Patrick McManus

Retired Engineer
formerly Fastly, formerly Mozilla, formerly Co-Chair IETF HTTP(bis) WG

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Dragon was the first private spacecraft in history to visit the @Space_Station, 11 years ago today

[Patrick McManus @mcmanusducksong]

wut?

[Mathy Vanhoef @vanhoefm]

ClarioVPN just confirmed that MITM attacks are "Common vulnerabilities excluded from the scope", see https://t.co/YRgxaO6GcN Not sure why people would still trust this VPN... @weareclario you realize that preventing MITM attacks is a core goal of VPNs, right?

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

You’re telling me the unemployment rate has actually gone down since GPT4 was released? 🤔 🤔 🤔

[Nirav D. Shah @nirav_maine]

Hey y’all—consider rescheduling your Fri/Sat hike up Katahdin, since wind chills will be around -90F up there.

Maybe go somewhere warmer. Like the South Pole.

[Ben Hunt @EpsilonTheory]

I don’t know who needs to hear this (lots of people, apparently), but the Covid vax has saved millions of lives. Here’s all-cause deaths in England since vax roll-out.

[Dr. Buzz Aldrin @TheRealBuzz]

On my 93rd birthday & the day I will also be honored by Living Legends of Aviation I am pleased to announce that my longtime love Dr. Anca Faur & I have tied the knot.We were joined in holy matrimony in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles & are as excited as eloping teenagers

[ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover @NASAPersevere]

Fond memories! My very first rock core, from back in Sept. 2021, now sits sealed up and waiting for potential return to Earth. Six of 10 sample tubes are now down in my backup set.

[Jessi Horelica @jessi_horelica]

Y’all. This is the moment I’ve been waiting for all mission. Earth and Moon together in one shot. The moon will pass in front of the earth soon, and it’s streaming live! You might never see views from this particular orbit again - follow along below!!

https://t.co/U2zfKmUxNZ

[Mathy Vanhoef @vanhoefm]

Abusing Wi-Fi to localize someone's devices. Attacker spoofs beacons to pretend there's buffered traffic. Clients request this traffic & reveal their MAC address. Fake frames are sent to the victim & time-of-flight of the response is used for localization

https://t.co/RBelM9h3sj

[Patrick McManus @mcmanusducksong]

@MChrisRiley bio is "I invest in a16z crypto."

kinda sez it all.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

I have the cover story in a new, special issue of Reason magazine devoted to space exploration. It’s about why Artemis is different from Apollo, and why it’s likely to succeed. It was great to work with @kmanguward on this.

[Patrick McManus @mcmanusducksong]

This is sad news - I've really enjoyed @protocol

[Feisty Duck @feistyduck]

From the TLS newsletter: Frank Denis published code to benchmark ciphers in OpenSSL, LibreSSL, and BoringSSL.
https://t.co/E2izjN179v
October issue: https://t.co/pCDbYE0efU

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

This is a wind gust of 97 mph, or 156 kph, which is pretty damn intense. I must say that *if* the SLS rocket can ride out a hurricane and experience gusts like that, and safely launch a week later, it is a pretty savage rocket. Big if for now, I think.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Rocket Lab is quietly having a great year after some challenges in 2020 and 2021:

• 100 percent mission success
• 50 percent increase in launch cadence (9) over previous years
• Launch of interplanetary Capstone mission
• Progress on reuse
• Business dev of space services

[Alon Kochba @alonkochba]

Two months ago, we enabled Early Hints (HTTP 103) preconnects on hundreds of thousands of @Wix sites served through @Fastly, and it works! Here are some initial #webperf impressions 🧵

[Patrick McManus @mcmanusducksong]

@nirav_mainecdc Dr Shah - walgreens and walmart have both canceled bivalent covid appts for my family due to supply; but I keep reading stories about low uptake of the vaccine https://t.co/iEhWYRSGjp .

what's the availability story in maine?

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

One of the payload operators says the New Shepard-23 ballistic reentry reached 15 Gs during its return to Earth. At this force passengers would have passed out, but it probably would not have been fatal.

https://t.co/4Aow3zFbws