Posts by Glen 1

CompSci student bitten by fox after feeding it McNuggets

Re: The Fox obviously has good taste

"litter the streets"

Yeah, but that's the 5-6 foot foxes. Would be the same with any food place.

See also: the aftermath of sunny days on parks, beaches etc. even *with* the pandemic.

Three words you do not want to hear regarding a 'secure browser' called SafePay... Remote. Code. Execution

Re: Yet again ... yawn ...

"They could be implemented in WebAssembly"

*Any* code that can modify what the viewer sees can be abused.

The biggest problem is *3rd party* code. You can turn it off with noscript etc, but many sites have their assets across multiple domains, That's *before* we start talking about advertisers.

Go to a random site on the internet, without using dev tools, you have no way of knowing where what you are seeing is coming from. Not just remote (3rd party) origins for files, but XSS and Iframes. The domain you type in/click on is just the first link in a chain. IMHO, It shouldn't be.

Most sane mail clients learnt the lesson of not loading remote content from an unvetted source without express permission. The web would be a safer place if web browsers did the same.

Firefox's container tabs are a good start.

The state of OpenPGP key servers: Kristian, can you renew my certificate? A month later: Kristian? Ten days later: Too late, it’s expired

Your notice period + a week before go-live might be a good/terrible time to re-open negotiations.

good because you will have them over a barrel.

terrible because it will destroy any trust/goodwill you might have.

Then remember that companies don't *have* good will, but people occasionally do. Make your decision accordingly.

Sorry to drone on and on but have you heard of Ingenuity? NASA's camera-copter is ready to head off to Mars

Be careful what you wish for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHy10323B70

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... but not your H-1B geeks, L-1 staffers nor J-1 students

Re: L-1

"Unemployed foreigners don't have any money or resources "

I believe the visa requires a job. The shenanigans that take place to keep wages artificially low are what capitalists call "market forces" and are considered good (apparently). Don't want any of that union talk, unless you're going to outright admit you're a commie spy? (sarcasm)

"plain human decency and KEEPING YOUR COUNTRY'S WORD"

Like not murdering citizens when those with power feel like it? How topical.

But seriously, that sort of protectionism for jobs does (big) business no favours. So the question becomes... does your government work for the people like a good socialist gov, or for the much fewer folk who hold most of the capital and their subsequent corporate interest?

Machine-learning models trained on pre-COVID data are now completely out of whack, says Gartner

Re: But...

" just a pattern matcher "

Yes. You sound surprised.

US starts sniffing around UK spaceports – though none capable of vertical launches actually exist right now

Re: launch from a British spaceport

I can't see KSC and not think Kerbal Space Centre

Re: Film

I recall a famous documentary following the exploits of a Mr N Wisdom. I believe it was called "A bulldog breed".

Re: If they'd met the British government

I came here to make a similar comment.

Pointy end up, flamey end down, or you will not go to space today.

(gravity turn for orbit insertion notwithstanding)

Ex-barrister reckons he has a privacy-preserving solution to Britain's smut ban plans

Re: Mind of a teenager

That's the spirit! They'll go far that one!

Re: This could actually make $$$

I propose that a rating system be applied. There! Foolproof!

US government tells internet body to hurry the funk up on privacy

"The past few years "idiots" insist on using personal email addresses for the "abuse" address. Why?"

The same reason you don't put your "system status" tracker on the same systems as the ones you're tracking.

Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process

Re: That’s not the answer that’s going to work for us.

"don't have a Facebook account,"

What has that got to do with hoovering (Dysoning? Electroluxing?) WHOIS data?

If you own a domain, then it *is* about you. Regardless of if you have a FB account.

Belief in 5G conspiracy theories goes hand-in-hand with small explosions of rage, paranoia and violence, researchers claim

Re: 5G also causes missing words syndrome

My main gripe about it has always been that its a mailto: link. There is already a moderation system in place that doesn't use email on the front end.

Having a mailto: seems like moderation with extra steps.

Sidenote: I *have* used the mailto link previously, its not like I refuse, its just extra effort.

Huawei going to predict the future? Nope, say company leaders when asked about Joe Biden winning US election

Re: Biden hardly gets a mention here in the UK

Monster Raving Loony Party, (or the candidate formerly known as Lord BucketHead) or spoil the ballot.

Not voting means you don't have a voice, but at least spoilt ballots are counted (in the UK, dunno about elsewhere).

Microsoft emits a colourful Windows Terminal preview

Re: it ain't json

JSON aint perfect, but speaking as someone who has had to deal with XML in a similar context....

JSON > XML

If you're despairing at staff sharing admin passwords, look on the bright side. That's CIA-grade security

Re: Numpties, the lot of 'em.

The word "depreciated" has been deprecated.

Ah lovely, here's something you can do with those Raspberry Pis, NUC PCs in the bottom of the drawer: Run Ubuntu Appliances on them

Re: What about sheevaplugs ?

pogoplug?

