zakalwe

zakalwe, 4 days ago to random

"I paid off MY #student #loans myself! Why should these kids get theirs #forgiven?"

Dude. You had $3,000 in student loans. Some of "these kids" graduated from college $70,000 in debt for the same degree you got, now they're earning half as much as you did for a comparable job and they have no expectation of any retirement benefits, and they've been paying on that loan for fifteen years and owe more on it now than they did when they started paying it. They are being ruthlessly exploited by student loan management companies whose entire business model is based upon gouging people who are struggling to pay off their student loans.

Would it fucking KILL YOU to show a little compassion and understanding?

zakalwe, 12 days ago to random

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/microsoft_google_passkeys/

The tech, simply put, works like this: When you create an account for a website or app, your device generates a cryptographic public-private key pair. The site or app backend gets a copy of the public key, and your device keeps hold of the private key; that private key stays private to your gear. When you come to login, your device and the backend authentication system interact using their digital keys to prove you are who you say you are, and you get to login. If you don't have the private key or can't prove you have it, you can't login.

So ... "passkeys" are 30-year-old #public #key #cryptography with a shiny new name.

Hey, you know what? If Microsoft and Google can finally mainstream public-key infrastructure, MORE POWER TO THEM.

zakalwe, 15 days ago to random

Seen elsewhere, ré the Tesla Supercharger fiasco:

"Musk is now playing zero-D chess, and losing. There's one space on the board, and all he had to do was leave his king there."

zakalwe, 16 days ago to random

🎻🎻🎻

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/elon-musk-loses-at-supreme-court-in-case-over-funding-secured-tweets/

Musk claimed he was the victim of "economic duress" when he agreed to the settlement and that the SEC "weaponized" the deal in order to "muzzle and harass Mr. Musk and Tesla."

🎻🎻🎻

zakalwe, 16 days ago to Israel

https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/ceasefire-apr-24/

Seriously, #stop #arming #Israel until Israel stops using the arms for mass murder of civilians.

zakalwe, 1 month ago to random

"Try not to commit a crime on the way back to your car."

zakalwe, 1 month ago to random

zakalwe, 1 month ago to random

Hmm. How should I put this ...

"My former employer's never-fully-addressed technical debt problems are no longer mine."

Yeah. That works. I guess.

zakalwe, 1 month ago to random

So you're planning on voting #against #Trump in the upcoming election.

You think you might vote for #CornelWest, he seems decent.

Every vote cast for Cornel West will help Trump.

Or there's #RFKJr.

Look, RFK Jr is BACKED BY STEVE BANNON. He openly ADMITTED recently that the purpose of his campaign is to help Trump.

You want to vote against Trump, great, sure, vote against Trump.

Just stop kidding yourself that there's more than one way to do it.

zakalwe, 1 month ago to random

https://imgur.com/gallery/WSpp6Ze

Kyle Rittenhouse scored "far below" the required minimum score of 31/99 on the ASVAB military entrance exam and was permanently barred from the USMC. A retired Navy SEAL who tried for over ten months to try to shape him into a semblance of a respectable human being with a future ahead of him stated that Rittenhouse just pissed it away.

Just in case you were still wondering.

zakalwe, 1 month ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/02/world-gains-141-new-billionaires-in-amazing-year-for-rich-people

“It’s been an amazing year for the world’s richest people, with more billionaires around the world than ever before,” said Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes’ wealth editor. “A record-breaking 14 centibillionaires [$100bn] have 12-figure fortunes. Even during times of financial uncertainty for many, the super-rich continue to thrive.”

Yeah. The part you're deliberately not saying is that THEY'RE DOING IT AT EVERYONE ELSE'S EXPENSE.

Can you even imagine how much could be DONE with 14.2 trillion dollars? If it WASN'T all just sitting in billionaires' investment portfolios?

zakalwe, 1 month ago to random

I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about not voting for Joe “Actually the Most Progressive President Any of Us Have Seen” Biden from anyone with basic human decency who also maintains a Twitter account.

— @Catvalente

You know what?

I don't want to hear it FROM ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE A PROGRESSIVE. Because if you are refusing to vote for “Actually the Most Progressive President Any of Us Have Seen” because he only checks nine out of the ten boxes on your scorecard, you are backing The Other Guy. The Mango Mussolini. Mr. Adjudged Guilty Of Rape, Mr. 91 Felony Indictments, Mr. Half Billion Dollar Judgment For Financial Fraud, Mr. Dictator On Day One (and two, and three, and...).

Yes, what's happening in Gaza is fucking awful. That's a lousy excuse for voting for it to happen HERE. The US actually has a lot less leverage on Israel, and specifically Netanyahu, than you might think. I totally agree we should be doing more to use what little leverage we actually have,¹ not to mention, oh, perhaps not using our UN Security Council veto against measures to try to stop the genocide. But if you think that not voting against Trump is somehow going to make that any better, oh boy, is 2025 under a Trump presidency going to be a rude awakening for you.

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¹ And honestly, yes, I think we should be cutting off all aid to Israel, because while doing so won't stop or even slow down Netanyahu, maintaining it certainly won't either, and at least it would make our hands a little cleaner.

zakalwe, 1 month ago to random

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/19/social_media_sites_headed_to/

Court to Meta, Reddit, Twitch, Alphabet, Discord, 4Chan:
"Prove that you did not radicalize this teenage mass shooter."

