The word "git" has always been defined as "mildly derogatory, meaning a foolish or contemptible person" - that was seen as a joke originally when Git first appeared. A foolish or contemptible person is not an idiot and can be very good at some things (like writing software) even if you don't like them ... so the naming was a warning, not a joke - and it has turned out to be simply a fact of life.
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GitHub merges 'useless garbage' says Linus Torvalds as new NTFS support added to Linux kernel 5.15
Banned: The 1,170 words you can't use with GitHub Copilot
Software piracy pushes companies to be more competitive, study claims
Re: Is this a five minute argument, or a full half hour?
It's worth reviewing the Windows development, initially we all bought a copy and then after a while bought an update or a new version (I still have piles of 3.5 inch floppy disks) ... but Microsoft was watching users stealing the registrations and now we can update to the latest version of Windows for free ...
"The big difference between software for money and software for free is that software for money usually costs a lot less. - Brendan Behan (updated).
Big data means big money for the UK government as £2bn tender mooted
Autodesk was one of the 18,000 firms breached in SolarWinds attack, firm admits
Only 18,000 firms attacked?
18,000 firms noticed they were attacked, we will never know how many didn't notice. Working on the Internet is like walked naked through a field of rapists looking at your phone while posting on social media without looking around - your gender is irrelevant.
"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." - Al Gore, a merry can VP
Power users of Microsoft OneDrive suffer massive inconvenience: Read-only files
A new problem gets a new fix ... and so on.
This sort of issue generation is common everywhere - locally we just had Hurricane Ida take out everyone's AC power and the phone companies lost service but everyone was just left with their phones to communicate. Go anywhere for hurricane information locally and you are told to check the streaming service to the latest information while the phone companies are slowing down service everywhere - if you're lucky, a lot of times there was no service.
The modern world means all your data is accessed via the cloud ... locally only 140 mph clouds. Systems are all built to work, reliability is not a factor these days. While the phone service data rates dropped, my Android got a couple of hundred Mb of "updates" during the hurricane.
'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim
But most "Investors" ask about the amount of money you are making and refuse to talk to you if you are not making at least five million dollars a year. So if you are trying to get investments then you either need to be in a situation where you don't really need them or else you need to invent income...
Q: "Did you make $5M this year?"
A: "Yes we have $6M in the bank now" ...
Internal Accountant: "The bank called about your $8M line of credit" ...
Apple wants to scan iCloud to protect kids, can't even keep them safe in its own App Store – report
What happened when Eve ate the Apple?
I remember being a child and I thought about it a lot when I raised my child in today's world. Child pornography is an adult problem, it's the terrible way that adults act and think. As a kid I was raised wearing the equivalent of a dress (I'm a guy now but I was just a kid back then). We all were just kids regardless of our genders and back then as a kid by the seaside you dropped your clothes on the sand and headed into the sea. Was that a crime? No it wasn't, we were just kids playing in the sand - the kids virtually never did anything bad to each other, it was only the adults that were pains.
Now Apple wants to make life hell for the kids - they are saying that child pornography is bad but adult pornography is fine when you are "old enough" - that illustrates the "adult" problem.
UK promises big data law shake-up... while also keeping the EU happy, of course. What could go wrong?
A BASE jumping error
Brexit was Boris's BASE jumping - He "got it done" and jumped from the EU but forgot to be prepared by wearing a parachute.
Brexit has been done, complaining about it doesn't fix anything. BASE jumping is fun and makes you feel fantastic when you get it done and land without loosing consciousness or breaking an arm or leg - but a lot of the time it needs a hell of a lot of hard work to get it done - just jumping off the wireless mast, or cliff isn't easy a lot of times - and the pandemic just means the wind was blowing.
So nothing that's happening is odd at all.
Fake Apple rep amasses 620,000+ stolen iCloud pics, vids in hunt for images of nude women to trade
'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response
Playdate handheld game system torn to pieces, crank and all
Re: I honestly thought...
I think that it's always fun looking a these old devices and then trying to get them working again - the iFixit folks are excellent at figuring out how to repair both old and new devices (icon to you guys) and anytime I have to fix something then they are the first place I go to.
