@ComradeEevee@rogue_corq Rich words for someone living in a country known for having spray cheese 😉
FWIW, I use quite a range of spices and herbs when cooking.
I wouldn't eat that Lasagne sandwich, but I have previously put leftover Chilli into a sandwich, and totally will again
@NickBown@SeanWrightSec That's the approach I increasingly find myself taking. I write out a post/reply, but before I actually hit reply I end up thinking "I can't be arsed with this" and just deleting.
@FrankMcG@AlyssaM_InfoSec@rci Incidentally, I'd never fully understood just how accurate the phrase "it feels like a punch in the stomach" was in relation to emotional impact, having never experienced it before that.
Turns out it's dead on
@FrankMcG@AlyssaM_InfoSec@rci That's the approach I took buying ours, but the stress was still > 0.
Realistically, the stress isn't something that's a fixed value. I was doing fine, and then there was a hiccup with the mortgage application, so I had a couple of hours feeling like I'd been punched in the gut
@IanDunt It was DC's series' and the endless crossover that finally put the nail in the coffin of superhero franchises for us, just got fed up of needing to keep track to that extent.
@SeanWrightSec Yeah, plenty of that about, tho that's not so much an issue with temporary lockouts as the people who implement them - not that that's a distinction the user should have to care about.
As you noted elsewhere tho, today it feels like a lazy solution used instead of adding 2FA
@SeanWrightSec Ahh, you meant permanent lockouts rather than short-term lockouts (say 10mins) to force backoff?
I'd like to change my answer then, horrible idea.
@promofaux It's far from finished, but I've had some relative success with this - #controllingNEST' target=_blank rel='nofollow noopener'>https://www.bentasker.co.uk/blog/general/712-musings-on-home-automation#controllingNEST
NEST itself has some limitations, but I feel like I'm making some headway.
Also, at the bottom of that page is a graph showing gas usage before & after killing True Radiant
@Shadow0pz Ach, sorry to hear that dude. I know the frustration though, I've had GPs be overcautious with pain meds when I needed them most. I know they've got to be careful, but that's no consolation when you're in pain *and* the reasons for that pain are extremely well documented
@colinh1@qikipedia It'd make sense too, because otherwise there'd be a bright lightsource at the front dazzling all the other reindeer and ruining their night vision. Far better to have it on a wavelength that's not visible to them as it's directly in their field of vision
@hdevalence How did you hit the pedestrian? He stepped out of nowhere, so I stomped on the brakes but then this voice came out of nowhere, made me jump and my foot slipped off the pedal...
@AnotherHowie@alexbloor@Mythic_Beasts@ppiixx I found a 777'd kernel module on a customer's system once (and yes, it was being loaded at boot)...
rm eventually got a --no-preserve-root argument, chmod should get --im-really-really-really-really-sure argument
The problem I see with this, is the same as with other similar laws - scope drift and lack of clarity.
That seems particularly likely with individual members states being able to define what constitutes illegal content.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/15/eu_digital_services/ via @theregister
That's @GavinWilliamson, the same guy who once got interrupted by Siri on his own phone whilst giving a speech in Parliament because he lacked even the foresight to turn it off.
He also, it seems, lacks the foresight to realise what the optics on *this* look like https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1338581709705654272
@google's turn for an outage today then I see.
Play store, gmail etc all down.
I was trying to do something in their API console, clearly my fault then 😂
Essentially, they've all the issues that social networks have to deal with, but with the added twist that the product is centred around adult content - there's an extra level of care needed: with moderation & around the data you collect on your users.
Pornhub's awful at both
It should have been head-smackingly-obvious to them too, that people would inevitably start uploading illegal videos (whether thats child abuse, beastiality or something else). Relying on user reports to combat that is a conscious decision to under-invest at the expense of others
Their model initially revolved around those uploads - essentially a legimitate looking centre for pirated vids, depriving studios actually making content of revenue.
Nature abhors a vacuum though, so you end up with shadier outfits like GirlsDoPorn.. ahem... filling the gap
PornHub's operating model has been questionable since it's inception - heavy user profiling (that being MindGeek's forte) and allowing user uploads without investing in a suitable sized moderation team
Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1729168
@H0metruth@afneil@BorisJohnson > He has had to deal BREXIT and Covid19
He *chose* to continue to deal with Brexit despite Covid-19 - the option to extend was there and he pissed it away. Leaving aside the fact that half the brexit issues are a mess of his own making.
highly successful seems rather unlikely
@promofaux Yep, that's more or less where I'm at.
Now considering putting this - https://home-assistant.io/ - on a Pi and linking it up to see if I can implement some controls to supervise it. I suspect though, that I'm just going to end up using it as a dumb thermostat long term, pity really
@promofaux There's a good chance, yeah - the setting is defaulted to up to 5 hours.
Particularly annoying because I have the temp set low during the day when it's only me home - about 8 hours where I need no (or minimal) heating. Then it spends 5 of those 8 hours running the heating anyway
Turns out it was NEST gradually extending the "pre-warm" period, putting the heating on hours before it's needed.
Now that all the smarts are turned off, what I basically have is an overly pricey thermo that supports scheduling.
Yes, I want the house at a comfortable temperature, no I'm not giving you boundless authority to burn gas.
I _really_ am so disillusioned with the idea of smart heating.
I *thought* our gas usage had gone up well above what the cold snap justified
@googlenest : I auto-learn how long it takes to reach temperature and pre-warm
Also Nest: Screw your gas bill, have a 5 hour "pre-warm" burn.
Also Nest: There's a drop scheduled in 30 mins time, but I'll burn some gas to maintain current temp. Learn to lead up to an off? Nah
@LDA_6502@Canonical@ubuntu Turned out, moving Chromium to snap hosed more than just that extension.
Got cert warnings for stuff because the Snap maintains it's own certstore rather than using the system's. All my extensions disappeared too
But don't worry, cos they copied history & bookmarks over...
@matir@SeanWrightSec I've never understood the "it's not new" stuff. I write/talk about stuff either because it interested me, or because I think the existing stuff maybe doesn't explain it in accessible enough a manner (though, admittedly, sometimes I probably make that worse not better).
@RealSexyCyborg > obligated to play by Western rules
I'm not sure it's even that - his response was succinct, but labelling "foul language" is taking it a bit far.
Getting that bent out of shape by "rude" words is more a US (and even then, a certain type) thing than a western thing.
Chromium moving to snap meant
- All my extensions disappeared (and some won't work when reinstalled)
- Chromium no longer using the system's SSL cert store (so warned about stuff signed by my CA)
- PulseAudio insisted on using my headset instead of line out for Chromiums audio
I'm definitely the grumpy version of me tonight, but even the calmer more rational me has said this in the past: Fuck Snap. It's sucks, it's shit and going snap only breaks user's workflows
Much pain and misery later, I've got working graphics again.
Only to find my password manager no longer works in Chromium because @canonical have moved to installing it as a sodding snap.
Its so easy to see how people fall into "I'm not updating it always screws everything" even before you consider Firefox, MS whoever shuffling the UI for shits and giggles
I've spent my career trlling people not to ignore updates, but every time I upgrade ubuntu I end up dumped to a console with no video because it can't handle nvidia drivers sanely
@richardloxley@AlecMuffett@clequere Funnily enough, yup, it's a Honeywell that's on my "maybe" list of replacements.
To be fair, I *thought* the auto-learning would be beneficial (i.e. save money etc), unfortunately my expectations were set a bit high by the word "learn". Auto-guess-poorly would be more honest
It's not the most pressing concern of course, but the way that Gift Cards are handled/treated in the UK really needs reviewing.
Someone's forked over (say) £50 for a £50 gift-card. It shouldn't be possible to say
- Oh it expired
- Subject to new T&Cs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55171163
@AlecMuffett@clequere It turns out that all the "smartness" I want from my thermo is decent week scheduling. No auto-learning, just being able to say "On monday at 8am, come up to 18. On other weekdays, it's 14 because it's only me home. Weekends, all the warmth"
@AlecMuffett@clequere I can only imagine the per-room functionality would eventually turn into "we've auto-learned that you went into that room at 9am last friday, so in preparation for that quick trip, which we're sure will repeat, we've set the temp for that room to 30c"
@AlecMuffett@clequere We've decided that the perfectly serviceable App we have, dedicated to managing your thermo isn't where we want it to be, so we're looking at moving everything into Home, the app where good things go to die
@AlecMuffett@clequere "We've got a product that works, but we don't like the way you sign into the app, so we're changing that to borg it into google accounts". "Oh, no, that's the wrong *type* of Google account, you can't use your existing AfD with it silly"
@AlecMuffett@clequere Even warming the whole house using digital tech isn't working out so well IMO. It's not that the tech can't do it, it's that the orgs behind it keep tripping over themselves & screwing up their product *ahem, looking at you Nest*
At some point, I'm going back to a dumber thermo
Really is ridiculous. It's not like @twitch and game streaming in general is new anymore - either @epic should have acquired broader rights to the music, knowing it'd get streamed, or @twitch should defend their streamer's fair use interests
https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1727066
@TheRogue_Elf@bbyblkgrl@therealcliffyb@Gaohmee@joanna_louise0 Indeed. But, what you're suggesting is that we make that worse by letting families go into hospitals where it's known the virus is present. Keep in mind the average joe has demonstrated repeatedly that they can't follow basic precautions, let alone healthcare level protocols
@TheRogue_Elf@bbyblkgrl@therealcliffyb@Gaohmee@joanna_louise0 But it's not solely the family's risk is it? They're making that decision, in advance, for everyone they subsequently come into contact with.
If the consequences were solely personal, you could bleat on about personal responsibility. But they're not.
@james19872_55@robertrea@leeds_1919x@joanna_louise0@barney___21 They're going to be exposed anyway because they're working in that environment. Letting families adds people to the exposure list, even before you consider the precautions a professional will take versus the simple precautions that the general public refuse to even take.
@_Merlyn@archer_rs > ‘The irony of the freedom of movement, after the 31st of Dec I can now only spend 90 days in any 180 in the EU but EU citizens can come to the UK and stay for 180days in one trip’.
The penny drops. We ended FoM for ourselves, not for EU citizens.
But... project Fear etc etc
@SeanWrightSec I've wasted so many hours in the past arguing about this with various OSS projects when they put a version check in "for security"... "but it's outdated and insecure"
@tobyontour@bobbyllew To give an air of credibility in headlines - The Puppy Protection Group suggests a "better" method of puppy ownership.
It's also why they'd never explicitly say "put in blenders" but instead skirt around the issue semantically.
Taxpayers Alliance is a great example
An amusing example of just how easy it is to screw up when trying to filter out adult content. As residents of various aptly named towns usually also find
Who knew that a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters? https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/27/on_call/ via @theregister
Just had a script go to some mildly questionable domains, because wget left the one I'd pointed it at
Why? Because I made a change in a hurry to add a req header & used the curl syntax -H "foo: bar"
Except, in wget, that's --header. -H is
> go to foreign hosts when recursive
@wolfniya@ComradeEevee I had that recently looking for an SNMP module - it's SNMP, it's shit but old and boring, shouldn't be a drama. Turns out in python it is...
@cybergibbons I had that a little while back, again, it was instant.
Twitter seems to attach a lot more weight to that word than we do. Bad as that is here, I can only imagine that Twitter has essentially auto blocked itself in Australia.
So, Priti Patel *was* told, and continued to bully anyway?
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that the Home Secretary who said we should starve Ireland because of the Brexit backstop could turn out to be a bully.... https://twitter.com/FDA_union/status/1329851837567131648
Please let me know if anyone has issues accessing my sites.
I'm testing using @Cloudflare to deliver the static content - though I'll admit to feeling a little underwhelmed, delivery does seem to be working
I've never been heavily into making video, but those I have made have never been hosted on Youtube for exactly this reason - if they want to monetise my content, then there should be no "eligibility" other than that your content actually gets viewed
https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/20/youtube_ad_payments/
@butlerrichard2@RKakati@darrengrimes_ Do you have any actual argument rather than Whatabouttery?
You're saying that because bullying was (in your eyes) ignored in the past, we should ignore all future cases of it. That's a bullshit argument, and you know it
@butlerrichard2@RKakati@darrengrimes_ I agree we need diversity, but should they be protected at all costs though? At what point would you feel she crossed the line and needed to be fired? Negotiating in secret with another state?
@butlerrichard2@RKakati@darrengrimes_ The two are not in competition, there's no prioritisation to be made.
You seem to be saying we should positively discriminate in bullying cases? That's very woke of you.... I'm not sure Grimesy could get onboard with that level of wokeness
@butlerrichard2@RKakati@darrengrimes_ So, you disagree he should have stayed after those allegations? It follows then, that Priti should go - particularly as in her case they're no longer just allegations?
Or are you suggesting that 2 wrongs make a right, and ministers should now be able to get away with bullying?
@HarmSmitsDev@Scott_Helme Are there likely to be any devices that are sufficiently old and broken to encounter that *but* that are also sufficiently new that they'll honour a HSTS header and upgrade subsequent connections?
If not, then they could at least enable HSTS so that newer stuff gets the benefit
Sounds hopeful, unfortunately the fact that pricing will be involved will probably leave many using Google Analytics & the like instead :(
The ones who brought you Let's Encrypt, bring you: Tools for gathering anonymized app usage metrics https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/18/isrg_prio_services/ via @theregister
Hey @Mythic_Beasts
The postcode db you use on your domain registration page is at least 4 years out of date, complains about an invalid postcode.
Just a headsup :)
I've entered a different postcode for now
@googlenest Thanks, turns out it was Auto-Learn being dumb again.
Have turned it off, but we're fast approaching the point where it's not a "smart" thermostat in practice any more.
Honestly, Honeywell may get some of my money soon just to be done with it
@SarahRobertson5@Jennifer_Arcuri It's been discovered that he's been replaced with a furby in a 3d printed Boris shell and they're worried we're going to realise the furby is more use than he is
@hackerfantastic The obvious solution, which I know you've espoused in the past, is don't use electric voting machines, rely on paper ballots.
Course, Trump's been alleging fraud in mail-in-ballots for months & fucked with USPS, the little boy who cried wolf becomes relevant here to some extent
@ctaoc@Nigel_Farage@BorisJohnson You mean apart from being a pile of unmitigated bollocks spouted by a bloke demonstrating that his understanding of medicine and COVID is complete bollocks?
Boris has had COVID, the test will very likely report positive.
Don't rely on @Nigel_Farage for your medical advice
@charlieowen77@scout_dee In fairness, I probably shouldn't be arguing points of principle in the midst of people spreading disinformation about vaccines. Mea culpa.
@scout_dee In fact, in the US, the company making Thalidomide didn't even include test results when they submitted it to the FDA, and resubmitted it 6 times without the requested results.
@scout_dee The issue with Thalidomide though, wasn't really with the testing, so much as that the testing wasn't completed properly and political will was used instead.
Medicine has advanced, politics... meh not so much.
But, to be clear, the vaccine has undergone pretty extensive testing
@scout_dee If the vaccine gets rushed through because of political need, then there is a (small) risk of similar sort of issues.
We should have a vaccine because it's effective, ready and well tested, not because it's politically convenient.
I'm not suggesting the latter is the case here
@scout_dee To be fair, I think you've slightly missed the point.
Thalidomide was approved by most countries as the result of intense political pressure following lobbying. The person at the FDA who rejected it came under a lot of fire... right up until the effects became known.
It's been years, how is @googledrive still this shit at handling date input in non-US formats (you know, the ones that most of the world use?)
After setting a field to dd-mm-yyyy I shouldn't need to enter it as d-M-y of mm-dd-yyyy to avoid it deciding it's a different date
> The 78-year-old employee manning the counter at the Fantasy Island sex shop... , said the phone had been ringing off the hook since Saturday with callers asking: “Is Rudy Giuliani there?”
That's fucking hilarious. Even the mental image, a complete dong buying a dildo https://twitter.com/hannahmeisel/status/1325515786622885888
@sirtonybond@etxberria55@RudyGiuliani And the fact that its mainly postal is easily explained. Rudy & Trump have been spewing bullshit for months about postal votes, encouraging republicans to go in person. So you'll get a disproportionate level of dem votes in those. No conspiracy, just Trump shot himself in t' foot
@sirtonybond@etxberria55@RudyGiuliani Now flip it on it's head. *If* the dems were somehow going to rig the election, why in hell would they not also take the senate? Having a President hamstrung by the senate isn't great. So the intuitive answer is that there's no rigging and people didn't like Trump.
Totally not going to be a disaster... relying on some as-yet untested software for this brave new "global Britain" they claim we'll be
UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/06/uk_border_software/
@SixVpf@darrengrimes_ Wait, you want Darren to deal in facts?? You've got the wrong guy there.
If it's Bullshit you need though, he's happy to heap by the imperial ton (damn EUs and their metricies)
@Dennischattert4@TheHouseLive@jessphillips@DianaJohnsonMP It'd also mean they could report abuse and seek medical help without fear of being found out and prosecuted for their "job".
Unfortunately, many attempts to "help" seem to just be conservative prudishness unwilling to actually make things better for those suffering.
Another great example of why backdoors are bone-headed. @ukhomeoffice can piss and moan all they want, but the future lies in properly E2E products - governments have repeatedly shown they cannot be trusted, and backdoors have a habit of being used by "unauthorised" entrants. https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1321447353975513094
@HD2onPBdotcom You seem to assume I've never been, seen or lived outside the UK.
I think we're done on this conversation tbh. You don't seem able to discuss the details that actually matter, instead preferring to come up with whataboutisms, or as in this case, your own definition of poverty
@HD2onPBdotcom So, lets let those kids go hungry so that they've less chance of breaking that cycle when they're older?
Even if we accept your premise, what you're doing here is kicking the can down the road, creating a larger issue in future
@MaltonView@HD2onPBdotcom The government seems to have found plenty of surplus funds for other things.
I don't think the issue is that we're not paying enough tax, so much as the Govt is unwilling to release those funds for that use.
