Posts by AnAnonymousCanuck

Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool

Won't Touch It

Arbitrarily decides to download anything from unknown binaries to Javascript packages?

Adding the pattern to my malware detection just in case I have any duhvelopers hiding in my developer team..

YMMV

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Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages

Copyright is Dead

Get over it.

YMMV

CLF

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop

Memories

> 3Com's 3C509, 3C515, 3C574, 3C589 and 3C59x hardware.

Sounds like the network parts shelf at the companies I did networking for from the late 80s to mid 2000s.

Worked in everything and worked with everything.

YMMV

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Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks

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Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

Re: systemd-free distros

> The device administrator enters the age, not the child.

I was the administrator, at 14. Granted it was a TRS-80 with an audio tape drive,....

My 14 year old, in 1998, got a friend to hack my dual boot loader so that he could load Windows for gaming when he wanted.

At 35 I worked for an 18 year old who was brilliant at 13.

The children pwn the computers.

YMMV

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Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents

High Quality Analysis

From the fine article:

He said there is a growing agreement in the enterprise AI ecosystem that agents are software systems, with composable architecture that can do autonomous work. He said they may use large language models, but also use knowledge graphs, and other types of data expressions.

Hey Sherlock, these are otherwise known as programs or applications.

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Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems

Re: @Dan55 - At the risk of another 40 downvotes

>A parent or guardian ticks whichever age group they think is appropriate for their young ones, and denies them root. Done.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahha......

YMMV

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AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

Re: Think of the bloody children!

The kids use does not bother me too much. Language ability and manipulation, defining requirements, dealing with lies and hallucinations, all useful skills.

The teachers use horrifies me at this point in time, however, once trusted data sets are used for training.....

IMHO

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Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

AI Logging?

Why can't Claude give the the level of logging I want and need? And vary it automatically as I need?

Artificial Idiocy indeed.

AI Poetry from a meatsack Now that's AI!

YMMV

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n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix

JavaScript on the Server

What a brilliant idea!

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And we do really, really need a sarcasm icon

Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

I hear that Line-art Poottering is available.

FTFY

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Crypto wallet shop Ledger confirms customer data lifted in Global-e snafu

Shouldn't That Be?

Blockchain (non-)security biz Ledger says customer information was accessed in a breach at it's (insecure) ecommerce payment partner Glob

FTFY

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Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems

Re: His name appearing

Really?

> He said that it took him a couple of hours to find a critical-severity vulnerability in DFAT's systems

Sounds like an extremely insecure system to me.

YMMV

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HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10

Agents on Every Machine are a Security Hole

Ahhh. Yes, one of the first monitoring systems, OpenView, an agent on every machine. It gave everyone,, including outsiders, an open view of your IT domain.

I see it is now called OneView, So does it now give everyone a single, complete view of your IT domain?

YMMV

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Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030

Standard Business Processes?

>We're coming back to SAP standard, which will bring a lot of value because next time we upgrade, it will be much easier,

And of course SAP Standard offers a huge competitive advantage as well as the being the right business process for every business and those processes were designed by, who? Right.........

As an (almost ex-)operations guy, I love the technical side, keeps my life easy, but such vision on the management side would terrify me enough to look for a new job, sell my stock....

YMMV

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MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

Copyright is Dead, Get Over it

Subject says it all. And it died in the Napster era. I have been part of 3 companies sued into oblivion. Of course, none of them had assets. And the code is still public. I view it as our contribution to society.

YMMV

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Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220

How Long Was The Prompt

>The script also established an SSH session and allowed a remote attacker to escalate privileges, perform reconnaissance, install backdoors, and collect sensitive files.

Because the specs and reqs I would require to build that script would be at minimum 1 full page in point form, multiple pages in paragraph form

Of course, if I provide my script as a prompt ........

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Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain

An Aviation Company Runs Out of Gas?

Maybe they should have had one of their pilots dip the tank once/twice a year.

YMMV, maybe not if the tank is empty.

