I appreciate that ACM Queue has an RSS feed but I wish it wasn't completely fucking useless. Just embed the whole damn article into the feed, trust me I can handle it. My RSS reader would appreciate being able to show me something other than a link
I find it somewhat amusing that not agreeing to iClouds new terms of service resulted in iCloud Mail and other things not working until I agreed on all my Apple devices, but iCloud Mail set up in Thunderbird on two Windows machines was, of course, completely oblivious. "Who cares about license agreements, anyway? I'm just here for the mail", said Thunderbird.
Heading down to the MIDI room to pull another file off the shelves. Today's file: arm_4pro. Internal title: Black Knight's Suffering ●FF4ピアノトリオ (FF4 Piano Trio). A five minute Jazz remix of the main theme of Final Fantasy IV, with some nicely played piano and bass. As played on my ST Pro. Composed by Nobuo Uematsu (植松伸夫), arranged by ARM. MIDI: drive.google.com/uc?id=19gn-l2…. Original LZH: web.archive.org/web/2018100213… Original track, which is kind of barely there because of the heavy Jazz improvisation lol: youtube.com/watch?v=lLWCyvqgZI….
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From a presentation of an AI tool: "It can perform LDAP queries for you!" "Can I trust the results?" "Well, not really. It's like asking a human; you should always verify the results yourself to be 100% sure."
Okay, instead of running the query myself, I'll wait for the AI tool to run it and then run it myself to make sure it's correct. Next week, we should receive a survey asking how much time it saves us. I wonder what everyone's answer will be. 🤔
I need also check if platform engineering deployed my tool expected way. Same with humans as with AI. You can’t trust anything you did not made yourself.
@sesivany, if you use web content for research, it is always needed o check the sources, irrelevant if you use AI or not. But AI can help to find way faster relevant sources and results.
AI is bad, when you substitute the own research, creativity and intelligence with it, what is too often the case, spreading misinformation and fake news (often pretended).
This isn't about searching web, this is about LDAP and there is no need to find relevant sources because the only source of the truth is known: the LDAP server.
If you get wrong results it's on you because you're prompting it wrong. Just add “don't lie” to every prompt, it will automagically fix all hallucinations.
If the AI tool is written well, it should also show you ldap query it used and response it got, no? It does work that is easy to verify imo. There is value in that, isn’t there?
I would like a 5.1 channel surround system I can easily plug into my laptop's USB/HDMI hub so I can listen to podcasts and music on something that isn't a headset. Used to be you could get that in a sub-$150 form factor with 3 analogue 1/8-inch connectors. Now, though, my only connectivity option looks to be HDMI. Everything I'm finding is a sound bar which, if past experience is any guide, means a complicated ecosystem where I'll need an app and an account and likely sighted help, because you can't just plug the damn thing in and get sound, you have to make sure you're not in bluetooth mode, or otherwise mash button combinations so your speakers actually do the thing.
Surely I'm not the last weirdo left who wants his computer to sound good without a headset? What are my options? There don't seem to be either plain speakers or non-sound-bar options--maybe a mini receiver that can handle the HDMI input, with enough physical buttons so I can press one to switch to HDMI? IME sound bars have like 3 buttons, and each does a dozen things which you only distinguish by seeing which light is lit or similar. Then there's my last sound bar, which at one point crashed so hard that I started actually seeing the 403s from what was apparently its onboard Nginx server. I really hate technology somedays.
Realized that one aspect of my disdain for suggested replies is that I can literally type my reply faster than reading them and then moving the cursor to one of them and clicking. Not everyone can type that quickly.
I didn't think that I could type exceptionally fast but I've had enough people comment on it that I guess I have this enhanced ability without even realizing it. Idk, I guess after years and years and years of touch-typing your fingers just do the dance and the words happen
I've come to a point in my life where I find speaking to be a ridiculously complicated and inefficient way of communicating. The funny thing is, because of extensive scripting and such, you wouldn't know it if you actually heard me speak, but the process of buffering words and formulating all the right things to say is just so very taxing. Thus, as of late, I am speaking as little as I can get away with.
