Posts by 7teven 4ect

Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla

But physical keys can be hacked

Especially in the digital age. Check out Deviant Olam on youtube.

Keys can be copied from pictures of keys, any lock can be defeated.

The illusion of security keeps insurers and sheep happy, but not the wise.

Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install

Re: Well well well

Devuan is anti-systemd to an almost militant degree, perhaps not?

GParted 1.4: New version of live partition-manipulation tool

Re: Low RAM tips?

Install LMDE to an SSD drive, install mate-session and marco, logout and back in as a Mate session, install gparted. Hack away at bloat (htop and systemd-analyze blame to find bloat) until it runs in under 150 mb, install gparted. Use this instead.

I use this setup happily on machines with half a gig of ram and single core 600 MHz celerons.

Oracle Linux appears somewhere unexpected: The Windows Store

Please tell me it is not true?

Now that windows has a linux subsystem, will it now be worthwhile for agents to develop exploits targeting linux, and will exploits targeting the widows linux subsystem affect regular linux?

Infosec chap: I found a way to hijack your web accounts, turn on your webcam from Safari – and Apple gave me $100k

Re: Value for money

To phrase such in a way that promotes the suggestion that a line exists between design and test, or between any two so-called software development phases, is to err, and finding err is good testing.

Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated systemd

Re: Will it still "just work"?

I found, using devuan with the mate desktop, the audio device setting was not persisting as it should. Is this still the case with 4.0?

Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features

Audinkums

Playmobil crosses the final frontier with enormous, metre-long Enterprise playset

Re: tribbles, how to remove?

a couple of stages? I only have a pair, and that's dead!

Re: tribbles, how to remove?

but cat :3

tribbles, how to remove?

Having a mature poplar tree, she drops seeds in the tens of millions each summer. My job is picking them up. The seeds start life in racks of about two dozen then have a complex life-cycle and no two are the same. They all ultimately peak at the tribble phase, where they have transformed from little green pods to fluffy, slightly sticky, white balls.

This looks incredibly beautiful like snow in summer, but it strangles the grass on the lawn. One lawnmower is dead, another feeling the strain. Help, please? How to remove?

My point is, what inspired the tribbles episode? Could it have been a similar struggle?

Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'

those who fear evolution, demonstrate it

But I'm not anti-vaccine, I am pro-safer-vaccines.

I am not anti-"new humanoid race"

I am pro-"old humanoid race"

Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks

Re: So why not MACH.4?

Like, why not run, then, walk?

UK Special Forces soldiers' personal data was floating around WhatsApp in a leaked Army spreadsheet

Re: At least it was sorted in the right order this time!

Just saw your username? Did you study maths at B'ham uni?

Re: Several thoughts

Because nothing is ever the fault of some unscrupulous incompetent right-wing chancers?

Re: "Who is General Fskup" ?

He's covered by Admiral Insurance so no prob.

How much would you pay me to develop a COVID tracking app that actually works? Ah, thought so: nothing

Astavakrasana

Jumping from downward dog into Astavakrasana is actually fun.

It's the press handstand out of Astavakrasana that isn't so fun if you have hips like mine

Microsoft issues emergency fix for Wi-Fi foul-up delivered hot and fresh on Patch Tuesday

Debian with a mint bodykit

Ubuntu - debian plus bloat

Mint - debian plus green bloat

LMDE debian plus green totalitarianism

Debian with mint artwork. Best.

Devuan with mint artwork, Much more betterer (if a little buggy)

One does not simply shove elephants on a ballet shoe point and call it an acceptable measure of pressure

823 gram spud

Freshly harvested, too large to bake, how to convert to reg units for easier cooking?

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

Psycholoft

Lazy spoonerization and grimm's law m->l makes this one

For those who missed the title, 'PsychoLoft' seems apt now they are in the open source penthouse party mood.

Found on Mars: Alien insects... or whatever the hell this smudge is supposed to be, anyway

Re: No oxygen

Creatures can survive the vacuum of space, so why not 'live' very slowly in the near-vacuum of mars?

Pupil mental health monitor promises app rewrite after hardcoded login creds discovered

Another win for Shi$iTeth7ae 7esting

That Old Time 2018 IT songbook: Verity, Verity - give us your lyrics, do! We're half crazy, all for the love of you

it's unix time, there's no need to give up RAID

Another 3D printer? Oh, stop it, you're killing us. Perhaps literally: Fears over ultrafine dust

Re: n before g

All this could be a fignent of my inagniation.

I'll torpedo Tor weirdos, US AG storms: Feds have 'already infiltrated' darknet drug souks

Re: Permissiveness has gone too far

Nah, let's just abuse each other for using tea, coffee, alcohol, chocolate, yerba mate

Distraction

Dying of overdose? How comfortable. The war on drugs makes it impossible for most of the non-American world to obtain these essential painkillers.

Legalise the lot.

Tsk-tsk, fat cat Softcat: Milk-slurping reseller taken to court

I'm lactose intolerant and I demand to know why we have not heard from a vegan on this issue?

