* Posts by jason_derp

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Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police

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I had a bizarre first impression

I thought for sure for the titel it was going to be like "Kali Linux...it's not a daily driver! Be responsible, use a different distro!". I'm so naive.

Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe

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Re: Yep.

"Because firearms are stored in quite inexpensive boxes (~£75) which are designed to be impossible to gain entry to (even with heavy cutting equipment) in less than half an hour ..."

I'm pretty sure firearm safes are meant to deter children in the country I live in, and that's about it. We even have to have special ammo boxes because the safes aren't rated for their safe containment, so I doubt much work went into their locks either given the prices I see.

Crypto-upstart subpoenas Glassdoor to unmask ex-staff believed to be behind negative reviews. EFF joins the fray

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Kraken Crypto?

Kraken Crypto is an exchange I guess? Payward owns them, but which I mean, crypto exchange Kraken? All of these Kraken references, they're not based on the crypto thing, it's a Pirates of the Caribbean reference right? I think they say Kraken in that movie, but not so much crypto... Are there more ways to cram in another Kraken crypto?

Microsoft's little eyes light up as Oscar-winning Taika Waititi says Apple keyboards make him 'want to go back to PCs'

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Joke

Re: Ermmm, they have USB ports you know.

USB?! Instead of Lightning!? Bro I didn't drop 2k on an underpowered laptop so I could look like NEW money!

Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers

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Re: Surprisingly ...

"I've met plenty of users who don't understand the shift key, and instead just toggle capslock on and off to get the same effect."

I used to type like that. My dad never bothered to tell me about the shift key when I was plunking away on the Amiga. Then in grade 5 after years of typing (being forced to learn how to program things and type before I was allowed to play games), I felt pretty smart when I was starting off typing 100 wpm. Then the kid next to me and the teacher were like "why don't you use the shift key?". I was like "what?". An early simultanelous experience of ego deflation, embarassment, and having my mind blown.

Maker of Linux patch batch grsecurity can't duck $260,000 legal bills, says Cali appeals court in anti-SLAPP case

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Meh

Re: No actual damage

"Please remember Linux is just a mediocre UNIX family kernel and there are several perfectly good alternatives. Hell even Windows 10 is a good base these days."

I disagree strongly.

Oh ****... Sudo has a 'make anyone root' bug that needs to be patched – if you're unlucky enough to enable pwfeedback

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I'm kind of upset

I'm a little upset that I'm only now finding out that this option even existed. Five years ago I had to google high and low to find out why the hell I couldn't type my password into the terminal (first time Linux user then), and when I finally asked on a forum I was told "Get used to it pleb. Type it correctly and it's not a problem!" or something to that effect. So I did. But I didn't need to when I was learning the ins and outs. #$@!

This feels like if your dad kept tossing you down a hill on your bicycle until you got it, then half a decade later you see a kid on training wheels.

Cover for 'cyber' attacks is risky, complex and people don't trust us, moan insurers

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Re: Been here before elsewhere too ..... and it is still sub-prime optimal

"Is Mankind a slow learner and easy retarded target for systemic abuse in endemic mis-use?"

Yes. It has always been this way.

https://www.oglaf.com/expositionfairy/

Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin

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Weird

"What is the relationship between the art of enabling and techniques of supervision, control and regulation in Google's maps?"

I love how the lines between "artist", "prankster", and "[nsfw version of] goofoff" are so easily blended in the modern era by tech. I'm in no way knocking art or throwing shade on this person, but it makes me wonder what it must have been like in the past. Like, when artists hid dirty stuff in paintings back in the day, did they get talked about as much (proportionally speaking) as this guy is? Like, he has an article on a well-known website because he did what some people would just consider a lark.

Curious if anybody can think of any historical people off the top of their head who provoked such a weird venn diagram of interpretations of them as a person due to their artwork (and their artwork relied heavily on contemporary technology of their time). My only other though is Giger getting stopped at an airport for all of his "pornagraphic" paintings that he was transporting. Would that have happened with him if air compressors and the air brush weren't invented?

At last, the fix no one asked for: Portable home directories merged into systemd

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Jeez

I'm a systemd user and proponent, but man. It sometimes seems like the devs take a real Microsoft approach to things. I don't see the need for such a feature, have never really heard anybody requresting it, and the improvement and usability of existing features should absolutely be the priority.

You know the President is able to shut down all US comms, yeah? An FCC commish wants to stop him from doing that

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Re: It's legal

"A lot of people are fine with it in theory, but I'd wager that's because most don't actually understand the implications. If the kill switch were ever actually thrown, lots of those who previously supported it will have a rather sudden change of heart."