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ShinyHunters 'does not like Salesforce at all,' claims the crew accessed Gainsight 3 months ago

OAuth Security

It's not that the tokens are insecure in themselves. However, storing security tokens in a SCCS is negligence and has been considered so since at least the mid-80's (SCCS: Source Code Control System for the non-devs).

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LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous attacks tomorrow

Pot Calling the Kettle Black?

Plus, Claude "frequently overstated findings and occasionally fabricated data during autonomous operations," the Anthropic researchers said.

https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/

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Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Funny The Register Could Not Stay Up

This morning was the morning we identified which network properties have competent network and system administrators.

I was extremely surprised to find The Register was not in that group.

There was no need for a SPOF 25 years ago. The fact that people choose to have them now, blows my mind

YMMV

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MCP attack abuses predictable session IDs to hijack AI agents

C++ Web Apps in 2025?

That's we we were doing in 1996. And it was not a wise technical choice then.

I sure did learn a lot tho

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Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme

How Long to Review?

Monday Morning conversation:

Hey Bob, did you see your latest task? lucky you, you get to review a 4.5 million line patch from, wait for it..... CodeMinder.

Oh, by the way, Project Managment wants it done by Thursday night for their Friday update.

Have Fun

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Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

Re: What's the joke?

I would return a sleep 5 minutes to your code/connection instead of the real database error.

Yes, I was/am and always will be an Oracle DBA.

I don't ever remember using the name Kevin, but I ......

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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

Re: Now Google starts _exactly_ the behavior that made me avoid Apple ...

And I assume you wait quietly in that line? Why not start a LOUD conversation about how the credit union is too cheap to hire decent programmers and is now too cheap to hire cashiers and decent branch managers.

Repeat.

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How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland

Re: It's quite well known that Linus Torvalds himself doesn't enjoy public speaking.

> You have 10,000 desktop PCs in a company and you want to make sure that logins work and policies are enforced across all of them - still tricky to do simply on Linux

Really? Maybe you should try hiring someone or two who have a clue.

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Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

goatse.txt

Wonder what I should put in that file now that the AIs will come looking for it?

What does the text version of goatse look like?

Inquiring minds do NOT want to know!

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Python survey shows growth even as Foundation funding falters

Re: Upgrade Relatively Easy?

I wish the libraries I need are available in perl. When I finally understood perl I loved it.

Of course it took a little while to understand it :)

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Upgrade Relatively Easy?

Hahahahahahahaha

Run a real production application. Which version of which libraries?

What about all the one line edits in 70% of your libraries because no-one can be bothered to maintain them. What about the new one line edits that will be required for the upgrade

Just run in venv! Which venv? 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 or how about 3.8? Because the app uses libraries that are only available for these versions.

Python is an operational nightmare.

The app was written in 3.8, upgraded through 3.9/10/11 and now runs under 3.12.

I reckon 50-100 hours to move to 3.13. Not going to happen

YMMV

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'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman

Re: Knockers-up

Taken, Please send my fiver to Alberta, Canada. I might suggest you fallback and punt, but I'm not sure if that one will make it across the other way

Wit luv

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Microsoft reminds developers that Visual Studio 2015 is set for retirement

vi is Being Retired!!!!!

Oh no, what am I going to do, PANIC, I do not want to return to ed. Nooooooooooooooo

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Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors

Re: successors

> Ooooh yes. That might not be for long.

For any of us given the zealots in the world

50 years ago, Gates and Allen made the deal that launched Microsoft

Yes it did. They are called panel switches :) Up is (usually) 1 and down is (usually) 0. Unless you mounted them horizontally orientated :)

YMMV

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CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs

How Do You Teach People to Review Code?

If all the code is written by LLM's?

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37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions

Re: Press X to Doubt

Ahhh, five 9's, a concept from the nineties :)

As a young (40 year old) DBA, in a shop that had 1 scheduled outage per year (Christmas), I use to tell my juniors:

"If we go down unscheduled it will take a lot longer than 15 minutes to get back up."

YMMV

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Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build

Re: There is no business case for AI.

I don't know, the open AI Speech to text model, Whisper, allowed me to keep my voice assistant (kalliope) 100% local instead of using Google or Amazon cloud services for interpretation.

