hello i'm lily (my fursona is called tauon)
i'm gay and mentally ill
i am plural. the headmates i know of are:
🌸 lily (host)
🪙 Penelope
🦊 matilda
we don't remember to use the emojis like ever
i post good about being gay and programming in the rust programming language
last fm recently played list
ask me stuff!! :3
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web site :3
tauon.dev/

plumpan
@plumpan

People smoking or vaping around me gives me a distinct physical reaction; my sinuses get upset just knowing it's happening and the couple of times I've gotten a headache from it have made my body immediately go "hey tell them to get that shit out of here before we get a headache again."

Seeing people use twitter around me is a similar reaction, but purely mental. A strong emotional urge to ask why the fuck they're still using twitter, and suggest they at least wait until I'm not around to do it. Maybe the hour or so delay will help somehow, but at the very least it makes me a little less depressed about the world.



lexyeevee
@lexyeevee

i'm sorry everyone. you may recall from a recent css baby post that i made a fake window like this:

fox
eevee's web zone — Mozilla Firefox
×
🔒 https://eev.ee/
(website elided)
Done

however that was incredibly lazy of me. you see, the behavior you get when clicking the minimize button is not minimizing. it is a behavior called shade, which has mostly been in kde and nextstep and other obscure window managers used by nerds.

an actual minimize button would do this

fox
eevee's web zone — Mozilla Firefox
×
🔒 https://eev.ee/
(website elided)
Done


sirocyl
@sirocyl
from some PBX in a LACK rack, I'd assume. - Voicemail recording of the delivery service call (Transcript in post)
Voicemail recording of the delivery service call (Transcript in post)
from some PBX in a LACK rack, I'd assume.
00:00

(or, well, one of their delivery services.)

🔊 Just a fair warning - there are some perhaps annoying glitch sounds in the attached recording. The volumes are normalized to limit loud spikes, as they were a lot worse in person. 😅

See also, the sequel: I broke Google TTS.

so, my phone service has a rather clever anti-spam tactic, which works like this:

  • I receive a phone call from an unknown number, and it goes through screening when I answer it. It rings until the fifth ring, the voicemail greeting plays out, then I've got 30 seconds to judge if it's a spam robocall or if it's genuine
  • If it's okay, I press 1, and it interrupts the ring/voicemail sequence and I answer the call like usual.
  • If it's spam, I press ### (the # key by itself normally opens my PBX menu, so it doesn't go through) and hang up immediately.

Pressing ### and hanging up, will shove the call to voicemail, then launch a "DTMF bomb", which is a rapid sequence of over a hundred tones of DTMF keysmash, even including some of the "ABCD" keys. This has blown up spammers' cheapass PBXes, especially ones with poor security and too much trust given to the DTMF decoder on the call server.

So, when IKEA called from a random 1-877 number to confirm my furniture shipment worth $1200 (that's the equivalent of :sixty: blåhaj!), the only thing it said is "To continue in English, please press 1."... and I had no idea who it was, immediately thought it was spam, and did the ### gesture. Oops.

What follows is a transcript of the call in the recording above.



mog
@mog

here's the DTMF bomb decoded:

***00###00***00###DD3001784002B322767B6327677ABA88000CCCDC4002375543716604322108322407332846410873320925710855AAAAA888888888888888888888888888888888888888

here's what is likely happening:

  1. the PBX allocates a 128-byte buffer for parsing DTMF tones, which should be fine, since it is only expecting one
  2. the DTMF bomb sends 154 tones, which overflows the buffer, filling an extra 28 bytes with 88888888888888888888888888
  3. the pickup info, which is positioned after this buffer in memory, is (partially?) overwritten with 8s. this causes... problems, which leads to the glitches and the 8888888... phone number