Posts by RedGreen925

About that Windows Installer 'make me admin' security hole. Here's how it's exploited

Ahhhh, Microsoft code the gift that just keeps on giving to all the scumbags out for a quick exploit. So sad it has been true for decades now yet these clowns still use it and pay good money for the privilege.

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Re: Other problems

"So what this guy's saying is bald-faced lies. But we'll give him the benefit of the doubt, that with being not a visionary and all. Just a misguided true believer. And a microsoftian working on linux. That too. "There are no conflicts of interest there at all either," said Comical Ali."

There are all kinds of Microsoft plants working on Linux, more openly recently when they head home to the mother ship after a few years of their subversion having taken effect. With it entrenched like the systemd garbage they go home to get their reward with a nice high paying job. When they do not need to worry about the rubes in open source doing a god damn thing to remove their fine work for Microsoft and their attempt to change it toward their aims. We are in the extend phase of the embrace, extend and extinguish playbook of theirs. With full on support from most of these supposed freedom warriors in open source and the free software movement now fully controlled by the parasite corporations. There are very few left to defend free software as most of the distributions have bought into this new subversion hook, line and sinker. And like the fish once caught are soon to be gutted and gobbled up.

France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes

Re: "French president Emannuel Macron used his X account"

"The preferred term is xitted, or xat out."

I would go with defecated when referring to anything posted on anti-social media or with words attributed to a politician..

Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others

Re: WTF

"From Microsoft's disclosure about the bug: "An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted print task to a shared vulnerable Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service across a network. Successful exploitation could result in remote code execution on the server.""

Total morons, as I have many times they have not one single clue how to do anything securely. A bunch of clowns running a shit show for laughs and giggles about how much the even bigger morons who will pay them actual money to buy their garbage. The crowd who whine on about how hard done by they are by the mean old hackers exploiting the trash they bought. Looks good on ever god damn one of them fools.

How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business

"Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated"

Perhaps an AI model could thieve the calculations from somewhere to get that done.

iPhone kicked out of China’s top 5 smartphone brands as domestic market bounces back

Ah the kowtow has worked well Timmy boy, then again Saint Jobs started it, for Apple could not have happened to a nicer bunch of scumbags. Time to move on to the next slave labour country with lax environmental standards and see if you can make some more cash there. The bloom is definitely off the Chinese rose as more of these slime bag corporations are finding out now they don't need them anymore. Look out the Chinese are coming for all of it idiots enjoy their war on the west as they eat all of the market from underneath you. And are they ever taking the revenge for the Opium War out on us with a vengeance with the fentanyl pumping out of there into our countries in epic quantities.

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

Re: FALSE

"See Cuba, Venezuela where they suffer hunger now."

See the United States where the parasite capitalists corporations have bought the policies put in place to make certain of that. For the crime of telling the Yankees to go home, leave their countries alone and stop thieving their resources.

Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI

Typical

Pretend to do something after the horse has already bolted from the barn, like closing the door. Them lying bastards in the tech industry are good at that method of doing it. Then the patting themselves of the back saying "are we not so great" for pretending to do something about the massive damage we have already done to society.

X.org lone ranger rides to rescue multi-monitor refresh rates

X11 won't die.

A good thing to avoid the corporate lockin that IBM tries to create with the Wayland and its Systemd infestation of Linux. It is too bad all these supposed freedom loving developers, like Debian, have fallen for this garbage hook, line and sinker. With the systemd subversion they do not even try to hide the disdain for the open source UNIX philosophy anymore, with the recent however many percent less UNIX comment when releasing the latest version that resulted in 100% less /home in that debacle by them scumbags now employed by Microsoft. Yet one more step on the road to enshitification of Linux by the Corporate forces who pretend to be friendly while gutting it from the inside with the plants in key projects doing their corporate bidding.

Mozilla Thunderbird finally gets system tray notifications

Re: Sorting folders in TB

"I've moved over to the Betterbird fork."

Been on it for years myself wonderful program that does actually seem to get it and do things for their users, like this so hard for mozilla to do notification. I do not think I have ever not seen a notification since using the Betterbird one just shows up for every email received.

Edit and now I thought of it the profiles the Betterbird produces are compatible with the Thunderbird another idea mozilla seems to lack, is keeping that from breaking upon upgrading. Much like the Handbrake does upon upgrades too it is every single upgrade with them people where they tell you they may be incompatible it seems, at least mozilla is only a random abuser of this.

