Posts by djnapkin 114 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Nov 2010
> Someone might want to tell the Aussies that blockchain was last decade's meme
The decision was made by some high up clown at ASX at a time in the heart of the blockchain brouhaha. For those of us close enough to watch in real time it was like being able to see into the future
As others have pointed out, though Bitcoin is slow as sludge by comparison, blockchain might be able to be fast - I've no idea,
The real bizarre decision was choosing a distributed ledger for a system which was never going to be based outside the ASX's servers.
I've not forgotten how much buzz there was around blockchain at the time. Seemed more akin to the yo-yo and hula hoop crazes than a sound business investment.
> "Ublock Origin doesn't work with Vivaldi. Period."
Interesting.
I just installed uBlock Version 25.5.0 from the Chrome Web Store into Vivaldi 7.8
Developer : uBlock
1180 W Peachtree St NW suite 2100 Atlanta, GA
Is this the real thing?
Edit: it's not Origin. Some say it is great, others say it is rip-off garbage. Weird.
> maybe you're not the right person to complain about
Exactly. If you are not trying different offerings, don't pretend to be able to comment about them.
Outlook is similar to the original Win95 design, in that, they just got it right. I also use Thunderbird, but is it a better UI design than Outlook ... ???
"SAP recommends users strip out any customization they have built in the legacy software and either adopt new business processes or rebuild software in its cloud platform."
SAP, who after all are the authors of both the old & new offerings, will have built a tool to migrate those customizations to the new platform, right?
Right?
I genuinely find it hard to understand how the US department of Defence agreed to let their systems be worked on and maintained and configured by ops guys who are physically in China.
I've seen elsewhere that the US "guides" admitted they had very little technical understanding at all of what was being done. If i recall correctly some were not even IT people and had come from other jobs.
No offence whatsover to any Chinese individual, in their situation it's certain they would be expected to co-operate with the CCCP when asked.
How did the DoD allow this?
Possibly because of the downsides to running server as a home o/s . Quote from someone who is doing it:
"It does need some tweaking before installation (mostly services disabling/enabling, shutting down processes, registry additions and such) and a LOT of tweaking after installation so you better have intimate knowledge of Windosw OS. Installing wifi drivers and especially touchpad mouse drivers could be madness if you don't know what to do."
Yes and i also have a couple of ancient games that i might wheel out very occasionally and I'm amazed they still run on the latest Windows.
I also have an iPad that's not terribly old and the hardware is perfect but due to the apple operating system incompatibility with apps it is almost useless. About the only things that still run on the iPad are VLC, and the ABC iView - that's the Australian broadcasting commission which is similar to BBC.
Quote from that very bug post ... "The operation of the WhatsApp Web application was just tested on another phone number, the same operator, in both browsers of the latest versions Mozilla and Google Chrome and it was established that this is an artificial barrier for this phone number, either from the mobile operator or from the special services of the country that can persecute me as a citizen fighting alone against corruption, repression of the unwanted, lawlessness, violation of human rights and freedoms and violations of democracy in the country."
Nothing to do with FF at all.
The guy in the post had the decency to explain the real problem, despite which, SJVN still quotes it as example of an FF problem.
But yeah, go ahead and blame Firefox because that suits your preconceived idea.
How great is the actual danger from not getting those windows updates? I didn't even have anti virus running real time in windows 7 because it slowed things down. That was a hard drive not SSD machine. I did have Malwarebytes installed at the ready to test installation files etc me
There was the Outlook Express bug that ignored the file type and believed the mime type. There was the RDP exploit that was very nasty but I've always only opened the firewall to specific addresses. Can anyone recall actual windows vulns that were remotely exploitable with no klutzy user action required?
"have only used parquet" - you're well ahead of me.
From a Medium article
"Hive keeps track of data at the “folder” level (i.e. not the file level) and thus needs to perform file list operations when working with data in a table. "
Iceberg solves this by"keeping track of a complete list of all files within a table"
Files within a table? Not tables with a file? It's a database, Jim, but not as I know it.
All the research I have seen says the opposite.
In practice the reality is that some people are very highly resistant to training in this way. They just will keep clicking the link, or OK'ing if the authenticator on the phone asks them "is this you?".
Keen to see evidence that it works, that is not sponsored by a mob who provide the service for money.
I used to think that phishing simulations were worthwhile. Indeed, they were used in one place i worked.
I've since learnt they serve no useful purpose.
Some people cannot be trained by sending them an occasional phish, to stop clicking those links. Training simply does not work this way.
The evidence suggests there is a sub-section who are highly resistant to learning about clicking on phishing emails.
Rather than waste everyone's time, better to build a working defence against these incoming emails in the first place.
> But what about when it happens with a passkey? You have no Authenticator app or anything else, so how to login?
Easy. You just request a reset via email, and ...
Wait, your email account is protected by a passkey, or SMS to your phone that you don't have? Ah well, too bad, so sad. No more fun holiday for you.
> Verify yourself using the Authenticator App
which was on the device you just lost
> Create a new passkey on the new device.
for every site. So, for the hundreds of passwords I have, I'd have to jump through all of those hoops, hoping I can get through the 2FA, for each one? Something doesn't smell right here. I recently did reset my device, and the 2FA for a stock trading site in the USA, was gone - their app has no backup. That required a phone call to the US based support staff to be able to log in again. Sure hope I wouldn't need to multiply that experience by a hundred.
Wise words, Bazza. Well said, sir.
> So, how does one tell the difference between an innocent mistake, and a deliberate mistake? One cannot.
And that keads us to, what to do instead. This backdoor was going to open an ssh connection.
Outgoing firewalls? Would that have helped here? It's not a new idea, but seems to have fallen by the wayside in recent years. Perhaps time to bring it back?
Yes, the Windows installer defaulted to preserving the existing data and saving the current OS as Windows.Old when I installed one the other day.
When choosing the 'clean slate' choice, it shows the existing partitions, which I delete one-by-one.
Once they are all deleted, the installation looks after creating whatever partitions it deems necessary.
Much as I hate the waste incurred and so many other things about crypto, banning it won't stop ransomware.
If anonymity was critical, the gangs would be demanding payment in Monero, which is effectively untraceable.
Yet they quite happily ask for Bitcoin which is quite traceable.
If you're in Russia or a part of the CCP, you're untouchable.
