Posts by Manolo

Your password hygiene remains atrocious, says NordPass

Pill pushers' password

Is the pharmacopeia included in dictionary attacks?

I tend to use passwords like methotreXate2,5mg.

Easy for me to remember, (hopefully?) not very likely to pop up in a brute force dictionary attack

Tesla goons will buy anything – including these $150 beers

How about the flame thrower?

Didn't he once sell a flame thrower?

Or was that not Tesla branded and/or not in this store?

Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre

"If I were in charge, Israel would never get another dime of aid from the US until they GTFO of all occupied territories."

I quote Yuval Noah Harari here:

"In the mid-2000s, Israel unilaterally retreated from the entire Gaza Strip, dismantled all settlements there and returned to the internationally recognised pre-1967 border.

......

Instead, Hamas took over the Gaza Strip and turned it into a terrorist base from which repeated attacks were launched on Israeli civilians. "

Read his essay here:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/12/israelis-palestinians-greatest-danger-since-1948

Re: The thing people forget is...

I think you mean WW1. Look up Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Re: The thing people forget is...

"force all the refuges into the Gaza Strip and the West bank"

All the refugees?

About 1,3 million Palestinians live inside Israel.

So tell me, why can they live in Israel, but not a single Jew can live safely in Gaza or the West Bank?

Re: I fear that by the time that this ends ...

There are analysts who suspect Iran has been pushing Hamas to this offensive, to sabotage the Saudi - Israeli relations.

The may just be tools.

You've just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription

Re: Yet another bloody cloud device

To reply to myself: it does not support both at the same time.

You can use only one of the two and for Wireguard you are forced to use their DynDNS service, even if you have fixed IP.

So go fsck yourself AVM, I'll keep using IPSec.

Re: Yet another bloody cloud device

Wireguard on Fritzboxen is a relatively new development. I have not yet set it up, I still use IPSec on my Fritzbox.

It supports both at the moment.

Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight!

Re: Aircraft Landing In Tokyo, All Luggage In Amsterdam

Reminds me of that Caribbean airline:

Leave Island Any Time

Luggage in Antigua Terminal

Although that nickname is decades old and my experience with them has been quite positive.

Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists

And other quacks to follow?

I guess next on that list should be the orthomolecular quacks.

They too work with mysterious "diagnostic" devices that measure your nutritional deficiencies through the imbalanced resonant molecular frequencies of your chakra, or whatever BS.

Lamborghini's last remaining pure gas guzzlers are all spoken for

Before there were petrol stations, you'd buy petrol at pharmacies, of which there were obviously a lot already.

Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson

For me personally: no.

I did not mind "the climate of eternal summer" (Herman Wouk - Don't stop the Carnival) and I miss it here.

People would sometimes ask me if I did not miss having seasons, but we had seasons: hurricane season, mango season, tourist season.

I once flew from my tiny Caribbean island to Costa Rica via Miami. Immigration officer asked why I was going there if I already lived in a tropical paradise. I explained the island was eight square miles, if you didn't get off every once in a while you got island fever. He may have smiled, I was allowed to proceed.

Re: Unique keys

Many years ago when I still worked in retail pharmacy we had a payment rejected by a health care insurer on the grounds of it being a duplicate claim. What happened? The idiots used one policy number for one family and used date of birth as the underlying identifier. So when the twins picked up their anticonception on the same day their only logical conclusion was that we were defrauding them.

And speaking of twins: around the same time there was this moron who had given his just born twins the same initials. Should have been removed from parental authority, as you convict your offspring to a life of administrative fuckups.

Clippy designer was too embarrassed to include him in his portfolio

Inspired by userfriendly.org

https://vigor.sourceforge.net/

Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget

Harmonics

Spurious emissions...

I used to have them, but now I'm too old for that.

ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet

Re: I have a major problem with this ChatGPT rush

Lack of understanding of chirality was not the root cause of the thalidomide disaster.

The thalidomide currently still in clinical use is still a racemic mixture.

( (RS)-N-(2,6-dioxo-3-piperidyl)-ftalimide, note the RS)

Lack of mandatory rigorous testing procedures was.