Betterbird

Has done it since I have been using it for these last few years, perhaps the mozilla people could have got off their ass and looked at what the forks of their project do with their code they did not seem to find it that hard.

Tesla sales, market share dip in EU while other EV makers grow

Re: A combination?

"Every component on my PC was not made in China."

I actively go out of my way when buying anything to make certain it has the least Chinese content humanly possible for all the reason you list. Oh and the useful idiots as they are referred to by those scummy governments who gloss over the active targeting of literally everything produced by their fellow citizens in the West. Will come to rue the day when all their jobs and freedoms are gone if they succeed with that aspect of their conquest. They laugh at what fools we are for letting them get away with it for so long. Racists indeed, not so when calling out murdering bastards for being just that. Or to criticize their active war against us both on the land/seas/skies, space even, and in the shopping aisles.

ZDI shames Microsoft for – yet another – coordinated vulnerability disclosure snafu

Shocked

I truly am, those clowns at Microsoft have no clue how to classify a security vulnerability, with their stellar record over the last forty years or so with security who would ever have thunk it...

Microsoft China staff can't log on with an Android, so Redmond buys them iThings

"For another, side-loading apps by uploading a .APK is a possibility, but Microsoft evidently won't go there, either."

They want to do it securely, so that leaves any Microsoft source out of the loop they would not have a single clue how to do that.

US-China chip wars 'mainly ideological' says ex-ASML boss

Another one of the let us sell them the rope to hang us crowd. Once the Chinese have bought or stolen all the tech they need to make the machines ASML are making we will see how fast that change that tune.

China and the EU agree to consultations over EV anti-subsidy investigation

Idiots

What a spineless bunch in the EU. In case they have noticed it China is engaged in a all out war against the west for control of the future economy doing everything they can to take all the jobs. While providing support for Putin's actual war in/on Europe if they want to have any "freedom" left they had better wake up and do something about both. Apparently the lessons of a hundred years ago was not enough to teach them morons anything.

That PowerShell 'fix' for your root cert 'problem' is a malware loader in disguise

hahaha, simply amazing and quite frankly well deserved for the morons who will fall for it. They deserve everything they get for being stupid enough to run some random bit of code suggested by a pop up on that virus/trojan delivery system that masquerades as an operating system, let alone using it for anything important. Yet again exposing it for the piece of garbage it is that it even allows things like this to happen.

Microsoft bigwig says the Feds catching Chinese spies in Exchange Online is the cloud working as intended

Re: These attack vectors have been known and warned about for years.

"I'm sure there are lots of multi-$$$ kickbacks involved."

Now now the preferred term in campaign contributions, it solved the anti-trust case rather nicely and has been going swimmingly ever since. I used to be shocked at how cheap it is to buy government influence but not anymore.

Raspberry Pi stock surges after London IPO

"Or even enough shareholders to have any significant steerarge of the company?"

Public corporations are required by law to put their shareholders interests above all others. This usually involves making loads of cash to return to them in the form of dividends.

Long-term supported distros' kernel policies are all wrong

"Follow the money."

Who would have thought that the parasite corporations greed is a source of problems. Must have been a new ground breaking AI used that lead this study to come up with the blinding obvious for literally well over a century of experience with it happening.

Gentoo and NetBSD ban 'AI' code, but Debian doesn't – yet

"Debian's policy seems to recognise that."

It also requires you to be listing the copyright license used in the package for ALL the code used. It needs to be from a confirmed source. I for one fail to see how any AI code will be able be confirmed to be by an author of that code that allows the release for use by the Debian project. Just another example of their hypocrisy, though to be fair it is hardly a rare trait in the tech or any other industry for that matter.

VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use

"Virtualbox locally"

That is nothing to brag about supporting those scumbags at Oracle is just as bad. The day it was announced was the day I uninstalled it. And I was none too happy with Sun either but at least they did the odd good thing...

America's enemies targeting US critical infrastructure should be 'wake-up call'

Yeah right they have got right on doing something about it. These clowns have been making the same statements for years and they do not one single damn thing to solve the problems. And will not even after the pipeline debacle of a few years ago should have set off alarms for one their generally useless "war on some damn thing" them stupid yanks are good at declaring but not making any progress with. Surely there must be some graft to be had and corrupt politicians to be greased to get the money train flowing to the parasite corporations they are so good at doing with those ideas.

