Posts by Infernoz

Dell BIOS update borks PCs

Re: 1st rule of IT support is

Unfortunately security and stability issues, and other bugs do occur, and the BIOS can need updates to better support functionality of embedded or plug-in hardware, but upgrades must be done by competent people, and preferably checked on one device first, if a multiple devices may need it.

I've never had a firmware update issue which bricked a device, but have rarely needed to roll-back some upgrades which contained unhelpful changes.

I can't say I've been impressed by any Dell kit I've used; it seemed expensive and dull.

Re: Why change the entire motherboard?

Sockets cost extra for parts and production, and can reduce reliability; flash/ROM parts can often be in-circuit programmed, probably on a similar rig to that used to electrically test the PCB.

It's probably more cost effective for Dell to just scrap the motherboards, because all PC components are commodity parts, often with thin margins, which are replaced regularly, to attract more customers via redesigns and new Intel etc. chip-sets.

What could go wrong? Delta to use facial recog to automate bag drop-off

False Positives could be nasty, and false negatives annoying!

To stop this it needs to be multi-factor identification for better validation and redundancy for fuzzy matching.

Do we need Windows patch legislation?

Re: All products have a support life

I'd say a maximum of 12 years support for OS's, with subscription-only security-only support after 10 years, because 10 years is the longest even slower upgrading business should try to maintain machines, because computer technology design does age, and the physical hardware can age too and become increasingly more costly to maintain, if you can still get compatible parts!

Maybe require an audit of the age of computer hardware and software in a business, with warnings issued for too old equipment which is not planned and scheduled for replacement.

Shadow Brokers resurface, offer to sell fresh 'wine of month' club exploits

SWIFT exploits, what a surprise!

not really, given the SWIFT bank client requires obsolete Vista.

I wonder how long before crypto-currency payment services and/or the Chinese payments system take most of SWIFT's business, and the dollar plunges, because client banks have had enough.

Why Microsoft's Windows game plan makes us WannaCry

Re: Why is XP still being used?

Should you really still be using a probably insecure protocol dating back to 1983, which later had to piggybacked on TCP? I doubt that it even supports adequate strength encryption tunnel and auth., something which should be considered critical on all networks now, because auth. crackers, network sniffers and worms are not going away!

Full screen Command Prompt, Why? Just maximise a command window or use one of the numerous command line alternatives, one of which may support this already or could be adapted to do so...

Re: "Adding to the bottom line"

As I stated in a previous article comment, Microsoft realised how poor XP was (as is not unusual for programmers less experienced work) for security, stability and functionality, so recruited experienced security staff and rebuilt substantial parts of the OS for Vista, then Windows 7. This security recruitment drive was well known back then (e.g. acquiring SysInternals), as has been the evolving threat to security defences (e.g. the need to upgrade SMB protocol, and the need to retire SSL and TLS1.0 to 1.1), so people _still_ using XP or making excuses for them are negligent and idiots!

If businesses still needed to run XP software (as a stop-gap until application upgrade), Microsoft provided downloadable XP emulation support in proper versions of Windows 7. VMWare and VirtualBox were also possible workarounds (for strictly limited scope use), as were RDP/Citrix if the local machine had limited RAM/Storage, so had to run a lighter secure new OS e.g. an embedded version of Windows 7 or a Linux.

All very expensive physical hardware which housed an XP instance, which negligent/disappeared suppliers failed to provide affordable upgrades for, should have been air-gapped or protected by a security gateway server between it and the LAN, possibly a specialist firewall appliance.

All Windows Server 2003 instances should have been replace years ago, but I still saw instances belonging to a major business last year (!); even if this was difficult, there has been ample time to resolve issues!

Sophos waters down 'NHS is totally protected' by us boast

Re: stripping out exe's from emails

Not just exe's, but any attachment, because embedded scripts and buffer escape exploits are the main malware entry points now!