288 arrested in multinational Monopoly Market takedown

Fake pills?

"fake pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine"

If they did contain active substances, why were they fake?

Or to be a pedantic pharmacist: if they were made with presses, they were tablets, not pills.

Shocks from a hairy jumper crashed a PC, but the boss wouldn't believe it

Re: Static

In terms of static build up, leather is good, synthetic is bad. I only get static shocks at work in winter, when the weather is really bad and I wear sturdy shoes with synthetic soles. The rest of the year I wear leather soles, they transfer any static buildup away from the body.

Microsoft probes complaints of Edge leaking URLs to Bing

Edge is disgusting

I have to use it at work because of Office365.

Every time I open a new tab I get presented with a page full of crap: the lowest common denominator of what people apparently (or according to MS) find interesting.

Celebrities, influencers, football, Formula 1, cycling, royalty, fashion, questionable dietary advice. None of these hold any interest to me.

One can click those tiles and choose "do not show content from" or "not interested in this", but go a holiday for a week, or work on another PC and the same crap shows up again next time you log in.

Say about Chrome what you will, but at least it presents me with an empty tab when I open a new one.

(On desktop. On mobile it shows suggestions, but they tend to be at least according to my interests)

The return of the classic Flying Toasters screensaver

Nope

Don't follow (copy/paste) the instructions on Github and put

/usr/local/bin/bin/flying-toasters \n\

in ~/.xscreensaver when you just installed it into /usr/local/bin.

Also don't forget to chmod +x the file.

And then it still doesn't work on my machine.

Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins

Re: Eloi vs Boffins

In German that would be Herr Ingenieur (or Frau Ingenieurin).

Re: Hmmm

I propose boffinette.

Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

Re: Basic UX problems

The most pointless dialog box in Teams is when I log in.

A dialog box pops up and asks me if I want to stay signed in.

Every fekking day I tick the box "Do not ask this again" and click NO.

And every fekking next day I get the same dialog box again, despite my previous day's choice.

Is this stupidity or arrogance on M$'s side?

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

Re: We have a few names - for people

I sometimes call my manager Dr Oetker, because if talking was dessert, he'd be Dr Oetker.

He just laughs about this and his smooth talking gets us the customers, so pays my wages.

Romance scam targets security researcher, hilarity ensues

Re: Does anyone remember the 419 scam baiters?

419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet!

https://www.419eater.com

What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage

Stat!

I was on call for a large pharmacy supplying medication to nursing homes. Sunday morning 5 am, phone rings. "I need to put in an urgent order for medication". So I first enquired what was needed, as sometimes they try to order trivial stuff like vitamins, or things they have an emergency supply of, like antibiotics. Turned to be Parkinson medication, which is sort of a worst case scenario, as not only do you not want to skip it, it is also very time critical. So next question: when does it need to be administered?

Eight.... PM.

Managed not to swear and went back to sleep.

Generative AI is out of control: Nothing, Forever is a Seinfeld spoof about nothing... forever

Always new?

"Everything you see, hear, or experience (with the exception of the artwork and laugh track) is always brand new content"

Nope. Just got the chicken and slide joke again.

How to track equipped cars via exploitable e-ink platemaker

Re: Stick them on a Tesla.

Come on Cops you have the CCTV... why don't you prosecute them.

A chimp AI could be trained to do it.

Profit!

1) Change own plate to nemesis' plate.

2) Go speeding, preferably in an average speed trap.

optional 3) When caught, say the plates were hacked.

4) Profit!

Why would a keyboard pack a GPU and run Unreal Engine? To show animations beneath the clear keys, natch

"are they going to have Linux drivers or whatever the software you need for it is called?"

They say it runs on its own GPU and CPU, not using any resources of the PC it is connected to (through USB-C), so maybe no drivers needed?

Me, I just wonder how porn would look on it.

When we asked how you crashed the system we wanted an explanation not a demonstration

Re: Unanswered question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire

Re: HAL!

I'm sorry Dave, I did it again.

