Posts by bigtreeman 57 posts • joined 8 May 2018
No,
Frank Zappa - Dumb all Over
You can't run a country
By a book of religion
Not by a heap
Or a lump or a smidgeon
Of foolish rules
Of ancient date
Designed to make
You all feel great
While you fold, spindle
And mutilate
Those unbelievers
From a neighboring state
TO ARMS! TO ARMS!
Hooray! That's great
Two legs ain't bad
Unless there's a crate
They ship the parts
To mama in
Wasn't disk compression stolen from a competitor and the ensuing legal battle went for years, while Micro$oft continued to reap the profits.
System Normal All Fucked Up
This is how MS got big and rich
I used DrDos 6.0 with 'superstor' compression a couple of years earlier
MS was never the innovator, always the thief and always the winner.
I used to use my "standard" password on The Reg, my old dogs name and a bit more,
but it now has a real 10 mixed characters password,
reflecting the respect I have for The Reg (gag),
more likely The Reg's poor security.
Crap sites get my crap password.
I used to use 8 mixed characters, now 10, in the future ?
I'm still generating pseudo random passwords with pwgen.
I look at permissions whenever I install an app on my phone,
if I don't like their permissions I don't install the app.
This app has about the lightest footprint I've seen for quite a while,
but I still won't be using it.
(copy&paste)
This app has access to:
Location
approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)
Other
receive data from Internet
view network connections
full network access
prevent device from sleeping
And using the company laptop.
The cloud reaches all your files and puts them on the cloud.
I used my own (bought and paid) software for work when they wouldn't pay for their own software.
I uninstalled my apps, but they still have copies.
Apart from all their other pirated software they have now pirated my software.
I had the IBM-PC bible with full firmware listings in assembler and circuit diagrams, so all could be copied without infringing on copyright. All clone hardware had equivalent gating for the same functionality or enhanced to extend capabilities. Debugging anyone's prom bios uncovered equivalent code. My clone-pc came with a rom bios in sockets and a separate set of proms which were IBM. Debug was my disassembler of choice.
I find organisations and individuals use Microsoft because they use Microsoft.
They freaking love anything that comes out of Redmond.
No matter how convoluted and unexplainable they just love it.
I started a new job Monday and they have Teams and Sharepoint and everything else MS.
my office386 password is HaTeOrifac3.
I used to use Office many years ago, now have to use it again.
Initially looking at Teams is good, actually using it is painful and time consuming.
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish", also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate"
Hmmm Microsoft, seen this one before
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish
Softbank has some interesting holdings and is changing the way Arm does stuff,
it's what happens when money takes over a successful tech company.
This might be really good for RISC-V
"This is one place where the commercial world has things right. You're a great programmer? Brilliant. You can't interact with other human beings? Yeah, we've a ton of CV's from people who can...bye now. It's almost like Darwinism but in software terms."
CV's say what the employer wants to read, contains all the words to get through the filters to get to a first interview.
Free software is what it is - not commercial, not flashy, not trendy, not secret, succinct, stable, real, communal.
Why did people get drawn to work alongside Richard ? They could have gone to any of a number of free software groups. There are 18 maintainers who might be happier in another group.
GNU is RMS is GNU.
Ah, I can't do recursive the way Richard does.
Hey, you want a catastrophically insensitive statement,
I'm your guy, or maybe Stallman is. Get over it.
I see blunders after I've pressed SEND and wanted an UNSEND button.
The old wildebeest is being challenged for dominance of the heard.
Has Richard got some fight left in him
or will he quietly wander off across the Serengeti to ruminate ?
It's a systemic problem at D-Link. I have reported issues with the DVA-2800 and nothing was done. The problem is too big.
Their developers don't do unix mindset, they cobble together bits of code and script in a seemingly random fashion.
Just ssh into one of their boxes (probably any) and look around. I got some features running that didn't run because of typos in scripts, remounted the root partition rw and made some changes to the firmware,
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, our employer had a dodgy little box secreted away under a set of stairs.
It was connected to the PABX and recorded quite a lot of stuff.
Until one day the box blew up and it was brought out to the workshop for a technician to fix.
The technician did quite a lot of sniffing around and discovered the full extent of the bosses eavesdropping.
Pretty soon everyone in the building became aware of this and were very careful about dissing the boss over the phone.
Then we all lived happily ever after.
These A72 cores pump the heat.
My Nanopc-t4 has a cpu overheating problem with its moderately sized heatsink (no fan).