I'd argue that when it comes to things like internet access, middle-America and much of the south, especiallly the lower-income locations of those general places, wouldn't even notice. Those communities are woefully underserved and systemically abused and exploited by American telcoms anyways (MORESO than everyone else, somehow), and seeing as how most maps showing current execuitve support overalp almost perfectly with the (lack) of access to internet maps, I doubt the "in theory" part is worth too much examination. It's not like they'd lose much as individuals anyways, and the sub-intl. level businesses that might complain don't funnel enough money into election campagins to bother listening to. The people who wouldn't be okay with flipping the switch afterwards would likely be the same people who were'nt okay with flipping it before.

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It's legal

And honestly, most American politicians would have no issue doing it even if it wasn't, and their political pundits would no doubt support their decision via radio, television, or whatever communications platform for geriatrics they themselves own and use, and therefore choose to leave operational. It's not exactly humdrum, but it's not really a shock to the system either.

It's clear that American politicians are very willing to do what they want regardless of the law, and honestly, many opinion polls show that their citizens are fine with it. Shutting down the Internet and throwing the economy and political landscape into chaos might be one of the most reassuring possibilities because at least it's foreseeable and plausible.

Maryland: Make malware possession a crime! Yes, yes, researchers get a free pass

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Re: Great job!

That's good! I'm assuming they know who works there though, which is different than people on the internet anonymously and maliciously using malware. I didn't mean to say they weren't holding the people running the kitchens accountable. I was saying they were making bacteria illegal instead, then not bothering to deal with the people behind the counter, the real problem. Which is insane, because it's untenable.

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Great job!

Another gleeful group of idiots walking around with red hand marks on their backs from all the patting they've received from themselves. Later next week, they're going to go to the cafeteria to make obesity-contributing nutrients and salmonella illegal. That'll show those carbs and bacteria!

Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans

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Re: You poor sod

I remember the good old days of CPM. And I wasn't even born then. Windows 10 breaks time its so awful. Speaking of which, have to remember to put out the garbage yesterday of last year...

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Re: Just MSFT things

"Now you don't know what features will break with the next update."

HA! You don't even know what will continue to STAY broken! USB hubs in the USB 3.0 slot? Still don't work. Multiple hubs, multiple years. Hardware incompatibilty they say. Funny, Linux seems to have been non-incompatible with every hub in every port I've ever tried, but whatevs. OSes must be hard when you're one of the richest most resource-flush companies in the world.

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant – and it will give you all the details

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Re: Invasive or what?

"F-droid is your friend for this"

Your comment is what prompted me to finally check out (and subsequently install and begin using) F-droid after hearing about for so long. Thank you!

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This seems kind of reasonable?

Like, Google shouldn't be allowed to hold this much data on us, there should be more choices in the market, we're users not customers, there's questionable legality in EULAs, opt-in instead of opt-out, etc. All very good things worth taking about, but wow. I'm kind of impressed that the request for this data and its strictly defined amount and use is like, transparent and reasonable. Or at least somebody put in the effort to make it seem that way.

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Re: It gets worse

Thanks. Now I've got a new thing to have crippling panic attacks about: my furnace being stolen.

Ex-Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain's part in the accounting badness was 'wildly overblown'

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Re: A Future Option for IPO Parties ..... Safe Harbouring Seriously SMARTR Cookies

"Sudden death is an almighty incentive, Your Honour..."

Oh thank glob, amanfromMars1 is here! Sir, I am in no way being sarcastic when I say that I have been waiting with great anticipation for your absolutelly nanners take on this case. You did not disappoint. Also, do not take any of this as meant to be insulting, I unironically and truthfully was excited for this moment.

Step away from that Windows 7 machine, order UK cyber-cops: It's not safe for managing your cash digitally

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Re: Upgrade from Windows 7

"Your Windows 7 serial would work fine on Windows 10."

F#$*ing what?!?! Is that true?! What witchcraft do you speak of, sir?! I am looking this up, that would be just delightful for me if it's accurate.

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Re: Upgrade from Windows 7

"So VM is much much easier for me than trying to figure out what tree to dance around to get WINE working."

WINE can be quite a buttpain, and often the amount of time spent is less than just rebooting and doing what you need to do in Windows and booting back to Linux, the exception being some games you play in small bouts of an hour or two at a time.

If Windows "loves Linux" so gosh-darned much, maybe help get WINE compatability up and running at the standard modern users expect. They're going to have to do it eventually anyways, it's pretty obvious the next major release of Windows after 10 (regardless of their continued insistence that 10 is forever) is going to be a Linux spin.

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Re: Upgrade from Windows 7

"And for those of us who REQUIRE a certain Windows software to run that's not WINE-friendly (and don't memention VMs--there's the possibility of a hypervisor attack)?"