Simple, have Microsoft or a trusted security software provider extend Android and iOS application level permissions framework to desktop OS, but with sensible restricted defaults for the filesystem/registry too, like the Application install/settings folders, registry folders and default documents folder, and show an admin. screen permissions dialog., after system snapshot, if it attempts to access anything else, including in non white-listed file shares. We should not always trust applications to police their own access, because they can be compromised!

There could be application group white-lists/blacklist to save duplication e.g. for Desktop and some other common folders, this could include application installation and settings folders which should usually only be accessible by the owner application.

Any unknown Application which tries to do any file system action but create new files in it's folder, not sub-folders, or access anything else should cause an admin. screen permissions dialog., after system snapshot, for one-off OK, or white-list or black-list additions.

This could make life very difficult for lots of other kinds of malware, including camera/microphone/keyboard spyware, browser hijacks and other unwanted software installs too! :)

Re: Ransomware is ...

inevitable until the OS supports user application level permissions and comprehensive delta sand boxing of all external content (SMB, Browser, Email) not white listed, without the document/software being aware it is in a sandbox and monitored lures provided to assist malware detection.

It is about bloody time that each applications had sensible default, limited filesystem access permissions, to limit the damage they or scripts they run can cause, because a lot of applications don't need to and shouldn't have access to a whole users profile, or even some external resources, without at least an admin. mode dialog. to OK or whitelist this! We shouldn't have to rely on separate security software to maybe do this, it should be OS security functionality!

Using a modern transactional, regular delta snapshot filesystem like ZFS would better help recover from unnoticed nasties like this, easier than dated, logging filesystems like NTFS and the bolt-on file versioning in some newer versions of Windows!

Giant spawn hammer on Antarctica map. Thanks, Google Waze

The kind of unprofessional, cheesy, childish crap which made me eye ceiling early in my career, but the insanely deluded, Left-wing naming further suggests r-type (Rabbit) infestation which needs culling fast!

DeX Station: Samsung's Windows-killer is ready for prime time

Re: Why would you need a dock?

Equipment specific docks are klunky, too expensive and only really useful for higher-bandwidth uses like multiple displays and multiple full speed USB3.0 sockets, and maybe security; some docks (Lenovo laptop) don't even lock reliably!

I have a Dell USB3.0 dock at home with a lot more ports, which can even drive a 4K monitor, for a lot cheaper than this or a Lenovo specific laptop one!

Tablets and mobiles should have supported USB3.0 years ago, including for OTG, for proper fast data transfer (USB2.0 is pathetically slow), then they could also use commodity USB3.0 OTG docks with video, and possibly even use a PC USB3.0 dock, via a USB3.0 OTG adapter with charger Y input.

Ransomware scum have already unleashed kill-switch-free WannaCry‬pt‪ variant

Re: Experts all giving advice how how to stay secure

Off-the-shelf NAS are a rip-off for decent capacity, are under-powered (ARM or crappy Atom), and I'd guess a lot of NAS run proprietary Linux dist.s, so have poorer patching.

A FreeNAS box is much better value for decent capacities; it uses commodity, parity RAM, x86 64bit hardware, and uses packaged recent versions of designed-to-be-secure FreeBSD, with easy to apply OS and component updates, and regular ZFS snapshots allow selective or complete roll-back protection against unwanted NAS file modification by Samba clients e.g. an infected Windows box, or user mistake.

Re: Inevitable

* Microsoft realised that the security in XP was grossly inadequate, so recruited crackers and other experienced security staff for a new OS, re-built for security, thus the poor 1st attempt in Vista, and the usable 2nd attempt in Windows 7.

* The version of SMB (Windows Networking) supported by XP has pathetic security, especially with increasing computer processing power, and I was shocked to see the pathetic default Samba client levels in Mint and no GUI to fix this easily!!!

* Microsoft provided ample advance warning of EOL for XP/2003, and only offered escalating cost post-EOL support as a _temporary_ stop-gap, because XP is not worth supporting for security reasons, so organisations have no excuses to still be using it, especially on the Internet!