@percy_gryce@MikeSington That article starts by saying they've obtained a PDF which shows the 512-pages contain stuff, then later refers to the 2500 page binder. So 79.52% of it was blank (that's 1988 pages - hundreds of pages)
This is the problem with trying to do gimmicky photo ops
@HD2onPBdotcom And again, we all pay a lot of tax, £10bn of which has just been splurged on a test & trace system that all the experts said wouldn't work, and then, didn't work.
But you're worried about a few million to ensure kids are fed?
Sorry, your concern isn't really fiscal
@HD2onPBdotcom Now tell me what the price of food is there? If you're going to talk about what others earn, you need to tie it to the cost of living
You also seem to have completely ignored the reply & come out with your own myths. You'd rather starve children because someone *might* buy fags?
The closing para seems to suggest the NI director has jumped the gun with attribution. Convenient timing....
Iran sent threatening pro-Trump emails to American Democrats, Russia close behind, says US intelligence https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/22/iran_russia_emails/ via @theregister
@HD2onPBdotcom To clothe them, keep a roof over their head and various other things.
Conversely, we all pay a lot of tax, what are we paying it for if it's not going to be used to support the kids that will need to grow up and earn in order to pay our pensions?
Boris spunked more on a bridge
That they've had to clarify this is *exactly* why the policy of sharing the other self-isolation data with the police was such a fucking stupid move
*and* the Govt has made no such promises about how the data it's retaining will be used in future, including giving it to Palantir https://twitter.com/BBCClick/status/1318483786229862402
@LinkedInHelp Thanks. Looks like you lack the option to turn off the ones that really bugs me though
I wipe cookies when the tab is closed, so it's always a "new" device to you. I've got 2FA enabled & get prompted on screen to enter the code. This email is a pointless waste of bytes https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1318474526762635264/photo/1
@LinkedIn has sent me so many "Do you know X" emails, where X is the same person over the years that I now find myself going "I feel like I know the name"
Yeah... from the endless spam...
@AskPayPal@Mythic_Beasts I've been down this track with Paypal before too - we're responding here so we look responsive, but please stop complaining publicly and send a DM so we can take weeks and weeks to resolve it without people watching
@cybergibbons@ComradeEevee It's a hangover from a different time - don't feed the trolls - partly because the whole group would get copies of your pointless flamewar. They often did get bored and sod off. Doesn't really work or apply nowadays though tbh, the net is a very different platform now too
@tallventi@damocrat The same people who in the US are trying to prevent Almond Milk from being called Almond Milk because it doesn't come from the tit of a cow
@cybergibbons@SecurityJon Their response was awfully good for an org that hadn't encountered those issues before. They didn't run around going "she's blown up, she's blown up, what the hell do we do", they calmly mocked the kids & swung into action.
I reckon they were used to accidents of that nature
About the only things that are clear around this is
- The scope of the FCCs authority in these areas is clear as mud
- Trump acts against those who dare speak against him
Ajit Pai says he’ll help Trump impose crackdown on Twitter and Facebook https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1715154
@ComradeEevee@XioNYC@akolsuoicauqol So at the interview I had to tell them the recruiter was an idiot, and that he'd given them the wrong figure for my salary requirements.
Which, as luck had it, turned out fine in the end
@ComradeEevee@XioNYC@akolsuoicauqol I had one understate my salary expectations once - pointed out it was an 80 mile drive each way and he said "they shouldn't have to pay more because you live far away"
No, but if I'm going to make a loss driving in, there's no point in me even interviewing is there...
> People are not being believed
Sadly not a surprise, there's still a huge chunk of people out there who claim ME isn't real.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54540544
Amusing as this is, it's also a prime example of why "use AI to censor/block $x on the net" doesn't work - AI is crap at achieving needed levels of accuracy.
As China found in the past, it'll also often let black boobs through.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/13/in_brief_ai/ via @theregister
@k8em0 Fuck me, what a way to comment on someone else's tweet
- Take offence despite the criticism being of the company who missed the vulns
- intimate that it's too complicated for the tweeter to understand
What the fuck is wrong with people's ability to communicate in this industry?
@curi0usJack@LadyRed_6 Easy, just borrowed a trick from finances book and set a policy that all new passwords must be submitted/emailed for pre-approval before they're set.
This started as a joke, but now I'm sad having realised that statistically someone somewhere probably does something like this
Problem is, you don't have nearly enough credibility to rely on "we'll do this at the end of the transition period".
The Govt negotiated an agreement with the EU & is now giving itself the power to break that. The Govt opposed adding protections to the trade bill.
It's a crock https://twitter.com/tradegovuk/status/1315755142185132034
@cybergibbons From what I've heard, the Govt has had to rely on CDC data for identifying risk of communication in hospitality, because they've screwed up our T&T so badly that they don't actually have enough usable data for "harder" links like that.
If true, that'll skew the numbers even more
@LockdownNo@espeonaged Bollocks. It says that complacency needs to be overcome - "Having a good understanding of the risk"
Stop spreading misinformation.
@tamonten Similar happens the otherway round too - $daemon is bound to 127.0.0.1 and you enter "localhost" into your client, which resolves to ::1, and you're left wondering why you can't connect to the service that's definitely listening on loopback, until you remember...
@BentleyAudrey Isn't this going to also have the opposite effect in some cases? If sites are using Google CDN hosted jquery (say) then Google's CDN now gets a hit (and often a referer header, depending on referrer-policy) every time rather than just the first time.
So criminals were returned to an EEA country they could get here from via FoM & not in fact via "illegally-facilitated" routes, or indeed, asylum claims.
Who at the home office is writing this shit? Has someone made the mistake of letting Priti read the twitter pwd off a postit? https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1314551192505081864
Terrible stuff.
I spent a long time working alongside army personnel, and can safely say that not one of them would have found this acceptable.
There's a huge difference between Boris' suggestion of prosecuting soldiers who were "doing their job" and this.... https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1314456854727208960
@Microsoft@kfalconspb Is that 45 minutes real-time, or 45 minutes as declared by the Windows "copy" dialog though?
Some days it feels more like one than the other
@TrevorRScott@arstechnica@drgitlin Yeah I gather from the comments section (after I tweeted) that Nissan don't thermally manage their batteries, killing the lifespan and developing something of a reputation for EVs in general.
What I can't quite work out, is what the rest of the lower end of the mkt looks like
@arstechnica@drgitlin I'm a little dubious about the comment about used cars at the bottom. I know it's improving, but if you're buying a 5-7yr old EV are you not generally likely to find the car needs an (expensive) battery replacement soon?
Nissan's battery warranty, for example, is 5yrs.
@cybergibbons It was much needed, and yeah, not a bad way to tie off a crappy day.
Although, i suppose it could easily go the other way - if the sausage roll were to break and fall in the water the mood could quickly change
@ICANN really do seem intent on showing themselves up again, and again, and again. Even incompetents wouldn't be this consistent
ICANN begs Europe: Please fill in the blanks on this half-assed GDPR-compliant Whois we came up with https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/08/icann_whois_plans/ via @theregister
@PaddyAvocado@wightpie@ruskin147@stuartpykesport I wouldn't allow it either, but honestly, you and I really are in the minority here - BYOD has helped drive acceptance of work-stuff on personal kit.
@ananavarro@JoeBiden Is empty chairing a thing that side of the pond?
Over hear, Have I Got News For You replaced Nicky Morgan with a handbag when she pulled out of a planned appearance
Boris has been empty chaired a few times too, including by the PM of Luxembourg
@10DowningStreet Come back to us when Boris can convince his own dad to wear a mask in shops. Or, you know, when Stanley has actually been fined/punished like anyone else would be
@cybergibbons@LockPickingLwyr Wait, are you suggesting I _shouldn't_ heat it with a blowtorch and then dunk it in ice-water to make the metal brittle and then twat it with a lump hammer?
Not that we had much hope of getting a Data Adequacy decision anyway, but this will really put a nail into the chances of that.
UK, French, Belgian blanket spying systems ruled illegal by Europe’s top court https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/07/eu_privacy_ruling/ via @theregister
It really is the level of needless waste that's the concern here, not Apple suing for breach of contract.
Apple seeks damages from recycling firm that didn't damage its devices: 100,000 iThings 'resold' rather than broken up as expected https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/apple_geep_canada_lawsuit/ via @theregister
Alternatively: @realDonaldTrump is so useless that, despite being the most protected man in the world, he managed to contract something which can largely be protected against by following basic precautions
Plus "experience" suggests he might learn something, which seems unlikely https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1313135243470278657
@chrisapplegate See, this was also my first thought - that Serco are so shit they can't even do basic config on a webserver and were hitting upload limits.
But, I do find the Excel explanation is quite quite believable too
@ians_robots@LiamFox@livemint@wto Oh he has plans... the plan is he's going to keep lying to us until Brexit's done, and then he's going to run away having made a fortune selling us all out.
@cybergibbons I have, but always on the end of a (short) fused spur.
But, I've tended to use them for charging things like electric screwdrivers rather than phones/tablets. Not a conscious choice, just the way it's panned out
@JoshAlexCairo@NHSCOVID19app@DamoB1970 > How can they still be getting it this astonishingly wrong after all this time?
Serco are involved. They'll get it right* 10 years late and billions over budget
*by right, I mean they'll rewrite the requirements to match what they have rather than what's needed.
@10DowningStreet@BorisJohnson I think the rest of the world, including your own citizens would prefer that was left to someone competent, rather than being a vanity project for a floppy haired twat who won't even hold his own advisors to account for flouting the rules
@10DowningStreet What about if you're asked because the Government can't even handle app development properly, because it's too busy rolling in the sludge of cronyism to give jobs to competent parties?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54307526
So again, the government's private partners have fucked up their #covid app to the point that it'll put people off using it...
Perhaps @BorisJohnson should stop his people giving contracts to chums and instead leave the work to people with a clue
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54307526
Sub cancelled.
But seriously @Microsoft@onedrive if your system thinks there's a policy violation, detail it.
How is a user supposed to adjust their (legitimate) behaviour if you don't say what the issue is?
Meh, actually, seems it's moot.
Directory sharing on Onedrive is crap, so it's no good for what we need.
Not gonna adjust our workflow to cope with a solution that randomly bans accounts, especially when we're paying for the privilege.
In fact, if anything, it looks more like a cack-handed attempt to collect more information to "protect the account".
Particularly considering you did it to my kid's account previously too, when all he'd done is talk to me on Skype...
As far as I can make out your system went "oooh this user's uploading a lot of photos, BAN" without going "maybe they turned on camera sync on a phone full of photos"
@Microsoft@onedrive If you're going to block an account because it breaches your AUP, at least have the decency to explain how
Otherwise it just looks to a legit user like your system is faulty and flagging false positives - not good when someone's paying for your service
@fredrichmaney@cantcomputer Maybe, but it's a symptom of a problem. Historically various things have been swept under the carpet for people with the "right" connections. Was inevitable that it'd build into an (over)reaction. Too easy to handwave at cancel culture, much harder to fix the underlying problems
@AskPayPal you sent a mail saying you need a phone number for "Strong Customer Auth". Is this needed if I have TOTP configured?
I _really_ cannot stress how much I do not want to give you my phone number, I don't give it out unless there's a compelling reason, and this aint it
@JamesW1906@Bob261048@toadmeister It's like me hacking randomly at limbs and then wading through a pig field, and then asking you not to give me shit because I've had a hard time having to deal with gangrene and various infections
@JamesW1906@Bob261048@toadmeister I quite like the blindness that lets him say "Johnson's had to deal with so much" whilst ignoring that a lot of the stuff that needed dealing with was a mess of Johnson's own making - down to the current shite about the withdrawal agreement, and of course, Brexit itself
@Sweenbop@Murgatr59365901@mattholehouse In 6 months time it'll be "we didn't want their stuff anyway", followed by "it's their fault, they wouldn't give us at the price we wanted"
Throughout there'll be "if remainers had engaged" and other drivel like that. What we'll never get is most of them admitting their part
> unlike the devices of today that force you to choose between your screen & the world
@facebook may well find (like Glass) that people around you force you to choose between these glasses & going out
The lanyard'll help fling them into the nearest river
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/17/facebook_ar_project_aria/
@10DowningStreet This is just posturing.
You've shredded the resources available to courts, so there's now a record backlog of cases - the delay means witnesses forget or lose faith.
There's no point in increasing sentencing if you can't get the crims into court to be sentenced.
@W3ndy_Walden@10DowningStreet This govt is & always has been all about posturing. Campaigning on "Get Brexit Done" and "Oven-Ready deal" before complaining *their* WA isn't good enough
COVID was never going to be any different, political gain over lives. They've treated it like a PR rather than medical issue
@koldo_casla@Jacob_Rees_Mogg You're trying to explain reality to an MP that's a serial liar.
He knows all this, he chooses to ignore both the truth and the fact that he campaigned on the WA being an "oven-ready" deal, and fought to limit Parliament's ability to review it properly.
He's a (well) paid liar
@W3ndy_Walden@10DowningStreet Doesn't help when the people coming up with them ignore them themselves either.
And then harp on about law and order the day after they used a 3 line whip to get their MPs to vote in favour of breaking international law.
Spain's authorities should have checked, but personally I blame the US for using a fucking stupid date mechanism.
I *know* it's Sept, what fucking day is it?
Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material due to US-EU date confusion in IP address log https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/15/eu_us_date_format_family_accused/
@kurtconstable@BenKentish@mrjamesob Yep, the kids get it and seem to be behaving better than any of us thought they would (kids being poor at impulse control etc). Turns out it's the adults that are the problem - I say adult, I mean physically as some clearly never left nursery mentally
@jfwduffield Weird, we've had people turn up for interviews with far crazier hair and they still got the job. It's almost like appearance has fuck all to do with competence... being small minded on the other hand probably will harm you at interview
@kurtconstable@BenKentish@mrjamesob Our littluns school had to send a letter out to parents to remind them that they need to: social distance outside, not enter the school grounds themselves & not have a go at people wearing masks
Which made me want to put a 5G sticker on a nearby lampost & scare the cretins away
@cybergibbons TL:DR "We were told there was a security issue, but were too busy trying to castigate the people who pointed out flaws in our product to actually bother looking into it initially, but it's their fault because they said they disagree with my views and that distracted me"
@wolfniya@MadcapOcelot@k8em0 Oh I agree, I'm not condoning it for a second, but "hey your shits broken, might wanna fix it" makes the world a better place. Its not like working closely with them. But, at the same time I can completely understand your approach to it too, its just not the way I view it
@wolfniya@MadcapOcelot@k8em0 If you only help developers of stuff you agree with fix their shit, then there's still a world full of dodgy implementations. Sometimes those devs then move into something more important/less discriminatory, and then we all get the "benefit" of their basic mistakes
Holy fuck.... how not to deal with receipt of a vuln report.
Even if the legal action fails, it'll still cost the researchers money, time & stress to defend - all because they were decent and pointed out issues. https://twitter.com/DI_Security/status/1304053628248956928
@TonyHinton2016@yaba_badoe@tnewtondunn We are until Jan.
And waiting it out won't help - we'll be the country who deliberately broke an agreement, played for time and then scarpered
The world will be fucking lining up to sign trade agreements that might get broken, I'm sure
@monzo Round up into a pot/coinjar doesn't trigger for transactions < £1
Coffee machine at work is 80p, I could've saved a fortune by now
You did ask for a tiny think
@npklip@JohnSmi21372434@gabyhinsliff Cummings and his ilk thrive most if they can polarise the country - Labour taking a staunchly anti-Brexit position only enables that, and for no gain because we've left.
Holding the govt to account for everyone of their bullshit promises is what's needed to try and minimise harm
I though republicans were supposed to be against misuse of public funds? Trump's spending their tax money to defend a personal case....
BBC News - Justice dept seeks to defend Trump defamation case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54081921
See @EastSuffolk, when I told you're electoral officer I wasnt going to enter sensitive personal info into a domain that's not obviously yours, I didn't exactly pull it from my behind.
Do better, or it might be you having to send a tweet like this https://twitter.com/wfcouncil/status/1303289486219063296
@cybergibbons Yep, there's a definite bias in that direction - but, you also tend to find you get forum/SO posts a little further down.
Man pages, like the software they document, vary in quality massively. ip's quality is about as questionable as the choice of name IMO
@cybergibbons I don't know when the behaviour accidentally carried over, but I've found that if I'm googling for help on a tool I tend to prefix with man
> man ip add vlan
It tends to give more relevant results for names like "ip"
Sorry @mozilla, I tried, I really did, but the new FF on Android is just not good enough. I removed it today and installed a 68 APK, FF is a platform for my addons rather than them just being a perk
@ScottMcGready@SeanWrightSec The orgs/devs behind it seem not to learn/care about the disruption they cause. Take Firefox: the forums are full of "how do I rollback" questions going back years where new versions have auto-pushed and disabled addons. Yet they've pushed an update with support for just 9 addons
@ScottMcGready@SeanWrightSec I know better & still find myself going "another update?". It's not installing the update that's the issue, but the fact there's a strong probability that the new version is going to impact my established working patterns. It's a hard one to solve/overcome
@ScottMcGready@SeanWrightSec Can see how people get into that mindset tho, they get used to things like Gmail making UI changes seemingly for the sake of it & end up update averse
Just recently I got the mobile Firefox update and felt like it broke everything I care about for no gain https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1298722325940953090
Or to put it more honestly, @ukhomeoffice is so incompetent that it fails to comply with laws passed by the UK Parliament and instead seeks to scapegoat those who ensure the law is observed.
Made worse by the fact the Tories have been in power for 10yrs and could've changed law https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1299040297981227008
@startpage Yup, although it took a little bit of testing to get the URL right. Searches on https://startpage.com/ use POST: the URL doesn't change when you search to try & discover what to enter into FF
Had to manually amend to add ?q=bar to verify you supported taking from QS
@____captainhook Be careful with Intra if your phone's OS tries to "optimise" memory usage - https://projects.bentasker.co.uk/jira_projects/browse/MISC-32.html - you end up with queries quietly leaking
But, it's not an answer here - Firefox has DoH turned on (I confirmed on my test page) - but I can't access the settings to amend/disable
@startpage Nope. Used to use Opera Mini many years back, but had moved myself onto Firefox largely due to the add-on support - most of which are now not functional. You're not in their searchlist either...