Maybe you should have thought of that before you started/got hired at a business that requires a certain Windows-only software, dummy! (sarcasm)

EA boots Linux gamers out of multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas respond by demanding crippling boycott

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Re: EA hardly needs Linux as an excuse to ban people

"Why is EA different?"

I'm pretty sure I called my mom once and EA kicked down my door and said they'd kill my cats if I didn't pay them the $23 reactivation fee for her. I didn't even know my mom as owned by EA!

They can do whatever they want and have been for forever. They have been fucking with my favorite properties since before I knew what a video game publisher was, and video games are treated as being for children by politicans despite the fanbase that sinks income into them being 15-35. There is no incentive for them to be better, there is much incentive to be worse, and there have been no consequences for either choice throughout their history.

I have consistently said the greatest moment in the history of EA was May 26, 1982, never with the intent to provoke laughter or amusement, I straight up mean it.

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Microsoft has a lot of money to f*ck with Linux. I don't want anything that causes them to notice Linux to occur.

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What can be called "beer" and "milk", and videogames

These are the three things that I've noticed that apparently make the comments of a Register article go from zero to BONKERS in negative five minutes.

Late $440m Christmas present for HP: Judge triples damages windfall from Quanta in CD-ROM drive price-fix showdown

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"...there are significant consequences when you violate US antitrust laws."

Wonder how long it's going to take for that comment to whip around and sting HP themselves.

Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with 2020 vision on codes of conduct

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What a cavalcade of nonsense

In a world where genuine problems of hate speech and purposely malicious comments crop up all over the internet, the fact that a group of people decided to use their time and positions actively to pursue the outcomes in this story is freaking mind-boggling.

Staffer representation on our board? LMAO! Good one, cackles Microsoft

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I was worried...

...that the higher-ups of Microsoft might have somehow found a way to start letting people forget what a mind-bendingly evil clowder of buttholes they all are. Good to hear that they're still living up to their storied legacy, standing true and strong, and holding high the banner of incorrigible bastardom.

Internet Society's Vint 'father of the 'net' Cerf dodges dot-org sell-off during public Q&A

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Re: "Republican moneybags"

Good point. I'll keep an eye out.

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“Although .org has often been thought of as...

... a ‘home of non-profits,’ the domain was not actually defined that way,” Well played, sir. Unrelated: There's nothing in the law that explicitly says I can't come to the street outside of your house every morning at 2 AM and noisely fsck a cantelope I have hidden underneath my rain poncho.

As many as 100,000 IBM staff axed in recent years as Big Blue battles to reinvent itself from IT's 'old fuddy duddy'

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I was unaware that the justice system was ever concerned about justice. Don't let the name fool you.

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

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Re: They used my fix!

I'm so glad I came back to check out this forum. Down with the tyranny of unnecessary zeros!

We are absolutely, definitively, completely and utterly out of IPv4 addresses, warns RIPE

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Re: Convert some local addresses?

I pretty much agree, but i wouldn't say "surely". With the growth of interconnected appliances and IoT devices you could likely use a large of that. Imagine the headquarters of a tech company where every coffee machine and lightbulb is a "smart" version of itself.

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Re: Bullshit. There are enough IPv4 Address for another 100+ years.

That is all very well and true, but it's also very counter to the philosophy of the internet. Most proponents of internet use and it's position in society as an overall good usually emphasize the fact that there's no NEED for expensive "rivalrous resources". It should all be cheap and intangible, made out of thin air and available to the maximum number of people to foster the development and easy transferance of ideas and thoughts. It'd be like arguing that you shouldn't be able to print new books cheaply because we've already used up all the moveable type.

Also, populations increase exponentially, not linearly (Thanos is shit at math), so I'm not sure how you figure over a hundred years is a reasonable timeline for predicting a usable pool of IPv4 addresses.

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My Stupid ISP

I've been asking them to change to IPv6 for years now. I finally had to define very pointed questions like "Is ther an actual plan to migrate over, and if so, what is it?". I later determined, after literal months of back and forth, that the guys in charge of that sort of thing think they should definitely do it, and have no actual framework or rough idea about HOW they're going to do it outside of saying "We have a rough plan about how we're going to do it" (the actual response I got when I asked about what the rough plan might be).

IBM, Microsoft and Linux Foundation link arms to fight patent trolls with 'multimillion' scheme

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Re: The only way Microsoft could make some people happy

When drunk drivers kill people, we put them through the courts and throw them in jail. We don't tell them how disappointed we are in them, drive them home, tuck them in, and hope they'll do better next time. They probably will right? They've spent most of their lives not killing people while inebriated behind the wheel.