* Yes, the NSA is criminal for making these immoral and unlawful cyber weapons, but crackers were already attacking the inadequately secured XP.

* The public leak of these cyber weapons at least makes most of the threats publicly known so that they can be combated en-mass now, including by Microsoft, rather than the much harder work to identify/combat hidden black hat criminal uses.

* Organisation and other users of XP, and suppliers of equipment requiring XP which have not already implemented/provided an upgrade to at least Window 7 are frankly negligent and should be humiliated/sued; they don't deserve any sympathy.

The Swift (inter-bank payments service) must also be heavily-pressured/humiliated/sued to get its act together, because it reportedly still requires the only slightly less dated Vista version of Windows to run their client software in banks, which is probably one reason why several Swift client banks have been virtually bank robbed! Swift should really be using a secure *BSD OS for this, let-alone any version of Windows!

Oracle crushed in defeat as Java world votes 'No' to modular overhaul

Re: This is what happens when you have management by committee !!!!

Competition only when they can win is typical, disloyal r-type (Rabbit) behaviour; r-types hate merit-based and fair (K-type, Wolf) competition where they can loss!

This is what happens when needed refactoring is attempted damned years late!

If Oracle had deprecated all the half-baked Sun kludges in Java several years ago, then removed them or had a hard coded security policy to deny access to non-JRE code, this could have been done with far less fuss now! Because this was not done, some products are a pain to upgrade, because developers could still use the kludges, so short sighted management were able to put off upgrades...!

I think Oracle _finally_ accepted that JME was crippled junk (Google saw this for Android), so needed some way modularise and shrink the JRE for more restricted environments.

Dyson celebrates 'shock' EU Court win over flawed energy tests

Re: Dyson 'water blade' hand dryers

Hygiene is why decent communal wash/toilet facilities now have one-use fabric (then maybe washed) or paper towels, have discontinued providing flawed, continuous, fabric-roll, towel machines, and removed all air driers.

Paper towels maybe annoying and seem wasteful, but are far safer that all hot air dryers, especially for retards who don't wash their hands properly!

Also we can't rely on synthetic sanitiser chemicals because they can be harmful to humans, and their use in soap, toothpaste and kitchen equipment is stupidly counter productive, because it can also causes selection of resistant microorganisms, so direct physical cleaning methods using warm water, detergents/soap (if used), then clean towels are safer and more reliable!

Re: Is this the same Dyson who has no time for the EU ?

This kind of business corruption of standards/regulation is centuries old and continues in modern, stagnant, crony corporations deliberately influencing/proposing regulations to unfairly reduce competition, and is well known for the EU, so another reason to exit it, to regain control.

Outside the EU, the WTO may be able to help the UK to block these effective tariffs before defensive measures like import tariffs/blocks are required to force negotiation! The EU can't win because Britain has a negative trade balance with the more wasteful Eurozone countries (including Germany), so any import tariffs/blocks, by the UK will hurt the Eurozone countries far worse then the UK.

As we have seen with the sanctions on Russia, reduction of foreign imports can force a developed country to become more efficient and productive, so less EU imports could be a blessing in disguise for the UK!

Avast blocks the entire internet – again

I thought Avast maybe better than WTF false+ Avira, because reviews, but WTF issues too!

So uninstalled already.

Even Windows anti-virus was compromised because WTF exploitable. You'd think anti-virus providers could use cloud fuzz testing to detect this crap and exploits!

LastPass connectivity snafu locks out Brits from password manager

Re: What I don't understand

For credentials used on portable/multiple devices, cloud should only be used for distribution of securely pre-encrypted logins, with a local, still-encrypted cache and available temporary space for downloading, encrypted, timestamped/versioned updates, so that on-line login database access issues do not prevent use of older logins unless invalidated by expiry data.

Sharing logins is WTF stupid, because it does not allow proper, separate, user level audit-logging and lock-out, so multiplies vulnerability, and multiples inconvenience if a shared login must be replaced. If shared credentials can't be avoided for use of something, it must be protected by a separate login access layer hiding those credentials from users!