Newsflash: Car cyber-security still sucks

When I was little back in the 70s a family friend had a yellow VW beetle. One day I saw him loading logs into it so he told me it ran on logs, my big brother confirmed this.

This is the new millenium, and cars can now brick themselves just by producing overly large electronic logs.

Nervy nuke-armed nation fires missile with 5,000km range

Jai Hind

Mahabarat is maha :D

O Christmas wreath, O Christmas wreath, thy potent skunk's in bunches

Re: Not funny in the slightest

Not sure if trolling, high

or worse...

Never been high?

User experience test tools: A privacy accident waiting to happen

Re: Diversion tactics needed?

It won't work, market research analysts will just ignore your weird data, and use what they know is right to find another person, near enough like you, and double that person's weighting until you get bored and stop diverting, then they come back like night hags.

Yes this comment was designed to be found by certain searches.

Facebook vows to double staff with new cadre of Net Police

I'm using Fluff Busting (FB) Purity. It lets me control things. If I want to see only friends I can. All that crap on the right is switched off. I just have my feeds and my chats.

UK's NHS to pilot 'Airbnb'-style care service in homeowners' spare rooms

For patients who smoke this will be easier for popping outside.

Where will the patient's prescription be kept this month? Anything nice?

What could possibly go wrong?

NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted

Re: Engage with them?

The problem would be understanding with autistics. Yours.

Your statement may apply to sociopaths.

'Biggest bird ever': 21-foot ripsaw-beaked flying horror

Gliding

Another article pointed out that for each 1m drop, the bird could glide 22m

Waves go up and down, the bird just has to sit on the water, wait for a 1m wave to lift it, then glide up to 22m to catch a fish on the surface, then wait for a wave to lift it for the next attack.

Sat on a wave, the bird may have looked like a wave, almost invisible to fish.

Just because it's big, doesn't mean it had to fly or glide large distances.

Supposedly secure Dogecoin service Dogevault goes offline

Punctuation error in your current frontpage message,

Dear Doge Support,

You have a superfluous apostrophe in "attacker's'"

Expected result: "We will also closely be investigating potential attack vectors, and determining the security breach which enabled the attackers to compromise the service."

Observed result: "We will also closely be investigating potential attack vectors, and determining the security breach which enabled the attacker's to compromise the service."

Kindest Regards,

J

P.S. Punctuation is important. I prefer cats but doge is ok too.

Rumour: Next Apple iThing to feature 65-inch screen. Four-limb multitouch, anyone?

Remember the advert with the televisions?

Maybe just an update of the 1984 advert, 30 years on... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

Cold-blooded, INHUMAN visitor hitches ride on NASA moon rocket

It'll be fun, they said...

Tease the witch, they said.

Dopey dope-growing dope smoked out by own dope dope-growing vid

ooohBAMMA luuurves warehousin' niggas 4 cash.

*nigga is not more politically incorrect than 'dope', when 'dope' is used derogatively and nigga is used brotherly, before anyone complains.

UK discovers Huawei UK staff auditing Huawei kit: Govt orders probe

Some reading between the lines

UK: "We don't trust you"

Huawei: "We build trust centre"

GCHQ: "we take over trust centre and use it to spy on the East. Thank you."

It's called 'externalising costs'. Austerity.

Boffins want toilets to become POWER PLANTS

Re: Back of a loo-roll calculation:

Thank you for wiping that for me.

Back of a loo-roll calculation:

Urine is 95% water

Therefore it is ~5% 'food'

Let food have an average calorific density of 3 calories per millilitre.

The average daily urination volume is 1500 ml.

5% of 1500 is 75. Multiplying by 3 gives us 225 calories in a day's urine.

That's roughly 10% of our dietary needs.

Saving 10% off our total energy bill related to getting food from field to stomach.

Which is massive compared to the amount of energy we can probably extract from waste urine using MFCs.

Two pieces of advice:

1. Drink urine

2. Never admit it

The author does not drink has own urine.

T-Rex tooth find shows dino may have been a pussy

(google it to see photo...)

If you're ever feeling grumpy, just imagine a T-Rex making a bed.

There, that's better :)

US cops make 'first ever' Bitcoin seizure following house raid

That's interesting. It's pretty much common knowledge nowadays that some cannabinoids may ameliorate core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders but not much talk of the use of amphetamines, perhaps with the exception of MDMA (See Danforth Research).

Which symptoms do you find are reduced by dexedrine? With Asperger's being social-sense related, are you able to tell if a drug can improve your social skills or do you have to get second-party corroboration? From whom?

Yes, and everyone who gives anyone else a cup of tea or coffee is a drug dealer, ditto a pint of beer or a cigarette. Also, all policemen and all human beings produce Class A drugs constantly in the form of DMT - produced naturally by the body.

The distinction between 'legal', 'illegal', and 'prescription' drugs is the problem here. Substances or objects cannot be 'illegal', it is people's acts pertaining to those substances or objects which are actually covered by laws.

Bitcoin now accepted in London pub. In Hack-ney, of course

A publican IS a drug dealer.