Posts by Necrohamster 482 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2022
"Most Reg readers will be aware of the situation with smartphones, which are typically backed by security updates and bug fixes for maybe 2 to 3 years after the release of the device – tough luck if you happen to buy one that has already been on the market for a while."
Maybe you're referring to Android junk, but the oldest iPhone models still receiving regular updates are the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR, which were released in 2018. They also run iOS 18.
"...resigned from that effort early Friday, Japan Standard Time, citing developer burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of the integration of Rust code into the open source kernel."
I'm convinced a huge percentage of people involve themselves in Linux solely to massage their fragile egos.
If you're making software, of course you're going to have demanding users. That's a given.
As for Torvalds...well he's a hazard of the job
"The title of this comment is due to the fact that I travelled to St. Petersburg before the Crimea invasion, and found the Russians I met welcoming and helpful.
That they have had to endure their leadership trying to destroy Ukraine in an "It will all be over in 8 weeks" invasion and everything that has come since is not their fault.
If there is no one else on the ballot paper other than Putin (because all the other candidates have been blocked from standing or are in prison) there is not much they can do, even if they had the ability to read news that is not propaganda.."
I don't buy that. They're complicit in the war by their silence, just like Germans in WWII who pretended concentration camps didn't exist.
Russians don't protest against the war.
Russians don't call for Putin to be removed.
Russians don't show any empathy for the victims of their war.
And don't give me the old "Oh they're so oppressed, they can't protest. it's not a free society" excuse.
There are 145 million of them - they could bring about change if they wanted to, as people in many other countries have done. The problem is they don't want change.
C'mon Shrek, you joined the forum today and the first comment you make from your swamp calls someone narrow-minded?
While indulging in some deflection, a bit of revisionism, and rehabilitating the actions of the Soviets?
You say people are dense, with no desire to use logic, but you chose to start with that comment?
I was going to take your "logic" apart, but I see I ain't Spartacus has done an excellent job already.
lol where do I start?
"The world is divided politically into two camps: (1) "the west" (broadly, the USA and its satellites/puppet states) and (2) BRICS (broadly, everybody else). People in "the west" mostly see only US propaganda and believe Russia, China, etc are "evil". People in Russia mostly see Russian propaganda - etc."
Uhhh no it's not. You speak of propaganda but you use the phrase "puppet states" and suggest that BRICS includes every country outside the (alleged) sphere of influence of the US. The reality is that BRICS is a sad attempt by Putin to develop his own trading circle with other like-minded leaders, now that the ruble's value collapsed.
The list of BRICS countries reads like a list of human rights abusers - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. You're having a laugh.
"Free Software should rise above all this. Neither side is wholly "evil", both sides do bad stuff."
Ah, the "both sides" argument. Classic whataboutism deflection tactic. Bonus points for the "XYZ should be better than this" appeal.
"Where a developer lives should not matter as far as contributions to free software are concerned."
Yeah well...sanctions and compliance are of bigger importance than the world of free software. The great thing about open source is that they're free to fork and carry on.
"...open-source code committed by i.e a murderer is just as valid as code committed by the pope.
i.e. or "id est" means "that is" and is incorrectly used here. You meant to use e.g. ("for example")?
But your logic is flawed anyway. The work of a murderer, for example, can taint an otherwise legitimate project by association.
"...vehemently against Putin and his stupid war"
No, they're not vehemently again Putin and the war. They mightn't like Putin as a person, but they all believe deeply in the superiority of Mother Russia so they support the war as a sunk cost fallacy
Say "Slava Ukraini" to one of them and you'll see how they really feel.
Large columns of Russian troops and weapons are still heading in that direction, and it doesn't seem to have had the desired effect of drawing Russian units away from the south and east. [...] Russia stated it's objective is attrition, and Ukraine seems to have committed a lot of it's reserves to a pretty pointless PR stunt.
Thank you for your propaganda comrade. Please pick up your 100 ruble payment at the dead drop location.
"Georgian and other Cacusus criminals are to Russian crime as Italian/Sicilian, Irish, and Jewish criminals are to American crime"
You packed a lot of xenophobia into one short comment. Bravo!
By your logic, if someone named O'Malley commits a crime in America he's Irish rather than American?
Can the curse be broken after several generations, or is the criminal forever doomed to be remembered for the origin of his name?
