Posts by ChoHag

Honeypots can help defenders, or damn them if implemented badly

> improper neutralization of input during webpage generation,

We should eliminate this by rewriting it in, wait...

> or cross-site scripting, the second year in a row it's made number one.

This can be solved if we just rewrite, hang on...

> SQL injection came in second, rising from third place the year prior,

As I was saying, we can replace it with a version written using...

> followed by cross-site request forgery,

That is, by using...

> missing authorization,

If we instead wrote with...

> and out-of-bounds writes

We can fix this we just rewrite the whole world in rust.

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban

Re: Rant

You've already been around the block a few times. It's called being grandfathered in, old man.

But you've got yours right? What does anyone else matter?

Workday project at Washington University hits $266M

I have also met several of those systems and all I'll say is, if that's what they produced last time what do you think spending $266m to run payroll has got them this time?

No don't get up I'll see myself out.

> “The legacy student information system was in its last phase of life.

Translation: This system has been running fine for 30 years and it just keeps on working so we've run out of ways to spend money on it.

> It was a 1990s era set of fragile, homegrown applications including WebSTAC, WebFAC, SIS Admin and other platforms.

Over the years it's grown all the parts that it needs to do its various jobs and there's nothing else that we can spend money on to make it do.

> With the transition, the University replaced nearly 80 separate student systems with Workday,”

But just look at how much money we've been able to spend replacing a system that already worked with one that still doesn't!

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

Re: "I found that a strange concept of 'nothing,'"

You think users is bad? Try fielding support requests from developers!

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

Re: "They're now good enough to do things well"

> So no 'MS' and their recent '30% of code is produced by 'AI'' !!!

Oh I'm not sure, this one might actually be true. Microsoft have really outdone themselves in the past year or so.

Re: Read both the articles and make a decision for yourself

So you're saying that as far as programming technologies go, this is the last one you'll ever need?

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to is well known, uninteresting and entirely beside the point. Regardless of Stallman's opinion it's called Linux now and many of its distributions have no or minimal connection to GNU's poorly written crapware.

India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset

> to empower mobile subscribers

Lies. If it was to the users' benefit there would be no need to force it to be installed or block its removal.

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul

> It sounds like they at least understand the problem. It will be interesting to see if it works in practice.

It won't and it won't.

They're planning (and paying) to replace a system that's taken several years to get working with an expensive shiney from a company known only for how much blood it can draw. Even a Brummy could work it out now.

Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

If you read between the lines you'll see this was in the old days when companies were expected to actually make money rather than just moving it around amongst themselves in a bloated incestuous orgy of lemon* ponzi capitalism.

[*] If you know, you know.

Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers

Now that's a hot take!

Weaponized file name flaw makes updating glob an urgent job

Re: Oh FFS

Learn from the past? Developers? That would require an acknowledgement that somebody other than themselves can, even rarely, be right.

Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time

> the odd maths expert (is there any other kind ?)

There's even maths experts.

AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds

Productivity boost? It must be from all those emails nobody needs to read in full any more.

Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

Australia calling out authoritarian regimes?

Pot, meet kettle.

Re: Only if you are really crap at infrastructure.

> Maybe instead of whining about it publicly as a cheap Cold War 2 scare tactic, they should just fix it. Everybody involved gets a big enough bloody pay packet.

Everybody except the people doing the actual fixing.

De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now

Linux desktop environments will work together the day after their authors' egos do.

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

Re: The Legendary Legend

It's not just legendary, it's mythical!

Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people

> "We are doing this to solve real concrete problems and do it in such a way that it remains grounded and controllable."

Those emails won't summarise themselves.

Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

Re: As far as I know

"hover until you run out of fuel" doesn't need an explicit instruction.

Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees

Re: Type checking and compatibility

> > There is no such thing as a one size fits all programming language. There's no such thing as a programming language which is better than all other languages at all fields of application.

> I dunno about that. I mean, there's Lisp.

> (Please note the icon, do.)

I can see right through your scheme.

Re: Type checking and compatibility

Real booleans can be TRUE, FALSE or FILE_NOT_FOUND.

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI

Perhaps the AIs can do the only thing this astronomical investment seems capable of achieving and summarise this article for us?

Is it "we're fucked"?

Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

Re: Why though?

> you don't have to

The manglers control the purse strings. I use the computers they give me. I don't have to use them but I choose to get paid.

If I had it my way, DEC made an interesting line of devices that even XTerm doesn't quite get right.

Europe preps Digital Euro to enter circulation in 2029

Re: For all those of you who haven't paid attention

> as a law-abiding individual "having to live on the run from the government" isn't really in my threat model.

It's not just you that needs to have nothing to hide.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/crossed_wires_iioc_case/

And I can assure you from personal experience that there is no such thing as innocent until proven guilty. Quite the opposite. America got (past tense, sadly) one thing right: it is not "your" country unless the people running it are afraid of you.

Re: Why do you need a NEW digital (same) currency?

> won't fail when AWS or Azure are down.

Wanna bet?

Re: "the bloc needs a digital version of the Euro"

Gather 'round ladies and gentlemen and witness your average modern "savvy" consumer:

Happily pays for everything including toiletries, travel and other essentials using foreign Visa, the payment system which tracks every detail of what you buy, where, when and from whom you buy it and which certainly doesn't report any of those details to the central government body that has claimed the explicit authority, above and beyond those of many so-called authoritarian regimes, to request exactly that data with severe restrictions against informing anyone that it has done so.

