Posts by IGotOut

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

I was going to check...

...to see if the number of attacks on my websites had reduced.

Then I remembered I had a Drop All against their ASN in Cloudflare.

Hacktivists breach Verkada and view 150,000 CCTV cams in hospitals, prisons, a Tesla factory, even Cloudflare HQ

Nothing new?

The reg quotes an article from 2016.

I was doing it with some of the first IP cameras back around 2000.

A quick Hotbot search (ask your parents kids) with the relevant url string. Then you had access to every camera out there. Pan, tilt and zoom all at your fingertips.

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable

It'll be interesting. I'll check my Cloudflare account later to see if there is a drop in attacks on my websites.

Pretty sure there will be, hopefully Digital Ocean, will be next.

Mobile World Congress seemingly serious about in-person Barcelona event in June, shares safety plan

Just a scam..

..Spain will ban the event. Then they return the money minus admin fees + insurance = profit.

Cisco issues blizzard of end-of-life notices for Nexus 3K and 7K switches

Times are hard.

Time to get in some planned obsolescence.

You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see

They just never learn.

Who's old enough to remember this marker pen trick?

https://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/05/22.8.shtml

Re: Ahem

No, but the HR department will give you a promotion.

Facebook uses one billion Instagram photos to build massive object-recognition AI that partly trained itself

And yet...

...its too hard for Facebook to stop ads for land in protected areas in the Amazon rainforest.

Blind man sues Dell over inaccessible website

Its amazing..

..how many websites don't either bother with the real basics, such as alt text.

Self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server virty users see stealth inflation

Re: Why tie yourself to a single distro?

Because for some 3rd party software vendors, it's Red Hat or nothing. You have no choice.

Biden administration labels China top tech threat, promises proportionate responses to cyberattacks

Re: China is becoming a dictatorship

Oops I thought he was on about the USA for a moment.

Like a challenge in a high profile 'face-of-IT' role? Welcome to the Home Office

Sorry nope...

I need at least £500k, plus a house, car and gilt edged pension.

Then I will step up to the goalposts, punt a few pucks the whole 9 yards, touch some bases, set up a committee to look at offshoring our Ai blockchain to the cloud using low code. Then after the suboptimal outcomes, I shall go onto pastures new, with my golden handshake.

So as you can see, I'm fully qualified for the position.

AdGuard names 6,000+ web trackers that use CNAME chicanery: Feel free to feed them into your browser's filter

Re: Oh well, that's all right then

Adobe. The one's that also gave us the flash super cookies.

Chrome release cycle accelerated to four-weekly frenzy

Why?

Just why?

Is there REALLY the need? No.

Fix the bugs and stop.

All you are doing us making more bloat and more problems.

Royal Navy and Air Force get low-code bridge in UK military recruitment saga

Here we go....

Cloud.

Block chain

AI

And now low code.

This year's bullshit bingo candidate.

Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web

Re: PiHole

1%? I'd say it's a magnitude lower than that, more like. 0.0001%

Nvidia exec love-bombs Arm's licensing model, almost protests too much

Re: Nvidia and secrecy

Cadburys.

That is all.

Intel told by jury to pay $2.18bn to VLSI for ripping off two semiconductor patents

Re: One point three billion

Are you using NVRAM to store and handle the voltage, switching between power sources as and when required? (Thats how I read it).

It's not easy being green: EV HTTPS cert seller Sectigo questions Chrome's logic in burying EV HTTPS cert info

Re: EV certs: waste of money

Not only that, it could just a well be issued to a holding company, an accounting department or a 3rd party.

If the company's registered "address" is Dave&sons Accounting, but the company is Widgets Spanners, which one is the correct one?

Answer, both.

Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon – and future version may insist on some updates

Re: "In a few of them it might even insist."

"No, a large and professional one. We fix our problems, we don't bodge "solutions".

Ok.well we had a system, one of the most reliable systems out there (think 5 9's is their MINIMUM reliability), by a multi-billion dollar company. We, along with a few others, had a bug that caused a race condition in one component causing it fail.

A " bodge" was to restart a background service every 48 hours.

A proper fix arrived 3 months later. Why three months? Because when you are running high availability systems installed in thousands of multi-billion pound companies, the last thing you want to do, is rush out a fix, to cause a catastrophic failure in multiple systems.

It's called thorough testing. And I applaud them for that.

Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs

Actually the upside.

Blockchain.

That's fucked up a million marketeers right there.

Re: So much wrong with this...

But even in the UK twat has variances.

In some parts of the country it means you are being a bit daft, other places it's classed as highly offensive.

Re: Ebony and Ivory

That is one I do not get:

Coloured people: Bad

People of colour: Good

Black person: Bad

BAME / BLM: Good.

It is, as always not what you say, but how you say it.

Chin up, weary key workers: Google's pushing out a Workspace for frontliners

Once again, a basic feature of the much derided WinPhone.