Un-carrier? Definitely Unsecure: T-Mobile US admits 48m customers' details stolen after downplaying reports
Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious
Eight-year-old bug in Microsoft's 64-bit VBA prompts complaints of neglect
LibreOffice 7.2 brings improved but still imperfect Microsoft Office compatibility
Does "compatibility" mean having the same issues?
"LibreOffice 7.2 brings improved but still imperfect Microsoft Office compatibility"
Fair enough, but has nobody ever used Microsoft Office and found incompatibility issues with their previous version of Microsoft Office. Does perfect compatibility just mean that it would have the same issues that Microsoft is working to fix?
Pi calculated to '62.8 trillion digits' with a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc chips, 1TB RAM, 510TB disk space
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Autopilot driver assist system after spate of crashes
Apple's iPhone computer vision has the potential to preserve privacy but also break it completely
COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free
Re: A long way still to go
How do you think the Delta variant was created? Most likely a small mutation in some infected people that turned out to spread a little better. It's likely that someone,or some animal, surviving an SARS infection when they had a Flu infection created the original COVID-19 virus variant which then evolved over time to become very infectious.
Re: A long way still to go
In the US and the UK vaccinations were aimed at getting voters support. Certainly vaccinating older people was a good start but forbidding vaccination for youngsters was just dumb - but they weren't going to vote so their vaccinations didn't matter. Vaccinating "age groups" was stupid, it would have been much more effective to vaccinate people who were likely to catch and spread the disease.
Re: Forgery
All the law enforcement efforts need to go against the people creating the fakes. If they find someone with a fake card then maybe we should just quarantine them for a month and give then both shots before they are released - that would discourage all anti-vaxers from buying fake cards.
Microsoft emits last preview of .NET 6 and C# 10, but is C# becoming as complex as C++?
Taiwan president pokes the bear by saying the nation needs to lessen its supply chain dependency on China
Re: Too much of the world ...
When you look at all the issues that we've seen for years now, it seems sensible for all countries to support their own manufacturers and manufacturing - the issue with buying from other countries is that the local business CEO's are making money but the rest of the population is not.
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
Windows problems were Windows Features!
When we were writing code for the early versions of Windows we would see lots of problems as Microsoft upgraded and changed the DLL's that everything relied upon ... so to fix that we needed to stop relying on the assumption that the DLL's we needed existed and worked the way we planned.
So I required that all DLL code was complied into the applications and now they still run fin on Windows 10 because the apps don't expect that a DLL will exist unchanged.
Chinese espionage group targets Israel while suggesting the source could be Iran
This is normal
It's just a "feature" of the Internet in the modern world - don't think that the Chinese are the only ones doing this, all espionage groups treat this as standard practice - their espionage groups and ours too. Just because malware or spyware "appears" to be from somewhere don't mean that the country was the source.
Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait
So what about an HIV vaccine?
We're still waiting for an HIV vaccine ... basically creating an effective vaccine is not easy, we've been very lucky that the current COVID-19 vaccines have been created so quickly even if they are not 100% effective. But look at the history of Flu vaccines, they need to evolve every year and it looks like that's happening with COVID-19 too. Fingers crossed, hopefully a fully functional vaccine will get created to eradicate COVID-19 but we'll not know for certain soon.
US senators reach last-minute compromise on cryptocurrency regulations as infrastructure bill vote looms
AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn
Who won the Olympic Human Race ?
Society says human race is "relevant" but if you want to study how we became humans then read Jeremy DeSilva's book First Steps - we're all one race (icon) with just a few genetic "uncles and aunts" that give us slight differences - none of which appear to help our stupidity.
Winning an Olympic event is far more significant than your race, so AI is only artificial intelligence, it's not real at all ... thinking that race is important would be like saying that we need to add Writing Applications in Visual Basic to the Olympic events.
