Posts by MilSpec

HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations

Why use F-Droid for security Apps

Why even use a source like F-Droid etc to get a security App such as BitWarden when it's available from the Google App store?

Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records

When companies describe a breach of their systems as an "unauthorized access", it strikes me as being a little disingenuous. Clearly steps that could have been implemented to prevent such access had not taken place, so they might just as well have hung a sign on the server room door that says "Keep out, and please close the door when you leave"

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

Dave's way of looking at computing, zooming from experienced big picture to mico management view in an instant is a joy to follow on YouTube. If you ever ponder just why tf we do things the way we do, his rapid brief explanations of the history leading right up to where we are now and his insights into where it's leading to are worth catching.

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

just the wrong DNA....

Personally I think the very idea of combining the numbers of OS's related to linux then state that as Linux use cases is as daft as suggesting of all the 22 species of apes including gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gibbons and humans, only humans are included in population counts even though they all originate from the same family tree as proved by their remarkably similar DNA, but just the wrong DNA.

Shape-shifting cryptominer savages Linux endpoints and IoT

loT devices ARE endpoints

In serveral parts of this article, loT devices are indicated as being somehow different to other endpoints. I thought consensus had moved past this way back. It's a given that continuing with the distinction is asking for trouble.

Google, Apple squash exploitable browser bugs

Chrome and Chromium

Are there any valid concerns about these vulnerabilities regarding MS Edge given it's Chromium base? I say valid concerns meaning as in factually real.

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

Brake in the middle & throttle pedal on the right in the footwell below the steering wheel, check. Fuel filler takes universal gas guns, check etc. It is very often the way of things/stuff/interfaces that evolve to a more or less common point to find eventual acceptance, then be subject to little more than cosmetic mods over time. This breeds familiarity, lowers training costs and no doubt rankles UI designers because it's not how they like it. Well lap it up because unless change is going to bring epic increases in productivity things aint gonna change!