Should be interesting.

zakalwe, 2 months ago to random

"All we have to do is get Fox to report (accurately!) that gay humpback whale sex was only ever observed after atmospheric CO2 concentration reached 421.6ppm, and suddenly the conservatives will get on board with reversing climate change."

zakalwe, 2 months ago to random

https://theconversation.com/scientists-understood-physics-of-climate-change-in-the-1800s-thanks-to-a-woman-named-eunice-foote-164687

"A rare female scientist in her time, Eunice Foote, explicitly warned about the basic science 165 years ago. Why haven’t we listened more closely?"

Beyond, you know, because she was a woman?

zakalwe, 3 months ago to random

https://time.com/6565415/rooftop-solar-industry-collapse/

How Wall Street has managed to turn rooftop solar programs into a do-over of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Via @pluralistic

zakalwe, 3 months ago to random

You know what I want to see come out of this shitshow?

I want the word 'trump' to become an epithet, outside of card games.

"Man, you really trumped that one up."

"Damn. We're really trumped this time."

"Now GO OUT and TRUMP THEM UP!"

"Trump around and find out."

zakalwe, 3 months ago to gaming

Yopu know, I love how some of the bugs in Diablo just go on and on and on. Some of the oldest bugs in Diablo are still there in the very latest Diablo games.

Like, there's this one bug that I first saw in the original Diablo, and it is still there in Diablo Immortal. You'll be trying to fight some mob, and you swing, and you miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss. "Nothing there to hit," says the game. Or "You can't hit that." (It doesn't tell you its rationale for why you can't hit that mob, you just keep missing and missing and missing.)

In desperation, you try some AOE attack, and it works.

"Oh, THAT monster," says the game. "Well why didn't you SAY so?!?" And from then on, you can hit it.

#gaming #diablo

zakalwe, 4 months ago to random

"Capitalists hate capitalism. For a corporate executive, the fact that you have to make good things, please your customers, pay your workers, and beat the competition are all bugs, not features. The best business is one in which people simply pay you money without your having to do anything or worry that someday they'll stop. UBI for the investor class, in other words."
— Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)

zakalwe, 4 months ago to random

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/diesel-enginemaker-agrees-to-nearly-2-billion-in-fines-with-feds-and-california/

"No admission of guilt/wrongdoing"

Look, FFS, can we stop this stupid posturing? Do you seriously expect ANYONE to believe that you agreed to pay a nearly $2bn fine for NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG?

I speculate that companies think this is some kind of face-saving measure, that it makes them look more respectable. Instead of looking like a toddler with chocolate still around his mouth earnestly insisting that he didn't eat the chocolate chip cookies. It's not as though anyone actually BELIEVES them. We just point at them and laugh in derision.

zakalwe, 4 months ago to random

The food container industry:

"Why make five sizes, when we could make thirty, none of which are interchangeable or stack with each other?"

The clothing industry:

"Why make thirty sizes, when we could make five, none of which actually fits anyone?"

zakalwe, 5 months ago to random

"If your holy book tells you how to treat your slaves, your holy book is disqualified as a source for moral code."

(original source unknown)

zakalwe, 5 months ago to random

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/technology/epic-games-google-antitrust-ruling.html

A jury ruled on Monday that Google had violated antitrust laws to extract fees and limit competition from Epic Games and other developers on its Play mobile app store, in a case that could rewrite the rules on how thousands of businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system, Android.
After deliberating for a little more than three hours, the nine-person federal jury sided with Epic Games on all 11 questions in a month-long trial that was the latest turn in a three-year legal battle.

zakalwe, 5 months ago to random

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/24/opencart_vulnerability_dispute/

"You have a #vulnerability," says security researcher to #OpenCart author, "here's the details and a fix"
"Not a problem, not a vulnerability, stop wasting my time, says OpenCart author
Oh look, CVSS severity 8.8 (on a scale of 10), says #CERT

tl,dr on the article: This is not a one-off. Kerr (author of OpenCart) has a well established history of cavalier attitudes towards reported security vulnerabilities. "Shut up, I meant to do it this way."

Capsule summary: ... maybe don't use OpenCart?

zakalwe, 5 months ago to random

In which #Barnes and #Noble are #idiots

So. You have an outdated email address that you no longer have access to on your Barnes & Noble account, and you want to update it to a current address.

You can't. Because the only authentication method B&N will accept is a 6-digit one-time code sent to the old address. Even if you're already logged in. Even if they already let you update the password using your "security" question.

Customer service can't do it for you, either by phone or chat.

The only thing you can do is delete your old account. Except that you can't do THAT, either, for exactly the same reason. And neither can Customer Service.

So you go to create the new account and just hope nothing jams up because it conflicts with the old one. You HAVE to set a security question. And it has to be chosen from a fixed list — the usual list of Stupid Questions The Answers To Which Are Almost All Public Record. Ykou know, the kind of things you were warned NEVER to use as a a password.
So you pick the least awful question and start composing a non-obvious-yet-rememberable answer to it. And that's then you learn you're only allowed fifteen characters for the answer.

FOR FUCK'S SAKE, PEOPLE. Are you trying to ENSURE that you have identify breaches? ​:blobcatfacepalm:​