Microsoft wonders if disabling just-in-time compilation of JavaScript improves browser security
Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns
Facebook takes bold stance on privacy – of its ads: Independent transparency research blocked
Research finds cyber-snoops working for 'Chinese state interests' lurking in SE Asian telco networks since 2017
Re: Sniff test failed
I wonder if it works like this - the hackers email tons of messages that, when opened, grant access to the system. Then they look in the system to obtain internal details;
PFY hacker: "Nothing political or secret in this system, it's just a corporation"
PHB hacker: "OK install the malware"
Das tut mir leid! Germany's ruling party sorry for calling cops on researcher after she outed canvassing app flaws
SolarWinds urges US judge to toss out crap infosec sueball: We got pwned by actual Russia, give us a break
Given their client base, you'd have expected SolarWinds to be ultra paranoid
No way, everyone expects them to be profitable - it's not just SolarWInds, you see this everywhere, Security is something that people say they will deal with ... and occasionally they have a go at it but you have to keep the accountants and the sales execs happy if you want to keep your job.
If you're the PFY, telling the PHB that they need to spend a lot of money while working hard to try and stay safe, means you'll be looking for a new job in most environments.
China tightens distributor cap after local outfits hoard automotive silicon then charge silly prices
'Prophetic' Steve Jobs autograph telling kid to 'go change the world!' among Apple memorabilia at auction
That's just the 80's
Remember those days when people would just try and be nice to kids.
These days what happens? We steal their data and sell all their information via social media companies; back then nobody had privacy statements requirements, these days a kid would get a "free account, please get your parents to sign the privacy statement and enter their email, phone number, and location" and they would start getting adverts.
Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub
Re: But.. you have the sourcecode right ?
I think that a lot of people assume that open source is reliable because someone somewhere must have checked the code so they just move on and apply it because it's free without spending time verifying it themselves.
Reading all the comments here makes me think of updating an old Brendan Behan quote from the days before software; "The big difference between sex software for money and sex software for free is that sex software for money usually costs a lot less."
Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right
Re: Built to repair?
Yes, certainly that failure was a possibility (I didn't downvote you) although in those days capacitors were very reliable, because they were just physical devices - I think the metal oxide AC power rectifier was a possibility but I was just a kid learning how to fix things then.
I only got bit hard by a TV once, my dad told me to always have the TV unplugged from the wall to be safe so I figured out it was probably just the CRT acting like a well charged capacitor.
Re: Built to repair?
I started repairing TV's when I was kid, six years old - it was easy and fun then - just turn the TV on for a few minutes, turn it off and put your hand in the back and touch all the valves. All you had to do was just swap out the cold ones and then, most of the time, everything started working again. If it didn't work then I told them I'd get rid of the broken TV but I kept all the warm valves to fix the next one.
I was so disappointed initially when transistors appeared because it made my work much harder - LOL, but then I started learning a lot more and reading the circuit diagrams so it was actually a bonus.
Zoom agrees to pay subscribers $25 to put its security SNAFUs behind it
On this most auspicious of days, we ask: How many sysadmins does it take to change a lightbulb?
Upcoming Android privacy changes include ability to blank advertising ID, and 'safety section' in Play store
About half of Python libraries in PyPI may have security issues, boffins say
See cure, Itty-bitty
Python was created to be accurate and easy to use, I don't think that security was ever a factor in the design or applications written in Python. Essentially don't use Python to write code that processes logins or credit cards - this is just like criticizing someone for digging up potatoes with a fork, "That's risky, don't use a fork because you'll stab your toes ... I'll get my shotgun so that we can dig them up and social-distance ..."
The cockroach of Windows, XP, lives on in London's Victoria Coach Station
You, too, can be a Windows domain controller and do whatever you like, with this one weird WONTFIX trick
"Microsoft are no[t] fixing this,"
I'm sure that they will "fix" it but we have to accept that fixing a security issue that we've discovered doesn't mean that there are no other security holes in the system. Every time this happens we're told that "It's been fixed" but then a week or two later we discover another issue - so how many problems are there out there? We're told that "it's fixed" but does anyone ever check the entire environment? This quote isn't a criticism, it's just the way life is and an accurate statement by someone who worked in this world all his life:
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until its too late." - Seymour Cray
Somebody is destined for somewhere hot, and definitely not Coventry
Reserve Bank of India official suggests country may soon have a digital currency pilot
Google fixes 'Chromebork' one-character code typo that prevented Chrome OS logins
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