All this isn't just to shit on @mozilla, theyre all annoyances that should've been considered, especially silent defaulting my searches back to Google which is rather at odds with all the new privacy friendly stuff. New firefox does seem less resource hoggy so far
So you can move the toolbar back up top. What you can't seem to do is remove the "install" option, so fat fingers keep adding shortcuts to websites to my phone's home screen.
Also, the lack of support for cookie autodelete addon bugs me, the built in functionality isnt as good
Oh and its set my default search back to Google... that's just fucking marvellous. Clearly someome didn't get the memo about deployments not screwing existing settings
So @firefox mobile's update has hit my device. Can live with the layout changes, but more than 50% of my addons have been disabled "not yet supported"
What the fuck @mozilla? Maybe don't push an update that breaks functionality?
@JP_IAWL@maou42@Treverton2@BrexitBassist To be fair, if you disagree strongly with them, by all means. It's no different to me not buying Dyson or going to spoons because they're both lying cunts lining their own pockets at their country's expense.
@Scott_Helme@phat_hobbit@MrMoo28 Businesses *not* calling Google Analytics and other crap on payment pages would be a welcome addition while they're at it.
What the fuck is wrong with American cops... There can be no good explanation for this, they physically grabbed him, and rather than restraining, shot him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53886070
@StuckintheTweet@Entrenchment19@Scott_Helme I lived in a place that had a covenant against rooftop aerials - there was community aerial fed into the house by a virgin maintained cable. Had been broken for years and Virgin refused to fix it. Having to use Virgin would be a dealbreaker for me, I'd buy another house
Fire, I smell FIRE.....
Even with asking the user for input (will that even stick around, or get streamlined out), this is so fraught with risk.
But then, I tend to nobble webUSB, and webBluetooth etc anyway... https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1296975264749170689
@Shadow0pz Yup, it's an extension of the mindset that believes workers not in the office (or not on an always on-call) must be slacking off: Employment by attendance rather than productivity. There are schools like that round here, I'm so grateful we're not using any of those
Well, I guess I'm not buying Toyota then. Or at least, I'll be looking at whether the DCM can be physically removed.
30k for a car, and then it spies on you? nah
New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums based on driver https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/
Sorry @Azure but my reading of this is: your status page is not fit for purpose. People keep looking there is because it's basically an industry standard
You included "Discoverability" in your aims. You've got 3 different status pages, you're failing
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/dont_use_azure_status_page/
@Shadow0pz I'm like you, perfectly willing to fight the school if they're taking a harmful or unfair approach. We were very lucky, even by the standards of the area.
Is there somewhere you can tell @LinkedIn not to spam you with "please verify this new device" every time it prompts you for a 2FA code, or have they made it deliberately annoying in the hope that people will just stay logged in?
And no, I don't want LI to "remember this device"
@jacquep@Iceman_cometh1 For those absorbed in the idea that Corbyn was the answer though, the idea that you voted Lib Dem rather than Labour is crime enough. Never mind that the local LB candidate had no chance of winning, but the LD could have...
Presumably when, post Brexit, we have crap trade deals compared to the one we had with the EU, @BorisJohnson will reveal that although he was predicted to get good deals, some idiot wrote an algorithm which massively downgraded them.
Apart from Splunk/ELK what good log aggregators are there?
Had a play with Loki by @grafana but it's a no-go: too inflexible - though to be fair their design doc does say what I need is out of scope
Need to be able to filter/graph any field, some have very high cardinality
@bethq16059295 I don't think it's that simple sadly. The polarisation is used to allow blaming the "others" for lack of change. Actions are taken, but they're targeted & really token efforts - see reports of the RAF flight over Brexit constituencies this week, showing "action" on immigrants
@bethq16059295@JimMFelton It's a deliberate tactic - they're trying to ensure the country stays polarised (damn lefties, fucking Tories etc). It goes along with spreading disinformation, they want us all to get to the point you go "who knows what to believe".
It's the only way they get to stay in power
@YumeTsuretekita@Jestingrabbit@bairdjulia@techAU@Facebook@Authy It could certainly stand to be improved, but my inclination is that, as long as you've used a good strong backup password, the involvement of a phone number should have fairly minimal impact (apart from being annoying - things need to stop being linked to phone numbers)
@YumeTsuretekita@Jestingrabbit@bairdjulia@techAU@Facebook@Authy During that 24hrs, they run a manual review in the background. They don't appear to have documented exactly what they're reviewing tho, which is a little concerning.
But, you (real user) will be locked out of your existing app as soon as that starts. They may be relying on that
@YumeTsuretekita@Jestingrabbit@bairdjulia@techAU@Facebook@Authy I take your point, but it *shouldn't* be too big an issue with Authy because they've made it a major PITA to migrate to another phone unless you've got access to an already active device to approve it on.
Not to say they can't be fooled, but simply stealing a number isn't enough
@Jestingrabbit@bairdjulia@techAU@Facebook This, except use @Authy instead of Google Authenticator. Same underlying mechanism (TOTP), but GA won't let you backup your secrets, so if you drop your phone down the bog you're screwed.
@cat_lawrie@andreinawie I'm sure in some of their minds the Navy is going to turn up and do this - https://youtu.be/QSo0duY7-9s?t=77
It's about the threat of force, otherwise rather than sending in armed forces, you'd send in the coast guard or border force. Using the Navy is *all* about show
@LadyRed_6 They billed for the meeting/call where the issues with it were "explored" iirc. Although, tbf, in their position I probably would've too - its still time spent working
@rootc0re@stay_salty_@LadyRed_6 Yeah sorry I missed the context of the other thread. In the early days of salting ppl used to use site wide salts - frustrated rainbow tbls but allowed you to spot duplicate passwords. Having per-user salt is ++ and agree, having them available doesnt make life much easier
@LadyRed_6 It was a *very* sad day having to explain that. Actually it was a contractor rather than dev who had the "bright" idea but it still got past them. IIRC there were other issues with their implementation too, never made it into prod thankfully
@rootc0re@stay_salty_@LadyRed_6 But you need to store the pepper somewhere in order to add it to the password the user enters when they try and login - assuming you're not using a HSM, the peppers accessible to the app so is accessible to an attacker, just raises the bar a little (which is still good)
@its_linzinha@bipolarjockey@fs0c131y Yep, exactly on the mark IMO. The US (and UK, while we're at it) have "processes" in place, but those processes have shown to essentially be rubber stamps, to the extent that it tends to be newsworthy when something gets rejected.
Leaving aside them obviously wanting to make "but China" Trump's campaign slogan this time round. They, the same US that recently lost safe harbour provisions, want to "protect" citizens data? What protections are they currently getting?
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/06/usa_clean_network_plan/ via @theregister
@Alokzgh@IsaacAnand1@fs0c131y@razvanbunea Have you been ignoring recent history in the West? National Security Letters in the US for example - there's no "freedom to know what's happening" unless someone risks prison by leaking it.
Misuse of that secrecy is the first step on the path to authoritarianism
@ImMihirT@fs0c131y I agree that that's problematic, but China's far from the only one with those laws. The US has them too, so US providers should be considered just as problematic - in fact, the CLOUD act specifically tries to make the powers extra-territorial.
Re-opening pubs was a mistake from day 1. You can't go round someone's house, but can "run into" them at the pub... It's not just virus transmission though, there've been continued reports of the T&T data collected by pubs being misused https://twitter.com/BBCScotlandNews/status/1290972490991271937
@cillic I was saying exactly this to a colleague in Thailand earlier - even if we get a vaccine, I'm not convinced that between idiots & disinfo campaigns the UK and the US won't stay below the necessary level for herd immunity, leaving those who *can't* (not won't) vaccinate screwed
It's all about.... checks notes... security of data...
Mafia like behaviour is an apt description. @realDonaldTrump spreads FUD, threatens a ban, driving down the price and then wants a tribute... sorry, payment to allow the sale to go through
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53633315
@fs0c131y If you want to show-full headers, I'm sure someone'll be happy to use the In-Reply-To to send a mail from ops@nsa.gov into the thread saying "unfortunately he does" and freak the other end out ;)
@hackrzvijay@mxaeda@fs0c131y Different govt's pose different threats to different people. The US govt is probably a bigger threat to me, as they're more able (via my Govt) to lay hands on *me* than the CCP. But the data flowing into the US govt is probably more than they could collect via Tiktok
@hackrzvijay@mxaeda@fs0c131y We all remember the big things, like the NSA infiltrating Google's network (encryption ends here...), but Snowden also showed that there was co-operation prior to that. Sometimes the US govt stuffs it up though, like the attempt to seize data located in Ireland
@hackrzvijay@mxaeda@fs0c131y It already *does* happen in the US. The Snowden leaks were confirmation of that. More importantly, the 4th Amnt limits what the state may gather themselves - but doesn't appear to limit what they can obtain from private companies, hence companies like Clearview
@janedallimore@rabiasquared His followers have quite a loose definition of what constitutes evidence of being Islamic though - see "no-go areas" etc - so would he actually need to convert in the true sense, or just do something that his followers consider too Islamic?
@PattySands1@JamesMelville Sadly, I think a mess is now inavoidable. The difference will be whether Scotland is able to steer itself out of that mess (with time & work mind) or is chained to a Govt that seems determined to drag everyone further in. Conversely though, the Tory's _could_ be out in ~5years
@pwotg@RobertJTAC@LewisBarber94@PattySands1@JamesMelville During the last referendum, there was much said about how it was wrong for Scotland to think it could just keep GBP post-independence. Killing the pound as a currency is just another of Boris' own-goals
@PattySands1@JamesMelville If he says "ok, referendum" just after he's dragged us out of the EU with no deal, or a crap deal, then you guys are going to leave the union.
That's what I mean about the position being interesting - it's largely a mess of his own making
@PattySands1@JamesMelville Well that's the thing isn't it. If Boris says "no referendum", then Nicola can point out that he's denying Scotland's right to self-determination (which the UK has upheld in Falklands, NI etc) despite widespred public support for at least asking the question, weakening the union
@LewisBarber94@PattySands1@JamesMelville If she's wise, she probably won't, and will focus more on the Scotland as UK's prisoner aspect - Not only did you get leave when you voted against it, but didn't even get a compromise - soft brexit, customs union etc. You got Boris as PM when you didn't vote Tory etc
@RealSexyCyborg@XavierAncarno That's the thing a lot of people miss when screaming "sending our jobs to China". It's a sign that standard-of-living and wage expectation has improved. Or conversely, that people aren't willing to pay what a product would cost to make when paying "fair" (to us) wages
@BadassBowden I've always found that weird about the US - depictions of violence, fine. Someone has an accidental nip slip on live TV and the world (for some) is going to end...
@BadassBowden My littluns nursery used to encourage them to play with their food, to get a feel for different textures and stuff.
They *taught* them to play with their food rather than eat it.
It was years ago now, but I think I might actually still be pissed off about it
@EssexHundred@mrjamesob Oh they will, they only bother asking commoners so they can claim there's been a surge of grassroots donations.
Just like how the Brexit Party seemed to be taking a lot of donations just under the reporting requirement, via a system that made it easy to donate anonymously
@WJTseattle@travisakers Difficult position for Trump though because while it's reasonable to point to covid, he spent quite a lot of time denying it was an issue, and still hasnt really reacted to it properly. Made a rod for his own back
@hacks4pancakes One thing COVID has done is show just how effective biological agents would be if released in the US - between people denying it exists and "muh freedoms" rather than taking precautions. Terrorist or state, it's highlighted an obvious weakness to try and exploit
Just goes to show, again, how easily old accounts are forgotten, I scanned over @troyhunt's list of new breaches the other day and was fairly sure I'd be unaffected.
Notification came through this morning, I was included in the Appen leak, because they acquired @CrowdFlower
@honglilai@CarlZha The US's actions, in the long run, may well stand to give Chinese companies a push in a direction *they* need - reduced reliance on US companies/platforms. So rather than weakening them, they're actually strengthened in the medium/long term
Either way, they harm US companies
@honglilai@CarlZha Yes, it leads to it not being cost effective to go in that direction. But the US's approach seems to have been to force companies to break that barrier - Huawei not being allowed to use Play Store being an example: it's now impossible for them to argue for the status quo
@AlecMuffett@ahfaeroey@arthuredelstein Sigh... goodbye simple tutorials and workflows.
That's a lot of comparative complexity, giving so much more room for Onion operators to screw up.
@AlecMuffett@ahfaeroey@arthuredelstein I'm not saying it's a good fix (that'd need to be to TBB itself), but presumably you can work around this in some cases by having Tor forward port 80 to a local NGinx, which then proxies onto the upstream having stripped cookies
I'm not supporting the idea you should need to tho
@tigerhiddenadam@Mythic_Beasts@LBC I tend to think it shows the mindset of the person saying things like this. Clearly, if Nick Ferrari were allowed to work from home, he'd be a gigantic slacker, sitting around in his jim-jams doing nothing.
He assumes the rest of us are like that because that's what he'd do
Good for them - the only question is how many of them will actually stick with it over time. Social Media has a nasty habit of finding small ways to draw people into the fold https://twitter.com/ForbesTech/status/1288021104402018305
@cybergibbons The idea it'd be injected is just a distraction, secretly leaked by the government so that you'll look in the wrong place to remove it. When they rub your arm with "cleanser" before the injection they're really gluing a tiny solar powered tracker to your skin
@HolyCurses@OW_Photography Nah, the yellow and black ones are called "yellow jackets". They're social, whereas the Ruby ones are solitary - they nest alone.
These ones nick other solitary bees nest though I think. They also can't sting you
@PlainVanillaPub@RealSexyCyborg@FrostSorro@itgrrl The UK's finally got to the point where you can do it all online (at least, the majority of the time).
My favourite is always "please print this, sign it, scan it in and send back as a PDF"
@PlainVanillaPub@RealSexyCyborg@FrostSorro@itgrrl With OpenBanking and the right tax software you *nearly* can nowadays, So, I'm sure they'll be along with some breaking changes in the Tax regulations soon to set that back a bit further :)
@RealSexyCyborg@PlainVanillaPub@FrostSorro@itgrrl The feasibility would vary by country tbh - just as I can't really just say it'd be easy in S.E Asia (MM might be a challenge), you need to be more granular. Can't imagine it working in the US, Maybe UK (though not at the moment). Various EU countries - you could totally do it
@PlainVanillaPub@RealSexyCyborg@FrostSorro@itgrrl Yes, if you were going to do it, you'd want to ensure it was using an open format, standardised (read USB-C) charger etc, and the chosen ebook supplier was DRM free.
@RealSexyCyborg@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub Yes, not without it's challenges. If it were mooted as a product, I fully expect someone like Amazon would be "willing" to help lock people into their environment, much as Microsoft historically were perfectly willing to make sure kids were familiar with Office.
@RealSexyCyborg@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub TBH, I think the best thing they could do - now they're down to a price-point where it'd be more doable - is just to give every single kid one, to keep, at school.
Not that there wouldn't be objections, but if it's universal it's harder to invoke the clique mentality.
@RealSexyCyborg@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub I don't disagree, but the orgs (govt included) that are in a position to help the Have-Nots are driven/managed by the Haves. Some of those Haves won't even wear a mask to protect others during a pandemic... They don't care about value, just the amount of "their" money being spent
@RealSexyCyborg@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub Never mind that everything's going digital, so a smartphone is the minimum most need nowadays.
I don't think a NGO would be well perceived giving kit out, despite it arguably being the best argument.
Charity here feels more... tokenistic... at times
@RealSexyCyborg@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub I think that's probably overly cynical and unfair in most cases. BUT... there is a thing here, in terms of other people's unfair perceptions.
Best summed up as: You're poor, why have you got [digital kit], shouldn't you have spent that on food/shelter/whatever?
@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub@RealSexyCyborg Yeah, my Mrs loves Kindle unlimited and has definitely pivoted more to using that. My preference for holding/managing them spills over from other stuff, so I know I'm not exactly representative.
@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub@RealSexyCyborg I like the convenience of Amazon's Kindle, for example. But the commercial model *sucks* - pay as much as for dead-tree, but they can (and have in the past) remotely remove it from your device if their licensing agreement with the publisher lapses.
@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub@RealSexyCyborg It's each to their own I guess, there are always going to be people that you will never get off dead-trees, and others who go the other way.
I use both, but it's taken a while for me to get to a point I'm happy with with ebooks. Not the ebooks themselves, but the mgmt of them
@FrostSorro@itgrrl@PlainVanillaPub@RealSexyCyborg That $100 start-up cost is a massive hurdle, as is a $10/mo commitement.
In comparison, the local library will lend books for free. or I could hit a charity shop and get a book, start up cost 0.50.
E-book might win on convenience, but it's a *long* way off matching on cost
@lacanta Again, if the choice was between them and random shopworkers, I'd go with the police. It should be easier to hold the police to account when they screw it up (although again, that doesn't always translate so well into reality)
@lacanta I think we're talking at cross purposes here... and disagreeing despite largely agreeing. ITT my position has been
- It's right that Sainsbury's aren't making their staff enforce this
- If you want it enforced, put police on the door dont expect retail workers to have to do it
@lacanta Do you think the Sainsbury's staff can do *any* better at that. If you want masks enforced put someone there with the power to enforce - the old bill - rather than expecting retail workers to shoulder the burden.
@bilbocroft@fascinatorfun@sainsburys@ImmuneSuper Bearing in mind, even at the height of the pandemic, we had reports of people *spitting* on staff who were just trying to do their job, why in hell would Sainsbury's expose their workers to more of that.
