Posts by Benny Cemoli

DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe

Re: If you’re gunna grift

Grift even bigger.

- Some mentally enfeebled guy who retired to Delaware

Re: Ummmm...

It's news now because the democrat party is tanking in the polls and has to try to do something, anything, to try and improve their poll numbers before the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. So they crank out a bogus "report" from the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Minority Staff, publish it, and then start the usual howls of faux outrage over the report hoping that it will rally their supporters and help their poll numbers. That is the only reason this report has seen the light of day.

Microsoft rated this bug as low exploitability. Miscreants weaponized it in just 8 days

"In the initial wave of attacks, phishing emails lured victims to download a Dropbox-hosted ZIP archive called xd.zip. Inside were four booby-trapped files, including a .library-ms file that exploited CVE-2025-24054. Simply unzipping the archive - or in some cases, just viewing the folder in Windows Explorer . . . "

Great Maker, there are still people that stupid to fall for such a thing? Will wonders never cease.

Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival

Re: G-Mail

The only reason U.S. federal government workers use Gmail or other private online email services is to keep their emails off of government systems where they would be subject to freedom of information act (FOIA) requests from the public. So when they do get a FOIA request for some piece of information they can honestly say they do not have any such information/documents to provide the person making the request. Of course, doing so is a violation of government data/document retention policies and the FOIA itself but what the hey, this is the U.S. federal government we're talking about so why would we expect them to follow the actual rules, policies and law they themselves established.

Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug

Linux came out how many decades ago and the stumblebums at Debian/Ubuntu/Mint still can't get the code right? Do they even bother to read, review and disseminate the thousands of CVEs to the coders? Don't they know how to check for vulnerabilities?

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

Funny how the direct download link included in the article now leads to a "Page Not Found" page. As if they pulled back the document so that the public can't review it.

But don't worry, it's already been saved by the Internet Archive and can be found , read and downloaded at the following URL:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250401170351/https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/48218e1a-9e03-4be1-b19c-d04c323c1117_en?filename=ProtectEU-European-Internal-Security-Strategy_en.pdf

Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data

Re: A Sprinkling of Industrial Espionage?

Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups. Or Corporations.

And the process you're looking for is called "Discovery". But it doesn't allow the plaintiff to just go in and "rummage around the other party's documents". There are rules and procedures that must be followed and it all has to go through the court.

Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network

Re: Aren't Government employees neutral.

No, you cannot register as both a Republican and democrat at the same time. You have to choice one or the other and then you're only allowed to participate in that party's primary. If your registered as an Independent (neither Republican or democrat) then generally you cannot participate in a state's political party primaries but some states make exceptions to that.

So since Ken Klippenstein has admitted to spamming 13,000 federal employees he's now liable to arrest and federal prosecution for misuse of a federal computer network.

Not something I'd really admit on X (formerly Twitter). That's for sure.

How US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage

Re: Oh, puh-LEEEZE!

No, what will be "negatively impacted" are the salaries of the over-paid Mozilla employees that infest both the Foundation and the Corporation. You know, the ones that take home $10, $20, $25 Million USD per year salaries that contribute very little, if anything, to the development of the Firefox browser. That's who would be negatively impacted if Google were forced to end their pay for play payments to be default search engine in Mozilla Firefox.

John Deere accused of being full of manure with its right-to-repair promises

Re: I'm shocked

>>Someone is actually holding them to their empty promises.<<

As a United State citizen I assure you that Lizzie Warren (United States Senator) wouldn't give rat's patootie about this issue if it weren't for the fact it is a presidential election year when the democrats have to pretend to actually work for the benefit of the U.S. citizen and not solely to enrich themselves and remain in power like they usually do. But actually "hold them to their empty promises"? Nope. It'll all be forgotten after Nov. 5th and democrats. quickly return to business as usual seeking to enrich themselves at the taxpayer expense.

Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite

Re: GOOGLE

>>GOOGLE

.....gets their way again.<<

It'd be a shame if those millions of dollars that we pay you every year disappeared . . . so just lie between your teeth about this b.s. and hide the controls in different places for every platform.

Elon Musk's assassination 'joke' bombs, internet calls for his deportation

Re: I feel unclean...

"We'd just be called jackasses etc."

And then summarily banned from posting from social media for the rest of our lives. (TOS and Community Guidelines violation dontcha know.)

US elections have never been more secure, says CISA chief

Re: Recounts

And those additional boxes of ballots invariably benefit the democrat candidates and put them just enough past their opponent to win.

