Posts by YetAnotherJoeBlow

This is going well: Meta adds anti-grope buffer zone around metaverse VR avatars

You got to be kidding...

How much does he make?

That's a signature move: How $320m in Ether was stolen from crypto biz Wormhole

Correction?

blackchain?

Bug in WebKit's IndexedDB implementation makes Safari 15 leak Google account info... and more

Webkit...

You do realize that all browsers on Ithings are mandated to use Safaris Webkit.

You do right?

The inevitability of the Windows 11 UI: New Notepad enters the beta channel

What a suprise...

How about adding large file support?

Or hex mode toggle - just plain simple text - not rich.

Always go for the eye candy and mess up all the

old command keys.

It is ok though, it has dark mode.

America's 'Team Telecom' backs switch-on of Google and Meta's US-APAC undersea cable

I live in the P.I. What I would give for some of that bandwidth...

Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data

The usual weasel words:

"There is a risk that costs will be passed on to users in the form of lower service levels and price increases, causing social inefficiencies,"

Had you cared about your users in the first place, you would already know this.

Apple quietly deletes details of derided CSAM scanning tech from its Child Safety page without explanation

Google? who?

Azul lays claim to massive efficiency gains with remote compilation for Java

hmm...

Sending and receiving code at runtime - what a great idea.

HCL accused of wage theft, underpaying H-1B workers by at least $95m a year

To fix this...

All that needs to be done is to add the following line to the reg:

Any attempt to use this reg to avoid paying the proper wage for an available U.S. worker

shall be considered a criminal offense (felony.)

Intel's mystery Linux muckabout is a dangerous ploy at a dangerous time

Let me be the first to thank Gelsinger for my shiny new 128 core chip at a bargain price!

No more Commercial Space Astronaut Wings after this year because FAA has been handing them out like candy

Re: Raising the bar

In the 60s, American Airlines gave me metal wings, TWA's were plastic.

BadgerDAO DeFi defunded as hackers apparently nab millions in crypto tokens

Crazy is it not?

Throughout my career, many have criticized me that I am too under-invested. I buy stocks long term and some treasury notes. My whole life. I have missed out on a lot.

I can sleep at night. My retirement will be very nice.

SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware

Cannot wait...

Am I the only one who is anxious to get a developer board to test?

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

pdp-11 assembly and C on simh

Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it

Re: What next?

Sadly they would know, too.

AWS is on the threshold of adulthood, but is nowhere near grown up

Re: what I don't get

Or, their IT got so large Bezos said, "can't we lease out some of that space to recapture some costs?"

The cloud was born again...

Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months

Too long...

Unless Panasonic mandated insecure proceedures, if I was the CIO, I would resign embarrassed and ashamed. Five months or longer? Even in large IT estates, there are SOPs that would trip in short order.

Google advises passwords are good, spear phishing is bad, and free clouds get attacked

Only from...

I thought that Google was to be reporting actionable intelligence not common attack vectors.

Apple's Pegasus lawsuit a 'declaration of war' against offensive software developers, says Kaspersky director

Devil's advocate...

It will be interesting to see if Citizen Lab continues to report about 0 days to the public or just to Apple - or perhaps focus on just Android and Windows to publically report.

Russia's orbital insanity is almost beyond redemption – but there's space for improvement

Look, we get it. We've seen you use military-grade neurotoxins to kill our civilians going about their daily business. We've seen the downed civilian aircraft, collateral damage of your illegal invasions. We've seen your murderous friends kept in power by any means, the fallout of misery on your own people as much as on anyone else's from the oligarchal infighting and careless brutality in the service of power.

That sums it up rather nicely.

Riverbed Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following pandemic 'headwinds'

Re: A blast from the past

To quote Mr. Scott - "Ye canna change the laws of physics"

As he punches it to warp 8...

Judge tosses NEC's claim that Oracle salespeople tricked it into using the wrong software license prior to audit

a new name

Sueacle

Latest Loongson chip is another step in China's long road to semiconductor freedom

Quality

What surprises me is how poorly written the kernel code is. What were they thinking? Clearly the Chinese coud do better - it is as if they were not on the same page as the hardware guys.

Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics

Missed that...

Irrespective of compilers used, my environment would have exposed that trick - except for Eclipse... I need to check my settings.

I would have missed that I think. Thanks for the heads-up.

edit: fix sentence

Yet again, Cream Finance skimmed by crooks: $130m in crypto assets stolen

Me thinks...

This is starting to look like an internal job.

Microsoft's UWP = Unwanted Windows Platform?

M$oft has never had a helmsman.