Stick a couple of plod outside Supermarket entraces.
@bilbocroft@fascinatorfun@sainsburys@ImmuneSuper Yes, but if you're the Sainsbury's employee, it's *you* that has to start, and deal with, that confrontation.
The general public are, generally speaking, complete arseholes.
It's not down to someone earning 6.45/hr to enforce this when the Police are refusing to
@fascinatorfun@sainsburys@ImmuneSuper The flipside though is that it's their staff who will get the abuse because it's them who'd be made to enforce it.
The Government should be the ones enforcing it, not outsourcing to staff who are on minimum wage.
Masks should be compulsory, but I can't really blame Sainsburys
@RealSexyCyborg@moebee2 Did he really just say "black people have had it pretty good" and then use "there was a black president" to justify it?
And then seems to say "other races get racism too" like part of the point in BLM *isn't* that racism is bad
What the fuck was he thinking...
> "What we are asking for is Teams be separated from the Office Suite and sold separately with a fair commercial price tag, so it competes on the merits with our products
But then noone'll use it. Not that Slack's great, but Teams is really, really shit
https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1693423
@samuriinbred@cybergibbons tracer<TAB>
I'm the other way around because I'm used to it being traceroute. At first glance tracert looks like you're trying to do something weird to a certificate to me
It seems to have missed @HomelandKen's attention that you only need a shield and mask if someone is attacking you.
They're really not an awful lot of use for attacking someone else, well unless the shield is made of vibranium and you're also Captain America. https://twitter.com/HomelandKen/status/1286123244588871680
@jdcaughel@thephreck The one that gets me is when I've been in nano for a bit, and then want to search for something in my local text editor (KATE).
Ctrl+W.... FUCK
@richardmwatt@0wasp01@SwiftOnSecurity Joking aside, I do occasionally have to explain what words mean having not realised they were britishisms. Also sometimes why I'm sniggering - like when someone called me a "bender" the other day (by which they meant master)
It's almost as if the wise thing to do, given COVID-19, would have been to extend the transition agreement with the EU - none of our trading partners-to-be want to negotiate during a pandemic either
But chest-thumping won out instead https://twitter.com/abcpoppins/status/1285837268930965504
@Bignozer@ABridgen Good idea, but how about we make it an inquiry into the referendum as a whole, given what's been revealed today, and as Andrew point's out Remain not having been investigated.
Might as well do it properly rather than cherry picking after all
@72CorleoneM@RockboltG Why would he need to? The Government fucked up by "actively" avoiding looking into foreign interference.
That's a pretty big fuck up for a country that's supposed to be "taking back control" etc.
@72CorleoneM@RockboltG Not only is he mentioning it, but no-one's jumping on the Boris is a criminal bandwagon.
They're much more focused on the fact the Govt and Security Services resolutely failed to do *anything*
There are no good answers to the headline's question in this article. They "think $conspiracy", they "don't believe" etc.
BBC News - Coronavirus: Why are Americans so angry about masks? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53477121
@DoMayors@PonderfulUK@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham In the context of a GNU, a neutral figure is someone who has limited political ambition - they're not aiming to become an elected PM etc. I.e. someone who'll just fade into the background when the GNU's job/time is done
@LeoCrusher@PonderfulUK@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham Easy to say that when it was scuppered from the outset by one man's ego. I agree it was a slim-to-nothing chance, but it's still a chance that was denied
And is still just one example
@PonderfulUK@LeoCrusher@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham He was. But it's not like he was the only suggestion, multiple people were mooted. Corbyn mooted 1 person - himself, and insisted on it. That was entirely at *our* cost.
@PonderfulUK@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham Except, it wasn't consistent with what the membership wanted, you can find the proof of that smeared all over the internet with Labour voters complaining about the lack of position.
@PonderfulUK@LeoCrusher@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham How else are you going to describe the extreme's of people.
The issue isn't people on the left, in fact, you tend to find the hard-left call traditional lefties centrists, it's the people further left than that.
@PonderfulUK@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham I'm not for a second saying it's *all* his fault, or even all Labour's fault (because it's not). But he played his role, and contributed to where we are now. He could and should have listened to feedback
@PonderfulUK@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham If Labour had managed to hold a consistent position under his leadership, we may not be in the position we are now. The GNU was just one example of his leadership failures - as someone else pointed out, he was being warned years ago that he didn't carry well with voters
@LeoCrusher@PonderfulUK@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham As opposed to the hard-left fantasy of Corbyn leading it despite having zero chance of it coming to fruition with him at the head? Consistent at least with the idea of him leading the party into an election that everyone said he'd lose
I think the "centrists" were more rational
@PonderfulUK@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham Do you also remember the discussions of a Govt of National Unity which couldn't proceed because Corbyn insisted he must lead it instead of a neutral figure, despite knowing the Tory rebels were needed but would never back him?
@BronwenGrey@JolyonMaugham Because there was a limited time period where Brexit could be opposed and the damage averted, and Corbyn completely squandered it, not least by failing to recognise most of the country saw him as unelectable - should've been a leadership contest *before* the election
@eviltofu@RealSexyCyborg No, but you're closer to China than the speaker, so that's good enough for them.
I work closely with colleagues across SEA, I really don't understand how people can miss the obvious cultural differences tbh.
Mixture of willful ignorance and laziness I guess
Sod it.
Assuming I get chance to sit and watch TV tonight I'm going to send a tweet to @Apple and @Channel4 everytime @All4 plays an ad for Greyhound, it's beyond saturation level.
Of course, knowing my luck they'll have ended their run now
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@RealSexyCyborg Doesn't matter what end of the political spectrum, sadly we've a ton of people here who'll go "SG is near CN, must be the same" and actually believe it
I'm not the first, and won't be the last to point it out, but this kind of fuck up wouldn't have happened if they'd got the NHS to do it instead of giving it to Dido fuck-everything-up Harding and other private interests.
> The government said there is no evidence of data being used unlawfully.
By definition, the data *is* being used unlawfully because they've not completed the necessary legal requirements. Despite being warned months in advance that they'd need to.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53466471
@HannahAlOthman I'm in my 30's; lately I've taken to quietly clipping a clothing peg to the back of my wife's clothes as she walks past.
It all started cos she wore a massive hat in the garden and I was seeing how many pegs it'd take on the back to make it fall off...
I'm sure Mimecast can handle implementing some SSO special sauce for you - you'll get an experience that's more seamless than present *and* doesn't train your customers to be easy prey
This form of communication encourages behaviours which are relied upon by phishing campaigns.
If you *must* have your comms in a seperate system, at least make the process "sign into your online banking at https://skiptons.co.uk/ and then click messages on the left"
@skiptonbs did you fall asleep and miss the last 15 years of the Internet or something?
In what world do you think sending your customers a "click this button & then sign in" email is OK
Although @mimecast need to share some of the blame, they should definitely know better https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1285129618794729478/photo/1
@phynbarr@archer_rs That's because you can't negotiate with fundamentalists - they simply won't budge their position because anything else is "wrong"
Unfortunately for us, we've got a government made up of a mixture of fundamentalists and opportunists
And none of this pressure has anything to do with the fact Tiktok lead their market segement,one which a US company - facebook - are set to enter... honest
BBC News - TikTok's UK headquarters in doubt amid US pressure https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53462918
@cybergibbons Yeah, I couldn't have it as our only device and they've gradually made the experience worse by bundling the stuff into Google Home rather than keeping it discreet
Plus littlun keeps casting random shit to the living room. Found the interface of my music kiosk on it the other day
@cybergibbons I like to think I'm purifying the net of conspiracy types.
Though, tbf, my TV isn't connected to the network. But thats because Android TV is shit, so I'd rather use the STBs interface
@cybergibbons I resisted it when reading the comments earlier, but I periodically reply to "noo only the STB is connected to the net" types with a message reminding them that ethernet over hdmi (hec) is a thing, so their TV *could* still access the net via the STB if Sony were feeling evil
@christay25@LastHussar@Jacqui_Smith1@mikegalsworthy Parliament makes law, the courts enforce it. The law says we get due process. If the govt wants to change that, their recourse is via Parliament, not via stamping their feet.
@christay25@LastHussar@Jacqui_Smith1@mikegalsworthy The court ruled she had a right to due process. The "fix" the govt is after is removing that right
We're not a fascist state, due process is supposed to be an inalienable right
The thing thats "not working" here is the Home Office because they find actual procedure inconvenient
@XioNYC You might be thinking "nah, I'll just delegate a zone to them instead"
Can't. their setup page thingy will complain it's not the root domain
As an engagement model it's absolutely toxic, there's no way to A/B test without paying a serious premium, or letting them do DNS for you
@XioNYC To CNAME to CF instead, you need to be on the Business level - https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/ - that's $200/month
Being able to CNAME is basic functionality, included free on basically every other CDN. $200/mo just to get that...
And this surveillance state, privacy bonfire of a country is the one that @BorisJohnson wants us to cosy up to having abandoned a bigger and more valuable trading partner...
CBP does end run around warrants, simply buys license plate-reader data https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1692626
@SwiftOnSecurity@cluebcke@dougered@POGOBlog@dan_grazier Are Zumwalts the ones where they removed anti-corrossion paint for the hull from the spec, or was it these?
I know the LCS had galvanising issues too, but ISTR there was one where the paint had been removed during a cost-cutting exercise and no-one picked up on it
That's *exactly* why you're paying - you're paying for the convenience of not going around and updating your accounts. Or, you can use the webmail access and not pay £7.50 a month
But, you should *never* use your ISP provided email, always set one up with an independant provider
At the risk of sounding unsympathetic... what the fuck?
There's a route of free access, but they want to use a "premium" route, but won't just change address (again free) because " it's not something I want to waste my time doing."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53442244
@ComradeEevee If you still want to use cloudflare for serving, it'll cost you >$200/month. You need to be on their business plans to be allowed to just CNAME to them.
Had an argument with them recently as was considering trialling them, but wasn't comfortable handing them all my DNS...
@MaybeImALeo@SwiftOnSecurity > Cloudflare also provides DNS for many domains
They provide it for basically every site they serve - if you want to run your own DNS and CNAME to them it'll cost you >$200/month
Makes it quite a lot harder to recover your stuff during a cloudflare outage though...
@_black_traffic_@SwiftOnSecurity Yeah it makes sense, just an arse to get straight in your head when you're used to mpg and trying to compare between the two
@_black_traffic_@SwiftOnSecurity Though if an USians object to that, wait til you hear what the Europeans do.
We do Miles per Gallon, they do Litres per 100KM.
It's a bit like being used to F and being asked to work in C, you can convert between the two but it takes some getting your head around
@CarmenCrincoli In which case you'll *hate* tar
tar -xf f.tar
But you can omit the dash
tar xf f.tar
Or go long
tar --extract --file f.tar
Or you can mix
tar f foo.tar --create test
But *can't* skip the dash if not first
tar --create f foo.tar test
Will fail
“our government is basically turning into fucking Wikileaks…"
For all their faults, Wikileaks didn't consider lists of civilian credit cards a sensible thing to dump/leak. The US Govt isn't above that apparently
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/16/cia_secret_cyberwar/ via @theregister
@AlecMuffett > may prevent some children being exposed to child sexual abuse material
Call me crazy, but I'm not sure anyone hosting that kind of illegal content is going to honour any requirement to implement AV.
And the irony in "something to hide" being deployed in a case against privacy
@LegoGrasshopper@JollyClaret@QuackDaddyyy@Cobearzz@CarlieBugaloo@b0ytits@Tweet4nita Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like he's in anything approaching a rational mindset. Needs to be held in custody and psychologically assessed.
When someone's in that sort of unhinged mindset though, weapons aren't much use either, they just present a risk to the owner
@QuackDaddyyy@Cobearzz@CarlieBugaloo@b0ytits@Tweet4nita No, there are no "sensible" options involving a gun here in the UK. Our gun control laws are actually enforced - merely being caught with one illegally is 5 years: getting a gun is *always* the wrong answer
@QuackDaddyyy@CarlieBugaloo@b0ytits@Tweet4nita She's got physical tics. Following your advice, at best, gets her 10yrs inside, at worst she accidentally shoots herself.
Wise the fuck up, guns are not the answer here
@nikkigdlps@Tweet4nita and could potentially prejudice a case against him letting him walk free...
The old bill are dealing with it, calling for mob justice only undermines that
I still think Neeva are going to face one hell of an uphill battle, but this is a strong move in the right direction, particularly for their target market
Ars readers hated this startup’s privacy policy—so the company changed it https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1691279
@Nigel100007@ledbydonkeys@Jaypers3@DavidDavisMP@john4brexit@pritipatel I was more observing the fact you seem to have skimped on a very important detail.
Yes, we've had a referendum, and all the stuff that leavers claimed was "project fear" is coming to pass. Well done, you've fucked the country
@Nigel100007@ledbydonkeys@Jaypers3@DavidDavisMP@john4brexit@pritipatel You don't seem to have included a figure of what that trade will be worth though.
If 90% of future trade is outside the EU, but the value of trade has dropped by (say) 50%, then we're still far worse off.
90% just means we made it harder to trade with our closest neighbours
@DavidLavelle19@shineypetal@theJeremyVine Because he only actually wants to hear and broadcast one side, hence his "she's the expert" with no apology/acknowledgement when it's pointed out Caprice is quoting the actual experts.
@Don1Gibson@HouselessGamer@Tweet4nita She's got severe physical tics, even if it were legal here, it's probably one of the most ill-advised things she could buy. Pepper-spraying herself wouldn't exactly be pleasant
@IsabelOakeshott@michaelgove They are voluntary, you always have the choice not to go out in the first place.
The downside of that for the rest of us is probably you spending more time on Twitter.
@MatthewPFirth@etodemerze@contact_andy But, by all means, perceive it how you like - not really interested in arguing this point, neither am I here for a philosophical debate.
The thing that drew me here was the discussion of AV, though seem to have got caught up in the COVID tangent instead
@MatthewPFirth@etodemerze@contact_andy Not at all. It was an dig based on the stereotype that faith (and not specifically just Christians FWIW) relies on ignoring evidence.
Almost the same thing, the difference is I didn't come into this *actually* thinking you were ignorant (for want of a better word).
@MatthewPFirth@etodemerze@contact_andy I note also that you seem far keener to engage on COVID than to reply to the (more interesting, IMO) thread on AV.
@MatthewPFirth@etodemerze@contact_andy Care to raise any specific points? It's the Kings College research in particular I'm thinking of, highlighted in the news just this morning in fact.
Re first comment, I think you're mistaking an (unfair, admittedly) dig for an actual assumption.
@MatthewPFirth@etodemerze@contact_andy In which case, I'm sure you'll be happy to read the latest findings and adjust your observations re NZ and the likely impact of not having population immunity.
@AlecMuffett@MatthewPFirth@etodemerze@contact_andy Yep, just as valid. So that's the other analogy shown to be fundamentally wrong too.
@MatthewPFirth given you don't actually understand the law as it stands for the topics you're using as arguments in favour, how do you hope to convince others you understand AV and the impact?
@Fox0x01 When I went to Poland last year, guy looks at me, then passport, then me.... "Is this you?" Followed by "got any other ID?"
Fuck... Normally it's going through security rather than customs that I get pulled aside
@MatthewPFirth@etodemerze@contact_andy I know as a religious guy you're not too hot on scientific evidence, but FYI, evidence is emerging that immunity to COVID-19 only lasts a few months.
Though of course it's a little early to tell for sure. But, NZ with it's lack of population immunity may be no worse off
@MatthewPFirth@etodemerze@contact_andy To take your alcohol analogy, perhaps the Govt should install cameras in all our fridges so that they can verify we're not allowing <18s to remove a beer?
Do you even *know* what the restrictions for alcohol are? Parent's are allowed to give an <18 small amounts of alcohol
@AndrewOrlowski Not to mention we'll be moving from a supplier who's code we've worked with and vetted, for years, to one who doesn't give us the same level of access.
But that cost's money and doesn't allow you to use your "tough on crime*" mantra, empty and shallow as it may now seem
* except for trips to castles up norf
The bloke outside the kebab shop after 10 pints won't be thinking about what the sentence might be, neither will someone having a mental health crisis.
How about you sort out funding so that there're more staff - deterring attacks in the first place & lessening severity?
So, rather than doing something material like looking at the things that put them more at risk of attack - underfunding, understaffing - you're going to take the cheap/easy route *again* and just write up stiffer sentences, because those really deter someone pissed off their face https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1282597743605817349
@EvtimP@Richard66629722@tradegovuk@Tesco@Telegraph Because the government currently gives so many fucks about what we want? How the market works in future will be defined/restricted by the outcome of the current talks.
If you want data, look at the US and the cost of decent food.
@EvtimP@Richard66629722@tradegovuk@Tesco@Telegraph Yes, because of regulations.
You know, those things that you're arguing we should just get rid of and let the market decide. Unrestricted Market forces do not work for essentials like food (if they ever work at all, which frankly is dubious)
@SeanWrightSec Ah, but there is some additional protection.
Some poor sods going to have to force themselves to actually read that java source, which will be almost as slow as it runs 😆
@EvtimP@Richard66629722@tradegovuk@Tesco@Telegraph Unfortunate then, that one of the things that leaked from the talks was that the US were *very* keen to get rid of any labelling which might identify their product.
How about we don't fuck our own standards rather than relying on "oh the market's magical" whimsy?
"I definitely didn't use that track and trace thing to find you"
Sure... why even mention it then....
It was a predictable side-effect of UK Govt's crappy approach that data was going to get misused.... https://twitter.com/roselyddon/status/1281885086347075588
Also, it doesn't appear to be possible to ignore mixed-content when in incognito mode anymore. Somewhat problematic as I use it to log in as the admin user rather than my less privileged "routine" user
I added HSTS to the subdomain under the expectation that Chrome would upgrade the requests to HTTPS.
But, it doesn't, it still blocks them as mixed content. Which is a bugger, because Chrome has now hidden the "allow mixed content" option.