India's demand to identify people on chat apps will 'break end-to-end encryption', say digital rights warriors

Re: Hmmm...

The issue, is not what they are protesting about, it is the use of colonial era sedition laws, to suppress their right to protest.

And Indian politics being in the pockets of big business has been around for a VERY long time.

Bhopal ring a bell?

Hmmm...

..could this be because farmers are standing up for their rights and being arrested for sedition?

Yup Indian government is as corrupt and in big businesses pockets as much of the rest of the "developed" world.

UK government may force online retailers to pick up e-waste from consumers

Re: A lot of kit is "designed" to be thrown away

"I wonder if it's possible to pick up all the e-waste, grind...."

That is how it is done. Much of it is done by a single machine, it us just a giant shredder, sorts out basic parts e.g ferrous, plastics and non-ferrous. And then sent off for further processing.

Mobile spyware fan Saudi Crown Prince accused by US intel of Khashoggi death

Saudi Arabia.

You murdered this man!

By the way, do you want to buy some more weapons?

Google looks at bypass in Chromium's ASLR security defense, throws hands up, won't patch garbage issue

To be fair, they only have a few hundred billion $'s kicking around.

Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to admit when they've been hacked

Re: MS has no room to talk

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Your welcome.

Go learn about the Gates foundation and come back.

They are doing more to eradicate infectious diseases than most nations. Or how about improving farming in poor areas? Or teaching women about family planning? Or how about sorting out schooling for the poor?

Yeah, that Bill Gates.

Re: I see......."Blame the Victim"......where have I heard that before!

Hi Bob.

Lenovo's ThinkPad line goes under the knife: X13 models look a bit taller but worry not, the 'nipples' are still intact

It's one reason I still use a fantastic Dell Ultrasharp monitor for my desktop. No stupid 16:9 format.

Then which flavour of Linux? What about Android? ChromeOS? And what's BSD done to upset you?

SD card slot, HDMI port could return to the MacBook Pro this year, says Apple analyst

It's not like you can pop your sd card out of your iPhone.

Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?

Is this the same Spotify...

...that is saying the world as we know will end should they actually pay artists a fair share.

Re: can't tell the difference between speaker cable at 100 GBP per metre or 5 GBP per metre

Search for Audiophile coat hanger test.

The perils of non-disclosure? China 'cloned and used' NSA zero-day exploit for years before it was made public

TL/dr

So US used vuln on Chinese. Chinese thought that's neat, took idea and used it against rest of world.

Doctor, I think I have an HDMI: Apple starts investigating M1 Mac Mini graphics issues

Re: Not just the M1

"HDMI with my LG 4k display when Big Sur updated"

Well there you go. If you had an Apple Certified LG tv, it wouldn't be an issue, so it's your fault.

NurseryCam hacked, company shuts down IoT camera service

Re: 'bout time!

And hopefully the ICO will hit them hard, after all think of the children!

Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars

And 2,000 hours at that.

Citibank accidentally wired $500m back to lenders in user-interface super-gaffe – and judge says it can't be undone

Isn't it the banks themselves....

...that state money transfers can't be undone and you should check carefully?

Hence the Western Union scams.

Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national 'Internet Gateway'

Debt collection?

Ok, that's a new one. Hats off for originality if nothing else.

Mobile World Congress to run this year's Barcelona event in June with 50,000 attendees. We're speechless

Interesting...

I've a relative who works in the event construction sector (think stages, booths, lighting etc) and they are not expecting even small events to start until June, and large corporate events such as this, until at least the end of the year.

Groupware is not dead! HCL drops second beta of Notes/Domino version 12 and goes all low-code and cloudy

Been a long time.

But didn't Lotus Notes have that crazy, whacky idea of being able to remove the "Reply to All" option?

No an infinite amount of Monkeys did work on Sharepoint. Unfortunately, the one that created the good one got "Restructed in a holistic business realignment"

Re: Notes - a blast from the past,

No. Notes was a corporate thing.

You may be thinking of Lotus 123.

Nurserycam horror show: 'Secure' daycare video monitoring product beamed DVR admin creds to all users

Simple Answer.

Anything where "Think of the children" is concern, drop an email to the Daily Mail.

They love this shit, by the time the article is published, it will be Pedos (sic), the Chinese and ISIS watching naked children via online security cameras. Boris Johnson said to be fuming and asks for stricter border controls....except those that may have covid, then its ok, especially if it's a business trip, or you can afford the fine, or you're a MP, then just say sorry.

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Nope.

Sorry Zen. Your customer, your problem. End Of. Don't pass the buck in this shitty manner.

If I was the customer I would take this and raise an official complaint. No joy, small claims court.

Orange Internet (as it was back then) tried a similar stunt, only the court paper work got them to fix the issue and also compensate for the losses..and got me out of the contract.

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

This us a good thing.

One, it shows how badly the law is, even with the best intention.

Two, it shows how much power Google and FB have, opening then up even more for a takedown.

Win Win.