Microsoft's Brad Smith summoned by Homeland Security committee over 'cascade' of infosec failures

"Software engineering should be overhauled too, it urged. "

Do you really think so, after damn near a good forty year long tradition of putting out garbage software with a serious lack of any thought to doing security properly implemented in it. Well good luck with changing that anytime soon, better off starting with a clean slate and ditching the steaming piles of dung they have already produced basically forever.

Baidu's PR head has a PR problem after workaholic social media posts

Yes they should be grateful little slaves working themselves to death for the sake for company and country.

Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks

"I think a lot of the EU laws, possibly some UK ones as well, are written as fines up to 5% / 10% etc. of worldwide revenues.

Unfortunately there haven't been any cases where the maximum penalty has been imposed that I know of.

$150K here, $2M there. Barely more than the lunch budget for board meetings so who gives a damn."

I am all for a corporate death penalty, as well as personal if the parasite corporation and those in charge have caused the death of someone.

Re: I don't get it...

"A position with better pay comes open? Fuck off you highly skilled candidate, the jackass with more seniority gets the job!"

So almost the same as any other place without a union, the toady who kisses the bosses ass gets the job over the competent employee. Except you know the rules to be followed with a union in place and the seniority system so the toady gets to loose out in that situation...

Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world'

What is destroying with the world is the parasite corporations and their fascist, nazi allegiances that are trying to destroy a secular democratic society based on dignity and respect for human rights. I say take all their ilk out to be shot and pissed on.

Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else

Re: Is this an OS?

"It's only a command shell for GRUB"

Soon to be replaced by Systemd once that Microsoft planted weasel Pottering is done.

Re: OS on UV EPROMS

"Just goes to show what you can do when you bribe, blackmail and commit fraud on an epic scale...."

I sense you are holding back, go ahead tell how you really feel about them slimy bastards at Microsoft.

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License

Re: Buying in to this is the surest way to make sure whatever you are developing doesn't get used

"Ask them to pay and they will just not use your software...."

Sounds good let the parasite corporations expend their own efforts and pay to reinvent the wheel. Then they can stop using, I prefer the term stealing when applied to them, the efforts of other peoples work for free.

Jensen Huang and Sam Altman among tech chiefs invited to federal AI Safety Board

Foxes

In charge of the hen house strategy, a fine American tradition of pretending to do something about a problem while doing diddly squat, not to be confused with the "war on ???" strategy which is equally fucking useless. To be fair it has been adopted world wide by all governments.

Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos

Re: Dominate

"- charging needs to be as quick as filling up your tank with gas(oline)"

Screw the charging one method solves all you problems. Standard replaceable/exchangeable batteries for all makes of cars. You drive into shop they switch a fully charged battery into the car. Totally solves everything you list. Already starting to happen in China so all that is needed is for the parasite corporations in the West to get told the time has come to do it by the useless bastards in government that supposedly want the change to EVs to happen.

Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director

Too bad

he didn't have the balls to say this while in power with the opportunity to do something about it at hand. But then that might have been doing his job properly and crippling his chance at the big bucks jobs once leaving government going to the same parasite companies he regulated poorly. Apparently nothing has come up so now he will tell the truth he should have been doing all along.

Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate

Re: Snaps still don't work

And now it pops into my mind too late for an edit. This link to get rid of the weak key warning you get in apt from the mozilla repo.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/04/workaround-apt-warning-signature-key-uses-weak-algorithm/

Re: There's still time for common sense to prevail?

"For an easy life, try MX Linux, then. Less work than Devuan, better compatibility with nVidia drivers and things, and it works well."

Then you need to put up with their foolishness like a never updating kernel as the default install does not make sure to have the meta package for that to happen installed. The firewall turned on a home network stopping you from connecting to the machine and other junk I forget at the moment I had to do when trying it. Oh command line modifications to config files ignored for samba at least, you had to use their graphical programs to do the configuration changes, with the their way or the highway approach. Though I did solve the shutdown problems with the one machine I installed and kept it on, turns out without the garbage systemd installed the machine will shut down perfectly fine. Use it and it continues to be powered on but supposedly off so a power button push and hold is needed to shut it down..