Well this is awkward. As Microsoft was bragging about Office at Build, Office 365 went down

Amused cackle

This is why effectively centralised, subscription (rentier), internet resources are stupid-fragile slavery, and people should not to use them for critical stuff where downtime can't be worked around using local resources; much like centralised (fragile) SVN is inferior to local and distributed (anti-fragile) git!

The icon because the children may later have to deal with more of this rentier fragility and slavery, and may have less local fall-back resources, because of this subscription-business-model trend by corporations.

Today's bonkers bug report: Microsoft Edge can't print numbers

Re: "it might be a good idea to use another application"

Like in Firefox, with the PDF tick widget added to Print Prevew by the "Print Edit" plugin; this creates mixed text and image PDFs, unlike the retarded, rendered-image-only PDFs of all PDF virtual printer drivers, which prevent later editing, text extraction, link use, and rendering re-flow!

Print Edit is wonderful for deleting the surrounding banners, adverts and social media strips, and other bloat from pages before printing, although some idiot web designers included F'd Up divs which prevent re-flow across several print pages, so truncate printing!

How to remote hijack computers using Intel's insecure chips: Just use an empty login string

Probably best to not have IP6 enabled on an server Intel box or have it in DMZ!

Yet another reason why NAT is still important and exposing stuff via IP6 maybe not so smart!

I hope that Intel and motherboard manufacturers promptly report all affected components and if/when a fix for all the management vulnerabilities will become available, for caution then relief.

It's been two and a half years of decline – tablets aren't coming back

Re: Sales and Marketing reality distortion field

The deceptive Janus of Capitalism and Communism was created in the 18th century by very greedy, evil, rentier parasites to cause spiritual corruption like consumerism (excessive/vapid purchasing), to pillage yet more 'wealth'. Debt fiat (violence) currency 'money', further corrupted by compounding interest (exponential usury), fractional reserve banking (legalised embezzling and fraud), and even worse leverage fraud is their evil dead capital. The authorisation by governments to corrupt the originally limited time and purpose of public corporations to privately owned, unlimited zombie psychopathic entities further helped these devils; these same entities later re-purposed Edward Bernays "Propaganda" work (deceitful manipulation based of Freud's evil sabotage) as public relations, marketing, advertising etc.

Real capital is in living things like cattle, seeds and humans, not in dead money or the evil dead, fiat currency fraud in the capitalism deception.

Only real capital can pay (fair) interest on loans, via reproductive multiplication and work, zombie currency can't, so will always cause effective slavery, many debt defaults, and poverty.

I think this is a symptom of the vapid retardation caused by 'social' media and texts on mobiles, so less use of better quality media.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10+" (1st edition, WiFi), with a 128GB micro-SD, which I mainly use for reading e-books, watching some HD video files, with a little LibreOffice (port) use. I regard around 300DPI and a high capacity micro-SD slot as compulsory for easy reading of many ebooks and magazines. e-paper didn't scale, I regard 1080p or less as stagnant, and have no interest in spy tablet's like Amazon's.

I think it would be useful to have multiple touch-tablets, like on Star Trek Next Generation and other sci-fi, linked to a common/distributed store, and displaying different books and/or different views of the same book, all with separate remembered positions, but shared bookmarks.

Mobiles, even stupidly huge ones are not physically large enough to easily read even paperback size pages, let-alone A4 size or facing pages of picture/reference books/magazines, and 1080p+ ones are too damned expensive and a bit pointless if you can't see most of the detail.

Laptops are not a practical alternative because many still don't even have 1080p screens, let-alone M2/SSD and 4K, at least not at an affordable price, are too bulky/heavy, and a desktop OS can be worse than useless for a media device.

Even desktops should be standardising on much larger and affordable 4K screens to completely hide pixelation, and so that more content and detail can be comfortably viewed; multiple laptop/desktop screens are often just a hack to work-around prior display size and GPU resolution limitations.