Extremely valuable to me!

YMMV

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Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it

Re: Pie in the sky

Exactly, copyright is dead, get over it. It's time for new economic models anyways.

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Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

All my perl code was malware, not fit for the purpose :)

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Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords

DONT WANT CHROME Or CHROMIUM

Subject says it all.

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As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet

Re: It's all in how you look at it

Start shipping your products to us. We will buy them. It is quite impressive how us canucks all feel quite "hurt" and want to do what we can to express our disillusionment.

With friends like America, who needs enemies?

YMMV

GLTA, we're gonna need it

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OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task

I Do Want! But Must Be Mine On My Machine With My Ethics

Subject says most of it, but filtering phone calls, answering /deleting junk emails, searching Amazon if I'm forced to use it :). is what I need.

YMMV

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Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?

Re: What is the point?

As to need

My main house computer is a 10 year old fanless Intel i3 running kalliope, a Voice Assistant. This attaches to all my media/email/web as well as a Home Assistant server for all the IOT hardware. All 100% open source.

Both my TTS (text-to-speech) and STT (guess:) are now offering ONNX or tflite enhanced models. The accuracy is double that of the old matching engine. However, it takes 2 seconds for a response vs 0.4 for the old engine. This makes it currently unusable. I am CPU bound. :( Furthermore, I am dependent on one of the big corporates for my speech recognition. There have not really been functional local solutions. The ability to run LLMs and pattern recognition processes locally is vital. They are my only processes dependent on the Cloud. Not only that I currently have a very restricted list of words/phrases for orders. The ability to have an LLM handle verbal input will make pattern matching much easier. Speech output.also improves immensely.

I am looking at renovating one of my towers and have been researching what the motherboard looks like. First iteration looks like a mass produced NPU solution, then when NVidia prices collapse, get a top notch card. I have been following the "Build Your Own AI" series here on The Reg, this article fills in some of the mid-level hardware options

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Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster

Re: Equivalent problem 45 years ago

Ahhh, the joys of JCL. The most powerful and most unreadable language EVER. And, I include assembler, as some of us can (or used to be able to) read hexadecimal.

Thank you for the story and the memories. Ex-data entry clerk who "learned" JCL from "examples" and production code in the system.

Another Anonymous Canuck

VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked

Accounting

I'm not even an accountant and I can make the books look good for 1 quarter for ANY company.

I was able to make the books for my company look bad for over 20 years, lol. It took government Covid support for us to turn a profit.

Please Simon, skepticism is a useful skill for a journalist. Time will tell, This time next year?

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Punkt MC02: As private, and pricey, as a Swiss bank account

No Need For Privacy?

> Being a price-sensitive buyer with little use for secrecy, encryption and so on,

If you have no need for privacy then those sensitive prices are going to be very sensitive to the condition of your wallet, and will adjust appropriately, for the seller at least

Apple users have had to deal with this issue for a long time.

YMMV

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> Being a price-sensitive buyer with little use for secrecy, encryption and so on,

If you have no need for privacy then those sensitive prices are going to be very sensitive to the condition of your wallet, and will adjust appropriately, for the seller at least

Apple users have had to deal with it for a long time.

YMMV

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US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data

Re: Or

A sociable, I'm in. Is it BYOB or do we have a generous host??

( Sociable: regional Canadian slang for a house party)

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Satellite phone service could soon become the norm

Re: Just in time...

And I trust a capricious man-child more than i do the ripoff artists that are Canadian telecom companies. Dealing with Elmo is far more pleasant than dealing with Bell, Telus or Rogers.

YMMV

Another Anonymous Canadian

Firefox 119 unleashes PDF prowess and Sync sorcery

Nothing Wrong?

> There is nothing intrinsically wrong with snap,

Yes there is, the same problem as python has: duplicate, inconsistent system libraries.

YMMV, but I'm not interested in debugging through multiple loaded dynamic libraries.

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Linux interop is maturing fast… thanks to a games console

interesting Until....

Only installation method is Flatpack.

Next ....

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