And then anyone from another country or region deemed inappropriate – let's say in Russia – can't access the data or the infrastructure used to process and store the information.
lol do you actually think a geofence is going to keep out Uncle Vlad and the GRU?
Evgeny needs to come to terms with the fact his company's done...finished...in the Western World. Move on.
"And that's fine that it's not attractive for you. But I can tell you in my use case I'm saving about €1500 a year with my ID3.
My use case it works. It will actually start saving me more, because we just got solar panels installed and once their online. I can effectively charge for free (minus obviously the cost from the installation of the solar panels."
Congratulations, you've just confirmed that EVs are toys for the wealthy.
In your "use case", someone needs:
- money for the downpayment on an ID3, and the ongoing monthly payments
- solar panels
- a property of their own (landlords aren't keen on letting renters make changes to their property), preferably with off-street parking.
if I'm doing small miles every year my carbon footprint is way smaller if I buy an old Focus for £1,000-2000.
Where are the £1,000-2000 EVs? Oh yeah, that's right...they don't exist.
What price the future, eh?
What is it about EV ownership that brings out the smug twat in some people?
Nope. The device I'm typing on was made in Greenock, Scotland in 9/6/96.
Hate to break it to you, but IBM in Greenock weren't moulding plastic and building keyboards onsite in 1996 or ever.
I worked for the competition (Compaq) in Erskine around that time and laptops came pre-built in containers from China (the OEM was Inventec as far as I recall).
The only work that was done locally to qualify as "Made in the UK" was the installation of hard disks and keyboards, and chucking them in a box
"Threat Hunter" ≠ spokesperson
Spokespersons don't issue official communications using words like "faulty" in a reply to someone else's tweet.
And given what a shitshow this has proven to be, I'd bet a crispy tenner that Crowdstrike wants to manage the situation using people who don't pour oil on the fire.
Updated at 0730 UTC to add Brody Nisbet, CrowdStrike's chief threat hunter, has confirmed the issue and on X posted the following:
There is a faulty channel file, so not quite an update. There is a workaround... 1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or WRE. 2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike 3. Locate and delete file matching "C-00000291*.sys" 4. Boot normally.
Thanks Brody, great workaround. I'll ask my 5,000 users to reboot into safe mode, get around BitLocker and delete a file
Weird that a company like Crowdstrike allows non-spokespersons to put out statements like the one above. Where I work, that's a trip to HR for tea and biscuits, and a chat about my NDA.
The Huawei situation reads like a personal vendetta by Trump''s Secretary of State at the time, MIke Pompeo, who went from country to country telling everybody to stop using Huawei equipment or else
Huawei's Meng Wanzhou not a bargaining chip, says Pompeo
Mike Pompeo says China should free two Canadians held after Huawei executive's arrest
The US is stepping up pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei
Pompeo Boosts Huawei Warning With Threat to Limit Intelligence
Pompeo: UK-US relations ‘not at risk’ over Huawei decision
Huawei: Pompeo urges UK to 'relook' at decision ahead of UK visit
Pompeo kicks off central Europe tour, Huawei dominates agenda
Here's the thing: nobody owes Kaspersky a right of reply, or an independent analysis of their software,
Anyway, remember VW DieselGate? The dodgy software only did dodgy things when specific conditions were met.
How could you be 100% certain that Kaspersky software doesn't do something similar?
Kaspersky has hit back after the US government banned its products – by proposing an independent verification that its software is above board and not backdoored by the Kremlin.
The embattled Russian antivirus maker pledged to comply with the US Department of Commerce's blockade against its products, but also maintained that the Feds' June decision to ban its products in America is purely political.
Well duh, no shit Evgeny. The decision's political in the sense that the US government doesn't want its info getting back to the FSB, which is fair enough.
Does anybody have figures for sales of Kaspersky products to .gov? The revenue's got to be tiny
...I'd hate to see what it was like before
Trump security boosted weeks ago over Iran plot to kill him
Protection for Donald Trump was boosted several weeks ago after US authorities learned of an Iranian plot to kill him, according to national security officials.
Officials say there is no known connection between the alleged Iranian plot and the assassination attempt on the former president on Saturday in Pennsylvania.
However, the disclosure that security had been tightened raises further questions over how Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was able to climb a building and get close enough to fire at Trump.
I never thought I'd agree with the Iranian government, but here we are:
The Iranian mission at the United Nations called the report "unsubstantiated and malicious", adding that Trump was "a criminal who must be prosecuted and punished in a court of law".
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