Is it me, or does @googlechrome not apply HSTS quite as you'd expect?
I've an application (#subsonic) which insists on writing in http frames (the "documented" way around this is java'y and gets lost on upgrade...). They get blocked because mixed content
@cybergibbons In fact, looks like WND Group are "in deployment" across Latin America.
Side note, their privacy policy is hosted in Google Drive, which feels like you'd need a whole seperate privacy policy prior to accessing it :D
@cybergibbons I'm not sure, but WND-UK is part of WND Group who seem to have sucked up exclusive operations in a lot of other countries (though not globally)
I suspect it may be single-operator per area based on their site
@cybergibbons Reading between the lines, that's "if you threaten to unplug us, we'll find you about 50% of what we owe you for now"
Completely crap, and it'll put off anyone thinking about using sigfox in a product - can the people running the network (in the UK at least) be relied on?
@jamesummer2@BBCSuffolk@HighwaysEngland Nah this one actually exists. Though the way it's managed is very Boris like - ineffectual with a lot of focus on technology rather than fixing problems with nearby junctions etc
@antony@MariaKChica@freeg131@Spike9151 Yep. Though the whole thing's bizarre anyway. The idea that you can have agreed to paying an indeterminate fee, whilst unconscious is just such a ludicrously US healthcare kind of notion.
And that's before they take you to a hospital that turns out to be out of network
@antony@MariaKChica@freeg131@Spike9151 The US Govt Accountability office said an ambulance ride can cost $250 - $1200, so I guess they've cherry picked the lower number. Though that ignores that many also add a per-mile charge
@jsolloso@RedLeader_1971@freeg131 > What they want if for you to pay for it and also pay taxes, that's what needs to be stopped.
Which faod is what the Yanks do. The US spends more taxpayer money per-capita on healthcare than we do, but they still need separate private insurance to actually use it
> The aim seems to be to show the largest possible number of tests, even at the expense of understanding
There's a surprise eh, the Govt brought in commercial partners *and* tried to milk figures and it all fell apart https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/1281098557395738625
So basically, the reason I woke up late today and felt crap was because @Xiaomi pushed an update to the clock/alarm app which led to it not actually going off... brilliant
@DiveEric@LadyRed_6 I read a nice quote a while back: The best con Russia *ever* pulled was letting America claim it "won" the cold war and sitting back on it's haunches, rather than pointing out it was still very much underway
@DazDAmour@10DowningStreet It's fine, they're just trying to show they're "down with the people" and are currently working towards a punchline which must surely involve Pizza Express in Woking
The scary alternative, is this is all real policy...
@lazaroumterror the truth is, Johnson and his govt lacked the foresight to see it coming, despite everyone telling them it would. His cover for that is to pretend no-one knew/warned.
Because he's too full o' shite to stand on his own two and admit that he fucked up... again
@lazaroumterror That's not what hindsight is, or what the insult means
He's claiming it's easy to point things out after they've happened, but not so easy in advance. Hindsight isn't being smart & aware
Course, it's a lie anyway & isn't "just" hindsight - they were warning about it long ago
COVID-19 tests are a taxable benefit if your employer pays for them
Govt is "looking into it", but this is a timely reminder of just how badly they're going to fuck up IR35 given @HMRCgovuk can't even get *this* right, and still aren't getting IR35 right
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53324101
TL:DR it all sounds like so much bullshit to me, it looks more like economic sanctions by the back-door than anything with a grounding in technical reality.
Huawei got the drop on American companies in 5G, and so got first mover advantage.
The idea that a network with Huawei kit in can't "safely" carry data that's been externally encrypted is, frankly, fucking laughable but probably sounds reasonable to a politician.
Perhaps I'm just overly cynical, but with the Trump administration's hardon over Huawei, I'm so very dubious when they make claims about Tiktok. A govt that cries "America First" and then talks about banning companies from their economic competitor "for security"? Sure.
Other detail like what tags get used against "objectionable" content might be more useful, but that can trivially be collected/scraped without needing the level of data collection that Tiktok gets accused of
especially compared to mining similar information in a communications medium. The viral nature of Tiktok videos *must* mean that any person-to-person webs you might draw are at best confused and at worst useless.
The one risk I can see is that they *might* (as Tencent is reported to have done with it's Zoom clone) use Western browsing/usage habits to train their filters/monitoring for more effective local oppression. But "user watches video, then another" perhaps isn't that useful
If Beijing finds out you watch a lot of dwarf videos, what exactly are they going to do with that information? It's unlikely they'll feel it's worth the effort/risk to come get you.
And if you're worried about the Chinese gov getting your data, why are you not worried about a more local govt gaining access?
If your Government finds out your SM habits and doesn't like them, they can trivially gain physical access to you for arrest (or whatever)
@Tim_McNulty@WhiteHouse@realDonaldTrump > Internet, ok but that’s just the means of communication
It (Arpanet) was also built upon a British innovation - packet switching.
The world wars were won through collaboration amongst allied forces.
It's almost like co-operation is the answer, not nationalism
@AlecMuffett In practice, of course, it's no different to someone launching an attack via botnet - each attempt could easily come from a new subnet, again rendering the source IP irrelevant for future blocks - with a botnet it may also be a consumer range, so looks more legit than a tor exit
@AlecMuffett One of the things that really "levelled up" my WAF implementation was losing the ability to block "bad" IPs (because I'd multi-homed onto Tor)
I'd still argue I'm better off as a result of IPs being unimportant
I was only saying to someone the other day, that as time goes by I only feel more and more vindicated about how anal and paranoid I've been in the past about keeping data local wherever possible.
This - https://www.bentasker.co.uk/blog/privacy/367-why-i-won-t-have-an-amazon-echo - was only ever one small part of that
Well done. And note, carefully, that there was no need for encryption to be backdoored in order for you to do this.
Perhaps @Whitehouse might want to take some lessons from you rather than trying to weaken security? https://twitter.com/Europol/status/1278645035853111296
So Theresa Villiers thinks that something which has a high level of compliance is "not worth it" because too few people are breaking the rules and getting fined?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53252096
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53247757
> "I feel like these flags are a disaster waiting to happen,"
Surely the disaster waiting to happen was letting someone like him own firearms in the first place?
@MerrittBaer We moved earlier in the year, when the mover picked up the massive (and heavy) box labelled "DVDs" I got a "what the hell have you still got these for"?
They live in the attic, having all been ripped to disk...
That privacy policy reads and sounds a lot like someone who thought they'd exploit privacy minded people's data - you're paying for the service so aren't the product right? right?
Search engine startup asks users to be the customer, not the product https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1688026
@GarrulusJay@skwashd@SwiftOnSecurity They've really messed up our plans. We were supposed to become the 51st state, but now we hear the position's been filled...
That deserves a cold "thanks for your time" at the bottom of an email
Luckily, it's quite clear that Head Teachers are quite a bit smarter than he is, and recognise that the situation is quite a bit more nuanced than his one-size-fits all might suggest.
Perhaps the Education sec might benefit from a bit of time in education himself?
But then, the quote comes from a minister who's expertise is so stunted he was once interrupted by Siri whilst making a statement in Parliament.
So perhaps we should treat Gavin Williamson as the mistake that he is, and just disregard everything that comes out of his mouth.
How does @GavinWilliamson propose to handle a refusal to pay fines? The courts are overloaded as it is.
The govt has burnt so much trust that in the eyes of many, it lacks the moral authority to make these decisions.
"Fuck you fine me" may be common
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53221741
@hefledthescene@IsThisThingOn31@Kreeps_United@dcstl Sorry. If you "fear for your life" and then go outside where the "threat" is then you're a grade-A moron.
They didn't fear for their life, they indulged in the weird firearm fetish some americans suffer from, looking utter tits as a result
It certainly sounds like they're trying to do this right, which is something I never felt about Assange (and by extension/association, Wikileaks).
An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1687754
@JHouse678@pdp11hacker@MerrittBaer And yet, you seem willing to allow a failure of imagination on the *much* more likely and widespread consequences of compromising crypto in the ways that are being demanded
@JHouse678@pdp11hacker@MerrittBaer A third party has the ability to view the content of your encrypted comms without your permission or knowledge.
It's compromised.
Sabu's name surfaces again... that rather fucks the "I'm just a journalist" defences Assange has been relying on
US govt: Julian Assange tried to recruit hacker to steal hush-hush dirt and we should know – the hacker was an informant https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/25/assange_wikileaks_sabu/ via @theregister
@JHouse678@pdp11hacker@MerrittBaer In order to comply, they'll have to make the product less secure, even if that's "just" making sure 2 keys can decrypt instead of 1
Compromised is definitely the right word for it.
Whether it's acceptable is subjective (I say no), but the security is compromised all the same
That's a significant development for @mozilla. Can't help feel a little suspicious though, because it's Comcast and their sheet is far from clean...
Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1687175
As time passes, I'm more and more convinced that someone at @intel should be horsewhipped for the absolute clusterfuck that is i40e.
6Mbps throughput on a 10Gbps NIC? Oh it's because someone turned on DCB on a switch. NIC not showing up at all on boot? Driver hiccup
Should've just rented one from British Fucking Airways. It's a white plane with a Union Jack on the tail
Complete waste of money for absolutely nothing of substance. Boris' speciality. https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1275833161667293184
@ComradeEevee I love that part of his claim is that they banned him, so he had to create a free account to circumvent the ban, which resulted in seeing ads, violating his "right" not to.
With a dose of "your games are crap" mixed in for good measure.
OMG, he wants the streamers banned & $25M
@ComradeEevee Twitch does not limit how many female viewers a customer can follow.
Damn, goodbye equal rights, you've got tits so we're gonna restrict your audience to protect the men from your evil bodies lest they get addicted
@ComradeEevee The plaintiff who suffers from Sexual Addiction....
So, his claim is that anything even suggestive is an issue because *he* has an addiction?
"he is following exactly 786 female streamers while following zero male"
Surely Twitch can remedy by banning him then?
@ianbone@answrguy@Infosec_Taylor When I create my deepfake, I just register it in your blockchain.
It doesn't even really prevent me lying about the time the video was taken, because you're going to have to accept connectivity interruptions will mean videos are registered late.
Blockchain adds nothing here
Seems like it'd make it harder for kids to "stumble on" porn - though you've still got all the thumbnails etc to think about.
Proper parenting is the better solution, but this is still better than the Govt's idea of building a database of peoples wanking habits.
That matters to a cache that's receiving and honouring "Vary: Accept-Encoding" from the origin.
The older version of Chromium I used sends the same as Chrome, but seems I wasn't careful enough - it got routed to another box, which didn't have the polluted cache item
Just to square the circle - although I used "Copy as CURL" in Dev tools it resulted in a slightly different request being received.
Chrome gives you a curl using --compressed, which sends "Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip", but Chrome itself sends "gzip, deflate, br"
@torproject have you seen any reports of @googlechrome incorrectly trying to follow "Onion-Location" headers?
Just noticed my site is broken in latest chrome (complains of mixed content, citing the Onion domain). Disabling Onion-Location fixes it.
Chrome - I think you've a bug
@jonfrewin@starmanuk@zsk and buying goods that can easily be sold on.
Money and goods tend to move through at least one mule, helping to break the link between the actual spend and the ultimate recipient.
@jonfrewin@starmanuk@zsk Online card fraud tends to be a bit more complex than taking your card and processing it through the scammers systems.
They do things like use your card in online poker (playing 2 accounts, with "your" account losing to them, withdrawing their winnings).
@ModerateRanter@JohnObee7@ManCompassion@CharlotteHollo She's my MP. She's also a complete bomb-site as far as morality goes - the field of fucks she gives is completely barren apart from one paddock labelled "self-interest".
She's never once rebelled against the party line. Which is why she's given a nice safe seat.
@googlenest TBH, I'm on the verge of returning this thermostat before it's even gone in
I was dubious about it to begin with, particularly given NEST's woeful history of securing it's cameras.
Seems like such a simple thing - just support all Google accounts rather than just free?
@googlenest Thanks, but I need to enable saving of web activities for users who don't want it it?
That's erm.... an interesting choice on your part.
Are you sure that's required? Home works fine on my gsuite account, it's the NEST app that refuses to work with gsuite.
@IntlHamDay@Google@googlenest Initially assumed I was going nuts, but it's all over their support forums too, with Google giving the position "gsuite is usually managed by a business".
Yes, that business is.... me.
A cynic would suggest there's some processing they do thats not allowed by the gsuite terms
Oh, and that also means you can't invite family members to be able to manage the thermostat - because they (and you) are signed into Google Home with the gsuite account.
Seriously @googlenest that's really fucking shit
So if you pay @google for your email (i.e. use gsuite) you can't use that to manage Google's @googlenest products - you have to create a free gmail account instead.
Thats embarrasingly disjointed for a company that normally integrates things well
@notrashcougar@mrsbiocookie@HinmanMark@BBCNews Not entirely true, 43% vited Tory, 57% against - leaving aside that itd me a majority of the *voting* population.
But, doesn't really matter. The number of people willing to openly be racist shits is scary
@LoveJuggernaut@alexvtunzelmann Gee, its almost like complex algorithms are fucking hard to work with...
If Google is far left to you, it can only be because you're so far right that George W is just a dot to you.
@arsetechnica@hackerfantastic@cyberhayden Yeah, I think there's definitely some truth in that. You've only got to look at the approach to security in most IoT to get an idea of how much "due care" may have been applied to other aspects.
@arsetechnica@hackerfantastic@cyberhayden Agreed - I'd be isolating it as soon as I became aware. Aside from the risk to self, imagine it ultimately becomes the start of a multi-house fire, and it becomes known you knew it sometimes wouldn't turn off. Even if you ultimately win, you'd likely have to defend a case.
@SwiftOnSecurity > Each component runs significant parts of the global economy
Look, you could at least be a _little_ sorry for all the people that are running Excel + Macros as a "database" and then calling IT when their frankenstein collapses in on itself (but there's 20yrs of accounts...)
@arsetechnica@hackerfantastic@cyberhayden ^That
Won't turn on without connecting to wifi - annoying
Won't turn OFF without connecting - dangerous
Personally, I'd be naming and shaming the manufacturer
@JolyonMaugham@MattHancock Matt Hancock's latest test of civic duty was to stand tall against the crap being spewed by No 10 around the Cummings saga. He failed miserably, just like every other test of morals vs career in the past few years
@JolyonMaugham@MattHancock Nope, me neither
Quite aside from the astonishing lack of competence (@MattHancock should be embarrassed even to have his name mentioned), this Govt has no credibility when it comes to promising not to misuse data, made worse by them taking an clearly inferior route with the app
It's 2020 and @clearscore still think it's a good idea to send out emails with obfuscated links (i.e. lets show button to click) in them leading to a login page.
Because getting phished and losing access to your #credit report couldn't have dire consequences at all....
@tohaboo@Toryboy1960 The types pulling it tend to also support the US's habit of fawning over service men and women. Forget eating a meal out in peace, someone'll come and thank you for your service
That's why they mention their service - it's "I served, I'm a patriot & hero. Only traitors disagree"
@ren_tragger@hackerfantastic Yes, I've seen people stung by that (particularly by a large US registrar who will remain nameless but sounds like a father on his way out).
The one that _really_ bugs me though, is ISPs who override TTLs in their recursors (and will also often shuffle resultsets)
@notdan@reginacodes@SamsungUS The bit that really gets me is, he slides into DMs with a "you're hot", and then when called out it's "get over yourself".
From the guy who thinks enough of himself he's sending unsolicited msgs hitting on someone on a professional platform
The first msg was bad enough
@hackerfantastic The number of times I've been asked to "speed up" propagation after someone's set an absurdly long TTL.
I've realised more and more over time that people (and I mean techies here) just do not understand DNS and how it works at a protocol or topological level, at all
@pippyyeayea@Damien_PSB@lewis_goodall If that's the case, why is it only 5years for some subclasses of data?
It's not the only reason I won't use the app, but it sounds like it should be an easily addressable point for them
@AndrewYee2 Apologies, thats my fault - the boiler packed up, so obviously the warm weather had to stop. Sure it'll warm back up once I've got working heat again
@Damien_PSB@lewis_goodall Because then they may be asked, by parliament, to justify their *20 year* retention of data. And might also bring additional scrutiny to things like them giving the data to a large US company - Palantir - for free.
They've literally built a system noone should trust
If I recall correctly, Dido made various similarly "hopeful" sounding statements whilst TalkTalk were repeatedly spaffing data up the wall due to an inability to organise, audit and secure their network, due in part to lack of resources. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1271051239472717825
@adrian_sleeman@pritipatel@WendyPuerto@UKLabour There's a definite irony though, in her tweet "I will not be silenced by" when the letter is from a group of MPs asking her to think about how her words have the affect of silencing others.
I'm not sure she's read it either to be honest
@adrian_sleeman@pritipatel@WendyPuerto@UKLabour Didn't bother reading the letter?
It basically translates to "you can't tell ethnic mins to shut up & ignore their experiences because you don't feel you've encountered that aspect of it"
> You are a prime example
Because she's an ethnic minority? Or because she was sacked?
@LouiseMensch@ShappiKhorsandi@pritipatel@UKLabour Agreed, I think she probably lets quite a few other things stop her doing her duty first. Doubt she'd even have time to consider anything in this letter, having already stopped.
Assuming you mean her duty as an elected representative, rather than her duty to herself
@Anontiri@Patsyblueshoes@AngelaRayner@Keir_Starmer My favourite line is the claim that Unions are preventing Teachers from doing what they want to do (get back to school and be expos... sorry... act like it's actually over).
Because the membership of Teaching unions is entirely made up of non-teachers right...
@Patsyblueshoes@AngelaRayner@Keir_Starmer What's that got to do with the fact that Johnson is so crap he needs a baying mob behind him, and then still looks just as crap?
Think you'll find parents are also stopping schools from returning, plenty aren't and won't send their kids back because they can see the Govt's lies
@cybergibbons I mean, how dare someone record a police tactical belt?