Still supported under debian...

The girl with the dragnet tattoo: How a TV news clip, Insta snaps, a glimpse of a tat and a T-shirt sold on Etsy led FBI to alleged cop car arsonist

Re: Yet another reason

How about a tiny tattoo on the skin between my little toe and adjacent with the text;

"The Game"

Amazon's not saying its warehouse staff are dumb... but it feels they need artificial intelligence to understand what 'six feet' means

Re: It's almost as if...

"...people are capable of calculating the opportunity cost "

...of not smoking

...of not taking some of the nastier drugs

People have never been good at risk assessment.

Re: Hoops

six foot wide is only 3 foot radius...

NASA to send Perseverance, a new trundle bot, and Ingenuity, the first interplanetary helicopter, to sniff out life on Mars in July

10 years? With that time-frame, wouldn't it make sense to have the collection be part of a manned mission?

If we're going anyway, it'd make sense to not double up on the trips.

*If* we're going, that is.

Boffins find that over nine out of ten 'ethical' hackers are being a bit naughty when it comes to cloud services

Re: It is happening now

fail2ban Sidenote: You might want to adjust the ban times/attempts to be stricter than the default. An attacker could do a dictionary attack in a reasonable time-frame (weeks/months) by rate limiting the attempts to be slightly looser than the default ban triggers. Especially if you set-and-forget.

Not that the readers here would ever have dictionary-able passwords. (blah blah ssh keys) It just gets annoying with the added noise in the log files - you do check the logfiles, right?

GitHub to replace master with main across its services

Re: wow

"Oh, you mean..." (swastika)

Yes. I know, that's why I mentioned it.

You point out different cultures see things differently, and how meanings can change over time. Neatly demonstrating my point.

Do you consider the non-white people who have been here for generations (and in many parts of the world, before the white folk) to not be a part of the local culture? I mean, in this *has* been de-facto the case due to segregation and other racist practices. However, you don't get to be outraged about "immigrants" in this case.

As for the rest of the colour squealing faux outrage, do I *really* have to point out to (to presumably a grown ass adult), the problem isn't the *mention* of colour, its the connotation that black = bad and white = good.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to not see that?

Re: wow

"no real connotation"

To you.

A bit like the shortened version of "Pakistani" to my dad's generation. When people use it in an offensive context, it becomes offensive.

Like the St George flag, or Confederate flag. Outside of sporting events, its mostly seen being waved by racists, so it becomes the flag of the racists. Regardless of other peoples non racist intent. Not so different from the swastika.

Re: wow

"we're getting to a point where everyone is offended by everything"

When societies have spent centuries with a single demographic at the top, even a bit of the formerly-lower-strata having a say demonstrates how blinkered those societies have *always* been. (Wot, you cant even shoot peasants these days! Whatever next!?)

See also: Class mobility (Plebeian etc), Feminism (universal suffrage yet?), Indian caste system and so on... and so on... throughout history, throughout the planet.

I honestly look forward to the day where my currently "Woke" views are considered prejudiced. Think how far we will have come for the views of today's "snowflakes" be de rigueur in the daily mail?

If there ever was a place reeking of privilege. Its the people getting on here getting butthurt over a mild inconvenience caused by a name change. Its not the first, it won't be the last - remember “0xB16B00B5”?

The thing about virtue signalling anti-racism, is that if you are objecting to the *virtue* being signalled, you come across as anti-anti-racism (how true it is, seems to be proportional to the strength of the objection). A bit like anti-antifa.

To object *so strongly* REEKS of precisely the bullshit BLM folks are protesting against.

The correct response is approximately "meh". Plus or minus "That's mildly inconvenient" to "Yeah, that's probably a good idea"

Or is it that we can take your "master" from your "cold dead hands"?

Sony reveals PlayStation 5 will offer heretical no-optical-disk option. And yes, it has an AMD CPU-GPU combo

Re: useable desktop replacement

Yeah, with the "other OS" crap.

When someone found exploits to escape the VM sandbox (and actually access the hardware you've paid for) they "removed" the feature.

So your options became: Never connect it to the internet, or lose your OS install.

Bloke rolls up to KFC drive-thru riding horse-drawn cart only to be told: Neigh

Re: with hour-long queues snaking down the road and around the roundabout.

Breakfast menu?

Bacon and Egg McMuffin

Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches

Re: It's an unknown

"Is there any good reason, "

In addition to the above good reasons:

Network effect.

If the primary means of communication used by your peers or your family is not one you use, you will not be communicated with. If you say you don't have/use X, it will be met with instructions on how to get it, rather than a search for alternatives.

Thus now Facebook is old news, we had the rise of BBM (and subsequent fall), and Snapchat, with TickTock on the horizon.

Slack, discord, and telegram are for tech geeks. IRC? whats that?

