Networking¶

Continuwuity Postmortem

On 2025-12-21, an zero-day vulnerability was exploited against the continuwuity Matrix rooms. This included all of our community rooms, including the space, main room, offtopic room, development room, BSD suport room, announcements room, git notifications room, and worst of all, our minecraft room. All of our communal rooms were left in tatters with only some damn lucky servers escaping unscathed. We were completely blindsided by this attack, and with zero anticipation, also had zero information on it. Even worse, this attack seemingly affected all servers that weren't Synapse or Dendrite. Quite the dire problem!

I'm going to walk through, step by step, what happened, how it all went down, and what we're doing to ensure disasters like this can't happen again.

How I hacked my washing machine

If you've known me for some amount of time you knew this was something that was bound to happen eventually. Yesterday (and technically today), me and a friend went on an endeavor to hack our washing machine, partially for the fun of it, and partially because there's actually a practical use for it.

Where I've been

As is to be expected, I did the thing every aspiring blog writer does and started a blog page, only to write three posts and then never touch it again. Truth is, I've been itching to write more, but I both haven't had the time, and everything that I wanted to write about ended up not being worthy of its own entry. Plus, almost all of it has been Matrix-related, and I want my blog to be about more than Matrix. But whatever, here's an overview of everything I've been doing since the start of the year. Some of it's interesting!

Vir{m,g}in Media - a tale

Virgin Media (or Virmin Media), one of the world's worst internet service providers I have used so far. Read on to find out my experience with them, and the lengths I have had to go to in order to get a basic level of support as a long time paying customer.