And obviously, you can't record them from a distance - in that video you can't even *see* the belt because it was filmed from a distance.
And... skim a radio? It's not a pissing credit card
These people are fucking insane
@zoom_us I'm starting to take this personally @zoom_us. Tried to dial into a call via phone instead.
Your bot ignored my DTMF tones, kept prompting to enter the meeting ID and then hung up on me.
On the upside, I soon won't be able to join @MicrosoftTeams calls either. They've decided that 2FA is a must.
But given I only use it occasionally, I'm not installing their app and they're not getting my mobile number.
The online comms market at the moment, frankly, is shit
With a bit of jiggery pokery, can get Dev Tools open.
"The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed (or created) after a user gesture on the page"
#webaudio' target=_blank rel='nofollow noopener'>https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes#webaudio
I mean, I did click "Join audio by computer", but whatever
Set "Sound" to Allow
I swear I must have the only machine in the world that @zoom_us won't work on.
But I can't troubleshoot the in-browser experience because they detect if developer tools is open and fucking change the experience.
Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, all up-to-date, but not working
@Wander1236@fs0c131y I got woken up at 1am by the reminder on one of those fuckers.
I'm still annoyed that Google ever thought it was a good idea to opt in to that functionality, much less that they screwed it up so badly
Also, they appear to have disallowed "Join from browser" if they detect the browser is in Incognito, which does make it a bit tricky to check it's not an addon causing it
I don't know what @zoom_us have done recently, but it's completely, and utterly broken for me now.
Using it in Chromium, it claims access to the Mic is blocked despite clicking Allow. In Firefox and Chrome it says it can't use the audio device
I am reading the news correctly right?
@realDonaldTrump had peaceful protestors tear-gassed so that he could walk to church for a photo op?
He arranged an act of violence, to allow himself to be photographed holding a bible?
The fuck is wrong with the orange twat?
A @Microsoft advert just made me laugh far too hard. "Nothing can stop a team"
Except, of course, for the slow bloated mess that is Teams itself... Would anyone use it if it wasn't bundled with o365?
@SercoGroup are big enough and old enough not to have any excuse that this isn't already in place (and if it is, is not well documented/communicated).
Oh, and if the caller tells you to download and install an App, end the call.
If they cannot convince you, tell them to piss off.
@10DowningStreet should prioritise publishing a contact number on official govt pages.
That way, T&T phone you, give you a reference number, and then you call them back on the number given on the https://gov.uk/ pages
Oh for fuck sake.
A nation of people about to get Phished through @10DowningStreet's abject incompetence.
Training people that it's OK to answer questions because the caller sounds professional is an absolute disaster waiting to happen
If they call demand proof of who they are https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1267116489649393665
@SeanWrightSec Platforms like Tweetdeck have had it for a while, people seem to use it to do a news scout in the morning & then schedule tweets for the rest of the day with comments on the stories they've pulled together
Allegedly, it helps build engagement compared to just tweeting in one go
@HannahAlOthman things that drag your score down might not be included in the lender's criteria, and vice-versa: things that don't affect your score, might affect the lender's decision
@HannahAlOthman Address changes affect it, though it'll recover.
If you're applying for actual credit at some point though, your score is meaningless - lenders don't see/use it, they apply their own criteria.
It's supposed to be informational for you, but really is quite meaningless
@hairyhillfarmer@allstarhonda@Anna_Soubry You specifically called out Vitamin D, so I replied solely on that. Research was recently released that explained the difference Vitamin D made between Spain and the Nordics.
The answer isn't to just get out in the sunshine
@10DowningStreet Unless you fancy going for a drive to a castle to test your eyesight, or travelling to your parents land 100s of miles away.
But, it's irrelevant, as track and trace has been given to a company so incompetent they'll probably forget to connect the phones to an external line next
@Jeremy_Hunt@Anna_Soubry Not to mention, if your world-leading solution is "Serco", you've almost certainly asked the question incorrectly.
They couldn't even launch a system with only 25,000 users properly. The GDPR impact assessments have also reportedly not been done.
@hairyhillfarmer@allstarhonda@Anna_Soubry Spain and North Italy have ample access to sunlight, but the Vitamin D levels they get from that didn't help much.
Nordic countries, with relatively little sunlight, did better because they tend to take supplements. You can take supplements inside.
Good thread detailing the scale of the campaign being orchestrated to try and show "support" for Cummings whilst harassing those trying to hold him to account.
Similar campaigns have been seen around Trump, Brexit and Boris Johnson himself. Funny that 🤔 #sackCummningshttps://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1266104443239530496
Oh, and, although this isn't NHSX's fault - if you want anyone to have even a modicum of faith in anything even remotely technical/involved, putting Dido Harding in charge of it really is not the way to go.
My objections pre-date the upset around Cummings' eye-test.
But it's not exactly helped loosen my resolve.
*Deliberately* flawed data collection when a better alternative is available, excessive retention of data (sorry, 20 years??).
Sorry @phe_uk I know you need 80%, but no https://twitter.com/LizJarvisUK/status/1265954659656773632
@PaulLawes@StuartBudd1@MattHancock Their track + trace will almost certainly be another failed project along the road. They've bungled the app entirely, and outsourced the manual work to Serco (famous for fuck and cover ups).
It'll be world leading only in that it'll be the first to fail
@PaulLawes@StuartBudd1@MattHancock To put it another way, 60k more people than "normal" have died, and the Govt can't offer an explanation for 24,000 of those.
Some will be untested covid victims, others might be lack of access to care (because local services shut down etc).
@MattHancock represents a failed govt
@Mad_At_Markets@PaulBrandITV That'd be the press conference where he
- Admitted to driving to test his eyesight
- Admitted breaking lockdown
- Lied about having written about coronaviruses the year before (having edited the blog posts to make it look like it was true)
It's likely he stirred it *more*
@JimAndrakakis@RikuJuu@cybergibbons@Yekki_1 I think if it came to it, your defence would simply need to be
"The product is a placebo, your honour, it treats a non-existent condition in the safest way possible"
@cos_theta@fugueish@taosecurity Ah excellent, thanks
Not a popular opinion here I suspect, but I do *much* prefer the way you've set up so centrally disabling requires endpoint level control rather than simply network level control (i.e. Firefox's DNS based mechanism).
@s4ntos@taosecurity Yeah, sorry, I wasn't disagreeing with the main thrust of your argument. Just ran out of characters so couldn't add "which only really adds to the arguments for DoH"
@s4ntos@taosecurity *Most* users probably don't use those services, though lots do. A reasonable proportion of those, worldwide, only *think* they do - it's absolutely trivial for an ISP to intercept UDP53 destined for (say) 8.8.8.8 and transparently redirect for their own servers to handle.
@cos_theta@fugueish@taosecurity I guess what I'm saying is, I'd love for there to be a config option *somewhere* that allows me to explicitly specify the DoH server to use.
FWIW I know you're being consistent - I've found Chrome's similar deferral to the OS for proxy settings similarly annoying in the past
@cos_theta@fugueish@taosecurity means I can't use that DoH with Chrome though, because I'd need to configure my OS to use a resolver that it can't use.
Which only really leaves doing things like running a seperate DoH client on the OS - but I've already got a DoH capable application, Chrome....
@cos_theta@fugueish@taosecurity > We are not changing your DNS provider, but upgrading that connection where possible.
I get why you're doing that, but it really doesn't work for me.
I run my own DoH server. It doesn't expose UDP 53 (and won't because I don't wanna deal with reflection etc).
I keep hearing "Genius" used with Cummings name, yet it continues to look more and more like he's what particularly stupid people think a smart person looks like.
Something like this is so easily unpicked https://twitter.com/TheEdTechSchool/status/1265175089621938177
@JKaye82@danbloom1 "We've been very clear"
They don't quite get it's for the listener, not the speaker, to decide whether a message has been clear. If the receiver feels it isn't, then you haven't been clear enough.
A bit like, it's not for the culprit to say whether they broke the law or not
@phathacks@PiotrSec@shoe0nhead There's a certain irony in the fact that their pages have a "Click here to report abusive comments" link on them, as if the rest of the page wasn't a trashfire
@EpicWolverine@SwiftOnSecurity The one that gets me is @LinkedIn. I get what feels like endless emails from them with "so and so is using LinkedIN, join them"
I use service specific mailbox names, so the address linkedin pull out of people's contacts doesn't match the address I use for LI.
@ComradeEevee@RealSexyCyborg Me too. I get very odd looks if I wear it out.
Bought it as "better than nothing" because I needed to drill some holes and all the proper masks had been panic bought.
@AndrewYee2 Even 2m apart wouldn't be enough - I suspect the same issue/advice that applies to joggers would apply here - even 2m apart there isn't time for the droplets from the person in front to reach the ground.
@MarkSharon_DP@BBCTech@BBCClick The app is going to become a thing in one form or another, so rather than tilting at windmills it's better to pressure them to release something that has a chance of working, and pays due care to privacy (their choice does, oh, neither of those)
@MarkSharon_DP@BBCTech@BBCClick It actually matters a lot which version, but the comparison between the two options is *not* in UK Govts favour.
They've made a dumb decision with extremely poor justification, which is going to hinder uptake because of the trust issues it causes
but it looks like he's gone with the Tory crowd and instead given public money to "friends" to create something completely unsuitable.
That those people were involved with https://leave.eu/ is total coincidence, honest.
"World Split"
No. The UK is stupidly insisting on a centralized model that also has various other implementation issues (like not being able to poll in the bkground), while the rest of the world goes with a solution that actually works
They claimed @MattHancock was good at tech https://twitter.com/BBCTech/status/1258386037166026752
@AndrewOrlowski > data is only stored on the phones themselves, this is seen as being more private by some experts
Any chance they can produce the experts who think it's less private to only store the data on the phone themselves?
They might have *other objections*, but to this?
@bellaswoosh@Mclean1Chris@KilburnHerald Oh I agree, the decision shouldn't be based solely on the personalities involved (just as we shouldn't vote based on personality).
It's just that in this case personality is a tiny bit of the reasons stacking up against installing their app
@bellaswoosh@Mclean1Chris@KilburnHerald Even if you trust their motives (I don't) you *have* to question the competence of building up a centralised database than can end up getting compromised when there was an option that allowed you to avoid having that database in the first place.
@find_evil@alexbloor Easily done in my experience - I work with people across the globe so periodically find my meaning is either being missed or misread.
@alexbloor To be honest, I think she's missed *all* the context of this, as well as taking what I'd describe a very american reading of what was written in that one tweet.
His tweet doesn't read as a threat to me, *at all*, it's self-deprecating humour.
@cybergibbons@hookgab@craiu@iblametom Kinda my thinking, particularly as an overblock is easier to pick up on - something broke - than retrospectively finding you missed something.
We had been binging Four in a bed, but @channel4 have changed the all4 app so Fiab is no longer listed by series and is just 1 long list instead. So we've lost our place because the app's crap and forgets where you were.
@hookgab@craiu@cybergibbons@iblametom For other things, they also periodically use .global. instead of .intl. (found in my dns logs) - not clear whether its a fallback or a choice, but seems to support all the same subdomains
Ive ended up just feeding some regexes into pihole and accepting it may overblock at times.
@JimAndrakakis@_Responsibles@cybergibbons To be fair "We'll give you a 24hr start" is crap English. In what way is @cybergibbons start being ramped over 24h and is he not in fact already running?
Unless they meant to say headstart in which case criticising *your* handle on English is a bit pot calling kettle black
@eric_180uk@JJHTweets Its worse than you think in some ways. There's a more privacy sensitive approach to track + trace available, and in use by other countries. They rejected it and chose to self-implement a more centralised model. I'd have considered the former.
https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1255079397616422912
@cybergibbons I laughed when I read that bit.
Because, CNAMEs aren't a thing, and you'd never, ever have a subdomain (3 labels deep at that) resolve to someone else's servers. Or... you know... self host someone else's application.
Google photos did the "rediscover this day" notifications thing. It chose 2017.
This day in 2017 I.... cracked my windscreen.
Mind you, that means I went outside, so in some ways I guess it *should* be a happy memory https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1256270313270251520/photo/1
@smithbloks@Peachykwen@Don1Gibson@galaxy_gizmo@korviliath@Tweet4nita Also, did you really just like your own tweet?
We had kids shot in a school and decided that was enough. America went the other way. Talk about general pop if you want, but you cant ignore the schools. Must really suck to live your life in fear though, you have my sympathies
@smithbloks@Peachykwen@Don1Gibson@galaxy_gizmo@korviliath@Tweet4nita You seem to have made the mistake of thinking I and the person I was replying to were in any way serious. We were taking the fucking piss mate. Your argument was laughable and has been shot (sorry, knifed) down repeatedly online. It just not worth the effort
@Jabo_SCO@cybergibbons Last time I spent >= 6 hours working on the car was during the heatwave last year. Got a kidney infection as a result, n just havent felt as motivated to do the bigger jobs since
@InfoSecHotSpot Hopefully he can knock some sense into them and get them to follow a more privacy-focused model (as Germany have now chosen to) so that they're not sacrificing uptake for some pretty mediocre gains.
@_ybarbo@HeadmontonOil@eugenegu@elonmusk I'd say he knows a lot less in some areas than he _thinks_ he does. It's not at all uncommon amongst people perceived as brilliant in other areas. Success can come from diving head first into new things, but the same approach makes you look a complete prick when you're wrong
@AmazonHelp Just as a side note to this.The product appears to have been removed from the "has been dispatched" mails, but at the bottom of the mail it says "frequently bought together with [product]"
So any privacy benefit of removing the itemisation is lost
@Mclark1502@cjsnowdon OK, but if you wanna go that route we need to look at why our warning systems failed.
Trump refusing to nominate anyone for WHO and so letting China influence them cannot be ignored. Nor can trying to ignore the issue once it was here.
China aren't blameless, but it's not 100%
This, so much this - #c_4021575' target=_blank rel='nofollow noopener'>https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2020/04/28/uk_coronavirus_google_apple_api/#c_4021575
"The most important thing is to get enough people to use the app such that the contact tracking works. Farting around with additional functionality that might subsequently reduce the number of installs is idiotic"
> This is the first in a series of emails to help you get the most out of Teams.
FML
@Microsoft need to get a "no, don't want any more" button into these mails.
The mails you then get from Microsoft "share your team with others" don't have a "sod off, don't bother me again" link either, so I fully expect I'm going to be getting irritated by those for months
But, I'm not using this for school and I *don't want to set up a new team*
I want to join someone else's call, and unfortunately they're using Teams.
Signup really needs a "I'm doing this under duress" option
Oh, and while I'm at it, the signup process for Teams is stupid.
How will you use it
- School
- Family/Friends
- Talk to workmates
If you choose Family/Friends it tells you to sod off and use skype
Right, turns out it's just bastard slow.
5 mins sat on a grey screen and then eventually it loads the interface.
This *must* be using electron... oh wadda ya know it is
Does anyone have any experience of getting @MicrosoftTeams to actually fucking work on Linux?
I need to join a call tomorrow - all I get is a white screen from their desktop app. Same in Chrome.
Having a bad day anyway, without this shite
Who'd have though in 2020 we'd see the president of the USA not only suggesting the internal use of disinfectant, but then demonstrating he has no idea what sarcasm actually is. https://twitter.com/Tucker5law/status/1253752677265289217
@AmazonHelp Thanks, either a toggle to re-enable including the purchased items in the mail, or a toggle to turn those mails off completely.
My session with Amazon doesn't last beyond tab close, so having a "Track your package" button in the mail isn't much use (and encourages bad habits)
@AmazonUK is there a setting somewhere for order notification emails so that you'll go back to putting what the items are into "will be delivered today" emails?
I get why they were removed, but the emails are useless without that info
@TaskForceAEGIS@tnewtondunn And yet, rather than pointing that out, our government have chosen to lie about it.
That's not exactly re-assuring is it? I hope you're directing the same level of scrutiny at our lot as you are at the EU. One being bad does not automatically make the other good.
@mattshort10@MashManMandela@genji2000@montie@LiamFox@ConHome I'm really not sure which episodes you've been watching to have reached that conclusion, but the underlying point remains the same - the BBC QT audience suffers from such a level of entryism you can't help but wonder if it's assisted.
@The_Bossman525@markroper99@LizJarvisUK@Anna_Soubry@piersmorgan I think we're just going to have to disagree here. "Shedding" the vulnerable is entirely unacceptable in my view. And call it what it is - abandonment.
But, you're right on the testing - they should have been testing heavily from the outset rather than making excuses.
@The_Bossman525@markroper99@LizJarvisUK@Anna_Soubry@piersmorgan You can't simply blame the population. Part of Govt's job is to make sure what they do works with the pop. Choosing a strategy that doesn't fit is a fuck up (regardless of whether there's truth in the idea people are too thick or not). A more experienced govt might have seen that
@The_Bossman525@markroper99@LizJarvisUK@Anna_Soubry@piersmorgan You can't say it definitely would have been, because it's impossible to substantiate. They'd very likely have made their own mistakes, yes, but I suspect we wouldn't have heard the phrase "herd immunity" with all the time wasteage that went with it, for example.
@The_Bossman525@markroper99@LizJarvisUK@Anna_Soubry@piersmorgan Again, you're talking about what might have happened in order to try and distract from what currently is happening under a Govt that you presumably voted for.
Labour undoubtedly have their issues, but this mess is _entirely_ owned by the Tories
@The_Bossman525@markroper99@LizJarvisUK@Anna_Soubry@piersmorgan You can't really "but Labour" while we're in the middle of a pandemic being severely mishandled by a Tory govt who had ample time to prepare but squandered it
You're pointing at empty shelves & going "if we'd had Corbyn it'd be like this". We don't have Labour & its still fucked
@Jane52907389@123db_GEEK@toadmeister It's a bit like - we don't have enough firefighters to cope with 20,000 homes being set alight in a night.