Forget biz insider threats for a moment – let's talk about partners turning rogue and installing spyware on phones

Re: The Humanity

From the Rules page - edited so there is no invalid HTML:

"You can use basic HTML to format your text - once you have had five posts accepted for publication. Currently we allow: b, strong, em, i and s (strike was dropped in HTML5). Badge holders can also use sub, sup, ul, li, blockquote, q, code, and pre."

Code and pre tags use the formatting literally(?) That's for badge holders only though. Otherwise newlines are assumed to be paragraph tags

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: UK man gets 3 years for torching 4G phone mast over 5G fears

Re: If the offender is indeed insane -

"Look at Black Lives Matter criminals who destroy property with immunity"

Not getting caught is not the same as immunity. See this

I'll look at the police who murder people with impunity.... who supposed to be the ones protecting the public. Oh wait.

Re: That may be true

Am on Vodafone with my 4G, my LAN IP is in the 10.X.X.X block.

Re: 3 years for a terrorist offence ?

I thought the link was going to be this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8

Re: @andyFI

Unless a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is hazardous to the environment, then yes, you spelled CFCs incorrectly.

Re: why vital?

More like local ne'er do wells finding such thing funny. Or possibly an electrical fault?

Re: why vital?

I still remember my childhood home landline number, as it was drilled into to me a)what it is b)how to make a reverse charge call in case of emergencies.

These days, I know *my* number, because I need to ring it when I misplace it....

Re: That may be true

"it displays a very special breed of gullability and stupidity, but the people involved need help with their mental issues, not being stuck in jail for years."

something something Brexit

Re: That may be true

I know of areas in Birmingham (UK's 2nd largest city - shush Mancunians) where a 4G enabled router is 5x faster than Openreach's finest efforts. Empirically.

BoJo looks to jumpstart UK economy with £6k taxpayer-funded incentive for Brits to buy electric cars – report

Re: Bigger picture...corporate bribes

Brexit is going to be unfavourable to all companies that do a significant part of their business with the EU. Gee who'dve thunkit?

The word the Nissan bloke used was "unsustainable".

6K subsidy is a drop in the ocean compared to the problems no-deal would/will cause. It won't stop them going, but they will quite happily take the cash before they go.

Re: That's sure to jump start Tesla sales...

"The Nissan Leaf is currently assembled in Sunderland."

For Now.

After all, the Sunderland plant is "unsustainable" if/when no-deal Brexit happens.

Re: Restructure the Market

" going to have to tackle the road haulage industry at some point"

I recon that would be about the time HS2 starts running, with the extra capacity on the slower lines. Which could be anywhere from when they say, to when hell freezes over.

Have I Been Pwned breach report email pwned entire firm's helldesk ticket system

Re: Maybe... just maybe

Qubes OS

The basic premise is that each app or set of apps is run in its own VM that can be spun up or deleted as you would a portable installation or git branch - with all the security bonuses a VM brings.

So start the email app from your menu, and the window that opens is in its own VM (as denoted by a different colour title bar). You can run from a fresh snapshot every time (with settings saved), or allow persistence, or allow disk access to a shared folder to save attachments. Or Not, as preferred.

The Networking stack in Qubes is literally a pfsense VM, just to give you an idea of the flexibility available.

Re: make sure you’re running the latest version...

"For great software (e.g. where it's not riddled with security holes), it's not essential."

Wot, like OpenSSL?

UK govt publishes contracts granting Amazon, Microsoft, Google and AI firms access to COVID-19 health data

Re: the London AI company Faculty, which worked on the Vote Leave Brexit referendum campaign.

Good troll, nearly got me.

Talk about a control plane... US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will use Kubernetes

Re: DevStar?

I'm sure it will be a Titanic success!

So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise

Re: It's always fun ...

We get the government we vote for (electoral systems notwithstanding), The tyranny of the majority and all that.

That's on us (in the general sense). Especially when the problems can be seen from a mile away. Like Nissan Sunderland being "unsustainable" in the event of no-deal Brexit. ("We knew what we voted for - to safeguard British jobs") Like Trumps grasp of basic concepts being sub par (Make Mexico pay for that wall... by imposing import tariffs).

It works the other way too. Diane Abbot's grasp of numbers. Joe Biden's opinion that black Trump voters "ain't Black".

*sigh*

We mark our X and make our choice

Remember, they work for you

I don't know about the US, but in the UK, MPs have surgeries

Re: It's always fun ...

"being provably right can be crucial"

Something something Politics Covid-19 Brexit.

"Unfortunately, the CxOs are impervious to critique. It can never be their error. They have done everything right. Even when they are informed, it cannot be the CxO's fault. Some underling must have been sleeping because the CxO cannot fail."

s/CxO/electorate/g

Re: Root Cause Analysis

The thing about password managers is that many of them only work *after* you have logged in.

Which becomes a problem with login password rotation. Thus such "secure" tricks as <mystandardpassword><month><year>

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

"Shut her down Clancy, she's pumping mud"