Doesn't want local Visa because it would be a "big brother scheme".

How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?

O2 cranks prices mid-contract, essentially telling customers to like it or lump it

I thought that having nothing to do was the whole point in being in the middle of the ocean? In any case I'd hope it wasn't an internet connection that's keeping the boat afloat.

Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers

Re: Gaslighting

It's not malice. That's asking too much of them.

Re: "Don't track me !"

Some of us don't want to be tracked and know how to, and can, actively avoid it. We are rare.

Don't blame the normies for disliking how they've been swindled and lied to but are unable to do anything about it.

People have a right to be upset when they get fucked against their will, even if they have no choice. I believe they have a word for that...

I think we've found the writer for the next series of the documentary Yes Minister.

Re: The usual questions...

Haha! "our" data. So cute...

I'm refusing on the grounds that I have no interest in being tethered to a big brother spy device that's only available from the US or China (not that I'd accept one from Blighty either but if we can't even build our own telescreen how far the empire has fallen...). However failures are going to be managed, I'll be one of those.

Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem

Why is it always summarising emails? How many trillions of dollars have to be spent so we can achieve the heady technical heights of summarising emails? Can't they even come up with an interesting lie?

Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease

Re: Or...

It sounds like you're holding it wrong.

OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release'

Without warning?

DESCRIPTION

...

sysupgrade by default then reboots the system. The bootloader will automatically choose /bsd.upgrade, triggering a one-shot upgrade using the files in /home/_sysupgrade.

I mean, you wouldn't want to run a tool which has such a major impact, as root no less, without reading its manual, right?

Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it

"leaders now realize that operational resiliency is foundational to keeping the business up and running"

I'll just leave that there.

New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process

Re: "... hibernation support is a somewhat neglected area of Linux support"

Give it enough time and it'll be supported as well as audio is. Eight different variants, each broken in subtly different and incompatible ways. Three of them abandoned by their developers including the most commonly used one that mostly works but is has never been accepted in the main kernel branch. Documentation dotted around stackoverflow.

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

This was all familiar to me and I've never worked in Amazon. Corporations are all like this. At $ork we're currently at the reimplementing the snazzy new dashboard stage. This one's got AI in it!

A simple AI prompt saved a developer from this job interview scam

Re: "the faker posed as the chief blockchain officer"

I'll agree to be given the test. I won't necessary take it. Considering the test you choose to give is my test.

"Even has a corporate stock photo"

Seems legit.

China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

I don't know if it's the biggest or not. Big certainly. I'd care a lot more about China's plight if they weren't holding up their hands in feigned innocence.

I'd give them a lot more respect if their message was "we try to fuck over America and America tries to fuck us over and they're so bad at it we caught them in <this> obvious way while we owned their entire comms industry undetected for decades".

Trying to pretend you're innocent doesn't garner any sympathy. We know you all spy on each other. Own it and stop lying like children trying to pin the blame for stealing the cookies on their baby brother with your face and hands covered in chocolate. You're still chewing for god's sake.

AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move

> The team argues that people already trust simple, physical tools far more than voice assistants or smart speakers.

We trust simple physical tools _because_ our kitchen knives don't take it on themselves to wave the sharp blade around and the mess on our desk stays exactly where we stuffed it under something.

> We chose to enhance everyday objects because users already trust them. By advancing the objects' capabilities, we hope to increase that trust.

Come here and put your hands out and I'll show you just how advanced I need the capabilities of my cleaver to be. Sheesh! Some people should not be allowed near a keyboard. Voice control you say? I think I have the capability to deal with that too. Now where did it go...

Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT

The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Blighty ...

Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone

Re: TDS

So he couldn't hack it in the bilge beneath the lowest rung of the legal profession, took 12 years to notice he wasn't getting anywhere, and so he moved to back-room politics where the only skills you need are those required by the world's oldest profession, which he is apparently *really* good at?

What is this an argument for, exactly?

Re: TDS

> Many readers will have personal experience of people being appointed based on racial or sexual characteristics rather than merit.

Can't say that I have. In my experience the people who are passed over for an apparent minority member are either retarded and refuse to admit it and the DEI-like hire is better than them, or the DEI-like hire is equally retarded but hiring one retard is no worse than any other retard and he/she juices the stats a little better than yet another insecure middle aged white twat. I've never seen anyone who wasn't an idiot passed over in favour of someone who was.

The "stupid but white" category is one we all could do with removing support for. Besides, they're not what you'd call a minority.

Re: TDS

Most of the people I've heard of who are maliciously taking it were not doing so to get back at the trumpet but to get smarter kids...

Re: TDS

Gotta admit, I don't listen to Herr Trump. I can feel my IQ dropping every time he speaks.

Although that one time I heard his words put into the voice of an 11 year old boy it made sense at last.

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

"Clouds can go down as well as up"

(ish) is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The blame is 100% on the corporation. Don't give them excuses.

"This is cloud-connected and it definitely won't stop working whenever we just can't be fucked any more" is the modern equivalent of "sure I just packed this meat yesterday it's totally fresh and it's supposed to be green".

I should be able to assume that the food I buy from a supermarket won't kill me despite now knowing knowing what a fungal spore is or how it facilitates their reproduction.