Posts by AthanSpod

Critical PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury

Re: Exposed psql?

As soon as it became clear how this worked I was screaming "why would you run SQL statements that way?". *Especially* because the part of this doing the scripting is a PHP script, and you could just use a prepared statement with that rather than risking any shenanigans at all the the CL psql command !

Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption

Re: Where's the quantum?

Yes, I too got clickbaited by that part of the headline. I was wondering if Samsung had already implemented one of the post-quantum algorithms in hardware, or just tweaked Android to use such for on-device encryption, or something else.

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention

They've not even updated their own documentation

The first hit on a DuckDuckGo (so Bing, mostly) search on "windows keyboard shortcuts" is https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcuts-in-windows-dcc61a57-8ff0-cffe-9796-cb9706c75eec

It still says:

"Alt + Spacebar - Open context menu for the active window."

I'm so glad I've kicked my Windows 11 Pro install to the curb in favour of Linux 100% of the time. Even, mostly, works great for gaming these days!

Do look up! NASA unfurls massive shiny solar sail in orbit

No love for The Planetary Society ?

A whole article about solar sails, mentioning some prior efforts, and no mention of that by The Planetary Society ?

Ref: https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail