Posts by bombastic bob 10841 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2015
But I thought ChatGPT is writing their code now... in a lingo that uses GARBAGE COLLECTION!!!
Only thing worse, they write it in Javascript like their free 'Code' editor. Or, ChatGPT does it. Either way, they can fire all of their "programmers" and replace them with untrained monkeys aka "newcomers".
Rust in the kernel - I was wondering if this might be behind some of the observed problems.
/me imagines a GARBAGE COLLECTION STALL creating frequent performance lags at the kernel level...
(Then again C-pound is probably WORSE about garbage collection than Rust, but probably is NOT in the kernel, only the grossly inefficient 'Windows Shell' internals)
Exploitation is not capitalism. Capitalism is a fair exchange of money for goods and/or services based on free market value. For it to work properly, you need competition and a level playing field.
What THEY are doing is more like the monopolies and trusts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In other words, EXPLOITATION in an UNFAIR market.
Upvot4 for mentioning fission power. It is good for many purposes [I have operated fission reactors] and exists today and is safe.
Downvote for saying we do NOT need fusion research. That is for TOMORROW and USA developing it is good for the world.
If I had MY choice, I'd stop wasting money on Ukraine and SUBSIDIZING illegal immigration and so-called "renewables", and sink $150 BILLION into SERIOUS fusion rtesearch which would demand RESULTS before getting paid!!!
Unleash a series of high dollar X pries for DOE-owned patents for fusion processes and improved efficiency and energy collection and electricity generation and we'll have this working in a DECADE!
Pussy-foot around and pay a pittance for "research without results" and you'll get what you oaid for.
According to Forbes, Boeing issued thir very first "Diversity Report" in April of 2021.
Since that time, there have been a *cough* FEW issues with quality at Boeing. There were earlier problems with 737 Max (2 crashes, software) around 2018, and the plane had to be re-certified in 2020. But 2 other versions of 737 Max have had waivers issued and were never certified due to quality issues. Then there was the door falling off in mid flight earlier this year, and even more problems with starliner.
Many of these problems initially pre-date their DEI implementation but some of them since then reflect serious manufacturing and assembly issues, and not necessarily design flaws.
Boeing has management problems and they have tried "cleaning house" to fix it. I fear they hired new management that are just "diverse" versions of the same *KINDS* of bad management that led to the 737 Max and Starliner issues, and the fact remains that DEI hiring picks identity over qualifications....
recently set up an ad-hoc "bearer" scheme to handle sessions where data could be modified or destroyed by a miscreant.
You can generate a new public/private key pair via openssl, and each end sends the public key in plain text [even using ssh or https this helps secure the process from possible replay attacks. etc.]
Then using those one-time generated keys, you send a secret back and forth, like a login + password or some kind of key, getting a one-time hash that ends up in 'bearer' for your session [good for a very limited time, for specific IP addresses, stored in server internal session vars, whatever]
It's a bit like the way SSL works with the DH key exchange so not a NEW idea, just something easy to set up with an hour of PHP coding and program that uses 'curl' to send a request via https
And that is the point - any relative newbie prograner with a couple of hours reading 'man openssl' should be able to configure a tightly secured public key based scheme that generates new keys on both ends every time. Good luck cracking THAT, anyone.
Right now, the only potential "solution" I can see being proposed would be
* Closed source
* Locked down with certificates
* Developers having to pay to get code signed (or it cannot run at all)
* CRapp stores must get THEIR piece of the action
* Operating systems having internal certs built-in for signed code (which means stealing the master key is still possible)
Micros~1 has been trying this since Vista. 64-bit Win7 REQUIRED kernel components to be signed BY THEM. And of course "a moderate fee" is involved.
It's really just a matter of trusting the vendor, and limiting the scope of malware. Easy "administrator" access BY DEFAULT is STILL a problem, as is a 'sudo' derived security model that makes it too easy to just gain root access whenever you want it. Convenient, yes, but should NOT be :"the default".
So the REAL problem is still between chair and keyboard... and settling for "the default" even when it is a BAD idea.
This is an application used to play short videos to those with a short attention span, what is the fuss about, or is there something else behind the scenes that we are not being told about.
Not only that but it seems they are all in tall/skinny "narrow minded" aspect whenever people post this stuff on other platforms, complete with a TickTickBOOM watermark.
* These amateur videos are basically crap
* NO serious photographer or cinematographer EVAR uses tall/skinny 'narrow mind' 4-incher aspect ratios
* WideScreen was invented because it is preferable to 4x3, let alone tall/skinny 'narrow mind' aspect
* Our eyes are side to side, NOT on top of one another. Humans see in WIDE SCREEN mode.
* Important "Big Picture" details are lost with tall/skinny aspect and constantly moving camera position
In short these videos are CRAP, distort what's actually happening, and only appeal to 4-inchers (i.e. those who view EVERYTHING through a 4 inch phone screen)
Good Riddance to TickTickBOOM.