Male escort forgot pregnancy protection, scores data protection instead

How amusing that a promiscuous, probably r-type, woman's, hypocritical and attempted parasitism was defeated later after 3 days and later months of complacency for not using protection, a morning after pill, or even getting an abortion.

If the selfish woman really wanted a child (I assume she did from the lack of abortion) and to get it paid for, it should have been mutually consensually agreed to inside a marriage, otherwise it becomes misandry (men hating) justified male slavery!

Those who even suggest she deserves payment disgust me as supporters of slavery, with Child Support Agencies as effective slave administrators, in an age when we had supposedly ended slavery, and that's before we even discuss income taxation.

Don't listen to the doomsayers – DRM is headed for the historical dustbin, says Doctorow

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

Property is property or it is isn't, you can't have it both ways. An owner should never be prevented from using _their_ property as they wish by manufacturers , who at most should provide over-ridable stops with warnings that some changes maybe unwise, invalidate the warranty, dangerous or violate lawful authority rules, like mains voltage shock warnings on mains powered equipment

Re: Correction

Property Rights only make sense for physical private property and information kept private, it is blatant fraud for anything which is from sold product or anything left in public.

Re: DRM vs Property Rights

This is what makes DRM fundamentally unlawful and anti-natural-law, the same for all commercial IP too, because tangible stuff matters a lot more that anything intangible; it is only the r-type, locust, rentier hijack of government which has caused these unlawful abominations to persist and grow.

As for the book, it looks like it contains r-type ideas including 'genders' (fake sexes) and their deluded dream of infinite resources, which is impossible in our finite universe, and the main reason why civilisations collapse because these locusts crash them into the resources limits!

'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering'

Re: Bureaucracy

r-types (Rabbit-like people) often can't perceive risk, and can suffer "triggering" mental pain when the risk becomes damage, K-type (Wolf-like people) can easily perceive risk, so prevent/avoid it, but the r-types blindly assume that everyone else is risk blind, so push redundant regulations instead of the more rational solution of having K-type people identify risky situations. This, gangster-like protectionism and other stupid/corrupt people is why there is so much harmful bureaucracy and harmful safety nets.

Apache OpenOffice: Not dead yet, you'll just have to wait until mid-May for mystery security fixes

Re: I admire their spunk!

Code rot is an obsolescence variant of technical-debt which will bite you later, often as security issues (e.g. in OO probably) or as code which is hard to maintain.

Most code should be written as manageable sized modules for ease of functional testing, and for isolation to allow internal changes which won't break other code as much; it sounds like this is what the LO wisely team is wisely doing with the crufty old OO code, but the obviously Zombie OO project has shufflingly failed to do.

FTP becoming Forgotten Transfer Protocol as Debian turns it off

True, FTP requires TCP/IP packets and two TCP/IP socket channels, and pre-internet, direct to BBS, modem calls just send and received bytes over a single raw channel, so it was up to both ends which protocols they used after text based negotiation.

User level login security (with FTPS or SFTP) in FTP.

I use FTP when Samba has file permissions glitches in FreeNAS, and it of course can supports user level login and user home restrictions, and can support TLS encryption, which are both useful to block unwanted access.

I don't see even user level security for WebDAV in FreeNAS 9.10.2-U3, just a useless shared basic/digest password over HTTPS; it seems you need to bolt stuff in front of WebDAV to get user level security, when it should be standard!

The result is I could safely expose an FTP service, with TLS, to the internet for people, but WebDAV is useless except for read-only access for people by I can trust with a common password/digest i.e. none so far.

Chipotle may have banished E coli, but now it has a new infection

Should be using separate secure payment terminals and isolated payment service software

If the payment service software is in a secure OS service or container and just passing tokens to the POS software, even if the POS user is compromised, they won't get any card details.

Come celebrate World Hypocrisy Day

Re: It ought to be.

