Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone by henfredemars in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 376 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You do it because it makes an attacker’s life harder because now I have to find two bugs instead of one.

The entire boot chain of the phone up to the apps you run are verified successively by the component that loads it. A digital signature helps ensure that only trustworthy code ever runs. A bug must be found to bypass these checks to load malware code. For example, a bug in the image code in a web browser might cause loading of code that isn’t checked. This way the malware gets smuggled onto the phone.

This means that if you get hacked via one bug and malware is loaded, the attacker has to work harder to solve the problem of how do I convince the phone to load it again at boot because the code it’s made of isn’t going to be approved code. When you reboot, you are effectively forcing a validation that all the code you have running is authentic, which would exclude the malware. Trick me once sure, can you survive a full pat down? Probably not. It’ll get caught.

Unless I have a second bug to fool the normal code loading systems too, the malware can’t run. You have to go back and trigger the first bug again somehow, which places more strain on the attacker.

Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed by henfredemars in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 426 points 2 years ago

Repeat after me: I will not federate with any Meta products.