I recently wrote about how a misbehaving SMTP sender fooled meabout some malware volume because itkept retrying the same message over and over despite getting permanentSMTP rejections. This made me interested in getting some numbers onhow our malware rejections break down in terms of how many repeats,how many sources, and so on. All of the following figures are forroughly the past four and a half weeks.

The starting figure is that over this time we've done 2,729 rejectionsfor malware and viruses.

You may remember Mozilla's betrayal of Firefox users and itsnominal principles when it force-pusheda misleading named and described promotional addon through its SHIELD studies system. Mozilla ate a certain amount of crow at the timeand promised a postmortem about the whole thing. They have finallydelivered with Retrospective: Looking Glass ( via ).Unfortunately there are problems (still).

Things go bad right at the start of the retrospective:

In December, we launched a tv show tie-in with Mr. Robot, Looking

As part of switching to uMatrix , I woundup destabilizing my Google cookies and thus more or less destroyedmy old Google search settings (as I mentioned in passing in theoriginal entry ). This isn't the first timesomething like this has happened, but this time around I've managedto work out roughly what all of the magic processes are to manipulatethem back to the way they used to be.

Google Search has at least three separate settings:

• The straightforward search preferences for things like how many results

After adding a 'view page in no style' toggle to the Firefoxcontext menu , I still wasn't reallysatisfied. Having it in the context menu is better than nothing,but I'm very used to using a gesture for it and I really wantedthat in Firefox Quantum (even if I'm not using Firefox 57+ today,I'm going to have to upgrade someday). My first hope was that theWebExtensions API exposed some way to call Firefox's sendAsyncMessage()

Yesterday I covered the limitations of Firefox's Reader mode , why I like 'view page in nostyle' enough to make it a personal FireGestures userscript gesture, and how that's impossible in Firefox 57+ becauseWebExtensions doesn't expose an API for it to addons. If I couldn'thave this accessible through Foxy Gestures , Idecided that I cared enough to hack my personal Firefox build toadd something to toggle 'view page in no style' to the popup contextmenu (so

Firefox has had a special Reader mode for a long time now. Since I find that many web pages are badlystyled in ways that make them hard to read, or at least annoying, I resort to it periodically . Howeverit has a number of limitations that are fundamental to what it does.Put simply, Reader mode hunts through the page to find the importantcontent and present it to you with minimal styling.

This opens up a number of limitations:

• Reader mode may not be able to analyze the page,

One of the things that I do is casually watch our external mailgateway's logs of mail rejections due to viruses and malware. Whenunusual things pop up, I then tend to look at what attachmentfile types were associated with this, incase something unusual pops up, or just things we want to block explicitly .For the past couple of weeks I've been seeing a reasonable numberof rejections for what Sophos PureMessage is calling ' CXmail/IsoDl-A 'and our attachment type logger was recording as

I was recently reading Mark Dominus's entry about some X keyboardproblems , inwhich he said in passing (quoting himself):

I have been wondering for years if X's vaunted network transparencywas as big a failure as it seemed: an interesting idea, worth tryingout, but one that eventually turned out to be more trouble than it wasworth. [...]

My first reaction was to bristle, because I use X's network transparencyall of the time at work. I have

It turns out that my Linux Ryzen kernel hangs appear to be a known bug or issue ( Ubuntu , Fedora , kernel );more fortunately, people have found magic incantations that appearto work around the issue. Part of the magic is some kernel commandline arguments, usually cited as:

rcu_nocbs=0- N processor.max_cstate=1

(where N is the number of CPUs you have minus one.)

Magic incantations that I don't understand bug me, especially when theyseem to