What really bothers me is that Chinese companies can expect a fair trial in our courts whilst our companies have no such luxury in China.
They ALSO expect the USA to honor their patents and other intellectual property, while REGULARLY violating our patents etc. for "Domestic Only" distribution.
I understand TickTickBOOM has some built in video editing tools that are covered by SOFTWARE PATENTS. Let's just violate them with a U.S. developed competing product and be done with it.
it took centuries for science to recognize just how harmful tobacco use can become, along with the addictive nature of nicotine, and then for society and gummints to sufficiently regulate the use and sale of these products.
Cigarettes, being the obvious example, are 'convenient' enough to invite excess use, and are often (as reported) made to be as addictive as possible BY DESIGN.
I am disturbed by the obvious practices being done by Tik Tok, the specific GROOMING of younger minds, the PUSHING of specific agendas by "influencers", and the number of videos of people doing the stupidest of things, quite possibly because the camera is on. [I also hate tall-skinny "narrow mind" aspect ratios on videos, often posted on other forums like X, nearly all of which have TikTok watermarks]
Is the CCP using Tik Tok like a BF Skinner inspired scheme to TRAIN us to [NOT?] think in a certain way, and GET ADDICTED to it?
I do not trust the CCP at ALL, and in China their grubby fingers are in EVERY BUSINESS, both state-owned and private. I think the ABuse of "Tik Tok 'lite'" IS deliberate, and should be gotten to the bottom of ASAP.
I skimmed through this article, seems relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business-xi-jinping-communist-party-state-private-enterprise-huawei
"On the occasions when I am forced to use Windows, the first thing I do is install a proper shell, be it Cygwin or MinGW, WSL or a VM"
Back in the day I used them for lots of things. One of my more (in)famous batch files at $workplace was called "Megamake" (it built everything and produced a distribution as a zip file). Windows nmake is pathetic so I used a batch file to coordinate the build. Worked well enough on a Win '98 or NT 4 system. Obvious Spaceballs reference, heh.
I once wrote a windows 'command.com' shell I called 'WinCMD' that did a lot of what CMD can do, specifically batch files and asynchronous windows applications from the command line. CMD in Win '95 of course made my application obsolete.
Maybe someone might write a console application for Win 7 and later that can do similar things, NOT be PowerShell, and contain improved command line security features...
Based on what we did when I was on a sub decades ago, switching clocks to 'Zulu Time' (UTC) once outside of territorial waters, using adjusted UTC would be the best and makes the most sense. All you need to do is make sure that Lunar time exactly tracks UTC based on the time it takes for a radio signal from Earth to reach the surface of the moon at the center of its face and we're good. Then we can make adjustments for craft in flight as needed.
[on a sub daylight cycles only make sense when at periscope depth or on the surface. For everyone else to keep regular schedules, Zulu makes the most sense when submerged, which is most of the time]
/me thinks: a shill for Demo[n,c][R,r]ats would say...
* FACEPALM *
[the left cannot meme]
I think we should let the people decide, and make sure that NO speech is silenced, filtered, nor edited [including the vile kinds of things that are often said about Trump] so that everyone is well informed, NOT motivated by pure emotion nor psychologically manipulated. and that ONLY legal (live) citizen votes are counted, exactly once per voter.
Do that and I'd accept the results. But I doubt that will actually happen... (the neo-nobility is compelled to divide us and keep us peasants in our place, RIGHT CCP???)
does anyone REALLY want to live in a society that is an AI-based *POLICE* *STATE* ???
How about we just ask them to put it out instead? Oh wait, that means treating people like HUMAN BEINGS.
I happen to get horribly bad sinus headaches and runny nose from hell just being around people who have RECENTLY smoked, let alone catching a face-full of exhaled cigarette exhaust. That being said, I do not like this AI surveillance at all, I'd rather just ask nice, first.
[then if the idiot won't put it out I find a cop, delegate up, and allow the cop to ask nice before arresting/etc.]
"String building SQL commands etc etc should just be an absolute no no."
You mean like constructing an 'INSERT" or "SELECT" command yourself? Works fine every time for me. Hard rules like that are what do not belong. Old school C code building queries and passing it to psql (or whatever) could be the best solution, even using 'malloc()/free()' on pointers, fixed length temporary buffers, and stdin/stdout to send and get data to/from a forked process that does the DBMS work, I do that a lot. It also means not having to link your code to a specific library, nor re-writing the interface too much if you switch DBMSs.
One method I try to use (always) is to make sure that the data itself will never contain characters that might cause SQL injection, such as a single quote mark or semicolon., Or I can explicitly escape them somehow before building the SQL command myself. This gives you the opportunity to test your code to see how it responds to a data field like "Boo'; DROP TABLE MASTER;" and so you check for the single quote, the semicolon, and so on, and test for control chars that might also do something bad. Then you can create generic SQL good for any DBMS that's also safe, use utilities like "psql" to do the dirty work, and so on.
