WTF Bites
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what username he used
I love when websites make you create a username, which I duly record in my password manager, but when you go to login, don't use the username but require your email address instead. Oh, what unique address did I use for this site? Because I didn't know I needed to record that in my password manager.
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actively opposing connecting his Gmail account with his Android phone
I tried to do that, but AFAICT, my phone was nothing more than an expensive paperweight without it, so *sigh* I assume Google knows every single thing I do on my phone.
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@HardwareGeek I should've probably mentioned that he's a kind of person who still makes phone calls. Weird, I know.
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he's a kind of person who still makes phone calls.
I am too, although I generally try to avoid it as much as possible, because that requires interacting with *shudder* people.
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@HardwareGeek I used to do this too. Then I realized that there is little way to monetize random shop accounts (when there is a snowball's chance in hell of anyone shipping me anything without me paying for it first - I don't use credit card when shopping online). Or other random online accounts. Or random machine credentials at work, if they don't have special access to anywhere.
So now I keep everything except bank and work computer password (which I can remember) in a neat notebook. The only problem left is a third online banking account password that I still need to keep on paper (as a separate slip), due to infrequent use.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
he's a kind of person who still makes phone calls.
I am too, although I generally try to avoid it as much as possible, because that requires interacting with *shudder* people.
As opposed to posting here. But I guess we're all sufficiently removed from humanity here to avoid triggering the reflex. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
he's a kind of person who still makes phone calls.
I am too, although I generally try to avoid it as much as possible, because that requires interacting with *shudder* people.
It's all a question of time scales:
- Email: Can ignore for a day or so, before needing to get back with a reply
- Text chat: varies, but an hour or two is often acceptable
- Voice chat: ever tried to ignore somebody for like 5 minutes before going *ahm, yes, go on"? Most people expect quicker (if still meaningless) responses.
- Video: worse. You can't really be doing something else while they're talking, because you'll look distracted despite making all the necessary response sounds.
- IRL: the worst. They'll immediately see that you're doing something else, even if you're quite capable of processing their low bandwidth signal on the side while doing some light coding (or WTDWTF shitposting).
Some might try to put snail mail above email, but posting snail mail is not sufficiently user friendly for me.
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@cvi
So you are saying that jerking off is possible except for IRL or video calls?
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So you are saying that jerking off is possible except for IRL or video calls?
I'm not sure why jerking off wouldn't be possible IRL or in video calls; it really depends on who you're with/calling.
What I'm saying is that your partner, whom you're having sexy times with, would probably be annoyed if they knew you're shitposting on WTDWTF at the same time.
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What I'm saying is that your partner, whom you're having sexy times with, would probably be annoyed if they knew you're shitposting on WTDWTF at the same time.
I expect empirical studies of this to be available in the appropriate thread.
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@loopback0 Having the passwords physically written down is actually not that bad
My father writes down his passwords in a personal notebook he always keeps at home, as he can't be arsed to remember them. It's a major PITA sometimes because he cannot log into anything if he's not at home. He's not very familiar with the concept of saving a password in the browser either.
Look, my private computer automagically logs me in when it starts. As a stupid user, not as an admin, of course.
Hardly ever do I need to do administrative tasks on that machine - it runs. But when I have to, I must search thru some drawers to find the piece of paper where the admin password is written down. It's complicated and long, and as I hardly ever need it, so I forget immediately afterwards again.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
the admin password is written down.
All my computers' admin passwords are
google
with the hintGoogle it!
(verbatim).Haven't been cracked yet. But then, I doubt anyone's tried...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
All my computers' admin passwords are
google
with the hintGoogle it!
(verbatim).Pinging @error.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
All my computers' admin passwords are
google
with the hintGoogle it!
(verbatim).Pinging @error.
Hey, if he wanted to break out of the sandbox all he'd need to do is ask. The safe word of the day is snanagphastalli.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
The safe word of the day is snanagphastalli.
Only if the pronunciation is correct, mind you.
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Bad logo design
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Maybe it automatically shuts down on Saturdays?
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Status: driving in nowhere, according to Google
Google refuses to show me a map which really could be called a map. Oddly, navigation still worx.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
navigation still worx
<Witz über die Invasion in Polen hier einfügen>
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Oddly, navigation still worx.
Presumably so long as you do not deviate?
Sounds like something fuckered the tile cache...
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@Tsaukpaetra Not just that. Maps on Android crashed a few times on me on Saturday. Still navigated. But almost any click outside the basic input-an-address-and-navigate-there pattern resulted in an unresponsive app.
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I created a ticket (task) for our IT support to test some setup that is considered as an option for an internal project. It was just for test (for the time being). We had a call with the network admin on friday where we tested it and we are satisfied with the results. So now the ticket got to some other states and is awaiting approval. By five managers. It makes (some; five still sounds like too many) sense if it required significant resources allocated to it. But it does not, it's just a setup on existing infrastructure and was already done anyway.
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@hungrier needs more
whiteblackspace.
