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randahl, 26 days ago to random

Both Estonia and France are now ready to send troops to Ukraine as part of a coalition of the willing. These will not be frontline combat troops, but will carry out other tasks such as training in western Ukraine, freeing up more of Ukraine's own forces.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/13/7455614/

Reducing PHP's CPU usage by nearly 40% by upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 (ohdear.app)

We observed an almost 40% reduction of CPU usage in our PHP servers by upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

dcoderlt, 4 months ago to bluesky

Huh, #Bluesky is out of beta. Let’s see if their “we don’t need any T&S policies about dealing with tankies” approach holds up.

dcoderlt, 4 months ago to random

This is my shocked face.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-chatgpt-is-sending-him-conversations-from-unrelated-ai-users/

dcoderlt, 4 months ago to random

Finally convinced a cheap-ass client to upgrade their servers from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS.
Hosting provider misclicked things in Azure and created VMs running 20.04 LTS instead, then transferred everything to them.
When I noticed and asked about it, they said “My bad! We can migrate you to 22.04, but what’s the big deal, 20.04 is still supported through 2030?” “ESM?“ “Err, yeah, you’ll have to get a paid subscription to get updates after 2025.”

The client is not going to be amused.

dcoderlt, 4 months ago to random

IntelliJ IDEA was so eager to show me its New UI that it fumbled, forgot all my recent projects, and switched itself to Dark Mode. This is my unamused face.

campuscodi, 4 months ago to random

Newsletter: https://riskybiznews.substack.com/p/ransomware-wrecks-paraguay-largest-telco
Podcast: https://risky.biz/RBNEWS234/

-Ransomware wrecks Paraguay's largest telco
-Stuxnet saboteur identified after 15 years
-China cracks Apple's AirDrop
-Ransomware developer arrested in the Netherlands
-Spamdot admins identified
-4th US mortgage loaner hit by ransomware over the few months
-Ukraine repels attack on state payment system
-Ukraine wipes Moscow ISP in revenge for Kyivstar
-Hackers leak AlfaBank data
-China to hunt down aviation-tracking devices

da_667, 5 months ago to random

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DarthPutinKGB, 6 months ago to random

OTD in 2016 I denied we doped Russian athletes. Before I admitted we did in 2018, 2 of our anti-doping officials died “unexpectedly”, another fled to USA & a whistleblower in hiding had her data hacked.

DarthPutinKGB, 6 months ago to random

Miss me here?

DarthPutinKGB, 7 months ago to random

A suspect emerges in the sabotage of Baltic gas pipeline between Finland & Estonia…

dcoderlt, 9 months ago to random

Yes, hi, is this Radio KAOS?
Hi, Roger, can you play Pink Floyd’s “Learning to Fly”, and can I dedicate it to Yevgeny?

dcoderlt, 10 months ago to random

If I had some spare time, I would probably compare Zoom’s ToS to Microsoft Teams’ ToS.
Gotta wonder if Teams has been making some tin can learn from my clients’ conversations.

dcoderlt, 10 months ago to twitter

actually, #Twitter was the scientist, Elon is the name of the monster

dcoderlt, 10 months ago to ai

boy, do I have news for you about the English language

This whole #AI thing is a perfect illustration of what Worse Than Failure means in practice.

dcoderlt, 10 months ago to random

EU software developers after reading the Cyber Resilience Act

exchgr, 10 months ago to random

who called it object oriented programming and not class struggle

dcoderlt, 11 months ago to random

In 1968/69, two Conferences on the nascent topic of Software Engineering were held in Western Europe, organized by the NATO Science Committee.

These conferences produced, among other things, my favourite longform shitpost of the 20th century. You might also know it as Tom Simpson’s “Masterpiece Engineering”.

As I continued walking round the garden, now looking a little closer at the ground, I came across the bones of a group, still in session, attempting to write down the criteria for the design of the "Mona Lisa". The sight reminded me strangely of our group working on the criteria for the design of an operating system. Apparently the Conference decided that it should establish an Institute to work in more detail on production problems in the masterpiece field. So they went out into the streets of Rome and solicited a few chariot drivers, gladiators and others and put them through a five week (half-day) masterpiece creation course; then they were all put into a large room and asked to begin creating.
They soon realized that they weren't getting much efficiency out of the Institute, so they set about equipping the masterpiece workers with some more efficient tools to help them create masterpieces. They invented power-driven chisels, automatic paint tube squeezers and so on but all this merely produced a loud outcry from the educators: "All these techniques will give the painters sloppy characteristics", they said. Production was still not reaching satisfactory levels so they extended the range of masterpiece support techniques with some further steps. One idea was to take a single canvas and pass it rapidly from painter to painter. While one was applying the brush the others had time to think.
The next natural step to take was, of course, to double the number of painters but before taking it they adopted a most interesting device. They decided to carry out some proper measurement of productivity. Two weeks at the Institute were spent in counting the number of brush strokes per day produced by one group of painters, and this criterion was then promptly applied in assessing the value to the enterprise of the rest. If a painter failed to turn in his twenty brush strokes per day he was clearly under-productive. Regrettably none of these advances in knowledge seemed to have any real impact on masterpiece production and so, at length, the group decided that the basic difficulty was clearly a management problem.

dcoderlt, 11 months ago to random

Mars still operates in moscow, and the ruski government is very grateful. How grateful?

> Russian authorities today announced that Mars is under investigation for "funding the Ukrainian army".

#BoycottRussia

dcoderlt, 11 months ago to random

lmfao

dcoderlt, 11 months ago to random

“The simple solution would be NATO membership for both [Ukraine] and [Russia]”

what the fuck did I just read and why is my brain bleeding

dcoderlt, 1 year ago to random

babe, wake up, #Lithuania did something shitty again

we’re really saying “trust the police” when a whistleblower just implicated that same law enforcement in political shenanigans to help elect the current president, that’s bold

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/06/eu-member-states-still-cannot-agree-about-end-end-encryption

A screenshot from the linked article: Lithuania begs to differ when it comes to respecting people’s privacy. They complain that European data protection regulators are too absolutist about people’s privacy rights and don’t strike the right balance between privacy and law enforcement. Mistrust in law enforcement is unwarranted, they say, because its activities “are subject to strict requirements.” Ask those spied-upon Catalan politicians (and the many other European politicians who’ve been subjected to spyware) how well they think guardrails on surveillance are working out.

dcoderlt, 1 year ago to random

#StandWithUkraine

A Photoshopped image from The Simpsons. Milhouse (his face still covered by the UN logo) is defending himself to Bart: “I saw the whole thing. First it started falling down, and then it fell down.”

dcoderlt, 1 year ago to random

It’s a beautiful Friday morning, but my entire day is booked for “learning my employer’s incoming ISO policies”. Bleh.

dcoderlt, 1 year ago to goodomens

#GoodOmens