In other news today...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Ah. So people will just get multi-use items and throw them away after one use. They should ban human stupidity instead.
Even most stupid humans care for their money. Stupid humans probably more so than intelligent ones, actually. So given the higher price, and deposit for the various packaging containers, probably not too much.
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Our weather, it seems, is trying to nudge it's way into all this Pride Month bollocks...
Only 5 more colours to go...
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@PJH Do not drink the yellow rain.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
They should ban human stupidity instead.
That would be classified as a genocide
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
They should ban human stupidity instead.
That would be classified as a genocide
Only if it's more proactive than taking the labels off everything...
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Another one of these mini consoles. At least the Japanese one will have Castlevania Rondo of Blood, so it's got that going for it. Maybe the North American and/or European versions will get a version of it with the English text from the PSP remake.
Until it comes out I'll have to keep playing it on emulator on the PS Classic. Which I'll probably also keep doing after that.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Don't they know electricity could cause cancer or birth defects?
So can wildfires.
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How to explain a DDoS attack to non-technical people
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@TimeBandit
How to explain what most modern "DDoS" attacks really are:- We made a service
- It got popular
- ???
- It rolled over and died
Filed under: It's almost time for the post-expansion-release DDOS attacks to start on FF14 again
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit
How to explain what most modern "DDoS" attacks really are:- We made a service
- It got popular
- ???
- It rolled over and died
Filed under: It's almost time for the post-expansion-release DDOS attacks to start on FF14 again
I'm not pre-ordering that, since I'll be at a family reunion when the pre-order release happens. hopefully when it really launches the congestion will be (a little) better.
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@Benjamin-Hall
Depending on how much their server reorg & data center changes for NA & EU help things, the pattern I would expect from last time is:- Friday and Saturday the 28th/29th will be pretty bad, and hundreds or thousands of people will get stuck in the MSQ from the duty server melting
- Sunday and Monday will be pretty smooth
- Tuesday the 2nd will see the start of the duty servers getting lots of sporadic packet loss during prime time due to network congestion going into SE's data center, news posts will blame this on "DDOS"
- The "DDOS attacks" will taper off around the weekend, or maybe the Tuesday following, and then ramp back up on Tuesday the 30th when Savage releases.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I'm not pre-ordering
that, since I'll be at a family reunion when the pre-order release happens.FTFY
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@hungrier I thought about it, since I know I'll play it. But being gone when it releases for pre-orders (I'll get back late friday night) just makes me not care. I'll find more "useful" stuff to do during the time it's down.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
DDOS attacks to start on FF14
Why would anyone want to attack such an old version of Firefox?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
DDOS attacks to start on FF14
Why would anyone want to attack such an old version of Firefox?
They're specifically targetting @Lorne-Kates
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@TimeBandit Sneaky but don't (recent, at least) Android and iOS versions both have a variation of "This app wants access to the microphone/location" prompt which allows the user to permit or block it? I assume that's the "opt-out" the article refers to.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
They should ban human stupidity instead.
That would be classified as a genocide
Because it affects the entire genus?
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@HardwareGeek (video unrelated)
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@hungrier That Iframely decides to embed an unrelated video from the page is beyond my control. Besides, I didn't watch the video, so I didn't know it was unrelated.
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The weather forecast will be a little less wrong, maybe.
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A man from Florida, but not really a "Florida Man," so I'll put it here.
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Paging @boomzilla â something new to chase the kids off your lawn:
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@HardwareGeek Blame The Independent newspaper. Their website has that mostly unrelated video at the top of the news story. They tend to do that a lot, and previously they would auto-run. I stopped visiting that website a while ago for exactly that reason. When I read a news story I don't necessarily want a video with it, and I definitely don't want a video unrelated to the story I'm reading. The newspaper was bought by a Russian a while ago, and it's gone massively downhill ever since.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
As already mentioned, Project Zero has a 90 day disclosure deadline and this was applied to this vulnerability. It was first reported by Ormandy on March 13, then on March 26 Microsoft confirmed it would issue a security bulletin and fix for this in the June 11 Patch Tuesday run. Ormandy noted that, "I count that as 91 days, but within the extension period so it's acceptable." The extension period being one that allows for companies that have fixed patching schedules such as Microsoft.
On June 11, Ormandy stated that the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) had, "reached out and noted that the patch won't ship today and wouldn't be ready until the July release due to issues found in testing." As that meant the 91 days were up, Ormandy made the vulnerability public.
That comes off as a bit of an ass move.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
That's an interesting definition of cookies "required for core site functionality" you got there Forbes.
Edit: specially considering it's a fucking non-interactive text page.
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For anyone still stuck in Vim, it might be a good time to search for a way to exit it and run updates:
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@Zecc Yeah, when there's a opt-out-able category "advertising cookies" and they put Adobe advertising services in the "required cookies" section instead, you know they're lying sacks of shit who deserve all the ad-blocking and tracking-blocking they get.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
That comes off as a bit of an ass move.
Absolutely, it's not as if he wasn't going to get kudos for discovering it.
Now people are going to have to risk using a half baked security patch that didn't pass testing, or risk waiting until the next update window when Microsoft will be able to get something more production ready out of the door.
No winners in this situation.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
When I read a news story I don't necessarily want a video with it, and I definitely don't want a video unrelated to the story I'm reading.
This. Very much this.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
That's an interesting definition of cookies "required for core site functionality" you got there Forbes.
The core site functionality is delivering ads. The content with which the ads are delivered is optional.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Seppen said in In other news today...:
When I read a news story I don't necessarily want a video with it, and I definitely don't want a video unrelated to the story I'm reading.
This. Very much this.
I've disabled videos on the news sites I go to regularly, so I'm generally unaware of this problem.
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Clever, but evil, idea. I can't quite see how they thought they'd get away with it.
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@Cursorkeys
Sometimes, you just have to take the long shots at your goals.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Clever, but evil, idea. I can't quite see how they thought they'd get away with it.
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@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
That comes off as a bit of an ass move.
Absolutely, it's not as if he wasn't going to get kudos for discovering it.
Now people are going to have to risk using a half baked security patch that didn't pass testing, or risk waiting until the next update window when Microsoft will be able to get something more production ready out of the door.
No winners in this situation.
You can pretty much bet that this guy would be the first to whine about fixed date goals when delivering software to production. "What do you mean, I've got a week to deliver this feature? We need to order a new version of the IDE and you know that accounting delays such things by a month!"
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@JBert don't you have to explosively enable the options that make this possible?
Edit: Nevermind, that post is talking about
nvi
...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
don't you have to explosively enable the options that make this possible?
I'm not sure how explosive
vim
is but it seems so, at least for the macOS version.The latest version of Appleâs macOS is continuing to use a vulnerable version, although attacks only work when users have changed a default setting that enables a feature called modelines.
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@loopback0 I'd be very surprised if more than a handful of Mac users have ever even heard of vim, much less changed that particular setting. I've been using vi and friends for well over 30 years, and I've never changed it.
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FAKE EDIT:
Sounds like the sort of thing that requires top quality parts.
Parts stripped from a Land Rover were used to strengthen the suspension
Oh, nevermind.
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Nobody should be surprised
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