FOr me, it's the people that expect a script I find it hardest to communicate with. Clsoe people who know my default language thingies, well, they can get wordsed at.
Das im ganzen deutschsprachigen Raum angesehene Beratungs- und Vermittlungsprojekt „bidok – behinderung inklusion dokumentation“ steht vor dem Aus. Nach 20 Jahren streicht das Sozialministerium mit Jahresende 100 Prozent der Förderungen.
Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US.
The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an estimated 50% market share among home users and small businesses. Experts say while the proposed ban may have more to do with TP-Link’s ties to China than any specific technical threats, much of the rest of the industry serving this market also sources hardware from China and ships products that are insecure fresh out of the box.
Use Linux they say. It's easy for non-technical users and they never have to touch the command line they say.
I just spent 4 hours the other day digging around CLI and man pages and more trying to get my rsync and restic and system to do even kinda sorta system backup to cloud functionality that's built into Windows and MacOS, or offered as an easy client from your backup vendor. "Backup my home directory up to someplace". Because easy backup clients just aren't available or well supported for Linux.
No I'm not particularly interested in "oh you just have to go and find this random package that's in this repo and configure it and ...
As someone who recommends linux and chromebooks for "non-technical" users, I always attach a caveat.
Linux is great for the 2 ends of the bell curve. If you're doing something super niche and you need full control and are willing to put in the work, obviously its great.
Its also great if your idea of a "computer" is just a facebook, YouTube and email machine. I have setup family members with either chrome books or Linux mint and it "just works" for them. Bonus points for keeping them better protected from malware.
But for anything in the middle, its probably gunna be more painful than other OSes.
@varx Absolutely this. The people who have the worst time are the “power users”: people who are technical enough to have expectations about how they want things to work but not technical enough to do it without serious guard rails and hand holding. These are the folks who jump into a Terminal and hose their system the most often
@danirabbit @varx that's the result of sysadmins (and LARPers) skewing the curve over the past 25 years by changing the definition of "power user" from "people with domain knowledge of a specific application or task" to "people who use shell scripts to duct tape a bunch of CLI tools together when confronted with any issue"
An article published by LWN a few months ago describes a new, container-based, atomically updated desktop Linux distribution proposed for the European Union public sector. I expect the public-sector employees to be in your second category, with the distribution preconfigured to offer exactly the applications needed in their department or job role. Almost all Linux users I know are of course in your first category: the flexibility, configurability and control are the point so far as they're concerned, not an obstacle.
## Summary:
The Arbitrary Configuration File Inclusion (ACFI) vulnerability was identified in the curl utility via the --config option. This flaw is a form of External Control of File Name...
dang. Reminds me of when corporate uninstalled `nc` because it's a hackers tool. I mean, sure hackers use it, but hackers use toilets and doors too. Are you going to remove the toilets and doors?
Honestly it looks like a maximum-report-length filter would be handy. If you can't describe the problem in 250 words (not counting test code) then either you don't understand the problem or you're a slop-bot.
I don't quite understand why you don't give up on hackerone.
A company I used to work for was using hackerone and the amount of garbage reports that we were receiving was simply unsustainable. After we switched to email, things became way better.
Holy crap! Don't you see what this means? That by supplying curl a config file path via its "config file path" option, we can trick curl into opening a config file AT THAT PATH.
"Sensitive Information Disclosure: An attacker can read any file accessible to the user.". No shit. I'd say it's not only curl, but also entire OS is broken. This is single finding that will bring entire world down!
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Random "discovery" of the day. Python has a rational type (from fractions import Fraction as f). It can be used for all the things you would think. Really neat when working on maths. You can do things like f(1)-f(1,2)*f(2,3)+f(1,4) and get a rational result out of it.
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