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Use-after-free thinker. [he/him/🐻 of very little 🧠] :welp:

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arstechnica, to random
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Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data

ShrinkLocker is the latest ransomware to use Windows' full-disk encryption.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/newly-discovered-ransomware-uses-bitlocker-to-encrypt-victim-data/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rotopenguin,
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@arstechnica lol (Living Off the Land)

mcc, to random
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Incidentally I'm thankfully still not seeing any of this Google "AI results" stuff. It sounds like nearly everyone else is. I don't know if the difference is because I'm on a Canadian IP, or because my feedback when they briefly opted me into the early beta tests was so aggressively negative they put some kind of "AI Hater" flag on my account

rotopenguin,
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@mcc it can't be the second thing. The company that always resets your "don't autoplay" switch is not going to take no for an answer.

caseynewton, to random
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Did Altman pursue the Johansson deal on his own? No: the voice team knew about it, OpenAI told me today. My best effort to piece together the timeline: https://www.platformer.news/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-voice-her-altman/

rotopenguin,
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@caseynewton Correction to the correction: the whole idea was not Altman's, it was actually his penis that decided to contact Johannson

JenMsft, to programming
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When you approve your own pull request #Programming

rotopenguin,
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@JenMsft later, when it comes time to 'git blame'

mcc, to random
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We are in Programmer Hell

We have a ourlibrary.a file built in March

We can link ourlibrary.a into an application, it builds and the program runs

But if we build ourlibrary.a from source, the same untouched code and vcxprojes from march, it produces an ourlibrary.a that— when linked into the application— causes the final application to fail with a linker error that it can't find any of the OpenGL symbols.

Something changed on the build machine since March and we don't know what.

rotopenguin,
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@mcc ayyyyyyy dot out

the fonz followers GIF

nixCraft, to random
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Is "fixed stuff" a good git commit message for a big project? I'm asking for myself 🤔

rotopenguin,
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@nixCraft you also have to quantify your statement. "The code now sucks 3.739% less."

mcc, to random
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At 5:14 in this YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_xoKqLQrvs

The vlogger says "subscribe so you don't miss it!". At that exact moment, assuming you are not full screen, a little rainbow shimmer runs over the "Subscribe" button under the video.

…did the vlogger set a flag somewhere, or is Google doing speech rec to look for the word "subscribe" in videos and triggering a CSS effect when it finds it? Does this happen in all videos now?

rotopenguin,
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@mcc is it really a "subscribe" if you don't also include the "likeshareand"?

gamingonlinux, to random
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Immediately ew. They deleted it, obviously. Ridiculous shit.

rotopenguin,
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@gamingonlinux Nadella really believes this.

nixCraft, to random
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Phone: Hey, it's ${Name}. Blah blah… Still interested?

You: Excuse me?

Phone: You applied 4 years ago...

You: Dude, seriously? 😂

rotopenguin,
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@nixCraft how about- you start me with 4 years of back pay and 4 years of accumulated vacation time.

gamingonlinux, to random
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IGN acquired the Gamer Network including RPS, Eurogamer, VG247 and more https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/ign-acquired-the-gamer-network-including-rps-eurogamer-vg247-and-more/

rotopenguin,
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@gamingonlinux how does it feel to be one of the few good gaming sites left?

juegos fallout GIF

textfiles, to random
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The Most Interesting Uninteresting Thing

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5638

rotopenguin,
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@textfiles Resource Limit Is Reached

Tens of thousands of Mastodon servers grabbing a preview, strikes again.

nixCraft, to privacy
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Is it just me, or has Microsoft gone completely crazy? They are implementing spyware that takes screenshots every second and forcing AI integration. Why would anyone willingly purchase this? Anyone with experience in computer or information security knows that it is a bad idea, even if it is locally done. Just don't do it. Yet, here we are, and they are doubling down on this idea. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

rotopenguin,
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@nixCraft and they do it with ZERO artifacts of having done so, as it's now the stock MS behaviour.

gsuberland, to random
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I hope this email finds you in a well.

rotopenguin,
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@gsuberland

mcc, (edited ) to random
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Cult update: The rapture weirdos who have been bombing Dundas and Spadina with fliers for the last year have escalated to "Maranatha". Repeat, we have positive sighting of Maranatha

rotopenguin,
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@mcc isn't "Marantha" the more literal translation of Mothra?