Chemical plant taken offline by the best one of all: C₈H₁₀N₄O₂

Re: Coffee...

Cola is corrosive. Contains phosphoric acid and has a pH of around 3.5.

I only drink it when it is adequately diluted with a more innocuous liquid, like rum.

PanWriter: Cross-platform writing tool runs on anything and outputs to anything

Abiword

If you want something in between PanWriter and LibreOffice there's AbiWord.

Everyone back to the office! Why? Because the decision has been made

Re: We're not all British

Or you could write articles that do not necessitate your audience to use Google thrice per sentence.

And no, I'm not Murican.

Re: We're not all British

Wrong. Continental.

We're not all British

Would you expect people who do not know who Jacob Rees-Mogg is to know how Bertie Wooster looks like (OK, link provided), Sir Percy Blakeney sounds like and what Theakston's Old Peculier is?

Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry

Re: Could this be the energy source that 'solves' energy for humanity??

"It took a couple of days to get used to the eggy smell in the shower"

At least you don't have to blame the dog.

Re: Could this be the energy source that 'solves' energy for humanity??

"If we're talking about repurposing existing turbines in coal plants, there's unlikely to be much of a district to heat"

You can transport the hot water over quite a distance. In The Netherlands, waste heat from industries in the Rotterdam harbour is (going to be) piped to The Hague.

https://www.portofrotterdam.com/en/news-and-press-releases/start-of-construction-of-heat-pipeline-between-the-port-of-rotterdam-and

AI-designed COVID-19 drug nominated for preclinical trial

Re: The next.

"governments around the world to fast track the testing and approval process"

That is called a "conditional marketing authorisation" for EMA and a "emergency use authorization" by the FDA.

Not unheard of and not be confused with regular approval.

Not a GNOME fan, and like the look of Windows? Try KDE Plasma or Cinnamon

Re: Similarly, if you have a touchscreen

"Bank cashpoints don't use them, "

Where you live, maybe.

My experience is almost all ATM's have both options these days.

Dear Europe, here again are the reasons why scanning devices for unlawful files is not going to fly

1984

You may still argue Brexit happened for the wrong reasons, but I am still convinced in the long run it is for the better. This kind of Orwellian crap is a prime example why.

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

I've once (in the nineties) driven a tractor (an agricultural one) that had brake and accelerator swapped.

Apparently not uncommon for that type of vehicles. Got used to it surprisingly quickly, as usually one's foot is on only one of the two at any given time.

That being said: back in Europe from thousands of kilometers driving in Australia for weeks I would turn on my windscreen wipers when I wanted to signal a turn and vice versa.

KDE keyboard shortcuts

"Alt-Space-X maximizes a window in an instant, and the same keystroke works in Unity or in Xfce – but it doesn't in KDE Plasma"

Take a look at the System Settings in KDE. There are more keyboard shortcuts than anyone could possibly remember for almost every possible action and (almost?) all of them can be customised.

Computer is sleeping now and me almost, so can't check, but I'm pretty sure if you want Alt-Space-X to maximise a window, you can make it so.

Microsoft points at Linux and shouts: Look, look! Privilege-escalation flaws here, too!

Well, I applied the patch one minute ago, so at least Kubuntu uses it.

(And happy to see it's been fixed so quickly)

Auctioneer puts Space Shuttle CPUs under the hammer

Came here just to see if someone had already mentioned him and once again, The Vulture's readership does not disappoint.

You can buy a company. You can buy a product. Common sense? Trickier

Re: 'twas ever thus

Two jokes from Belgium:

A Belgian sees a Dutchman stripping the paint from his house.

"Allez, are you moving house?"

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.

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How was copper wire invented?

Two cloggies fighting over a cent. *

* You may know this one with Schotchmen in it.

Zlib crash-an-app bug finally squashed, 17 years later

Re: pubs and post offices

I think here post offices do not even exist anymore.

Google helps develop AI-driven lab machine to diagnose Parkinson's

"perfectly adequate for the diagnosis"

No, it is not.

See my other post.

There are more extrapyramidal movement disorders with similar symptoms, but of different etiology.