miniblog.

When a tool supports both regular expressions and literal strings, which should be the default? If you default to regex, users can match more strings than they realise (e.g. `foo.txt`) or less (e.g. `foo(bar)`). I typically see regex as the default, but I prefer the opposite.

Super impressed that the UK government does regular scanning for vulnerabilities for servers based in the UK: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/ncsc-scanning-information Preventative and good for the overall ecosystem.

Remotely bricking satellite modems as part of (presumably) nation state hostilities: https://www.reversemode.com/2022/03/satcom-terminals-under-attack-in-europe.html If over-the-air update systems aren't receiving regular patches, maybe it would be better for industry to use hardware that can't be reflashed remotely?