Re: Cisco Linksys scandal
Real link:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-monetized-and-killed-at-their-discretion
The Slashdot "story" is just a list of links.
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Before you buy that managed Netgear switch, be aware you may need to create a cloud account to use its full UI
Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy
Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature requested 21 years ago
iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail
Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior
Internet Archive's way cool Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over pact
Brit MPs to Apple CEO: Please stop ignoring our questions about repairability and the environment
Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log
Climb every mountain, wsl --mount every Linux disk in latest Windows Preview
Australia starts second fight with Google, this time over whether app stores leak data, gouge devs, steal ideas and warp markets
China launches and lands its first re-usable spacecraft
Taiwan tightens rules around local tech firms sharing tech with China
Amazon spies on staff, fires them by text for not hitting secretive targets, workers 'feel forced to work through pain, injuries' – report
Tuesday 1st September 2020 18:42 GMT 
I'd like to stop buying from Amazon
But that would mean I'd have to stop buying anything, as local stores stock almost nothing I need.
The local auto parts place doesn't stock jack oil any more, for car jacks. Nor does it stock anything but the shittiest of gas cans or oil drain pans.
The local Best Buy doesn't stock wired mice, video capture devices, USB microphones, ethernet switches, or SSD drives.
Nowhere stocks a decent size bench vise, or decent brands of pliers, like Knipex.
When I wanted a decent motion sensitive night-light, so I didn't bang my shins going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I went to Home Depot, Lowe's, Best Buy, Bed-Bath&Beyond, and a couple other places. They had shitty Chinese stuff that wasn't all that motion sensitive, or just stayed on for 10 seconds.
It's so bad, I don't even try any more, even though the Best Buy is only a block away.
The article starts off with "Amazon is famous for its extreme efficiency yet behind the curtain is a crippling culture of surveillance and stress"
I'd think they go hand-in-hand.
Relying on plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development, says Linux Foundation board member
Wednesday 26th August 2020 00:39 GMT
Is setting up a non-shitty email client really that hard?
It boils down to people being lazy and impolite.
How about people stop the goddamn top posting?
How about email clients having a plain-text version of the email instead of a choice between HTML and fuck-you? A true modern email client should be able to provide plain-text email by checking a preference. If it can't, then it is broken.
The advantage of plain text is that you can search it, and quote it, and thread a conversation in an archiving page, and do a lot of things that HTML breaks.
Why should I have to deal with parsing the shitty HTML a lot of mail clients (including Thunderbird) put out?
gmail and the Apple Mail do a lot of shitty things. For example, I regularly get work emails at home because Apple Mail just puts "Gene Cash" in the address, and people can't tell if that's my work address or my home address. People don't give a shit to the point that I've had to stop responding to these emails from home.
Why are people focusing on the HTML wrapper instead of the message inside it?
If you can't configure your email client, do you really belong on the LKML or writing kernel code?
So... just 'Good' then? KFC pulls Finger Lickin' slogan while pandemic rumbles on
Tuesday 25th August 2020 19:57 GMT
Re: Stats
> Where I live we can have alternative for the same price so why bother with the fast food
Well where I live, I'm fucked. I have either shitty hole-in-the-wall dives that serve hair-in-the-eggs and sweat-in-the-coke or I can go to a chain where at least corporate sets SOME sort of minimum standards.
That's what I get for moving to a town of less than 45K where I can drive around the whole place in 25 minutes.
This PDP-11/70 was due to predict an election outcome – but no one could predict it falling over
FYI: Chromium's network probing accounts for about half DNS root server traffic, says APNIC
We've heard some made-up stories but this is ridiculous: Microsoft Flight Simulator, Bing erect huge skyscraper out of bad data
You there. Person, corp, state. Doesn't matter. You better not shoot down or hack a drone. That's our job – US govt
Good news: NASA boffins spot closest near-Earth asteroid ever. Bad news: We never saw it coming. Good news: It's also really small
Farewell to notches and hole-punches? ZTE expected to announce mobe with under-display camera next month
Tuesday 18th August 2020 13:45 GMT
Re: I would be happy with a no camera phone
I use my phone camera an absolute fuckton for documenting things.
For example, I used it to capture how the right switchpod of my bike looked before I disassembled it, and then various stages of that disassembly. I only needed the pictures for about 3 hours, but they were invaluable when I was putting it back together.
Friday I took a picture of where a router was supposed to go, to demonstrate it wouldn't fit there to the boss.
Phone cameras are worth their weight in gold.