Re: Snaps still don't work

"I'm going to have to switch another distro if I can't re-install (X)Ubuntu WITHOUT snap. Any suggestions?"

The following link describes how to do it with it never coming back.

https://www.debugpoint.com/remove-snap-ubuntu/

If needing Firefox/Thunderbird installed as .deb files .

https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Roku makes 2FA mandatory for all after nearly 600K accounts pwned

Re: Not all bad

"Quit using email and SMS and calling it 'authentication' if you want anyone to take you seriously."

Indeed I think the same every time my god damn bank does their security theater on logins. Listing only those two choices, for my protection don't you know, yeah right both sent in plain text for interception and use.

Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests

""All employees - union or not - have the right to participate in a protected strike, picket or protest.""

Outside of the building on public property, not during an occupation of a private building, that is called trespass which they were rightly arrested for.

Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig

"It should weed out the weaker tools, leaving only the fitter, better-adapted ones… while not publicly hurting anyone's feelings."

Yes the anti-social behavior training was a stunning success. Like the racists and fascists of old did he just hides it better now, even as they come out from under their rocks to enjoy the full light of day with their mainstream acceptance by more and more scumbags among us ......

75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

100% of Gartner studies will be replaced by AI soon. And Christ do I ever look forward to that day as much as I despise the AI hype garbage...

Got an unpatched LG 'smart' television? It could be watching you back

Re: Or your best solution is...

"Is the inference that anybody who uses apps on TVs is stupid?

The snootiness exhibited by some techies is incredible."

Indeed they are morons just like the idiots on their "smart" phones giving all their life's information to the parasite corporations willingly. Then having the audacity to complain about it when they are caught using it. And the apologists for the parasite corporations are more than just as bad, they are part of the problem.

A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS

Re: Meanwhile somewhere else in the multiverse:

"Meanwhile somewhere else in the multiverse: "

Indeed first thing that came to my mind when posting the same thing, should have read farther...

Thieves

"Plummer's story goes back to 1993, the final days of MS-DOS. He was an intern at the time, tasked with working on the disk compression technology in version 6.2 of the operating system. "

The same code/idea Microsoft stole from Stac and paid millions for when sued for doing it and found guilty by the jury.

Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you

Re: If only there was some technology

"I think mentioning "security for windows" should be enough to tell you he's having a laugh."

Indeed I always get a good belly laugh going when seeing those words together, unless accompanied by "total lack of" and/or "not hope in hell of them having done it properly" in the same sentence.

Microsoft slammed for lax security that led to China's cyber-raid on Exchange Online

Gee, did they use some ground breaking AI model for the study in that report? It has been blindingly obvious for the past four DECADES, Microsoft has not one single clue how to do security properly.

Bon Jovi, Billy Eilish, other musicians implore AI devs to think of humanity

"The Artist Rights Alliance has launched a petition to end the use of AI that infringes upon or devalues the work of humans."

Good luck with that the parasite corporations could care less about your human values they only care about the profit that can be made by dehumanizing everything in sight. Destroying the planet bit by bit to extract ever more obscene profits for their scumbag billionaire owners.

Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library

Re: It Was In Debian Unstable

"Learned about the vuln this morning. Checked my system, I had version “5.6.0-0.2” of xz-utils installed. Checked for an update, there was already one. The version I now have installed called itself “5.6.1+really5.4.5-1”. That’s Debian for you ..."

Same here though this article was the only one of all the other supposed "news" articles to give any actual information of use. Such as naming the library to check for and versions affected, as is the standard for journalism these days fluff articles that pretend to give information of use. Oh the Kubuntu 24.04 development branch which updated over 1100 packages today on my machine had liblzma5 at version "Installed: 5.4.5-0.3". On the plus side it looks like the transition to the 64 bit time version fix has completed going by all the t64 on the end of all those libraries names that were installed in the update.

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

"Again, a potential malware vector, so I try to only run the minimum necessary to load the page. If it's too difficult I give up and go elsewhere."

Indeed I do exactly the same.

Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came

Re: Correction .....

"should be

"Thirty years on, and we're still waiting for that "elegant OS.""

Really should be

Forty years on and we still have not one single fucking CLUE how to do security correctly. But yet you morons continue to shovel bucket loads of money at us to be beta testers.