Looks like "Week without disaster is a week spent in vain" is a motto of those supporting/developing Windows 10.
Posts by Temmokan
22 posts • joined 30 Oct 2007
Windows 10 Pro goes Home as Microsoft fires up downgrade server
Sorry friends, I'm afraid I just can't quite afford the Bitcoin to stop that vid from leaking everywhere
Oh, those kinds are very funny.
They/he/she/it/whatever are blackmailing my technical email forwarder with similar crap for at least 4 weeks.
First, they found a stale leaked password database and stated they have "password for me account" (go on, hackers, try logging in under email forwarder address). Then they stated they "hacked that account half a year ago" and infected "my device" with super malware, re-sending its owner all the new passwords I try to use. Woe unto me, I'm pwned...
With every message the "hacker" gets so increasingly ridiculous, I am just tempted to send them 0.01$ worth of bitcoin with comment "you can do better".
But no, I won't. I am just too lazy to waste both time and money...
Your RSS is grass: Mozilla euthanizes feed reader, Atom code in Firefox browser, claims it's old and unloved
Dropbox plans to drop encrypted Linux filesystems in November
Xattrs and the rest
It wasn't told (some of commenter in that thread) that the reason for excluding other filesystem was the lack of extended attributes (but most of FS in use do support Xattr). So the reasoning behind the announced change is lame.
Also, on Linux systems, the client auto-upgrading feature requires that /tmp be miunted without "noexec". Otherwise it begins to repeat downloading new version again and again, failing at execution step. It took several weeks of exchanging messages with Dropbox support, before I found the problem myself (and no solution, save disabling "noexec").
Personally, I encrypt whatever is stored on Dropbox, so even if they leak those files of mine, it's not that dramatic. But I assume many a people don't bother with that.
Microsoft: The Kremlin's hackers are already sniffing, probing around America's 2018 elections
Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion
Smyte users not smitten with Twitter: APIs killed minutes after biz gobble
So we remove the lamps...
...and then we will try to guess why it's pitch black now.
I wonder, why the legal dept.'s staff at twitter didn't think all that about *before* actually initiating the transition? If those Twitter lawyers figured everything out *after* the Smyte has been assimilated, the best those lawyers can do is to retire (but not before they pay to Smyte users for the damage inflicted).
Epyc fail? We can defeat AMD's virtual machine encryption, say boffins
GCHQ boss calls out Russia for 'industrial scale disinformation'
Oh yes, evidence
If the "evidence" of Russian "cyber-warfare" is of the same type as "evidence" of Russia involvement into Skripal poisoning, then that evidence is as valuable as cheapest toilet paper. And worth the same manner of usage, too. The above comments from the person who really knows organic chemistry are a good illustration.
One more thing is obvious - too few people regard the mass media even with little skepticism...
Russian regulator asks courts to disconnect Telegram
Russia stares admiringly at itself, flexes internet muscles
The statements are somewhat imprecise.
The 'local data storage policy' most probably refers to Federal Law 152 ("On personal data"), which requires any entity processing personal data of Russian citizens to keep the primary DB containing those data on Russian territory.
The above requirement is absurd from viewpoint of any right-minded IT specialist; if the law is enforced, the absolute majority of Internet services will face a choice of either keeping Russian citizens data in Russia, or simply stopping servicing Russian citizens. The latter is most probable, since the actual goal of that requirement is allowing government services simpler access to anyone's personal data.
It should also be noted that the above restrictive and isolationist laws have been written by people having no real understanding how Internet and networking in general work; hence such laws that will not benefit anyone but those lawmakers and those lobbying such laws. So the above "Internet muscles play" doesn't reflect the opinions and/or needs of actual IT experts from Russia and majority of Internet users.
16 exoplanets found huddled around 12 lightweight stars
Next; tech; meltdown..? Mandatory; semicolons; in; JavaScript; mulled;
Wondering where your JavaScript libs went? Spam-detection snafu exiled npm packages
So we saw a simple scheme to disrupt multiple npm applications in a wink of an eye - copy widely used package's README, post dubious-looking package and voila, all the javascripters are pulling hairs out of their rear ends.
I wonder, do people managing npm ever tested such a scenario before (a rhetoric question)?
Looks like they would never do, until another incident strikes.
Woo-yay, Meltdown CPU fixes are here. Now, Spectre flaws will haunt tech industry for years
Of course they will deny
Regardless of findings are, Intel will deny the above as fundamental design flaws. I doubt Intel will be punished with more than formal spanking, but even admitting the design had flaws means Intel's chips designers either completely ignored possible security considerations, or did not bother to look for possible security implications at all. If the same designers will fix the vulnerabilities, as Intel promises, guess what will can happen.
Congratulations, Intel. Since the notorious FDIV bug this "spectral speculative meltdown" is much more impressive example of epic fail.
I suppose no one from IT experts now has an illusion that Intel cares a bit about security.
The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?
Tried that on a "sandbox" computer. Funny, but first notice I saw when FF 57 started for the first time, was its turtle warning: "Mozilla Firefox seems slow... to... start".
So much for super-duperfast Quantum. And I only had DuckDuckGo add-on enabled.
Not impressed, really. I get tired of endless UI changes, and that mad race (who will post more major updates - Google Chrom or Mozilla) is really dull. I remember the time when major version change in Firefox was a really major change.
Now every major version upgrade can be described as "we fixed a lot of bugs - most of which we introduced ourselves recently - and yes, we add new bells and whistles to replace old ones - aren't we great?"
And yes, not all the add-ons I expected to see have released at least Beta version of their Web Extension incarnation. And some are totally screwed while doing so (e.g., Xmarks).
Something tells me I get FF 57 on sandbox computers for some time, until I make sure it is good to use.
I also will use a separate Mozilla ID to set up sync - for those computers where I risked running FF 57.
In short: yet another "major release", again with fife and drums, but with greater disasters involved.
Firefox bookmark saving add-on gives users that sync-ing feeling
Oh yes. And I found, after updating to FF 56, that the new Firefox failed to load its predecessor's bookmarks backups (yes, I posted the bug to their bug tracker, and the problem was confirmed, but that didn't help me in my situation).
All browsers have bookmarks-related bugs; looks like manual exporting bookmarks and manual syncing across devices remains cumbersome, but more reliable way of keeping the same bookmarks set.
As FF 57 inevitable release loomed closer, Xmarks began to suffer quite an amount of problems:
1. It stopped saving tags; to me, it's even bigger disaster than losing bookmarks (please note that FF, by default, keeps several daily backups). Not fixed. I have to restore approx. 5,000 tags.
2. It began constantly crashing, especially for larger bookmarks set (mine has approx. 3,000 bookrmarks ATM). Partially fixed.
3. It began duplicating bookmarks added on another devices, when syncing. Not fixed.
4. Now, starting with the last 4.5.0.4 version, it began to lose bookmarks. Not fixed.
A huge disappointment, it is now. I do not know whether they do any testing; looks like the company began hastily re-writing the plugin, when FF 57 release began really near, and quite forgot about any kind of testing.
Well, I have to return to old semi-manual bookmarks merge/copy approach.
I hope their LastPass won't get the same disappointment.
KRACK whacked, media playback holes packed, other bugs go splat in Android patch pact
Vlad the blockader: Russia's anti-VPN law comes into effect
Wikipedia isn't actually blocked
Wikipedia isn't actually blocked from Russian networks. Perhaps only certain pages are, the majority of Wikipedia sites are available without any restrictions.
However, a number of sites, such as LinkedIn, are blocked due to many reasons, most of which are very moot.