Posts by JessicaRabbit

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

I'd say this would put me off going to the land of the unfree but that ship sailed a long long time ago.

Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL

Not overnight they won't and they'll still have to open their existing products up. Besides, what's your point? If you're trying to say that suing them was a mistake because they'll just switch then that makes no sense. Without suing we'd not have sufficient access to the code and so they may as well already be using BSD/MIT/Apache.

Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward

Re: Why the forks?

Yeah so I did some looking into it and besides the obvious bundling of pre-installed software it seems the main difference is that the kernel boot parameters are tuned for low latency audio.

Re: Why the forks?

Yeah I was rather hoping the article would go into more detail about what makes these distros better for AV work than say, Linux Mint.

Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one

Re: I Can't Wait For It To Be Rolled Out....

I'd be right there with you were it not for being forced to use W11 at work :(

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs

Re: Mistake

You could say that of any job or product etc. There's lots of potential employees/consumers willing to take any old shit so unless you're extraordinary you either have to take what's offered or go without. Which in the case of work means no money, no food, nowhere to live etc. The whole reason unions exist in the first place is because we recognised that people have little bargaining power on their own.

Attackers dig up $11M in Garden Finance crypto exploit

Has offering a reward ever worked in the entire history of crypto heists?

Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market

Yeah well all this idealism is going to go out the window after the IPO because investors don't give a fuck about your ideals, all they care about is profit.

Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software

Doesn't seem like there's much hope of actually stopping this since they'll just keep creating new accounts and more content (plus now with added AI slop). On the other hand the victims are freetards and cheaters so fuck 'em.

Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing

Re: But don't patch?

From TFA:

Security research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and *there's no patch available.*

Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike

Considering how cheap Ionos VPS servers are, it's kinda impressive it was free for as long as it has been. I've never used Plesk myself but I assume it's a GUI for web developer types that don't want to get their hands dirty with shell-based system admin. Which is fair enough if you just want to get a site set up without much hassle, especially if you can pass the costs on to someone else.

Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump

Interesting that they mention the algorithm is going to be retrained. Elon Musk's amplify the right-wing style no doubt.

Ding ding: Fortra rings the perfect-10 bell over latest GoAnywhere MFT bug

So another piece of software using impossible-to-secure binary serialisation by the sounds of it.

Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy

Bit of a ship of Theseus question I suppose but the data in a database is the database's data (obviously), is the data in a copy not also the original database's data? If so, they did deny the copy by stating none of the database's data was accessed.

Data destruction done wrong could cost your company millions

or you could just encrypt the data to begin with and then it's completely unreadable once separated from the motherboard with the decryption key on it.

I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version

Re: maybe easier

maybe this part of tfa that you wrote:

However, it does rather feel to us like recent SUSE products are dropping some of the distro family's familiar features, as we noted looking at the RC of Leap 16. This drops a number of traditional SUSE tools, such as the YaST system-admin tool and AutoYaST automated installation tool, as well as completely dropping 32-bit binary support and X.org.

Possibly not a bad thing actually. Presumably having bcachefs enabled in the kernel wouldn't play nice with trying to use the more up-to-date out-of-tree version.

Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys

Re: Argh

'AI' is a bag of shit but I doubt it was involved in this case.

Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

Re: Yeah, but...

If the cost of Linux replacing MS on the desktop is giving up all the freedom of choice Linux affords, I'd rather Linux sit at 4% market share forever,

Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'

Razor and Blade eh? Is that a subtle reference to Hackers?

Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks

The issue here isn't really that traffic is routed externally, it's the lack of HTTPS. There also seems to be an assumption that the government websites aren't just being hosted in some American vendor's cloud and thus open to interference in that way regardless of how the traffic is routed.

Windows 10 @ 10: How Microsoft led developers round in circles

Re: XAML yeah right

The XAML isn't loaded at runtime though, it's compiled to IL code when you build the app.

Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of 'high severity' protocol flaws need painful fixes

I imagine it's the coordination required and the fact that users have to update their clients after you upgrade the server/room,

Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off

shutdown checks to see if it was executed as reboot and reboots instead of shutting down? Interesting

Hacker summer camp: What to expect from BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON

Re: Spot the ICE

Yeah, I've always wanted to go to one of these events (mainly DEF CON) but it's been a no-go for well over a decade due to how unsafe it feels to enter the USA as a foreigner and because it seemingly paints a bullseye on your back (as Marcus Hutchins could attest to).