My trust in Microsoft is proportional to the distance forward they're displaced after an arbitrary amount of force is applied. When I tried to fling them using a medieval catapult, they somehow ended up a few hundred meters BEHIND the catapult. That's how much I trust them.

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This seems fishy

Microsoft can't make an update for Windows 10 that doesn't fsck the whole shambles like a jackhammer to save it's child's life. Linux Subsystem for Windows is a thing. Microsoft Edge switched to being a Chromium-based browser. Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. Red Hat Linux was bought by IBM in July of this year. SUSE has been being acquired by multiple entities over its lifetime.

Mark Shuttleworth sounds much more open to selling Canonical than he would ever even slightly hint at before. Ubuntu is used by 25 million people worldwide, and that number grows as more people keep a Windows 10 key floating around solely for video games (I personally have "videogames" as the only reason for my dual-boot setup). Microsoft becomes a member of the Linux Foundation in 2016.

Microsoft has previously loved to tout the expression "Embrace, extend, and extinguish". And now, Microsoft, one of the biggest thorns in the side of Linux for as long as anybody can rembember, is coming to help an associated entitity defend against patent trolls. Maybe Microsoft dropped the "extinguish" part of their slogan and changed it to "assimilate"'. There's a lot more incentive to fight on somebody else's behalf over patent issues when they become YOUR patents in the future.

Maybe I'm just full of paranoia and conspiracy, but it feels like Redmond heard that some of us dropped their cancerous operating system and are sneakily embedding themselves in our Linuxes to try to fuck up what has so far been a serviceable and functioning OS. Could be wrong, hope like hell that I am.

Senior GitLab exec resigns over plan to stop hiring engineers in China and Russia

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Re: Security

"GitLabs need to relocate their HQ to Switzerland or the Ukraine...."

Estonia.

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"That's a weird list. Israel - anyone? Romania, Brazil and Turkey instead. *lol*"

It felt like you reached inside my brain and pulled out my think-goo and typed its secrets into your post.

When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences

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Re: Beautiful

People problems are more difficult to solve though, and technical solutions are easier implemented. Who would enforce the disciplinary action? I wouldn't want to be the IT guy telling some supervisor he has a new job to do once I give him a list of names next week. At a place I worked at, the IT person said that: "If I walk into a room full of people at computers, and none of them are choking on their mouse, those people have all reached the maximum level of computer proficiency I can reasonably expect of them."

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Re: Beautiful

Maybe just toss out local hard disks altogether. Rather than putting a clean build onto a disk each night, every user gets a USB stick with a linux os. The stick is persistent so that you can save shortcuts and stuff like that, but woefully undersized for saving any decent amount of files to it. Then they have to save to the share drive, there's no other option.

NSA to Congress: Our spy programs don’t work, aren’t used, or have gone wrong – now can you permanently reauthorize them?

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Why not just lie?

Why wouldn't this guy just lie about specific instances where the program he wants renewed worked? Nobody would look into it, and I've never seen anybody face consequences for lying to congress. Just make shit up and call it a day.

Cubans launching sonic attacks on US embassy? Not what we're hearing, say medical boffins

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Re: Were previous medical reports wrong?

I seem to remember reading that some of these folks had brain scans done and they showed signs of damage. Was this damage from previous issues, was it a misdiagnosis, or did they actually psychosomatically cause the damage to themselves? I don't really have any opinion going one way or another as there seems to be so much conflicting information, but I think the question of "why did brain scans show damage?" is a fairly significant one that somebody should be working on.

Telstra chairman: If those darn kids can earn $5m playing Fortnite, why can't execs?

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Re: That's MY business plan

You and your etymology and logic can just get out the hell out of here! It means whoever the hell I don't like right now!

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

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"...my comments were hurtful. I’d rather not say anything else."

Hey, I'm certainly no fan of unnecessary cruelty. But I read this guy's blog entry, and there's this fun little gem in there: "But after I ended up with (not joking) two-hundred duplicated ~/Documents directories – each with a random assortment of duplicated files of different revisions..." You know what? Maybe they should feel hurt. Maybe hurt is the lowest level of negative feeling they should have.

'Technical error' threatens Vodafone customers with four-figure roaming fees

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Coincidence

Strange how "technical errors" never seem to cost the companies that make them any money, and only customers see the "errors" pop up. Then they only get addressed after social media brings it to journalists' attention. If I was cynical, I'd say there was an underlying reason. Probably just a statistical quirk.

Holy smokes! Ex-IT admin gets two years prison for trashing Army chaplains' servers

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Re: Where is god when you need him?

My understanding was that he can but won't.

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