WTF Bites
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I don't think the 2017 redistributables count as a newer version of the 2015 ones, do they? Even if they did I don't want to remove them.
I believe they actually might. There was something about that online when I was fighting with redist packages last time.
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@hungrier Could be. We've noticed all kinds of oddities with anything related to Visual Studio 2017.
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I hadn't heard of 'snaps' before so I had to look them up. The 'everything must be a container' brain damage is spreading.
The great thing about these is that launching an app doesn't just start a process, it actually requires you to mount a filesystem (elevated privileges!), probably more for the dependencies. Together with the thing being written in javascript, launching it now takes almost as long as launching the windows calculator, taking Gnome one step closer to feature parity with Windows.
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@cursorkeys That's super dumb, but I've just found that doing a repair on the 2017 redistributables apparently fixes everything, because now the SqlServer 2017 installer detects that it no longer has to try installing the 2015 version.
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@mott555
Have you tried using IE6?I have. It was better than IE4. Edit: oh, right. I also tried IE5.5 before IE6.
Then I discovered Mozilla Firebird, and the rest is history.
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@mott555
Have you tried using IE6?IE6 on Win10? :head_explode:
Just run it inside a VM :
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Trying to update a Windows 2016 server, it failed with this error
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
Trying to update a Windows 2016 server, it failed with this error
Have you tried switching it off and on again?
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@japonicus said in WTF Bites:
Have you tried switching it off and on again?
I think I will just shoot it off
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@japonicus said in WTF Bites:
@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
Trying to update a Windows 2016 server, it failed with this error
Have you tried switching it
off andon again?FTFY
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I at least want to yell at somebody tomorrow.
It can be very cathartic.
In case you want to fling more than just words at the technician.
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@timebandit There's always using a lot of copied-along immutable state in functional patterns in single-core apps, too, that'll help out. If you can avoid copy on write ruining it for everyone.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
@japonicus said in WTF Bites:
Have you tried switching it off and on again?
I think I will just shoot it off
You would have gotten extra credit if it had been a picture of Jerry Miculek.
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@hungrier Could be. We've noticed all kinds of oddities with anything related to Visual Studio 2017.
MSVC2017 is binary-compatible with MSVC2015, so you don't need both redistributables.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier Could be. We've noticed all kinds of oddities with anything related to Visual Studio 2017.
MSVC2017 is binary-compatible with MSVC2015, so you don't need both redistributables.
SQL Server installer seemed to think I needed 2015 redists until I did a repair on my existing 2017 ones.
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Some random porn site:
We have detected via an independent security website that your current password is unsafe. To protect your account, you must enter a new password below.
Yeah, I know that "12345" is not a safe password. Do I look like I give a fuck?! What do they think could happen, someone else look at the same porn? It's a conscious decision to use a throwaway password so I don't have to remember it.
Unfortunately,hunter2
doesn't satisfy the new password requirements.
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Some random porn site:
We have detected via an independent security website that your current password is unsafe.Is that what they call "unsafe sex"?
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@topspin They are sharing your password with third parties.
Do you need more proof that it's not safe?
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@zecc Well, my first thought was "uh, so does that mean you're storing plain text passwords?!? "
But the password is so simple that, giving them the benefit of the doubt, they could just have a black list dictionary of simple passwords they run through the hashing and see if it collides with your password.
Probably not what they actually did, but from what I know I can't definitely say that they're .
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We have detected via an independent security website
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
We have detected via an independent security website
Enters
12345
This password has been seen 2.088.998 times before
Well, you don't say.
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@topspin https://mostsecure.pw/ is still apparently secure:
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
We have detected via an independent security website
Huh. One person somewhere used "mott555" as a password and it wasn't me.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@topspin https://mostsecure.pw/ is still apparently secure:
*stares*
I have no idea whether that site is taking the piss or not.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@topspin https://mostsecure.pw/ is still apparently secure:
*stares*
I have no idea whether that site is taking the piss or not.
Try refreshing to see if the password changes.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Try refreshing to see if the password changes.
I'm aware that it does not. I had already noted that the password I got from the site was the same as what you tested.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@topspin https://mostsecure.pw/ is still apparently secure:
That's great !
I'll use that secure password everywhere. And I will never forget since I can access it from anywhere
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I just logged in to my PayPal account after ignoring it for ages, and noticed I still have two old, no longer valid cards attached to it. So I removed both. I got two confirmation e-mails; each had wildly different formatting and each was in a different language. They were sent seconds apart. How the hell?
I mean the cards were added years apart, so... do they attach the confirmation e-mail to the card when it's added, and they just changed the template during the time between the two cards? I mean, that's unbelievably retarded, but it sounds not entirely impossible.
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Maybe it's not just a joke, and that's actually what it is for.
