* Posts by e^iπ+1=0

342 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Feb 2014

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Internet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really?

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Re: Vote with your feet, folks.

"simply do not renew it"

... or renew now at current prices for as long as you can, and have a planned exit strategy.

Brian Eno's latest composition: A giant Christmas card with Julian Assange on it

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Send him home

How about just deport him back to Oz when he's served his time, and let them handle extradition to the US or whatever?

OPPO's Reno 2, aka 'Baby Shark', joins the deepening pool of high-spec midranger mobes

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Tracking

"Everything from ... onwards is unnecessary."

Surely Google / Amazon find it useful to establish links between browser instances that use the shared 'unnecessary' parts, hence they may be necessary for tracking.

40 million emoji-addicted keyboard app users left with $18m bill – after malware sneaks into Play Store yet again

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one-use credit card number

Not completely dead - e.g. Revolut offer disposable card numbers. Not a credit card, more like a prepaid card.

Online deepfakes double in just nine months, scaring politicians – and fooling the rest of us

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Re: I wonder

"turns out your star has been fiddling with ..."

This issue has been dealt with in the aftermath of #metoo on numerous productions.

The current solution seems to be reshoo all scenes featuring the unwanted actor.

Not sure whether a deepfake solution would tick the right boxes.

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Re: Deepfakes are not a problem now

"posting to the Internet will required a confirmed ID"

I think it's already thete in beta.

Have you heard of a place like China?

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

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Re: Things change slowly

Hmm, now it seems as if to ensure mankind's survival just getting off this planet isn't enough - we really need to spread our wings beyond this galaxy.

After that, well this universe is obviously doomed in the medium term, so we should be working on a way out.

I'd say things aren't changing slowly enough.

After 72 hours of recurring outages, you'd be forgiven for wanting to slightly tweak the first syllable of Bitbucket

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"tweak the first syllable" - or second?

Works better for me.

Hey, it's Google's birthday! Remember when they were the good guys?

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Re: I remember

"I remember when Google was a force for good. If only they had stayed that way"

I think things changed a bit around the time of the doubleclick acquisition. It's almost as if they bought Google rather than the other way around.

Glasgow extends middle finger to southern fairies as London ranks bottom in mobile signal top 10

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Re: Meanwhile

"mandate rural coverage on all networks at no extra cost to the customers (so that way even if only 1 network gave the area coverage, behind the scenes "data roaming" would occur, at a financial hit to the non covering networks not the customer) "

Here, in a remote area of Australia, domestic roaming allows a Vodafone customer to utilize the Optus network. Calls work just fine; the agreement between the networks changed a while back and data roaming is now slow - 0.5 Mbps or less I think.

TalkTalk still struggles to shut down legacy email addresses on request

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Deceased accounts

In my experience TalkTalk are not very useful at dealing with grieving relatives trying to close the account of someone who passed.

We've got to the stage now of writing 'return to sender - deceased' on their correspondence after several phone calls along the lines of - "sorry, system down, no record of last call, we'll look in to this for you and get back'.

Contractor association blasts UK.gov guidance on hated IR35 tax law's arrival in private sector

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once you've employed someone you're stuck with them

Zero hours contract, anyone?

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How old is IR35 now

I remember hearing about IR35 'coming soon' in the late 90s, was concerned about the consequences, and decided to take a contract in mainland Europe at the time to sidestep that problem.

Roll forward 20+ years, is it only now coming to bite? Was I worried a couple of decades too early?

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

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GalliumOS

How does GalliumOS on a Chromebook compare to having my Linux distro of choice installed on a computer originally sold with Windows (what I do currently)?

What are the pros and cons of buying a Chromebook as opposed to a Windows PC if I'm just going to wipe the OS and install Linux?

Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king

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first poster

You mean it could be a a bot?

Disgruntled bug-hunter drops Steam zero-day to get back at Valve for refusing him a bounty

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banned from HackerOne.

My reading of the article leads me to believe that the researcher was not banned from h1, just from steam's h1.

Eighty-year-old US 'web scam man' on the run after pocketing $250,000 in Dem 'donations'

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$25K for a Mercedes?

I'd be quite chuffed if I'd acquired that Merc without cost to myself, and I'm not even 80 yet. Not that I'm out to scam people.

Anyone who has a surplus to requirements $25k Merc can message me here.

Of course I can pay shipping costs in advance.

Here's a top tip: Don't trust the new person – block web domains less than a month old. They are bound to be dodgy

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How do you do it on a phone/tablet?

Try long push then "copy link" and paste into your fave text editor. May be browser / OS dependent.

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Where's the SpamAssassin for HTTPS?

Couldn't you somehow automagically turn the spamassassin list into a hosts file pointing at 127.0.0.1 to feed into your DNS servers?

Stuff like sophisticated government spyware is scary and all – but don't forget, a single .wmv file can pwn you via VLC

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Cross platform?

Or?

Bomb-hoaxing DoSer who targeted police in revenge was caught after Twitter taunts

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Re: How does 19 equal "young offender"?

I think in the UK one only qualifies as an adult at 21 in certain respects: possibly drive an hgv or bus; go to prison nowadays.

There used to be more things you had to wait for being 21 to do - like being 'allowed' to be gay if the lyrics of that old Tom Robinson track were correct and you were happy that way.

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browsing history on any new computer(s) must be kept

How easy is that to police?

If he selectively deleted individual history elements would they spot it?

I take it to mean "don't clear history".

What about private browser sessions, multiple browsers and so on?

Web body mulls halving HTTPS cert lifetimes. That screaming in the distance is HTTPS cert sellers fearing orgs will bail for Let's Encrypt

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equates to 31 December 9999

Follow the money ... Y10k bug ftw.

