Decades of Sendmail CVEs.
Posts by Greybearded old scrote
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Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway
The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things
Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit
Re: Dream a Little Dream
And another thing. The whole Apps idea has it backwards. We want to concentrate on the data, and have the system load the appropriate tools for the data type you're looking at atm. Even if they are embedded in each other.
Opendoc had the sort of component architecture I'm thinking of. But the Apple/IBM/Novell partnership gave up on the dream of displacing MS.
Dream a Little Dream
Mine goes like this:
A BEAM compatible (Erlang VM for those who don't know) interpreter running directly on the hardware. Well, it already usurps the OS process separation and switching after all. It had to, feeping creaturitis had already poked holes in the separation and slowed down the switching.
That already gives you Erlang, Elixir, Gleam and even Lua. And parallel processing if you use processes as intended.
But we wants a visual programming language like Squeak that compiles to BEAM code. I've worked with a db that had a tile based programming language. (No names, I mostly didn't think it was a good product. Our office database was named "Godot" for good reasons.) You tended to feel silly drawing a diagram of how to constuct a sentence, but overall it was more readable than pages of a text language.
Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
Yes, and
Joe Armstrong (of Erlang fame) gave an excellent talk on a similar theme.
Re: 10ms
I have a friend who frequently complains that the computer I gave her is slow. I point out that it's fast enough play HD videos. Therefore if her web mail (OK, let's name the guilty party, Yahoo) can't keep up with her typing it's them who are to blame.
But being right doesn't sort the problem, and the newer lappie that I'm about to give her will only be somewhat faster at running the manky web mail.
50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth
Documentary about all the Skylab missions
Searching For Skylab, America's Forgotten Triumph Hat tip to El Reg, which is where I learned of it.
That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data
Re: Remind me again
You've not heard of any Free (both Libre and Gratis) operating systems then?
You can find a whole bunch reviewed on a site not a million miles away.
Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech
Re: Root Cause
The stock market was created to fund expensive startups. (Originally vessels to sail east for tea and spice, or for the foul triangular trade.) Why do they still have power after that phase? Because they are rich enough that the law of, "Because I say so" applies.
As much as I wouldn't take it literally, there's a reason why Cory's website icon is a guillotine.
United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues
Re: The 737 Used To Be A Good Aircraft ...
That turned out to be a reverse takeover. Boeing bought up the remains of McDonnell-Douglas, but then they put the MDD execs in charge. Who thought that was a good idea?
And yes, I remember when satyrists would sing, "I believe that pigs and even DC-10s can fly."
COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave
Re: It is only Covid if you take a test
Either way bloody well keep it to yourself once you know you have it. First thing we should all have learned but haven't.
Second thing is, we should be drafting public health regs concerning ventilation of public and work spaces. Using CO2 levels as a proxy measure.
Both of those will reduce the misery and time lost to colds, flu and any future surprises as well.
UK government lays out plan to divert people's broken gizmos from landfill
Re: How many
We really need to push them to make kit that is durable, repairable and practical to upgrade. The result will be much more expensive, if only because the producers will get paid less often. But those of us currently buying cheaper not cutting edge tat can spend the same on older and still perfectly good devices second hand instead. (My current phone is a 3 year old from Backmarket, practice what I preach.)
The whole planned obsolescence, linear consumption model must go. As you said getting the manufacturers in line will be a non-trivial problem.
Need to make it easier
My area's red recycling bins are marked that they accept household electronics, but then add, "no screens or batteries.'" How useful is that?
More generally, the recycling rules vary from place to place and the general population are expected to know and understand them. (Think which type of plastics are taken where.) The companies should be accepting any sort of recyclable waste and doing the sorting there. If they can't handle some type themselves pass it on to another firm that can.
Then it's important to encourage use of recycled materials. It there is no market for the product then it doesn't matter how much we send to be recycled.
To BCC or not to BCC – that is the question data watchdog wants answered
Nope
If training could help then it would have done by now.
"Are you sure" doesn't achieve anything, not one of us can say that we don't click the OK button out of muscle memory. Even if you didn't click automatically, you are sure right up until the Ohno second when it becomes clear that you shouldn't have been.
It needs to be a UI issue. No mail client to accept more than one address in 'To' and the CC field to be at least two clicks further away than BCC.
Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about 'corporate greed'
Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly
Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers
Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun
Re: Missed a trend
More bullying than marketing, convicted monopoly abuser remember.
It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals
Spanish media sues Meta for ignoring GDPR and harvesting data
Do we really need another non-open source available license?
UK's cookie crumble: Data watchdog serves up tougher recipe for consent banners
Re: Adverts on sites are so easy
Yes, and a few years ago it was found to bring in more income. The ad duopoly are taking 51% of the advertising fee after all.
Hey ElReg, fancy having a stab at doubling your profit?
About time too
Has the ICO just aquired a new boss or something? One who knows where their gonads are?
To me there is no excuse for any more than a session cookie if you are logged in.
Then let's remember that GDPR is about tracking, not just cookies. How do we detect and punish the passive tracking?
Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers
That Melania moment
"I don't care."
I put up with their ads for a long time despite their attempts at tracking. (I have several methods of screwing that up all active at once.) I installed a specifically YT ad blocker when they got too greedy and were interrupting videos every 3-5 minutes.
Now they can Go Find A Warmer Place.
OpenAI staff threaten to leave if ousted CEO Altman is not reinstated
SpaceX celebrates Starship launch as a success – even with the explosion
Possibly expecting too much
I think we are comparing a new machine with the reliability expected from the established boosters. There is ample footage of past failures to show how hard it is to get there.
Come to that if your first flights are perfect your ship is over engineered and over weight. And you don't know where you can sensibly save weight.
YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues
Sadly
No amount of logic is likely to achieve very much.