You know the guy that designs the architecture, and sets the milestones and listens to developers to integrate the improvements.

Never.

DISH Wireless hooks up with Helium's decentralised 5G network via FreedomFi gear

"Renski blamed the bulk of the increase on semiconductor shortages."

Covid 19 is getting a bit long in the tooth...

Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

I just used ftp today to update octave (in a vpn.)

Quantum computing startups pull in millions as VCs rush to get ahead of the game

The first company to the finish line might as well disconnect from the internet because the thieves will be very inpatient.

Got enterprise workstations and hope to run Windows 11? Survey says: You lose. Over half the gear's not fit for it

To require an unnecessary minimum level of cpu support smacks of a deal struck between OEM(s) and Microsoft.

The TPM revision was added to bring in servers to the party.

China demands internet companies create governance system for algorithms

Re: CCP repression and control by any other name is still CCP repression and control

*Given its vast troll army, relentless censorship, rewriting/expunging of history, misinformation campaigns,..."

For a minute, I thought you were talking about the US.

Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous

"There is a huge change that is going on, and we believe that change is the change and transformation and evolution and inspiration into the trusted enterprise,"

huh?

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Slack will like this...

The age of the Service Pack is over. The time of the Modern Servicing Model has come

"...you should plan to install a CU with the same level of confidence you plan to install SPs as they are released."

Said with a straight face...

Well then I'll wait a month before installing the CU too,,,

Apple debuts iPhone 13 with 1TB option, two iPad models, Series 7 Watch

Re: Apple Watch battery life

"What exactly does a smartwatch do that sucks battery life quite so insanely hard?"

Sending all that juicy telemetry to the mothership.

Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors

I always compile with -pedantic-errors before a commit.

I was taught to alleviate all warnings.

Sysadmins: Why not simply verify there's no backdoor in every program you install, and thus avoid any cyber-drama?

"It's not feasible to ask every org to break out disassemblers, source code editors, and network and memory analysis tools, and have staff on hand capable of using them, to inspect every update, be they open or closed source."

Well that highlights their ignorance.

Whoops I am rioting again.

Australia rules Facebook page operators are legally liable for user comments under posts

Re: NETIZEN IN READER 'RIOT' STORM

As my grandfather said "the truth hurts" - He was a judge in a state supreme court.

This is the least toxic forum out there - reporting truthful, and entertaining.

Another example of the woke losing a debate so they try censorship. Yep that is me - I am a rioter!

Proton welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee to its advisory board – as ProtonMail suffers a privacy backlash

Logging...

Perhaps Proton Mail will change "log authentications" to off in their settings for ALL new accounts. PM has logging enabled as default, per user; check your settings!

UK gov blocks the acquisition of Welsh graphene fiddler Perpetuus Group over national security concerns

Re: It's a shame...

"We seem to be good at inventing stuff but shit at getting it to production or even marketing it."

Sorry mate, it is your food there.

Why we abandoned open source: LiveCode CEO on retreat despite successful kickstarter

Statement modifiers.

Basic on a PDP-11 (RSTS/E) you could type:

k%[i%] = 0 for i% = 1% to 20%

h = 6.0 if i%

Apple stalls CSAM auto-scan on devices after 'feedback' from everyone on Earth

Re: Hey Apple!

"There is zero reason to make all these ridiculous claims along the way."

Yes. I agree; like:

The failure rate is only 1 in a trillion.

Re: Hey Apple!

"And do you honestly think if it was a government-mandated thing it wouldn't be completely classified as to how it works and what it does"

Either you honestly do not know or you are trolling which is it?

Arm says it has 'successful working relationship' with Chinese joint venture run by CEO who refuses to leave

Re: Spin

Does ARM China physically possess all of ARM's IP?

Hyper-V bug that could crash 'big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure': Code published

"Vulnerabilities that breach this barrier are particularly serious for hosting companies..."

Thats why the hack got over 30 grand...

Former Cisco exec jailed for fraud, dodging taxes

If a man is dishonest at the job, so he is at home.

Real world not giving you enough anxiety? Try being hunted down by the perfect organism in Alien: Isolation

Re: The ALIEN xenomorph is real.

Maybe it is just me, but the Norwegians seem to be really good at horror - death metal, etc.

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

What makes it bad is that it was purposely done - more than once.

I certainly do not use or recommend WD.

I guess they joined into the race to the bottom - it is getting crowded these days.

Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel

We don't need no education...

-- especially this way

Amazon Game Studios to its own devs: All your codebase doesn't belong to us

We are Gods - We own you.

Laws are for the little people. Now go forth and make us money!