But yeah getting that sanitized input takes some effort. Not hard with PHP though. Time worth spending regardless.
exactly. Gummint at "work"
A federal mandate requires most heavy-duty trucks to be equipped with ELDs, which track driving hours.
So, because gummint cannot trust drivers to keep logs and maintain things on their own (including themselves) they have to INVENT A CRISIS in which a SURVEILLANCE system is MANDATED because we're just a bunch of DUMB PEASANTS who cannot manage ANYTHING without THEM.
And, naturally, they made it WORSE.
What's next, AIRLINE PILOTS? No, wait...
My uncle was a trucker, owned his own rig. He's probably FURIOUS. With the mileage he accumulated he had to buy a new one every few years. Long haul, interstate stuff. Gummint dweebs have NO clue as to what truckers need to know, and the skills involved.
And without the truckers, there will be CHAOS.
"I tried to install my usual Mate desktop and it completely ignored it, booting back in Pixel, even after configuring X.org. Hopeless."
It sounds like they did TOO much integration of that desktop. I am guessing that deliberately UNINSTALLING the userland and starting from scratch might fix it. Boot to console for a while until it is re-done.
Might be a little difficult to do that though.
Also for EMBEDDED use, Wayland is a SHOW STOPPER. You ABSOLUTELY need to work on programs REMOTELY from a desktop, and that means using DISPLAY and XOrg.
"POP3 is horrible. It simply doesn't work in any situation where you need to access your mail from multiple devices (which i reckon is at least 90% of users these days)."
Then leave it ALONE - many of us prefer it. Like 3D Skeuomorphic vs 2D FLATSO. "The highway" is NOT an alternative the rest of us should be forced to accept.
Note: I take advantage of the "leave mail on the server for NN days" feature in TBird and other PROPER mail clients.
(you were being facetious, right? right?)
Unfortunately foreign lobbyists [too] often get the ears (and votes) of the [crooked] politicians they pay for.
And BOTH major parties are guilty, It's why "America First" is SO appealing to at least half of the voters.
and $3Trillion in borrowing per year to buy all of that "help everyone but Americans" DEFICIT spending should make it obvious to EVERYONE (who;s head is not in the sand) that this has been going on for WAY too long.
(If I had MY way I'd "imminent domain" all CCP-owned EVERYTHING, from farmland to Bytedance, declare the CCP an enemy to the USA, detach our economy from the CCP, etc. and make up for it by being a HUGE net exporter of CHEAP oil which would ultimately help EU, UK, and also help drive Putin out of Ukraine THAT way - economically)
Is this yet another example of teaching computer AIs to FEEL instead of use LOGIC, to simulate "intelligence", when EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE is an OBVIOUS OXYMORON?
worse than 'military intelligence' - SO many bad decisions made in the name of "FEEL". And that would include AI designs, apparently, unless you WANT "Artificial Stupidity"
According to Elon, the solution to AI is a VERY STRICT adherence to THE TRUTH. Or something similar to that.
In other words "just the facts" without the Artificial Stupidity "morality" programmed in by leftists.
Once in Central Cali-Fornicate-You, on I-5, in the summer, farmland all around, I hit a swarm of bugs in the middle of the night that COATED my windshield.
Wipers and fluid kept me seeing long enough to get past the swarm and keep going. But do forward cameras have wipers and washer fluid?
(RE: China becoming world's biggest economy)
All done with slave and child labor, grossly underpaid employees, totalitarian control, unfair international trade practices, and [specifically] theft of intellectual property [which I have seen clear examples of]
(under communism there is *NO* *REAL* *INNOVATION* - because the nail that STICKS UP gets THE HAMMER!)
but specifically NOT an AM radio.
Most conservative talk radio is on AM after all, and is VERY anti-CCP and pro-Trump. Make up an excuse like "the power converter creates too much noise for the AM band to be usable" and now Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Clay&Buck, and others no longer threaten the CCP domination of the world, since nobody can listen to them while driving any more.
that would be illegal and unusable
Has not stopped such things in the USA. FISA abuse, for starters.
A distributed database with 250 million sets of records is NOTHING. I can see how to build and use such a thing, tie it in with motor vehicle departments and law enforcement, and make it available for anyone that wants the data with the right "warrant" even though we know FISA has already been abused like this.
A daily report of GPS location and time, taken every 5 minutes, means 12 records per hour of driving, consisting of a 64-bit integer (seconds since the epoch), and 3 double precision floating point values (longitude, latitude, elevation). Total 32 bytes times 12 for each hour of driving, indexed to your VIN number, which is associated with YOU.
NOT hard at all. Not a lot of data, either. (I know)
And all law enforcement needs is a place to look or a person to investigate, and if this information NEVER shows up in court, it does not need to be "admissable evidence" as far as anyone is concerned.
Best hope those in power do not suddenly say "Find me the man and I'll find you the crime".
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