We've, um, changed our password policy, says CafePress amid reports of 23m pwned accounts

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own domain and use a unique LHS

Indeed; however I'd still like to be allowed to choose a username instead of being forced to use the email address as my username.

As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

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Standard ports

I often notice on a new server that I might have hundreds of failed ssh login attempts before I disable password authentication if I run sshd on the standard port; if I start it on a non standard port there might be none, but I wouldn't consider leaving password authentication enabled.

Non standard ports = security through obscurity = no security.

Fantastic Mr Fox? Not when he sh*ts on your lawn, kids' trampoline and your soul

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Re: Need to really P!$$ them off so they go elsewhere

No - you need to feed them so they start treating your gaff like the restaurant rather than the khazi.

Worked for my mum; no poxy dog food in her case, she asked for 'a doggy bag for the fox' when she ate out.

Up your game and the fox(es) will show you some respect and shit on the neighbour's patch instead.

FTC fines Facebook $5bn for making users believe they actually had control over their data

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strong criminal pentalties

I like the sound of that.

Jail for Zuck would be nice; at the very least a few hundred hours of community service.

The fines are good, but not enough.

Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin

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"fall into" a microwave

I can just see future legislation forcing that kind of damaged notes being unacceptable as legal tender.

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Mines the one with pockets full of change.

How hard can it be to mine pockets full of change?

Easier than mining some crypto coin.

BT staffers fear new mums could be hit disproportionately by car allowance change

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Bigger problem

Surely the "£145.18 a week, or 90 per cent of their average weekly earnings – whichever is lower" is a bigger problem?

I realise that is probably statutory; in an ideal world the maternity leave pay would not be that low. Which ideal world, I hear you ask? Well, at least certain parts of Scandinavia.

Disclaimer: As a BT shareholder I understand the company's choice here.

Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who

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Re: Address

Quick peek, I meant.

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Address

Is it too late to suggest blanking out the address in the newspaper clipping? Horse, gate, bolted etc.

Had a quick peak; nice street, bit out of my price range.

Mozilla boots alleged snoop troupe from its root cert coop: UAE-based DarkMatter thrown onto CA blocklist

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back to firefox

Doh, just use Chrome then!

Leave Firefox to those of us who care.

Let's talk about April Fools' Day jokes. Are they ever really harmless?

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Who Me?

Surely this doesn't belong in On Call, it should be Who Me?

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Who Me?

Not!

Cloudflare gave everyone a 30-minute break from a chunk of the internet yesterday: Here's how they did it

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Without knowing the nature of the regex in question,

Exactly - divulge the guilty regex, or it didn't happen (#deepfake).

We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners' smartphones

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They can't make you bring your own personal phone or laptop.

BYOD. As a condition of employment.

They can't make you ... you're free to stop working there.

DeepNude's makers tried to deep-six their pervy AI app. Web creeps have other ideas: Cracked copies shared online as code decompiled

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Boris, Nigel and Jacob.

... sounds like a Moroccan tea party.

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Re: This is only the start

Maybe some kind of AR headset addon should be put onto the list.

I can imagine people using a modern Google Glass equivalent being excluded from polite society.

Red light on headset signifies disrobing processing underway.

July is here – and so are the latest Android security fixes. Plenty of critical updates for all

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Re: If only

Just keep it airgapped, you'll probably be okay.

Works for me.

Otherwise, try removing the battery.

Facebook staff sarin for a bad day: Suspected chemical weapon parcel sent to Silicon Valley HQ

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Sarin schmarin

Huh, what's wrong with novichok these days?

What do we want? Decentralised, non-siloed social media with open standards! When do we want it? Soon!

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#SocialMediaStrike

Where do I post this if I don't have a social media account?

Am I too late to sign up for Google+?

I'd like to support the cause.

Swedish court declines to detain Belmarsh prison resident Julian Assange

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"coastal city"

I don't think so - Uppsala is about as coastal as Manchester.

Facebook removes about as many fake accounts as it has actual monthly users (yes, billions) in effort to clean up online

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Grauniad?

"Read most western media and they include all sorts of dubious material as fact."

Typos - yeah!

... Or Daily Fail?

Lyft, Uber drivers boost app surge prices by turning off, tuning out – and cashing in

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This!

Uber / Lyft _profit_ from surge pricing. Only the customer loses.

There is no incentive for them to kick drivers who do this out, other than as a gesture of good faith towards the customer.

LzLabs kills Swisscom’s mainframes – but it's not the work of a vicious BOFH: All the apps are now living on cloud nine

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Re: Yes but--

Wtf!

"just kicks that can down the road"

Shurely you mean "CICS that can"?

Get in line, USA: Sweden reopens Assange rape allegations probe

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mmm ... I think you mean lasagne

"put Assagne on a flight to Sweden, only it will be operated by American Airlines or similar..."

I think you only get lasagne in business class on American Airlines. Maybe they serve "Ass"agne in coach?

Firefox armagg-add-on: Lapsed security cert kills all browser extensions, from website password managers to ad blockers

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Re: Oh ...

xpinstall.signatures.required false fixed the problem for me over the weekend.

That's Numberwang! Google Cloud staffer breaks record for most accurate Pi calculation

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"Can we celebrate this properly on 31/4?"

30 days hath September, APRIL, ...

So, no, you can't.

Alphabet top brass OK'd $100m-plus payouts to execs accused of sexual misconduct – court docs

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Re: key words

'Aren't the key words here "allegedly" and "accused"?'

Exactly.

Maybe later we get the words "convicted"and "custodial sentence"

In the meantime, don't hold your breath.

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