I can see my house from here! Microsoft Flight Simulator has laid strong foundations for the nerdy scene's next generation
Xiaomi turns 10 and celebrates by sitting down to relax in front of its new transparent television
Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck
Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'
Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'
Google reports 80% spike of Flutter-built apps in Play Store as 1.20 is released
China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US
Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets
So many stars, so little time: Machine learning helps astroboffins spot the most oxygen-starved galaxy yet
An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day
Fresh astro-underwear, anyone? Orbital shenanigans as Progress freighter has last-minute ISS docking wobble
Saturday 25th July 2020 01:04 GMT
Re: Only 3 hours?
Yes, the "normal" Russian trajectory is just under 3 days, but that's a long time cooped up in a very tiny Soyuz.
They've spent a lot of time and effort getting an accurate launch, accurate tracking, and accurate correction burns. After launch they have a very short time to determine the trajectory and the appropriate correction, then do the correction. This took several years and 3 or 4 Progress missions before it was approved for manned Soyuz.
Things are launched east to take advantage of the Earth's rotational speed. it's WHY Kennedy is on the east coast.
Butterfingers who don't bother with phone cases, rejoice: New Gorilla Glass 'Victus' tipped to survive 6ft drops
Saturday 25th July 2020 01:04 GMT
Here's a better option
Don't buy a phone with a glass back. I reached that decision with my Nexus 6P. Fuck that noise.
I drop stuff so often my grandfather had a special racist swear he would yell at me.
Did you know if you have an empty (no oil, no spring) motorcycle fork leg and you drop it, it destroys the bumpstop and all the hydraulic valves? That cost me nearly $450.
Did you know if you drop one of those WD MyPassport drives, even when it's off, it's destroyed and will never read data again?
You can also destroy Cisco routers and PIX firewalls by dropping them.
Twitter hack latest: Up to 36 compromised accounts had their private messages read – including a Dutch politician's
Frozen: Bank accounts of suspected Chinese Cisco counterfeiters who exploited pandemic shortages
My life as a criminal cookie clearer: Register vulture writes Chrome extension, realizes it probably breaks US law
Tuesday 21st July 2020 22:57 GMT
Re: "Removed in v44"
All of those options are a major PITA compared to a dialog that pops up for a new site and you just say Y/N
> hit the F12 button to bring up the Developer Tools when the open tab is the site you want to clear cookies from. Click the Storage tab and expand the Cookies option in the left hand menu. Click the relevant site name and all cookies for that site will be listed in the main pane. Select any you want to remove and hit the Delete key.
Seriously? Fuck that.
IBM profits cratered 46% last quarter. But its share price is up ~5% because Wall Street expected that to be worse
Mainframe madness as the snowflakes take control – and the on-duty operator hasn't a clue how to stop the blizzard
Twitter hackers busted 2FA to access accounts and then reset user passwords
Monday 20th July 2020 09:04 GMT
At least they seem to understand they fucked up. They're at least not going "we take our customer's privacy so very seriously"
OTOH I abandoned Twitter at the beginning of the month when they randomized their CSS to kill adblockers. I just don't have the patience to deal with the torrent of ads.
Black hole destroys corona
AMD fans forced to sit out latest Windows 10 Insiders build due to 'bug impacting overall usability of these PCs'
Bad news: Your Cisco switch is a fake and an update borked it. Good news: It wasn't designed to spy on you
Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now
An email banning our staff from using TikTok? Haha, funny story about that, we didn't mean it – Amazon
Saturday 11th July 2020 03:18 GMT
It's not irrational. TikTok does grab a ton of data.
"We're proud that tens of millions of Americans turn to TikTok for entertainment"
Why? That's like saying "We're proud that tens of millions of Americans babble about inconsequential trivia on Twitter" or "We're proud that tens of millions of Americans jerk it to PornHub" - who cares? It's not something to be proud of.
Shopped recently in a small online store? Check this list to see if it was one of 570 websites infected with card-skimming Magecart
Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO
Wednesday 8th July 2020 05:16 GMT
Re: We hear these stories all the time
> I'm pretty sure most of the people I know are racist, but they're pretty sure that they're not
I was raised by horribly racist relatives in a podunk shithole in the Deep South. They thought "Roots" was a comedy, and Kunta Kinte was too uppity and needed to be beaten again. That was the point I realized something was wrong and started trying to get out of there. I think I was 14. My grandfather used the "n-word" at least 3 times a day. My grandmother swore "well, I'll be John Brown!" and JB was a famous abolitionist.
I'm probably pretty racist but I try not to be.
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