But, if those same 20,000 catch fire, spread over 6 months, then we probably do have enough firefighters to cope.
The numbers, obviously, are pulled out of my behind
@Jane52907389@123db_GEEK@toadmeister No, that's untrue.
Some of those will die because we don't have the capacity in a rush scenario.
If you delay the spread, you're effectively spreading those cases over a bigger surface area so some/many of those who'd die in won't. Some, of course, will still die.
@tsohost@cybergibbons Sounds like you don't know how to set LetsEncrypt up properly.
It's not hard, particularly when you're dealing with a single VM.
If I can get an entire CDN working with it, you can do per VM
@tsohost@cybergibbons Wow, that's *really* not a great advert for your services.
Especially as the renewal should be handled at your end. Lets Encrypt *issue* the certs, but its you who must trigger the renewal (and complete the authentication etc).
@Don1Gibson@smithbloks@Peachykwen@galaxy_gizmo@korviliath@Tweet4nita Do you know, I was walking down the street only yesterday, stubbed my toe on a discarded illegal AK47, and now our socialised medicine system has referred me to their death panel to decide whether to treat me or not...
@DanRaywood@phat_hobbit@troyhunt@haveibeenpwned I host mirrors of various mailing lists, and quite often receive mails like this where "my article" is actually someone's post on a mailing list which just so happens to mention whatever keyword they were targeting.
@Peachykwen@Don1Gibson@galaxy_gizmo@korviliath@Tweet4nita If you can't afford an alarm system then you probably can't afford the training that every firearms owner _should_ be having. Home invasion is incredibly rare over here, despite the lack of guns
Flip side: someone wants to kill you, and guns are legal, odds are theyll be packing
Opened my @McCoys multipack, and rather than 2 of each theyve only given me 1 of the nice thai crisps, and instead 3 of the rancid horrible bacon ones.
Lunch is ruined for today
@willbxtn@HannahAlOthman I asked for flexible working (quite) a few jobs back, and was turned down, even though what I'd requested was basically identical to what they'd granted a female co-worker.
Mind you, that place had other much more major issues with the way staff were treated...
@DrAnneMurphy@judeinlondon2 We're all subject to the Official Secrets Act, regardless of who we work for.
Being made to sign the OSA has no real impact other than to provide proof you've said you understand it. You still have to abide by it even if you don't sign.
@EllenEmmetRand@DKthroughmyeyes@ConcernedHk@ZeroPointAlpha@RealSexyCyborg > And UK?
We've made our own (big) mistakes, as your beloved president was quick to point out the other day.
More importantly, all are further ahead on the graph than the US - the US is trending higher than most for the stage it's at
@Cloudflare Your page stalled for an entire minute on rendering because https://realtime.services.disqus.com/ was unavailable (well, blocked - resolves to 0.0.0.0).
Might wanna look at how your calling resources within the page itself so that rendering isn't blocked :)
@cybergibbons That we'll just accept that 5 milkybar buttons is a serving. Or worse, 4 caramel munchies.
IIRC the Jelly-tots share bag I scoffed said 7 tots was a serving. Seriously, 7 tots and you've had your lot.
I feel bad for anyone in quarantine who trusted the words "serves 4"
I've repeatedly tried to push myself away from amazon - Cookie autodelete logs me out whenever I close the tab, so I have to log in every time, making it much less convenient (especially with 2FA) - but maybe this will help be the final push https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1244979531879981056
@blubelle05@CapitalistWHSm1@WHSmith Unless they were waiting for the Furlough guidance to be published? But they had to close other branches anyway, so that explanation doesn't make sense
@blubelle05@CapitalistWHSm1@WHSmith Me too. I hit them quite hard in writing yesterday, but I doubt it'd have been hard enough to prompt quite this level of response.
On the other hand, given their usual level of (visible) planning, I struggle to believe this was planned.
@Daveyjo59883810@WHSmith My understanding - and it's 2nd hand info - so pinch of salt, is that all non-post office stores will close.
It's possible it's limited to this region ofc, but I don't think so.
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen No, it's not business support. And they *never* said it was.
Just like with IR35, they're treating you as "equivalent" to an employee with this.
Neither really works IMO, but their logic, at least, is clear.
I really, really hope things improve for you fucking sharpish though.
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen A home internet connection is rather important if you WFH and do all your work over that service (think IT Services etc). But, it was just an example.
They are business costs, and come from business income. The measures support personal income
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen > Personal income has nothing to do with business expenses
Yes and the 80% is supposed to prop up personal income. It's not intended to prop up business expenses - hence the shitty position you find yourself in
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen No. Your business income comes from your turnover
*Your* income (i.e. the bit that applies for tax purposes) comes from your profit. It is a blurred line when you're a sole-trader rather than a LTD, I know
The 80% stuff is about personal income, that's why its tied to profit
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen The point though, is that *your* income (not your businesses) comes from your profit, not your revenue. Revenue is your businesses income.
It's far from perfect, but I'm not overly surprised they've implemented this way. There are a lot of people falling through many gaps tho
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen Their expectation with fuel, vehicles etc is much the same.
Course, that goes out of the window if you've got a work van (which I'm guessing you do). Why would you keep a seperate car if it was just for shopping etc?
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen As an example, I need my Internet Connection for private work.
But, because it's not a dedicated connection and I (and family) use it in personal life, you're supposed to work out a %age of the cost that relates to business and expense that only.
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen Because the income is to support your private life not your business. Their view is that you shouldn't be (fully) expensing stuff that you use in your private life.
It's not uncommon to expense stuff to minimise tax, but it's technically taking liberties
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen I'm not sure Sunak is knocking the questions out of the park though, and I think other countries have perhaps done a better job of supporting businesses.
That we've got the measures we have, particularly from a Tory govt, is astounding. But that's speaks in part about Tories...
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen The bit that's supposed to cover your business expenses is the interest free loans they're offering
I didn't, & still don't, think a loan is really the best way to approach it, as it's potentially just extending the inevitable.
But, you cannot confuse the two, they're different
@truthgerbil@davidbridgen They're trying to cover your *living* costs not the costs of running your business. Your food costs, mortgage etc should all (mostly) be coming out of your profit.
Admittedly, there is a bit of a blurred line at times and it clearly puts you in a shit position.
@dsmiffy55@twattybanjo@doggylicks@DavidGauke The end result is exactly the same, so what does it matter whether they thought "lets go for a walk" or "lets get a group together".
You've still got a lot of people in close proximity.
You've also got a bunch of people who may get injured during their walk, tying up resources
@josbo1710@dsmiffy55@DavidGauke Yep, or their car breaks down on the way to or from, so a recovery guy has to come out & interact with them - despite the journey having been entirely unnecessary in the first place.
There is worse behaviour to focus on, but that doesn't excuse the lesser stuff
This is *worse* than if they'd turned them down. What other balls are No 10 dropping through an inability to communicate, and who's going to die as a result?
@Peston should be holding them to account rather better than this https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1243222128473845760
@Creamih8@c_kennaugh@BenKentish It's true, we're not an EU member, but we're in the transition period which includes access. They were offered, and he's turned them down.
Maybe it's you that needs to get a grip
@Creamih8@c_kennaugh@BenKentish > Always trying to score political points
You realise you're commenting on a thread where Boris has turned down ventilators so it doesn't hurt his Brexit position right?
Fuck sake.
The church of brexit must have it's sacrifice, never mind if it means we don't get medical equipment.
We can take part in the initiative and *still* not be members https://twitter.com/BenKentish/status/1243143276133261316
@Scott_Helme To be fair, even on something more standard "suitable for calipers" has always seemed to mean "won't gum them up, but will still start peeling and flaking off"
Have a look for VHT or XHT Paint. XHT tends to be more for blocks though
@tirednotwired@cybergibbons what needs to be a little more heavy-handed (and I suspect will come so), is addressing companies who are blatantly taking the piss.
Depending on the success my other half has today, I'll likely be getting heavy-handed with her employer myself.
@tirednotwired@cybergibbons Yep, I agree, and we're *always* going to miss the importance of something.
I mean, just look at the perception of delivery drivers a few weeks ago when they were talking about immigration compared to now.
I think what they have now approaches a reasonable balance
@tirednotwired@cybergibbons I don't like the idea of heavy handed enforcement either, but really, as a species we're too fucking stupid to survive this.
There are going to be a lot of needless deaths because twats went out anyway. It won't necessarily be those twats who suffer either
@tirednotwired@cybergibbons My other half works on the high street (and is currently battling to get the branch closed).
There are tons of people still milling about.
They even had a customer who'd just popped out to get supplies because her husband *has* coronavirus.
@Netflixhelps@Netflixhelps Im giving up on this.
Can't seem to get your support team to understand the address is an alias, so I cant send mail from that address. As a result they've done precisely nothing.
Completely crap, considering the domain name is my name, bit of a giveaway
@G00dB0y2020@cybergibbons Slippery slope is much more you start drinking, then drink more heavily, then become abusive etc.
The gradual erosion of liberty isn't done on a slippery slope.
I disagree with you on this anyway, though I do agree theres danger
@G00dB0y2020@cybergibbons Wrong. The phrase you want is "thin end of the wedge".
The slippery slope paradigm refers to something running away with unintended consequences.
They introduce "acceptable" surveillance - the thin end of the wedge - and then broaden it - driving the wedge in
@Cathy280592@PriceXMark@WHSmith Retail stores in Hospitals are specifically excluded in the Government's instruction.
This is about the rest of WHSmith's estate, and the fact that despite weeks of opportunity to plan, they've done FA other than talk about how they consider themselves essential so will continue
Their upper-mgmt - safely working from home - talk about positioning themselves as an essential service, as if this is a fucking game and it doesn't mean putting their staff in harms way, with staff being abused, coughed and spat on.
At the other end of this crisis, I suspect companies like Smith's are going to haemorrhage employees who'll remember the piss-poor treatment they got (on top of years of negligent disregard for welfare - it's not just their carpets they neglect).
#notessential
Please spare a thought for the many @WHSmith employees stuck in locked shops waiting to hear whether they've got to trade or not.
The company couldn't plan an orgy in a brothel - there's been no forward thought or contigency planning that I can see. https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1242120402744328194
Oh, for the purposes of transparency (theirs) I should probably add that @Whsmith hold employee welfare in such high regard that last week on a conference call:
"If you can't work because you can't get childcare, you won't be paid"
It may be legal, but it's complete shit
@cybergibbons As an expert, you tend - if anything - to know what you don't know, at least in related areas. If you don't know what you don't know you're probably not as expert as you tell yourself you are.
@Dave_Tweets13@BearConway@talktoharris1@alexwickham Flouting it now still leads to a lesser spread than flouting at peak. At peak, there's a higher chance you will encounter (and spread) it - at best, extending the peak, at worst pushing us beyond the level we can cope with.
I *guess* they're hoping ppl will pay attention b4 peak
@andrewlowdon1@peterjukes@billybragg How very adult of you. You're also very, very wrong.
Like I said, no-one gives a fuck about your precious brexit at the moment. Focus on what's important.
@andrewlowdon1@peterjukes@billybragg Not really, my role in this thread started by pointing out the idiocy in one of your statements.
Brexit itself is an act of idiocy, but it's a closed matter as far as I'm concerned. You've fucked over the country, and we're all gonna have to live with the consequences.
@andrewlowdon1@peterjukes@billybragg > eventually
TBH though mate, at the moment, none of us give a fuck about your precious Brexit. There are much bigger, more important things going on - and things that would be much harder if we'd had the hard brexit so many claimed to want.
@andrewlowdon1@peterjukes@billybragg You might like to note too that the current PM, and the rest of the ERG were the votes that counted against Mays deal.
@andrewlowdon1@peterjukes@billybragg They could have done, but they didn't.
They were democratically elected MPs acting in what they perceived to be the interests of the country.
Aside from the fact you disagreed with them, what's undemocratic about that?
@alexbloor followed by silence as the person actually on the phone panicked and hit mute.
Unfortunately there were quite a few higher-ups on the call, so there were some repercussions on their side
@alexbloor I was on a conf call with a large ISP once, when home-time came (over there).
You started hearing bustle in the background as their co-workers got themselves sorted for leaving.
Suddenly, clear as a bell you hear "well, when's the last time you fucked a bishop?" over the line
@JasonWMTT@Lutzoid@PARLYapp FAOD I'm not suggesting btw that Corbyn in any way implies competence. Just that Williamson being shit has nothing to with him being a Tory.
@JasonWMTT@Lutzoid@PARLYapp I've assumed nothing. He could be anti-Tory and that be unrelated.
Gavin Williamson is a tit who half-arses quite a lot. He'd still be a tit who half-arsed a lot if he was Corbyn's 2ic.
With luck though, even if the statement is half-arsed, the response it relates to won't be
@JasonWMTT@Lutzoid@PARLYapp You're assuming its "Tory" that makes him expect half-arsed, and forgetting who the education secretary is. Gavin Williamson - AKA the man who whilst defence secretary couldn't even turn Siri off so that she wouldn't interrupt him addressing the house.
@wilhil@alexbloor AIUI (admittedly to a very limited extent), it's a default behaviour. Though given Outlook/Exchange's integrated nature, doesn't surprise me you can change at the Exchange end too
In Outlook they generally need to change the RTF setting.
What's the command?
@ashweb1@alexbloor The freq of the issue probably depends on who's regularly emailing you, and what they're using, much more than what you are using.
Thunderbird doesn't handle Winmail.dat gracefully (or didn't last time I used it), and definitely didn't handle the meeting invites
@ashweb1@alexbloor There are various bits of software which will address this, but it doesn't change the fact it's bloody frustrating to have to do so.
Bearing in mind that Google Mail doesn't handle the Winmail.dat issue either.
@GeoffLath@socialwriter No, should have done really but had littlun helping me and wanted to minimise the opportunity for him to spill, inhale or touch it. He was happy with there being a brine pool like in Octonauts
@kevinckrinke@cybergibbons My wife banned me from answering the door to them after she overheard a conversation where I said I preferred to rely on observable fact. They said they had a book full of fact, and I replied that The Sun would claim to be full of fact, but most would disagree.
@JamesBl04750891@Jung_HoSeokJin@Ollie_PC@laurab032 I think you might want to catch up on the news, there have been multiple patients readmitted in multiple countries having re-contracted.
Also rich to claim denial of science when making blanket statements about immunology.
Have a nice day, I've other things to do
@JamesBl04750891@Ollie_PC@laurab032 FWIW I hope they're right and I'm wrong, but I don't believe that's the case.
We've already seen this morning how short-sighted they were on not cancelling big events. They missed that big events tie up emergency staff, it's not just about risk of transmission.
@JamesBl04750891@Ollie_PC@laurab032 The consensus, as it applies to COVID-19 is very firmly against you.
What works for one disease does not necessarily work for others.
Hell, SG found that with Swine-Flu - they'd learnt a lot from SARS & thought they had the next one covered, but Flu needs different containment
@JamesBl04750891@Ollie_PC@laurab032 No, it doesn't matter if they're known or not. That's the point, and is exactly why your previous tweet is complete crap
@JamesBl04750891@Ollie_PC@laurab032 So we let potentially millions die on the offchance?
That's not how scientific or medical rigour is supposed to work. It's also in stark contrast to the approach in the rest of the world, including in countries vastly more experienced in this respect
@JamesBl04750891@Ollie_PC@laurab032 Yes, most dying have pre-existing conditions. The thing you're missing though, is there are plenty of people out there with *unknown* pre-existing conditions (i.e. they've not yet been diagnosed).
That's not how herd-immunity to smallpox developed or works, like, at all
@JamesBl04750891@Ollie_PC@laurab032 "problem with UK strategy is not enough known on #Herd_Immunity & coronaviruses. These viruses do not trigger robust adaptive immune responses, one reason why we get colds every few years even without extensive mutation" ~ Kim Roberts influenza virus researcher/virology lecturer
@JamesBl04750891@Ollie_PC@laurab032 COVID-19 has a mortality rate of 3-4%
You don't develop herd immunity by just letting that rampage through millions of people.
There's also currently no real evidence on how long the COVID-19 antibodies actually stick around/remain effective.
I do wonder, a little, given people have been panic buying Isopropyl, how many stories of IPA poisoning we're going to hear about following people not handling it properly....
Its long, long overdue that this sort of thing was actually regulated. Clearview are just the first high-profile lot to do it, they won't be the last, and it won't be any less wrong.
Vermont sues Clearview, alleging “oppressive, unscrupulous” practices https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1659522
I just found a bug in one of my scripts that means it doesn't work after lunch.
Normally it's triggered by cron in the early hours, so the issue lay latent, until I needed to manually trigger it.
s/%I/%H/g
Virgin Media playing loose with the truth? Must've been their advertising team who wrote the statement....
FYI: When Virgin Media said it leaked 'limited contact info', it meant p0rno filter requests, IP addresses, IMEIs as well as names, addresses & more https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/06/virgin_more_leak_details/
@skiptonbs From my point of view youve made it actively worse. If you're using TOTP under the hood for the 2FA, why not expose a QR in internet banking so that it can be scanned into Google Auth/Authy etc? That way you dont need to support 2 apps, but dont lose the benefit of auth only
@notameadow People have a real hardon for firing after a mistake. All you're actually doing is getting rid of an employee who will *never* make that mistake again & replacing them with someone who might.
People learn from mistakes, I'd rather an employee whos learnt than one yet to do so
@cybergibbons My local place has a bunch in, I noticed them whilst picking up some fixings yesterday.
Guess it's backwater enough to not have been hit by panic just yet
@OverSoftNL@Yekki_1@cybergibbons Bits of Asia too - I was giving stats to an Indonesian colleague and he asked if we had any that looked better - which was odd because they were _very_ good. Then it clicked.
@05nelsonm_@skiptonbs@NatWest_Help At the cost of rampant volatility and not actually being able to spend your funds most places.
I've had bitcoin, I've got bitcoin, I've even had invoices paid in it. I wouldn't even begin to consider using it in place of fiat. Not that fiat is without it's own issues, of course.
