Posts by LazLong

Is this even a crime under this administration?

Wouldn't Trump praise this person as an exemplary entrepreneur?

Hiring

AI has definitely had an effect on the hiring process. How do you give a blowjob to ChatGPT?

It seems like....

....few of you twats read the whole article or the original materials the article is based on. This isn't criticizing the games, it's describing how technological platforms adjacent to gaming and part of the ecosystem are convenient tools to recruit psychologically vulnerable people into extremist groups.

Use as leverage against Modi

Would be nice if we could use this as leverage to get Modi to stop acting like a genocidal fascist fuck, but no chance with our own, more orange, version.

Copilot....

....gives the same answer.

Sick Fsck

One of the very unfortunate side effects of the Internet is it amplifying the actions of sick bastards like this guy. Before they'd more often than not operate alone with less impact. Now they can search and find others and learn from and be encouraged by each other. Of course it isn't just sexual deviants that this amplifies, but political deviants as well. MAGAts.

The keyboard of the gods

The keyboard of the gods is the original Model M with a built-in TrackPoint. Period.

Bassackward?

Am I the only one who thinks WSL was named backwards? Doesn't "Linux Subsystem for Windows" make more sense?

Putin and Xi must be getting tired of winning by now. Their sides must be splitting from their ROFL for the last 100+ days.

Butter Males

But, but, her emails....

Fucking hypocritical shitheads.

Not sure about the part where the author says Hegseth's personal computer was attached to unclassified network. Other outlets reported he asked to have Signal installed on his unclassified system. This would be okay, if it weren't for Hegseth's propensity to use it for communication he shouldn't. Really, the asshole shouldn't have a clearance. It goes without saying he's unqualified for SecDef.

US companies did this to us

Our own companies put us in this situation threatening national security to save a few bucks. Our govt didn't stop them. Those of us in national security sectors of the govt were labeled cranks and fools when we pointed out what was happening. Undoing this isn't going to be easy, nor cheap, and I frankly don't think many people have the stomach for it.

If Trump hadn't shit on all our allies, we could have tried a cooperative approach with Japan, Germany, France, et al to onshore various segments amongst ourselves over the next several years. The most we can hope for is they do it as we've proven ourselves completely mental and incapable of sanely managing our own affairs.

But, the same forces that helped push us to where we are, are also at work in those countries. Let's hope their citizens learn from our stupidity and change course or else we'll all be in the fascist shitter together.

Brian Krebs

Would have been a laugh if, business as usual, the Trump regime screwed up and issued the executive order against Brian, instead of Chris Krebs.

Surely required clearance will be granted

The President has ultimate authority in deciding who should have a clearance. Therefore, I'm sure she'll be granted the access she needs to do her job. All that happens during the onboarding process.

Whether her issues were considered before her hiring is another matter entirely. Probably considered a plus to poke the Biden administration in the eye....

Cry baby Musk

Musk cries whenever anything gets in his way. He thinks he's entitled to do anything and everything the way he wants it, regardless of the law. If he wouldn't violate securities regulations all the time the SEC would leave him alone.

He wants wants wants like a spoiled brat. I wish he'd just get his ass to Mars already.

New Incel dating technique?

Is this the hot new dating technique for m incels? Is a Robin Hood-like act enough to get him marriage proposals, as has happened to other notorious criminals?

Strategic Grift Reserve

The so-called strategic Bitcoin reserve that Trump is being talked into is simply a method to leverage US tax payers' money to prop up and legitimize Bitcoin, there by helping the crypto-bros at our expense. Just more crony capitalism.

Crucial

I bought a couple of NVME drives from Crucial last January, and DR was their e-commerce platform, which I was surprised to see.

Homebrew OS?

Don't you mean "cribbed OS" in the stereotypical Chinese way of "Embrace and extend?"

Not surprising at all

The FTC having such a small budget and workforce isn't surprising if you take into account that Republicans don't want it to exist, and Democrats are beholden to corporate overlords for campaign money. The former is the same reason the IRS has such a small enforcement division, even though every dollar spent on enforcement returns almost three in owed taxes.

This is all more evidence that we need to move to exclusively public funded elections to help minimize the grossly outsized influence of the top 1% of earners in the US.

Shoulda happened a long time ago

Personally, having worked IT in a couple of different three-letter classified environments, I think corporations that produce security sensitive software have dropped the ball on air-gapping their dev systems a long time ago. eg I found RSA's breach to be astonishing.

Justification?

What did the plod use as justification to get the warrants for the financial records?

No doubt

No doubt the cards were destined to be re-flashed as RTX 4070s and resold on AliExpress/BangGood/Temu to greedy morons for unbelievable prices.

Remote data doesn't traverse the network?

"No data from remote PCs ever traverses a network – remote users see only bitmaps."

So, pray tell, how does one log in? How does input happen? Are bitmaps not data? All of this is valuable info for an adversary and must be taken into account, and marketing bullshit claiming no data traverses the network is disingenuine. Some may see this as a quibble, but it's not.

One of Teradici's first markets, if not the first, was classified diskless workstation computing. Not long before the introduction of PCoIP there started a big push in the US Federal govt to move classified clients to diskless solutions. Unfortunately, most widely known solutions were thin clients that weren't suitable for anything beyond simple office computing. Teradici's product aimed to overcome these limitations by providing remote access to workstations, instead of the terminal servers that were in vogue at the time.

Sexual Stealing

Send enough hot spies to tempt nerdy engineers and you're bound to get what you need.

Say 'Thank you' to the moronic Brexiteers

The UK is in this position thanks to Russian misinformation/campaigning for Brexit, voter apathy, and the moronic Brexiteers themselves. WTF did the Brexiteers think was going to happen? Instead of being a big fish in an economically-strong hurd, they are now a rogue hamster that is going to get squashed between the jostling big three rabid hippopotami, China, the EU, and the US. This is what Brexiteers were selling, and way too many morons bought into it. So now they can reap the milkshakes they've sown. The UK's only choice is to enjoy their hamstership, join BRICS if it ever turns into an effective trade block, or go crawling back to the EU with their kneepads on and ready swallow.

It's not dead yet?

Beige, not Platinum

You say your article "concerns the time when Apple was bringing its beige all-in-one Macs into the classroom for the very first time," and yet instead of a beige Mac Plus you use a photo of a post-SE and Mac II era Platinum-colored Mac Plus. Interesting choice.

Too many exclusions

I wonder what the rationale was for excluding home appliances, beyond money from lobbyists?