I have to stand it on its side to improve convection air flow to cool it, will need a fan in summer.
The heat is also generated by the power supply circuitry.
Blockchain is good tech, a downside is it is expensive to operate.
Speculators can feckup any good thing and turn it to serve their own pockets.
Blockchain is much more than short term speculation,
http://www.research.ibm.com/blockchain/
it really can help businesses supply chains become more efficient.
I feel my hatred of systemd is again vindicated.
Debian, What are you doing with this virus at the centre of our systems.
I just had the displeasure of making a .service and .timer instead of a nice cron script to run a little python thingy, what a f_ckup the insidious systemd is.
Trust is the problem.
The problem is the base protocols - TCP-IP just makes it work then has bandaids applied to fix all the problems.
Security has to happen from the hardware up.
Anonymity is a problem.
Location is a problem.
Auditability is a problem.
The Internet is not People-Centered it is a Server-Centred dumb client network.
Governments want to poke their noses in where they shouldn't.
Companies want to have a lend of all Internet users.
Let it go to shit, then start again with a sensible design, from the ground up incorporating all the lessons we have learnt from Internet #1. While it is going to poo, install lots of fibre-optic which can be re-purposed to carry whatever we come up with.
Follow the money.
"Don't be Evil" was a fizzer
"Do the right thing" (to increase Alphabets profits)
and Facebook's recent disapproval rating
Corporate world control and domination IS the current picture.
Sir Tim designed the original Internet for server / client corporate control.
in the OpenWRT boxen, it's not just security, some other parts just don't work properly.
check all levels of logging, emergency down to debug, you'll find various hiccups
ssh admin@your.local.d-link.router
There's big typos in the scripting running these boxes, written by a junior janitor when not emptying garbage bins.
admin shouldn't be 0:0:root (one user only apart from nobody)
remount / rw
change whatever you want
remount / ro
yeah, I've complained to them about the plain text passwords,
mentioned various fixes
it's just a mess
I'll never buy a d-link again
my old fave is
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gives a screen of ?random passwords to choose from.
Give users an idea of what a password could be, from the examples they might create a good password they can relate to.
When a user has to think of a password they can remember, they are severely limited by their lack of imagination. Further research might find the worst passwords in the least creative people ? accountants ? bosses ?
Well Vint, you were one of the originals, you made up TCP/IP because it just worked.
But it's crap, and now it's cemented into the base of the internet infrastructure, it's there to stay.
It just works, but it does a bad job and allows a multitude of sins which are continuously patched over.
Sometimes a rethink and rebuild is the best answer, but rarely is it done.
"
mostly run by tech giants like Google – for who Cerf works – and who go to some lengths to make sure that they can be accessed by IPv4.
"
look, a great big IPV6 bandaid
My guess is creating legislation to force companies to give access to encrypted data. If grand poobah, mighty technocrat Malcolm is involved it will be underhanded and dumb.
Our government creates stupid legislation without sufficient discussion or thought. They have created some pretty awful laws to allow themselves to do really nasty shit. They usually end up with a patchwork of bad laws to cover over holes they have created.
Most of their crap still exists because it is too expensive or too difficult to challenge in the high court. I expect a law review somewhere in the future to wipe these bad laws off the books, it will take years and a future Australian government which gives a shit.
Read IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black for insight into misuse of technology by business and government, it's fecking chilling.
quote from IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
"
Quickly, the notion of sterilizing the physically undesirable expanded
to include the socially undesirable. So-called anti-socials, that is, misfits who
seemed to be unsuited for labor, became special targets. A leading raceolo-
gist described anti-socials as "those who, based on their personality, are not
capable of meeting the minimum requirements of society, i.e., personal,
social, and volkisch behavior." One official definition cited: "human beings
with a hereditary and irreversible mental attitude, who . . . have repeatedly
come into conflict with government agencies and the courts, and thus appear
... a threat to humanity." Included were traitors, race violators, sexual per-
verts, and "secret Jews." But, the numerically largest group consists of 'the
work-shy and habitual parasites'
"
I now look at IBM very differently, IBM is collecting data on everyone
Overstretched authoritarianism.
Didn't say what constitutes 'sensitive' or is that classified and above my pay grade ?
Universities aren't the only Ozzies doing research which could be deemed 'sensitive'.
I would have thought a large slab of research was by companies.
How do military ?intelligence? get around 'commercial in confidence' ?
And they're forcing as many as possible to use my.gov.au.
The new Australia Card.
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