The massive hypocrisy of this is that Mickey Mouse was plagiarised off another authors published animation pictures and not paid for, because Disney deliberately based his animation business in Los Angeles, because the local authorities didn't respect any copyrights back then!

Netgear says sorry four weeks after losing customer backups

Re: Netgear routers and switches are mostly excellent but their NAS division is a mess!

I bought one of their Gbit switches because it looked good value and it's fast and reliable.

Relying on Cloud can increase chances of failure, data loss and security failure, and Netgear really F'd up even thinking of coding a local delete after loss of service, given even a local issue could cause loss of cloud access!

FreeNAS here too. I looked at many off-the-shelf NAS earlier and the cost per capacity was ridiculous for RAID1 and RAID5 on pathetically underpowered 100Mbit Ethernet hardware, let-alone for Gbit Ethernet! FreeNAS with commodity parity RAM server boards is much more robust, flexible and fast, and can be much better value for several disks; FreeZFS makes all Windows and Linux filesystems look very dated and fragile!

Amazon may be using disk drives with hot-swappable components

A quite naive idea, because all current drives require drive-specific calibration data, especially since analogue "speaker coil" head positioning was introduced!

I doubt that they will save any money and it will probably cost more because an integrated analogue/digital SoC is probably a lot cheaper that trying to separate off the digital only part with some kind of fast enough and reliable linking interface to the digital <-> analogue layer. They maybe able to separate off the higher digital layers like caching and queuing, but trying to do the lower digital layers too will probably just make it slower and less reliable.

Webroot antivirus goes bananas, starts trashing Windows system files

Re: They're running Norton Antivirus too...

I identified the offending plugins and settings in Avast and disabled them because they really aren't necessary.

Re: a crowning moment of AWESOME!

Other devices can be even less safe, especially when the manufacturers or providers fail to provide OS updates, or the OS is provided by spy driven businesses like Google!

I have Android devices but I seriously restrict what personal content is on them because I expect it to be vulnerable.

Re: a crowning moment of AWESOME!

Often that horrible resource hog McAfee too for businesses!

Re: a crowning moment of AWESOME!

I barely tolerate spyware behaviour in Win. 10, because it can be disabled/blocked, but I won't tolerate malware like behaviour in application software, so SRWare Iron instead of the spyware Chrome, LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, Firefox instead of Edge, Avast (several false positive plugins disabled) instead of conflict of interest (Chocolatey false positives) Avira etc.!

I use NoScript, but uMatrix is also useful for protecting multiple browsers, because by default it blocks frames and other sites, and allow selective enabling/disabling of cookies, css, images, plugins, scripts, XHR (XML requests), etc. for each domain and sub-domain, in a drop-down table pane.

With some sites I even disable images, because they are not essential for the content and mostly used for annoying adverts.

I will rarely trust/use Microsoft anti-malware because it will allow their OS spyware and may add other malware like behaviour.

Stanford Uni's intro to CompSci course adopts JavaScript, bins Java

Re: Just teach them Python

No it isn't when methods/function arguments are not typed!

Duck(not) typed, often doesn't give enough type hints to an IDE, so just try and search for type/method/property usage with an IDE and fail hard, and good luck getting any drop-down help in any class/method not directly creating the object used!

Even the Python designer finally awoke to the idea that typed method arguments maybe a good idea (actually compulsory for sane people)!

Just try to pin down the type usage in a large Python project like Calibre; damned frustrating!

Re: Javascript: the obvious choice...

Yes, they can be confusing and more opaque, thus harder to write/debug.

Re: Biggest problem is the name.

Agreed, and static typing and defined interfaces are critical for quickly picking up type/interface errors, and enable reliable static analysis and refactoring. This feedback teaches design and coding discipline.

Java 8 provides extensive filesystem, concurrency and functional support which Javascript definitely can't do as-is, maybe not even with external support or fast enough.

Also, Web developers are often not the best paid developers.

Javascript like a lot of duck-typing scripting languages (including Python) are nearly as dangerous as pointer maths. and void * in C/C++; I know this from personal experience with all these languages!