You know those websites that require you to create an account to do even basic stuff, but refuse to let you use easy-to-remember passwords? Even if the security risk when your account is compromised is "meh, who cares"?
A static, "secure"-looking password you can easily retrieve anywhere is great for that.
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There's an OS called Cosmos, written in C#, using a compiler that can compile any CIL to native, bootable code.
Naturally anyone's first question when hearing this should be "how does it do memory management?" You know, since automatic memory management is kinda .net's biggest thing and the main obstacle to writing a CIL-to-native compiler.
So I'm sure it will be explained in the website right? No? Then in the documentation? No? Maybe in some forum post?
Nope. As far as I've been able to find, I'm literally the first person on the internet to ask that.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
I'll use that secure password everywhere.
The weird thing is that nobody seems to have actually used it anywhere yet. Even
correct horse battery staple
is in a few breaches.
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@ben_lubar Illustrates a hash collision or other sort of false negative in haveibeenpwned maybe?
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@ben_lubar Illustrates a hash collision or other sort of false negative in haveibeenpwned maybe?
What? hibp only knows the hashes. Hash collisions are not a false negative.
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@ben_lubar Was thinking more of a preimage to all zeroes. Something silly like that which would compare against a discarded "bogus" hash. But, if they're using more than one hashing algorithm that seems also impossible.
I guess the more likely case is that everybody who's seen the page got the joke, however unlikely that is which is very unlikely.
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@ben_lubar Was thinking more of a preimage to all zeroes. Something silly like that which would compare against a discarded "bogus" hash. But, if they're using more than one hashing algorithm that seems also impossible.
I guess the more likely case is that everybody who's seen the page got the joke, however unlikely that is which is very unlikely.
HIBP's passwords are available as unsalted SHA1 hashes.
Here's all the hashes starting with 00000: https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/00000
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
There's an OS called Cosmos, written in C#, using a compiler that can compile any CIL to native, bootable code.
Naturally anyone's first question when hearing this should be "how does it do memory management?" You know, since automatic memory management is kinda .net's biggest thing and the main obstacle to writing a CIL-to-native compiler.
So I'm sure it will be explained in the website right? No? Then in the documentation? No? Maybe in some forum post?
Nope. As far as I've been able to find, I'm literally the first person on the internet to ask that.
Well, here's the code in Heap.cs (timestamped to today's date for future on-lookers): https://github.com/CosmosOS/IL2CPU/blob/master@{2018-07-11}/source/Cosmos.IL2CPU/Heap.cs
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Some ironic HTML fuckup
https://i.imgur.com/GWuQ4PN.png
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https://i.imgur.com/zQ2Opur.png
because why would I want to choose my own game path or anything
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Okay, I admit I didn't think of that. I never worked with code that couldn't be recompiled when needed.
If one of the major products you're delivering is a library, you care. If that library is used in commercial code by customers, you care a lot. Having a bit of overhead from having to do that extra redirection is an acceptable trade-off (and pretty easy to hide at the programming level) for not breaking downstream code by accident due to internal modifications.
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Very cool but my initial reaction was WTF:
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@pie_flavor "We had your order but our dog ate it. Bad Oliver!"
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Some random porn site:
We have detected via an independent security website that your current password is unsafe. To protect your account, you must enter a new password below.
Yeah, I know that "12345" is not a safe password. Do I look like I give a fuck?! What do they think could happen, someone else look at the same porn? It's a conscious decision to use a throwaway password so I don't have to remember it.
Unfortunately,hunter2
doesn't satisfy the new password requirements.Coming soon: "two-factor authentication is now mandatory for extra security".
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@bb36e : I thought that was a WebUSB-like disaster, but it seems like it's not installed by default ; and even when it is, it's probably not accessible to any random website. So I guess it's a WTF-nibble?
Here's a family-sized WTF bite:
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
I'll use that secure password everywhere.
The weird thing is that nobody seems to have actually used it anywhere yet. Even
correct horse battery staple
is in a few breaches.That's not as useful though. Everyone knows it and it's easy to remember, but while xkcd has shown it would be secure (if it weren't public), it fails all those retarded websites' security checks. Can't use spaces, must use capitals, numbers, hieroglyphs, etc.
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OH THANK FUCK, I WANTED THAT FOR AGES!
Ummm... Youtube? There's no such option? Adding to a playlist is not "controlling what video to play next". Did you dun goofed?
Yes, I refreshed the page, just in case.
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@onyx they're A/B testing for confusion
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@bb36e Well, my feedback for that test would be "YES, ADD NAO!"
Currently, it's "YES, ACTUALLY ADD NAO!"
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@zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Here's a family-sized WTF bite:
Wow. The WTF-density in that code is amazing. It just keeps on giving.