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- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 3 days ago:
The method, they use, requires a client-server architecture. Hence, they cannot attack a local keepass file even if you sync it to some cloud.
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 6 days ago:
HP print cartridges.
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 6 days ago:
I’m disappointed they say coming soon. Laat year or so, when they announced it, everyone assumed immediate availability.
- Comment on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability 1 week ago:
Is there a non-sense free description.
So far, i learned that notepad can open links from Markdown. I assume Markdown calls some Windows API open(link) where link is any string. That’s hardly a vulnerability by itself, that’s working as designed.
Where does the code execution happen? Is it open(hackersite.com/exploite.exe)? Can’t be. They’re not that stupid.
Is it open(file:///PowerShell.exe?atbitaryCodeHere)? Who would allow this?
Or open(teams://magic/doThing)?
This sounds like trying to blame notepad (and by proxy all app developers) for a design flaw in the ecosystem
- Comment on New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer 2 weeks ago:
Reboot?
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 weeks ago:
You mean Word, Excel, and so on…
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 4 weeks ago:
Your logic is sound, but Bending Spoon is not know to care about value. If Vimeo owns any infrastructure, they’ll sell at it at ebay.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 5 weeks ago:
Before 1956?
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 1 month ago:
Have you recently vibe editted a Microsoft Copilot Excel Sheet on your AI PC (but actually in the cloud)?
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
This may be the strategy. 90% of all business users use copilot daily (after we renamed their coffeemachine and the kitchen sink to copilot)
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 1 month ago:
Real people, live!
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 1 month ago:
Not sure about the devs, but Salesforce’s sales force is in it. Shove Salesforce into any company (usually through incompetent employees on the buyer side), recommend motivated Junior consultants to set it up. Then require more consultants and more senior consultants to operate and fix it. Until everyone hates Salesforce.
- Comment on Labcoat! 2 months ago:
PhD candidate
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 months ago:
With or without lemon slice?
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 3 months ago:
A niche instance can also be a good home, especially if the person identifies strongly with the theme. Regional is a good starting point for users with mainstream interests.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 3 months ago:
Your choice, it’s just a generic recommendation.
- Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL 3 months ago:
It was dial-up service and web site. It wasn’t very big, but i think it was around for some time. This is the best i could find: variety.com/…/europe-online-gets-at-amp-t-dialton…
- Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL 3 months ago:
Enshittification company buys the O.G. enshittification
- Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL 3 months ago:
I believe Europe Online was a service about the time when AOL was a thing
- Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
You can eat it. Proof: me.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 4 months ago:
The cartridges are a HP design. The CC license is the smallest problem here.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 4 months ago:
It’s a thing. Print shops use these to print different formats, usually for size > office paper. I checked on DDG and could easily find a supplier in my country for sizes the fit the OpenPrinter. Not sure if the paper roll is cheaper or more convenient, given that you have to order from specialized stores, but certainly it’s a great idea.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 months ago:
No. That’s the point. LibreOffice does not send your data to Microsoft.
LibreOffice is what Microsoft Office WAS without the bugs. If Word and Excel worked for you before the cloud, Libre is golden.
- Comment on LYING TO CHILDREN 5 months ago:
How many millilitres are in a gallon?
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 6 months ago:
b) is a recent change. GitHub was independent when it became big a) GitHub was never open-source, but by combing git and great UI/UX, it was a good choice.
Git is open-source and the distributed nature of git reduces the vendor-lock-in. You need to understand where we came from (svn or git to some ssh server). Coming from self-hosted git, embracing github did not take away your power over your own source code; you still had a copy of all branches on multiple machines. The world is different now, where github has become a single-point of failure.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 6 months ago:
A gold bar gifted to an institution would still count as corruption in most sane jurisdictions. Sure those loopholes exist, but we tend to disguise them as investments or charity.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 6 months ago:
Wait for the price tag on the upcoming golden monitor stand.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 7 months ago:
brain full of lead and microplastic
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 7 months ago:
Gates could probably walk into most offices and get a free coffee and an impromptu meeting with the CEO if he wants to.
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 7 months ago:
Imagine applying to work on the youtube team because you enjoy watching videos and then you are expected to make it worse for everyone including yourself.