* Posts by dwodmots

29 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Aug 2019

Tesla nearing shareholder vote to grant Musk $46B

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How do you even vote on that? I bought five shares a few years back, never voted on anything.

Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution

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My employer recently bought Copilot subscriptions for everyone in IT to try it out and it's inability to interact with anything outside of it's own text window is really limiting what it can actually do. For example I tried to have Copilot find a picture of a cat and then send it to my cat enjoying coworker with the subject "Look at this cat". Turns out it can't include pictures and it can't send the message either.

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers

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I should feel bad for my former employer that spent the last decade moving more and more SMB's on to their Vmware based cloud. I don't though, fuck that place.

Deplatforming hate forums doesn't work, British boffins warn

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I remember when they deplatformed & debanked the neo-nazi site "The Daily Stormer" and left cryptocurrency as the only way to donate to the sites owners. That was when Bitcoin was at a few hundred dollars. They got quite the payout in 2021. Not only does deplatforming not work, it also makes neo-nazis rich.

Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery

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NET SEND was great fun back in school. Not for the teacher but that wasn't our problem.

The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight

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SLS is the absolute embodyment of a government program. It took decades to build an obsolete rocket with tech that was out of date when the program was started, then it wasted money for a few decades and now the only reason why it keeps going is government momentum.

Meanwhile the private sector (SpaceX) has eclipsed them in every way except for government compliance shenanigans.

South Korea moves to resolve WWII dispute with Japan that troubles tech supply chains

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Japan already paid reparations in 1965 and I'm pretty sure Japan hasn't re-invaded South Korea since then.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_Between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea

Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger'

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The spin, each line quoted from the article:

>nation-state hack

>the supply-chain attack of the decade

>attributed to Russia's Cozy Bear gang

>most high-profile supply-chain breach

The reality:

The password for the update server was stored in a public github repo

The password was solarwinds123

Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, pals proclaim 'Japan Metaverse Economic Zone'

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Dodged a bullet

At least Square Enix isn't part of this trash fire. Every time I hear the words Japan and metaverse in the same sentence I worry about FF XIV.

Backup tech felt the need – the need for speed. And pastries and Tomb Raider

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The whole prcedure seems dumb, so I get why he tried to streamline the process. Manually burning 10 DVDs and then only checking the result for errors a week later seems like a desaster waiting to happen no matter how closely the operator followed the manual. I still remember how error prone burning data to an optical medium was. From the labeling requirement I assume that they were writing a split archive on those DVDs. They were banking on burning 10 DVDs in a row with no error and then only verifying the result a week later?

This could not have been earlier than the middle of 2006, when the first Tomb Raider for PSP was released, which means USB harddrives were readily available and easily large enough to hold 10 DVDs worth of data. Just write the whole archive on one of them in one go, no errors from lasering holes in a silver disk, no split archives, no reading all 10 DVDs one after the other for a restore.

It's Guillermo's fault for modifying the procedure by himself, but it was still a garbage tier procedure.

Africa's internet registry has sometimes needed financial assistance to keep operating, could fail, warns ARIN head

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So this Lu character is salty that AFRINIC stopped him from sending spam and worse from their addresses?

A tip for content filter evaluators: erase the list of sites you tested, don't share them on 100 PCs

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Why did all user accounts contain the browser history of his admin account?

Sounds fake.

This app could block text-to-image AI models from ripping off artists

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If it is invisible to the human eye then it sounds like this thing can be removed by a simple jpeg re-encode.

Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price

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How anyone could believe anything ChatGPT puts out after openAI demonstrated that they can and frequently do just manually edit and limit answers for certain topics is astonishing to me. Even more so since they don't even do it to correct factual mistakes but because of their own political believes. That the output is being actively manipulated by someone with an agenda makes the whole thing totally untrustworthy.

Malvertising attacks are distributing .NET malware loaders

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Remember that time when adblock wasn't self-defense?

Yup, me neither.

AI may finally cure us of our data fetish

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Re: Preferences

No matter what you think of TSA employees, no woman should be forced to touch a man in a dress between the legs.

Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong

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At first I thought they were talking about people doing ERP in some Warhammer online game... It's Friday, alright.

VALL-E AI can mimic a person’s voice from a three-second snippet

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It'll be very useful for fan made animated pr0n, but probably little else. :-)

SystemRescue 9.06 is here with the shiny new Xfce 4.18

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A link would have been nice

It would have been great if a link to the project was included in the article.

China reportedly bars export of homebrew Loongson chips to Russia – and everywhere else

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The real reason is very likely that the chips are much much worse than advertised, most of the budget for r&d and fabs went into politicians pockets, then everyone involved lied to their superiors about how amazing the new domestic chips are. Now the Pooh Bear wants to save face by going "Y-you can't have our Intel and AMD equivalent chips! They're totally real and just as good as yous but you can't see them okay?!" in typical CCP fashion.

Apple preps for 'third-party iOS app stores' in Europe

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Re: now extend it to the German Car Makers.....

A car is not a general purpose computing device.

Saving a loved one from a document disaster

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I've seen something like this multiple times, but it's usually about a physical folder resting on the space bar. The user would then call about how the pages kept scrolling down.

How a malicious Android app could covertly turn the DSP in your MediaTek-powered phone into an eavesdropping bug

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Why even bother?

Why couldn't that app just use the microphone?

New World: Grindy? Check. Repetitive? Check. Fun? We hate to say it... but check

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Re: Another plotless hack'n'slash?

If you're looking for a story driven MMORPG, you might want to give Final Fantasy XIV a try. The free trial lets you play though the base game and the first exansion which are several hundred hours of main story content and even more mostly well written side content to do.

Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

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They'll never guess this one.

Incorrect horse battery staple.

Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing

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Was the stab at RMS really necessary?

I feel like the article would be better without making fun of an autistic mans lack of emotional finesse.

It's possible to reverse-engineer AI chatbots to spout nonsense, smut or sensitive information

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Tay was nothing.

4chan also taught a Japanese chatbot (called Premiere) how to speak English within a day.

Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser

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Re: Ad blocker

I can't surf the web without an ad blocker anymore. The amount of thinking required to figure out which one of the seven "Download" buttons is the real one is just not worth it.

Disgruntled bug-hunter drops Steam zero-day to get back at Valve for refusing him a bounty

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But you're already admin!

If you have the ability to write to the steam installatio directory (owned by TrustedInstaller), then you alraedy have administrator rights.

If you aren't admin and want to boot into another OS to write your files there, you could also just blank the password of the Administrator account.