Flying Inoshiro Honda GIF by Turner Classic Movies

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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rotopenguin,
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@GossiTheDog I trust the guys that lost the golden keys to Azure, and don't know how they lost them, and detected nothing, and 𝓁𝒾𝑒𝒹 that "it was definitely disclosed in a developer's crash dump" to implement this securely.

"But it's encrypterd"! Yeah, but it's also meant to be accessed by the security principal known as "you". It persists a whole new class of stuff that used to be ephemeral. It is nothing but a fucking goldmine for infostealers.

tubetime, to random
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I got a new mini laptop! it's a Libretto 100CT.

rotopenguin,
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@tubetime not making that a barrel jack is so delightfully petty of Toshiba.

virtualbri, to Finance
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It's fun to blame Red Lobster going down because of all you can eat shrimp, but no one really emphasizes this bit:

"A private equity firm bought the chain ten years ago from Darden Restaurants.... The firm, Golden Gate Capital, funded the deal partly by selling Red Lobster's real estate.

That meant the chain had to start paying rent. That's now a major financial factor in Red Lobster's bankruptcy filing"

VC again leaving a trail of destruction behind them

rotopenguin,
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@disappearinjon @virtualbri

JenMsft, to Anime
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Anyone into here? I just finished Frieren (so good) - what should I watch next?

rotopenguin,
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@JenMsft Apothecary Diaries? Light medical mystery + navigating the palace intrigue of (disclaimer: totally not feudal China)

tubetime, to random
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another silicon valley electronics flea market thread!

rotopenguin,
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@tubetime finally, some good AV equipment

rotopenguin,
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@tubetime

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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, to random
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rotopenguin,
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@angel it is so very shiny

AnnemarieBridy, to random
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Relieved to report that I am the proud and abandoned user of the abandoned but functional Sonos System 1 controller, because I have “legacy” hardware components that have absolutely nothing wrong with them — besides the fact that I bought them a long time ago. At least Sonos has continued to let the System 1 controller exist, I guess?

Why this company’s biggest fans turned against it https://wapo.st/4dKjBy7

rotopenguin,
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@luis_in_brief @AnnemarieBridy it's a good thing that they don't "open up the code" as an endgame

halide, to random
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And we thought dealing with a bug that lost photos on iOS was bad, turns out the opposite might be worse:

rotopenguin,
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@halide that shouldn't be possible? I thought iOS had full disk encryption*, and it wiped the drive by forgetting the keys?

*on a per partition, per security domain basis. It even has a key to decrypt the "stuff that you can access while it's locked", and a different key for decrypting the rest of your stuff after unlocking.

mcc, to random
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Cursed??? C# question:

We have a ProjectName.csproj with a <PropertyGroup><OutputType>Exe</OutputType></PropertyGroup>. Running at the command line, we can successfully run it with dotnet run on Mac, Linux and Windows. On Mac, we can open it in VS Code, hit "Run", and it runs.

On Windows in VS Code only, if we open it and click the run button, it builds a .DLL instead of a .EXE as its final build output and then fails with a message that you cannot run a .DLL.

Why, and how do we not?

rotopenguin,
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@mcc fine, I'll just run the .dll via rundll. Or if I'm feeling extra swag, svchost.exe.

gamingonlinux, to linux
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Manjaro Linux devs show off the OrangePi Neo prototype handheld with gameplay https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/manjaro-linux-devs-show-off-the-orangepi-neo-prototype-handheld-with-gameplay/

rotopenguin,
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@gamingonlinux hall effect sensors all around, and a 2280 flash slot? Not bad.

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