Rex with the Sauce

The most secure computer in the world isn’t protected by a firewall or a fancy EDR. It is sitting in a lead-lined room, with its Ethernet cables physically cut, its WiFi card ripped out, and its Bluetooth chip disabled. This is the "Air-Gap" - the religious dogma of high-stakes security. We’ve been told for decades that if a machine isn't connected to a network, its data cannot leave the room. It’s a comforting lie, built on the assumption that if you don't provide a door, nothing can walk out. But we forgot one thing: the machine itself can scream through the walls.

@NatesManagement @Katecat @hell_line0 How's this even legal

@Katecat @hell_line0 smartasset.com/insurance/corp… , any company that meets the qualifications to file for this type of insurance benefits from employees that die.

I turned down 2 government jobs because my dad told me to do some specific research and when I did, I learned that in 60 months 72 federally employed (NASA) scientists died of unnatural causes. Ex: house fires, car accident, heart attack at 30, freak accidents, drowning, falling, plant crashes etc.. My dad saved my life fr!!!

Comedy series suggestions? Related, are we seeing a reduction in amount of comedy series produced nowadays?

@MissAlly_01 🤣🤣

To stop ants coming in to your house leave a saucer of milk outside. The adult ants drink it & it has an effect on ant reproduction. The young are born without toes so they can't climb in to your cavity walls. This effect is called lack toes in toddler ants.

I'm just trynna catch a vibe niccuh, see some b*tches, smoke some trees & get high niccuh #np Stainless - @thegame ft @iamandersonpaak

@xysist TF 🤣🤣

Brother Unaeza pata dem ako na macho moja lakini grip pale chini ni kama ya burdizzo. Pale role play unamweka eye patch kama Pirate. Hide ID ni Shobanes

#PoohShiesty moving like he #SugeKnight. Fcuk is wrong with the kid. #GucciMane held him down while he was in the joint

@Sosorico @Mpumiln Good looking out. Used to think it was a traditional wedding/introduction kinda thing. First heard it from that Master Cheng Fu song

@SaucepanRex @Mpumiln In essence it's a ceremony most often traditional where we slaughter cows and make traditional beer.

I know of a lady who never ate at funerals, when she lost her mom she slaughtered 2 cows. Catering was on point. After the trip to the cemetery everyone passed by her house just to wash their hands and went to their homes. Leaving her with all that food.

@MichaelKNku @njoguamo @SirJayliste @fbiego_ Webhooks are more real time than periodic requests, and prevent hogging server resources with unnecessary requests. Alot can be done around it, as you have suggested

@SaucepanRex @njoguamo @SirJayliste @fbiego_ and where the sale is made. We can also do the same with the field staff attendance to see real time logins. Very interesting. We were fetching data periodically using a scheduled action for this 3/3

Installed a car tracker from a company in Kenya that advertises "top security, state of the art" features. But after looking into it... • Android app on Google Play is from a Chinese developer • iPhone app is generic, you must manually enter the server IP • Web dashboard looks like it was built in 2005. Not sure if this was meant to be shared with end-users, but I got access using the server IP. (hii ya .aspx ni backend gani?) The whole platform appears to be a white-label system built in China. After inspecting the web dashboard, I found the API it uses. Calling the API directly returns tracking data with no authentication needed. The identifier seems to be an auto-increment field. I queried a range of IDs and got 96 valid vehicles out of 100 with: • license plates • locations • mileage • vehicle status Plotted on a map, I could see where all these cars are. No hacking. No reverse engineering. Just an exposed API. Worst part? My own car is in that dataset. We definitely have developers in Kenya who could build secure, modern tracking platforms instead of relying on insecure white-label systems.

@MichaelKNku @njoguamo @SirJayliste @fbiego_ Since odoo & traccar provide different services, you'd still need to run both. @njoguamo's suggestion is for efficiency purposes i.e instead of calling traccar API continuously, you setup a webhook url & let traccar dump data to odoo whenever the data is available

@njoguamo @SaucepanRex @SirJayliste @fbiego_ Ok. Maybe we shall consider this when we migrate to latter versions. It makes sense since we don't have to maintain 2 servers i.e. odoo and traccar. The vehicle trackers, fuel monitors and asset trackers can all send data directly to odoo. Thanks.

@Akintola_steve Care to provide more details about consistent hashing??

The biggest problem with sharding , and one nobody warns you about early enough is something called a “hot shard”. A hot shard happens when one shard ends up receiving way more traffic than the others. For example, imagine you split users by the first letter of their username: A–M on shard 1, N–Z on shard 2. It’s looking likes it’s balanced, bah ? But imagine if 80% of your users fall into A–M, shard 1 becomes overloaded while shard 2 is just chilling. You’ve technically sharded your database, but you’ve simply moved the bottleneck from one database to one shard. A good sharding strategy is about distributing data so traffic stays as even as possible across all shards. This is where techniques like consistent hashing come in, they help keep things balanced. Now here’s the thing: most Nigerian startups don’t need sharding yet. But understanding it early means you’ll design your system in a way that makes sharding possible later, without rewriting everything from scratch. That’s the real reason to learn this now, not when it’s already a problem. T for thanks 👍🏾

Database sharding… Most devs hear this and immediately think it’s some super complex concept only top-tier companies should care about. But honestly, it’s not that deep. If you’re building anything in Nigeria that’s going to scale, you should at least understand what it means. I’ll break it down very simply in the next two tweets below only

@Sosorico @Mpumiln No offense, I'm not south african, but what does imcimbi exactly mean. Came across that term long enough without knowing its meaning

@Mpumiln Exactly what happened in my village in the Eastern Cape but it was umcimbi, guy never went to other homes for imicimbi because he was a senior manager in government and drove a Merc, fast forward he did umcimbi, slaughtered a cow and bought tons of alcohol. Only his family went.

@AlhajiKe @iamalexkamau Wazi kaka

@SaucepanRex @iamalexkamau ✅Goan gymkhana ngara rd every saturday from 2-6

Hot take- the biggest barriers to trying new hobbies in Kenya is elitism. Cyclists geeking over bikes, hikers flexing salomons, car guys making it about status. If your community scares beginners, it’s not growing its gatekeeping

@mfalmemwafrica @StrenjaDenja 😂😂

@StrenjaDenja "Captain Kenya" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

nah that video is killing me that guy in red was running to go & save that babe fighting with the boda guy for not paying for the ride & other boda guys nearly lynched him for trying to be a hero 😭

@sarataseer Cap. What do their central bank say about this???

An Irani friend told me her bank in Tehran was bombed by the Israelis. They also bombed the data centre. So now there’s no record of the money she had . Also there’s no way anyone can get cash out.

@AlhajiKe @iamalexkamau Wapi...nipe location ama meet up group nini nini

@iamalexkamau Join us in Chess club hakuna elitism. Ni akili uku ata babako akuwe Emir of Macedonia!

@SomoinaKapeen 😍😍

@fortzonix @axmedalxender I'm speaking from a fullstack dev perspective. Static site devs can have a field day with it

@SaucepanRex @axmedalxender 90 % of the websites don't require a database. They are not application driven nor do they store user's data. So once again I ask ,how are they a security nightmare ?

Some Kenyan tech bros are still deep in denial. They hate on anything that’s vibe-coded 😂 It’s over, guys adapt and accept it. Stop angrily ranting at vibe coders who are actually trying to build businesses around it.

@incentivising Then you lose eventually when they piece things together, bc they will. Far much beneficial to learn from them & team up where necessary

Send mixed signals. They will spend ages overanalyzing before realizing the deception. Guerrilla warfare.

how did people even tell pigeons where to deliver stuff man what the fuck