Project Banana ripens into a pre-alpha for KDE Linux, and you can test it

You can already run KDE on Linux Mint, it's not a first class citizen but I've had no trouble with it. I just downloaded the XFCE flavour and then installed KDE and changed it to be the default desktop environment. It is concerning that Mint might drop it entirely from their packages though. I would absolutely ditch Mint if they did drop it though which would be a real shame as I otherwise really like the distro.

You can't do all the maintenance any more because of designs like this. The whole 'No user serviceable parts inside' thing, systems engineered to be unrepairable or they need specialist hardware/software. It's kinda what the whole right to repair movement has been fighting for quite some time now.

Not sure who the intended audience is but it sounds pretty awful to me. Probably an unpopular opinion now but I would prefer the users who can't be bothered to learn about Linux system admin stick to Windows or OS X rather than all this dumbing down of Linux that seems to be happening lately.

Virgin Media scraps wholesale network rival to Openreach

Probably for the best, seems like just about any ISP could provide a better service than VM.

BOFH: Deepfake or just an idiot? We'll need an audit to confirm

Another excellent tale of user management done right.

Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans

Seems like a bit of a double-edged sword, bringing IXPs to the attention of government. Rarely does their meddling in tech result in a better situation for the masses. Though this is aimed at the EU which I suppose have a slightly better track record than the UK and the US.

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

I think it was pretty clear from the start that this was just a stepping stone in their war on encryption. After all, why ban VPNs if you can force providers to backdoor them instead.

PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle

Unless I'm seeing a cached version, it seems to have gone back to how it used to be now. [Edit] Okay actually, putty.org contains wacko conspiracy rubbish but www.putty.org contains the old content. The latter is what google links to as the top result for putty.

Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code

They're just not even trying to to follow good software engineering practices at this point.

Microsoft pulls plug on generous Azure credit program for startups

I see this as a good thing, less incentive to use Azure, less devs being forced to use Azure...

Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel

I'm fairly sure that's how DKMS drivers work. Linux has something called Loadable Kernel Modules (LKMs) that are pretty much what you describe. You do generally need to build them from source against your currently running kernel's headers though I believe.

Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a clean-up squad in town

Re: "not something your grandma would glom onto"

Seems the focus is on evading surveillance capitalism rather than hiding your visits to naughty websites.

So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller

Not sure why they didn't just put the car 'up on bricks' to avoid the tire wearing issue.

Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking

When it comes to tech, I really wish I'd been born a couple decades earlier when it was all still fairly new and exciting. Everything is faster now but the joy just isn't there anymore.

Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail us if pushed hard enough

Seems they're concerned these AIs might be well on their way to replacing the average C-suite - "such as acting in an amoral and self-interested fashion"

Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure

Have things changed in AWS recently? Last I checked the default security groups allowed all outbound access.

The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

People have good reason to avoid clicking through to sites in the search results. Said reason being that most of the results are garbage. These days most results are to sites specifically tailored to hoover up as much traffic as possible whilst having no real value to the reader. They exist to push affiliate links or ads at naive users and nothing more. Commercialising the web has destroyed it because every grifter sees it as easy money and they don't give a shit that they're destroying the commons.

DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism'

What no US citizens using these? Seems to me like the focus is unduly on "illegal aliens". I'm sure it's got nothing to do with Trump's hatred of non-Americans...

AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails

There is a distinct smell of corruption about this, which given AFRINIC's history isn't too surprising.

Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests

It's a sad indictment of the education system that supposedly highly educated staff can't work out if they're using Oracle's Java and if so, switch to the open source implementation.

European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones

Came here to say the same thing plus I tend to keep my devices until after the manufacturer/service provider has abandoned it security-updates-wise so trading in something that's inherently insecure for somebody else to use doesn't seem particularly ethical to me.

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

It doesn't bode well and there's going to be a lot of pressure now on LadyBird to save us from the shit show that is playing out. For the time being I'm happy enough with LibreWolf but they're just patching out Mozilla's craziness, if Mozilla goes down the drain then LibreWolf development will also stall.

Veeam patches third critical RCE bug in Backup & Replication in space of a year

It's good that they're moving away from BinaryFormatter but it's insane they ever thought they could make it safe. It's stated over and over for years now that it cannot be made safe!

Logitech's latest keyboard and mouse combo is wired, quiet, and suspiciously sensible

So it's cheap shit for people with no taste? (and not even that cheap)