@skiptonbs Oh and shout-out to @NatWest_Help for being the *only* bank in a long list that won't let you update your address online and makes you phone them instead.
Keeping up that reputation for lacklustre service....
Opened the @skiptonbs to generate a 2FA code, and it's frigging updated into a full mobile banking app.
So now there's un-needed & unwanted access to a financial account from my phone, rather than it just generating 2FA codes for me to enter in a *much* safer environment.
@josephfcox Presumably the image you supply as part of the request stays in their dataset (so that they can discard any matches against it).
Meaning while they stop _collection_, there's still a reference (now linked to your name) that they may still return to searchers.
I agree with @cybergibbons the criteria of the competition are un-meetable.
It's a publicity stunt and has nothing to do with the actual security of the device.
And their site doesn't exactly scream secure device - you can sideload Android apps onto it for fuck sake
@brokep@AlecMuffett@mozilla If you're using UDP53 then you've still got the same issue, because it's trivially interceptable.
You can change the setting in Firefox too.
I don't like the use of Cloudflare as a default either, but other options are available - I set up my own, but there are plenty of others
This is ridiculous. It's been *3 weeks* and @123reg still haven't been able to delete my account.
That's not haven't tried - they've made multiple attempts and have resolutely failed to delete the account.
Does make you wonder how they're set for their GDPR compliance...
@alexbloor We had HSBC come in to teach us when I was young - they basically came in to punt us their accounts and get us enrolled young (I've still got the account, though its not my main 1).
It was a good few years after that that their overly-friendly relationship with cartels came out.
@SeanWrightSec I guess there's an argument for requiring that clipboard retrieval be user-originated (i.e. preventing apps just reading from it).
But otherwise, yeah, I'm with you - this isn't a vulnerability, it's a shared workspace (the clipboard) working exactly as intended
This is fucking insane. Who the hell designs a hotel and thinks it's OK to have a door that cannot be locked by the guest?
I'd push the bed against it, and then change hotel the next morning https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1232205402932072448
@zackwhittaker Would love to read it, but unfortunately it redirects to https://guce.advertising.com/ in order to set a 1st party cookie.
Story about stalkerware laden with embedded creepiness wares. Sadness
Thread.
There's something _very_ wrong with Hackerone/Paypal when they're saying "That's invalid, but you still need our permission to disclose it".
The whole thing smacks of bad faith https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/1232224441347633152
@IntlHamDay Yeah, I'm glad I looked closer - when I saw the mail my initial assumption was they'd picked my address up somewhere and were spamming me, so was going to bitch at them.
"Start watching today" doesn't really automatically parse as a welcome mail to me.
At least one of the addresses I received at has been involved in a data leak elsewhere (I use per-service mailbox names). It's under my own domain too, so there's next to no possibility of it being mistakenly typed by someone.
@netflix in your welcome emails ("Start watching netflix"), you probably want a link for "I didn't create an account, someone's trying their luck with *my* email address).
Any chance someone's been stuffing to try and identify email addys with an active Netflix account?
@purp@SwiftOnSecurity Might just be a bad spot, but I've recently increasingly been thinking that Amazon *delivery* is no longer useful. We've had no-end of issues.
I moved their mails into a dedicated, self-run mailbox a little while back though, precisely because of scraping/snooping
@IanColdwater Never met IRL, so based on Twitter:
Your level of knowledge _could_ put you way up there, but the way you communicate it makes you seem much, much more approachable/less intimidating.
Prob a 6, but I _think_ that'd drop substantially IRL
@Shadow0pz the script he was referring to had been up 6 years at that point, was clearly marked as abandoned and did the job it needed to
One of his complaints was I'd done 'if [ condition ] then' rather than '[[ condition ]] &'
Younger me was far too polite in response
@Shadow0pz I sometimes do this, but tends to be - its not the best, I couldnt be arsed to have a tidy and its only to show the concept
But, yeah critics can GTFO. Over 20yrs ago I got an unsolicited email "your BASH script is a mess" - no intent of helping improve, just wanted to feel smug
@cam_sf@HannahAlOthman Looks like at least one of the partners you can self-report through uses Open Banking to verify the payments - so having to self report _shouldn't_ affect the veracity.
@cam_sf@HannahAlOthman Experian offer it free, but when my landlords agent sent through an offer to do it, they wanted to charge a "membership fee" for the privilege...
@therealautoblog there's some stuff on your site I'd love to read, but unfortunately can't because your site insists on trying to redirect me to the privacy hostile service https://guce.advertising.com/.
Maybe reconsider your relationship with them rather than driving ad revenue away?
@FortHoody@Terribu02987020@newscomauHQ granted that's not a full on confrontation, just fucking around, but the point remains that "fight" isn't always the right answer.
With something like Judo, you tend to wind up moving into their attack zone in the hope you'll be able to knock them off balance.
@FortHoody@Terribu02987020@newscomauHQ It also takes time *and* discipline to learn it to the point it'll be useful. If they're already being bullied then frankly there are better, quicker methods.
I remember a mate at high-school boasting about his judo, but because he was small and new it was ineffective against us
@Timccopeland@cybergibbons I'd have to change room (either that or ring the disabled alarm and ask for help getting *in*, much less out)
It's a terrible design
@cybergibbons Ive actually been filling some free time playing with building a RNG just for the fuck of it. Earlier today it was actually (briefly) unhackable - because I fucked up and it blocked solid.
@OverSoftNL@yrys88@fbarton@cybergibbons Not particularly applicable tothe circumstances you're talking about (as that _should_ trip things), but I've had more than one fuse fail closed, causing a fire risk. It does happen. Defence in depth, 2 fuses better than 1
Right, what fucking moron thought it'd be a good idea to make package names case sensitive in #yum?
You need to install `PyYAML`, not pyyaml or Pyyaml.
Follow up question, what moron called the package PyYAML instead of pyyaml?
@lliwedd@baoigheallain@theJeremyVine@MikeyCycling@CBRE Still happens sometimes, little while ago now, but I once got overtaken on a 125 by a van whilst I was overtaking a lorry on the dual carriageway - literally sandwiching me between the wheels of a lorry doing ~60 and him.
@alexbloor collect data you're not already collecting and push it into a blockchain even though you've got a database you could store it in.
What the actual fuck are these people smoking?
There should be a blockchain to track inane suggestions like this
@Xof I once refused to join a call because the CEO held a "pre-call-call" and tried to brief that we weren't allowed to use the *correct* terminology because the customer might not like the word "corruption".
Was not going to put my name on what was essentially a lie, rather than fix
@ThemanfromK@Pikaya61@EnglishmanAdam Its not discriminating on the basis of nationality, its discriminating on the basis of whether you have the right to live/work in the eu. Im not saying the guy def exists, but your understanding of the law and how it applies is *very* wrong
@Janfreterson@ciphergoth@KotekLapke "the bigger they are the harder they fall".
Common saying, but entirely under-appreciates the difficult gradient in getting them to fall, not to mention ignoring the question of whether they stay down.
@cybergibbons If you're looking for something to watch, find the latest episode of Richard Hammond's Big - made me think of your love of maritime as it's all about the Marie Maersk
@TheKenMunroShow@cybergibbons whilst rugby players got knocked on their arse and carried on.
The result was that one was easily watchable, the other was just downright frustrating to watch.
I think over time that led to me being far more likely to even bother to turn the tv on for rugby than for football
@TheKenMunroShow@cybergibbons I _think_ that's actually why I've ended up preferring it. I grew up watching both at a time when footballers were generally a bunch of diving, prissy pri-madonnas interrupting the game and making a fuss to the ref about everything,
@Radegund RCA:
The issue was noticed immediately by our automated monitoring. Unfortunately, due to changes in law, it had to put a send-delay of 7.5hrs on the resulting notification emails.
The alerts were read the next morning and the situation immediately resolved
@gmail Once you trip that limit, the only way to start over is to discard your mail and start again.
It only seems not to reset for embedded images though, if you delete your attached files you reduce down to the original 15MB and can gradually re-add until you hit 25MB again
@gmail realise that's not what you meant to do, as you want them as actual attachments rather than scaled down versions of their former selves.
Delete each one, then click the attach button.
Select the 4 files, receive complaint that it's over 25MB
@gmail Browser - in this case, Chromium.
It looks to me like there's a counter that doesn't get reset when attachments are removed.
Repro:
Have 4 JPGs ready - combined size 15MB (most are 4.3-4.4MB, one is 2.8)
Drag and drop them one by one into a new email
1/
Tonights grumble is fucking @gmail claiming that a 1.2MB image is >25MB and uploading it to drive rather than attaching to the sodding email.
@google I just want to send this thing.
Something obviously gets stuck, because F5ing and starting again works fine.
Can't help think a lot of people would use WhatsApp Web if @whatsapp didn't keep doing silly things like playing with UA filtering. Actively choosing to use an Electron app is a sign of user desperation
https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1651368
@cybergibbons and that being able to quietly change something to collect passwords from careful users doesn't matter because you could set up an attack that only a user who's "not careful enough" might fall for.
They don't seem to consider the idea that "my" bc-vault might request more either
@dagarasforan@BadassBowden This isn't based on _much_ tho. I ran a spider I've been building against the source of each of those images, and your handle *is* one of the keywords that came out of it.
Google's quite a bit better at this than me though, so /shrug
@dagarasforan@BadassBowden It's prob because there's quite a limited resultset, and it's a sufficiently unique string to match well on pages your handle appears on.
You're in the comments under each of those images, and your account is relatively new in Twitter terms, so may not have been well indexed yet
@cybergibbons > we currently do not think that such an attack would be useful at all.
When you've been caught thinking it's OK to distribute the private key for a CA signed cert, what you think about the applicability of an attack doesn't carry a lot of weight.
It's quite a grudging post
@iain_watson@MichaelDow16@caitlinmoran Particularly as the market has changed. Netflix were attractive because they were one place with lots of choice. Now everyone wants a slice, so the likes of Disney are pulling their content and launching their own stores.
That sort of fragmentation didn't work for cable either.
@AmazonHelp Yep, got through in the end - it's just that getting there was incredibly frustrating. In this case it was about a return, and the bot was determined to take me to the returns screen, with no other option. Fairly useless to me
@iWasSaynBoourns Theyve got smegma on there, which isnt really used to curse, but left off smeg which is - at least by Red Dwarf fans.
Also
> flog the log
@grumpywonky@WheelsofSteer > But you're too young
One benefit of having got older is that I don't really hear this one any more.
I'm fortunate that I haven't had most of these, but
> Can't they do something?
Yeah, course they can, I just couldn't be arsed to get it done and thought I'd suffer instead.
@cybergibbons By increasing the amount people have to remember, you increase the risk they'll make it easier for themselves to remember (simpler passwords, pins etc). So your own improvements end up undermining security.
@cybergibbons History would suggest they're wrong too. It's "more" secure to require a user to have lots of individual accounts and passwords for lots of things - compromise one the others are unaffected.
That didn't work in practice though, and we now have SSO cos otherwise "Password12"
@cybergibbons and ofc likely have a need to store your secrets in a readily available manner.
There's *more* stuff to have to compromise, and that seems to be being perceived as a barrier, without assessing what impact that complexity increase has on user behaviour.
@cybergibbons I think the CTO is making the mistake of thinking more is better. Your post (correctly) considers that this additional complexity increases your attack surface - you now have a computer involved for example
@tomkin1234@BarristerSecret@StevePeers They literally created an index of British media lies about the EU and why they were lies/myths.
Its not like they hadnt been trying...
@ianmiell@wolfniya Discrimination on basis of lifestyle isnt a protected thing here either (it is in the US). There are aspects of your lifestyle that are individually protected (sexual orientation etc), but being sweary or going out on the piss arent included in that.
@ianmiell@wolfniya and yes, context matters, but this is twitter and even using multiple tweets I don't have the room to write in all the caveats that should be there. The original claim - that using this data would be illegal under UK law remains bollocks though.
@ianmiell@wolfniya It *is* legal to say "I dont think you'd fit in well with the team". Its not legal to decide to say that because they're gay. It is legal to decide to do so if the reason is they swear a lot online.
@ianmiell@wolfniya I think you're wandering from the original point tbh. Use of this data isnt itself illegal. If this data highlights (say) sexual orientation then discriminating on that basis would be.
@ianmiell@wolfniya The point being in your scenario what they claim to have done - saying your a poor fit - is totally legal. You'd need to convince a court that was motivated by a protected characteristic to have it considered illegal discrimination.
@ianmiell@wolfniya But, they don't need to say *anything at all* for you to be able to *try* and claim it was illegal discrimination. Thats why this ill-advised, because it gives people something to point at and bring an action. It doesnt mean they'll succeed and it certainly doesnt make it illegal
@ianmiell@wolfniya The point there is, you'd need to persuade a court thats why they said that. Its perfectly legal for them to say, the motivation behind it may not necessarily be but its on *you* to show that. Saying "sorry I don't hire gays" otoh is illegal discrimination right off the bat
@wolfniya@ianmiell Bear in mind its perfectly legal to say "didnt hire because didnt feel was a good fit for the rest of the team". Which is exactly what they would say based on this info.
The types that would discriminate based on it wont even tell you they ordered the search.
@wolfniya@ianmiell Yes, but "relevant" is subjective and the company's interpretation would need testing in court. As the complainant you'd also have to show that the harm (not getting an interview) was unreasonable.
They crawled my publicly available likes is unlikely to meet that bar
@JuneYourTech@RealSexyCyborg I think youve misunderstood the original tweet. *read* the poster, its not about the image as what they seem to be asking people to do
@ianmiell@GossiTheDog@wolfniya@kmlefranc Very ill-advised to filter on stuff like this, but almost certainly not illegal.
For me, though, it'd ring alarm bells and I'd probably decline to pursue the job any further.
@ianmiell@GossiTheDog@wolfniya@kmlefranc Most of the stuff in the shots wouldnt be illegal discrimination anyway. A lot of the advice that exists is to protect the business from the cost of retaliatory lawsuits (it still costs to defend, even if you win). Its only illegal to discriminate on protected characteristics
@ianmiell@GossiTheDog@wolfniya@kmlefranc A catch though is that they dont need to tell you why they declined. So they cam read the report, say "darn no" (as they dont like fuck) and not invite you back
Even concrete discrimination in the hiring process is hard to pursue bcause they don't generally say "sorry no blacks"
@cybergibbons Yeah its terrible luck really, the odds were stacked much the other way. On the other hand, it does show that even partials can be useful
All that grief, essentially, because of a Sheriff castle building....
Exonerated: Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1650247
A random thought occurs, and I've no intention of doing so, but @RoyalMail what'd happen if I posted some rare earth magnets to someone? Are the rollers on your sorting machines magnetic? Is there some obscure law relating to it?
@SeanWrightSec I do prefer wget's approach in this respect. You can do the same thing, but it requires much more effort than simply adding -k
You have to both remember and type "--no-check-certificate" which is enough effort to not happen so routinely. unless you add an alias with it
At lunch I bought some Vimto Candyfloss from @Morrisons as a surprise for the wife.
Unfortunately it looks like it was packed in a cold environment. The warmth of the office appears to have increased air pressure inside the container and crushed the floss.... https://twitter.com/bentasker/status/1221813745829253121/photo/1
News broke recently about Clearview AI scraping social media photos to build some fairly creepy facial recognition and flog it to cops.
Now people are putting multiple angles/styles of themselves up for #dollypartonchallenge
It's an authoritarian's wet dream....
They based their entire business on the existence of a market that could only exist if the Government mandated that we surrender privacy. It was always a gamble on their part, and they lost. There's no reason the taxpayer should have to pay for it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51235675
Doing stupid unwanted shit like this is part of the reason people started disabling automatic windows updates in the first place. It's a dumb idea and will generate bad feeling for no real gain.
https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1648107
This article seems to make the mistake of thinking unsophisticated automatically means bad. Sometimes the simplest methods are amongst the most effective - users being a weak link is a constant, whereas vulns are patched all the damn time
https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1648279
Disappointingly, encrypting storage isn't much use if you do it after files have been deleted. #Android's approach to FDE is surprisingly sub-par - there's no initial pass over the filesystem with random data (or even zeros), so stuff remains recoverable
It's worth noting that the exact same approach and tools can be used for phones themselves - whether #Android or #ios
Even if you don't think you put anything sensitive on your phone, encrypt the storage. It's a simple, yet effective defence.
The recovered material ranged from family snaps to intimate videos and financial information.
We live in our phones, so the SD's often contained everything a blackmailer might need to make an attempt.
I played about with recovering files from a job lot of micro-SD cards. Some incredibly sensitive stuff recovered
I also tested accessible ways to securely erase SD cards and the like
The forensics done here are simple/trivial also more than sufficient
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/blog/privacy/685-recovering-files-from-sd-cards
@notdan@LadyRed_6@creditkarma@Facebook They've never been any good.
My username for them is still a variant of FuckingNoddle because I got so frustrated at their registration form back when it was still called Noddle.
Absolute shit from beginning to end, but we don't really get a say in them getting our data
This would almost certainly elicit an email response from me explaining how their choice of personal car is flashy and entirely uneconomic, whilst mine allows me to spend money on something more important.
Or if I was tired, a simple "Fuck you, I'm not coming to that meeting" https://twitter.com/JaysonElliot/status/1219861955256541187
Note the repeated mentions of augmented reality. This is one of the things that comes with people wearing things like Google Glass near you, although it's not a requirement.
Scary, creepy and already here.... https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1219201910349058049
@HighwaysEAST > Please prepare alternative arrangements for your journeys
Otherwise known as sitting in traffic for hours because everyone's trying to cut through Ipswich.
@AlecMuffett We can now look forward to people quoting that first para as evidence that SHA-1 is broken, without having read the rest.
Gross overinflation seems to be routine nowadays sadly
@clarelouisekc@Rachael_Swindon Yep, repeating exactly the same mistakes they made with the election, and when gauging support for Corbyn and his policies.
