Rhodri Davies rhodrid

Pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace

by humdog (1994)

When I went into cyberspace I went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. I was wrong when I thought that. It was a terrible mistake.

The very first understanding that I had that it was not a place like any place and that the interaction would be different was when people began to talk to me as though I were a man. When they wrote about me in the third person, they would say “he.” it interested me to have people think I was “he” instead of “she” and so at first I did not say anything. I grinned and let them think I was “he.” this went on for a little while and it was fun but after a while I was uncomfortable. Finally I said unto them that I, humdog, was a woman and not a man. This surprised them. At that moment I realized that the dissolution of gender-category was something that was happening everywhere, and perhaps it was only just very obvious on the ne

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.

Using self-signed certificate.

Create a Certificate Authority root (which represents this server)

Organization & Common Name: Some human identifier for this server CA.

openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# Create a Kubernetes registry secret for an AWS ECR region
	# Requires AWS CLI: https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
	# Requires kubectl: https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/configure-kubectl.html
	#

	#
	# This secret can be used with 'imagePullSecret' for Kubernetes

	#!/bin/bash

	INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/scripts"
	SCRIPT_PATH="$INSTALL_PATH/customsshd"
	LAUNCHCTL_PATH="$HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/com.my.customsshd.plist"
	SSH_KEYS_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/customkeys
	SSH_HOST_RSA_KEY=$SSH_KEYS_INSTALL_PATH/ssh_host_rsa_key
	SSHD_PORT=50111
	SSH_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_PATH="$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys"

	require "socket"

	require "rubygems"
	require "bundler/setup"

	require "celluloid"

	module Chat
	class ConnectionListener
	include Celluloid