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@hungrier 500 409
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@Tsaukpaetra Not just that. Maps on Android crashed a few times on me on Saturday. Still navigated. But almost any click outside the basic input-an-address-and-navigate-there pattern resulted in an unresponsive app.
I did notice it had an update recently. I haven't updated myself (because I don't often use the app regardless, why update what ain't broke, right?) but maybe there's something to it...
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Not sure if it was a meme or something Blakey said, so I can't find it, but basically:
If your email starts with "I hope this email finds you well" you sound like a psychopath.Edit to clarify: this was not spam.
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Installing a new system, and there's a new feature in
passwd
there. It suggests an "appropriate" passphrase:A good password should be a mix of upper and lower case letters,
digits, and other characters. You can use a password
that consists of 8 characters.A passphrase should be of at least 3 words, 8 to 40 characters
long, and contain enough different characters.Alternatively, if no one else can see your terminal now, you can
pick this as your password: "Piss&blew5enough".Memorable, I guess?
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Piss&blew5enough
That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his... um... life-style thread?
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Installing a new system, and there's a new feature in
passwd
there. It suggests an "appropriate" passphrase:A good password should be a mix of upper and lower case letters,
digits, and other characters. You can use a password
that consists of 8 characters.A passphrase should be of at least 3 words, 8 to 40 characters
long, and contain enough different characters.Alternatively, if no one else can see your terminal now, you can
pick this as your password: "Piss&blew5enough".Memorable, I guess?
Researching this a bit it seems to have been there for quite a while?
This blog post from 2017 also posted an example, this time trolling the Dutch.
It looks like somebody copied The Automated Curse Generator and called it a day.
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Researching this a bit it seems to have been there for quite a while?
Probably. I don't end up using
passwd
that much (now it was mainly for enabling initial access via SSH when booting via USB). Might also be that the package manager version is lagging slightly behind and/or that they had the feature disabled before for some reason.
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While looking for information on something else I stumbled upon this article:
Read it. The security WTFs boggle the mind. I won't even spoil it for you.
Wait, no one is going to click through. In case anyone does, I will spoil the juiciest bit:
Spoiler alert
Guy deconstructs the firmware for a NVR that he purchased. After probing through it with binwalk he sees that there is a command that automatically logs the serial port in as root. After connecting to that with a UART device he probes around and finds an init script:
# cat /etc/init.d/S90StartSuvr sleep 3; if [ -r /dev/usb/usbhd1 ];then mount -t vfat /dev/usb/usbhd1 /mnt/usb if [ -r /mnt/usb/autoexec.sh ];then chmod +x /mnt/usb/autoexec.sh /mnt/usb/autoexec.sh else echo "autoexec is not ready for running" fi umount -f /mnt/usb else echo "usb is not ready for autoexec" fi # <snip>
Any script named autoexec.sh that is on a USB drive that is inserted in the front port will run on boot.
That's just the sort of shenanigans I would expect from Chinese electronics.
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@Polygeekery The Internet of Shit thread is
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Any script named autoexec.sh that is on a USB drive that is inserted in the front port will run on boot.
It's definitely a bad practice, but if anyone can obtain physical access to your network devices, you're pretty much fucked anyways.
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Fun debugging session lead to the following bit of code:
uint carry; a = uaddCarry( a, 1, carry ); b += carry;
Works fine on Intel, NVIDIA, but barfs up some invalid code in AMD RADV. (It runs, but returns garbage results -- it's part of a simple random number generator in GLSL; this really makes current-me appreciate past-me for writing some basic tests for those).
Workaround: alternative code that does the same. Thanks to the chosen constant of 1, the alternative code is rather simple.
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From a product image on Amazon:
Why would you put that power supply there?
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@hungrier The marketing department vetoed having it mostly hang over the side?
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@PleegWat Here's another one:
At least this one has the cord going outward
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@hungrier Looking at the board layout closely, does it actually go into each power rail twice?
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@PleegWat Looks that way. They've also got the polarity backwards to the breadboard
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@hungrier And that, so they should have put it on the other end of the breadboard. Though at least the designers of the PCB were sane enough to print the polarity on there.
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At least this one has the cord going outward
Now with bonus components that don't do anything, just to show that they could be there in an actual breadboard…
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The way those LEDs are wired is a too.
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@Zerosquare The first three words of that gave me a different impression of the article.
Spy agency ducks
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare The first three words of that gave me a different impression of the article.
Spy agency ducks
Something like
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Last week, I offered the words of Julie Brill, Microsoft's corporate vice-president for Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs and chief privacy officer. (Her business card is 12 inches wide.)
She expressed Redmond's frustration that the US is so far behind in doing the right thing. She said: "In contrast to the role our country has traditionally played on global issues, the US is not leading, or even participating in, the discussion over common privacy norms."
Ultimately, however, Brill said the company's research showed people want business to take responsibility, rather than government.
Which some might think humorous, given how tech companies -- Microsoft very much included -- have treated privacy, and tech regulation in general, as the laughable burp of a constantly acquisitive society.
Pot, kettle...
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