More than 83K certs from nearly 7K DigiCert customers must be swapped out now

What I would like to know is what penalties DigiCert is going to have imposed upon it for allowing these mis-validated certificates to be issued for the last five years. After all 83,267 certificates isn't a trivial thing. So will they be facing any penalty or will it just be a case of, "Oops, our bad. Won't happen again." and nothing else.Just wondering.

Re: Cracked?

I would assume by "anonymous certificate" they mean one that is not domain validated. In other words, you go to Let's Encrypt enter your information and they issue a security certificate that can be used for your website

Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage

Re: google sub domains

"All my internet access is via a VPN apart from YouTube which seems to have taken umbridge to serving videos via a VPN . . . "

I know this the obvious one but do you have the ability to change VPN servers and hence IP? I have the same problem here with The Register blocking me if I'm on certain VPN IPs. A simple change to a different VPN server and IP address fixes the problem. Never had a problem with YouTube though. Not sure what's up with that for you.

Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest

Yes, Brave developers are beholden to the advertising industry to provide advertisements for their Brave Rewards Program. You can find all the nitty gritty details here https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ . But they do in the end make money off advertising. Fortunately, its voluntary and opt-in at the moment but who knows what will happen in the future.

Brave Rewards Program

And the Brave browser does have an advertisement program. It's called Brave Reward and is described as a program to "Support content creators and earn tokens for ads you see in Brave. Use your tokens to buy gift cards, exchange for other currencies, and more." Apparently you receive what they call "BAT" or Basic Attention Tokens for every viewed ad. And I assume they make back-end money from the advertisers for allowing their ads to be shown in the Brave Reward program. Fortunately, for now it is purely a voluntary, opt-in program. But who knows what the future might bring.

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Lack of McDonalds Staff

And that's because all those McDonalds employees demanding $20/hour to stand behind a register and shovel crappy food to the customer didn't consider the consequences of actually getting that $20/hr. As a result franchisees installed those kiosks and terminated most of the counter staff as an unneeded payroll expense. At least that's what happened here in the United States. Not sure about what happened in the rest of the world.

Mitchell Baker logs off for good as CEO of Firefox maker Mozilla

Re: Thats what happens when run by a sleazy lawyer...except Waterfox does nt crash..

>>"Anyway. Have Chrome, Waterfox, Opera and Firefox installed on this machine. Chrome, Waterfox and Opera get used daily. Firefox now only gets launched by accident when I click on the wrong icon."

Have Brave and Firefox on my system. Use Brave daily and Firefox rarely if ever gets used. Not sure why I'm keeping Firefox on my system. Probably wouldn't miss it at all if I just deleted it and recovered the disk space. Mozilla hasn't really offered anything unique in the way of web browsers features to make me want to keep it.

As you said, it didn't have to happen this way. But here we are and there we go.

That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data

Re: Imagine if this was allowed with no consequences

". . . what stops Google from doing it next?"

And how do we know that Google doesn't do the same thing already but doesn't give the game away by stupidly opening your Chrome browser with updated Edge bookmarks and tabs.

Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

Re: Did Mozilla also mention…

>>…the occasional full-screen and un-closeable “finish setting up your PC (by switching to Edge)” popups that appear when starting Windows?

Odd that. I've got Windows 11 and have never once seen such an "un-closeable "finish setting up your PC (by switching to Edge)"" popup when starting Windows. And I don't have MS Edge set as default. I do have to use it occasionally for certain things but it's certainly not set as my default. What's up with that.

>>Or the super simple and reassuring-sounding “Use Microsoft’s Recommended Defaults” button in Settings, that makes it oh-so-easy to (accidentally) set your default browser to Edge?

Stupid is as stupid does if you're stupid enough to push that button and not think it's going to set everything to Microsoft defaults. That is all.

>>Or the recent kerfuffle with Edge hijacking Chrome users’ tabs?

Like Google somehow managed to install the Google Docs Offline Extension into MS Edge without permission simply stating in the description, "We have readily installed this extension to help optimize your Google Docs experience when you're without internet." Installed without my permission. Don't know where it came from but there it is as sassy as anything.

Mozilla CEO pockets a packet, asks biz to pick up pace the 'Mozilla way'

Re: Retire

And in all her tenure as CEO of Mozilla (the non-profit) and Mozilla Corp. (the for-profit arm) Firefox usage has fallen from the Glory Days of 25% or more to a mere 4%. Not something in my opinion that should be rewarded with a $6 million USD per year salary. Mitchel needs to be put out to pasture and and a more productive and successful person installed as CEO. Someone that would work to make sure Firefox doesn't disappear completely.