Google's 'adblocker' is all about taking back control

Never use plain Chrome, if you need Chrome get SRWare Iron, get the sanitised German fork of Chrome.

*block whatever and Ghostery are so dated now.

uMatrix on most browsers.

Also NoScript, Self-Destructing Cookies and Smart HTTPS for Firefox.

Chap 'fixes' Microsoft's Windows 7 and 8 update block on new CPUs

Re: Microsoft does not care

I saved a trainee consultant from having to fork out for Office 365 just to make a simple change to a provided document by showing him LibreOffice.

I also found pre Office 365 Excel really crap for multiple spreadsheets (a significant pain for work) because it can't (reliably) show multiple at the same time (I have no idea this has been fixed in Office 365), but LibreOffice can and is much better at parsing delimited text files too! You can even get a usable port of LibreOffice for Android, which I found very useful with a BT mouse and BT keyboard.

@Hilmi Al-kindy

Virtualbox supports USB 1.1 , 2.0 and 3.0 via the optional Extension Pack, so that is a non issue.

VirtualBox supports Snapshots (say before a risky change), and supports saving the current state of the OS so that you can park the OS faster than its own shutdown method, then restart it later with the reloaded state.

Using a VM also allows other VMs to be set-up to access a stopped VM's virtual disk(s) e.g. to do repairs which would otherwise need an external CD or USB drive, or separate machine with a full OS.

I run a Windows 7 server-like instance on a Windows 10 box for portability, security, control and recoverability, reasons. Being a VM allowed it to be rapidly moved to another machine temporarily until I was able to get a failed machine replaced, without the quite significant time & hassle of a new OS install and application set-up! I could probably have run the same VM on a Linux box too.

Embarrassing! FreeNAS downgrades latest release to 'tech preview'

Re: docker part was good

Until they broke Docker again, like they broke the login token and new installs earlier!

The GUI was _very_ laggy, Samba was slower, and the Python "shell" was slow and unreliable.

It took them 4 revisions to release it was broke ... not impressed.

Good think I have a recent backup of my PostgreSQL databases!

I'll probably revert back to my old jail PostgreSQL instance on 9.10, ... at least that was reliable.....

Good job, everyone. We're making AI just as tediously racist and sexist as ourselves

Re: Lets find something to be offended about

The Red Pill, Alt-Right and r/K-type revelations are steadily demolishing the r-type sophistry supporting the bogus labels Racism and Sexism, and other r-type subversive BS.

Other Race discrimination and Sex specific role assignment are completely natural and very practical K-type psychology, especially for a primarily K-type species like humans, but the decadent, threat blind, competition allergic, promiscuous r-type frackers are driven to subvert this!

The harmful results of r-type subversion (including by wealth r-types) include a tottering (fake plenty) financial system, much bigger booms and busts, bloated governments which also try to enforce growing/harmful r-type BS, more and very wasteful wars to misdirect/consume K-types, and countries being destroyed by selfish/less-appealing women with too much money/power, who are not having enough babies or doing quality parenting, and parasitic primitive culture immigrants (invaders).

Systems-on-a-chip are a huge, unaudited attack surface, says Project Zero's Wi‑Fi attack man

Re: What a surprise

Ouch!

Fixing this probably requires that all DMA controllers include security restricting which memory areas each device can read/write to, possibly via temporary, time and/or access limited, unique tokens linked to a specific address range. Oh course this discovery reveals an exploit sewer for DMA controllers which can't do this!

Windows 10 Creators Update general rollout begins with a privacy dialogue

So use Classic Shell to replace the dis-functional tablet like Windows 8+ shell and pick your preferred visual/functional preferences. I've also installed it on some old Windows 7 instances, because it seems better that the standard Windows shell.

I dealt with the spying by blocking multiple microsoft sites in my router domain and URL blacklists (from Github lock-down tool lists) and using extra lock-down software to turn off the spy features, now including the later mentioned Shutup10 tool, at "https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10".