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Comment Re:Identify != Fix (Score 1) 132

critical failure in this comparation:

>I found my front door lock was not working.

you found it, great, it was not working!! Easy detection!

now lets put this in the same apples to apples:

the door is working fine, you lock and unlock the door without problems. you do not call the locksmith, everything seems fine!
Your next neighbor kid tried to use a screw drive ( or a finger nail if you want, it is not brute force) in to the lock and it unlocked without any issue. you learn about it and call the locksmith and replace the broken pins.
The hard part was finding the security problem. After knowing the issue, the fix is trivial... but if it was not your neighbor kid (ie: AI, but can be anyone that have the trouble of testing in unusual ways), you would be clueless about the issue and how easy it was to enter your house

Comment Re:Identify != Fix (Score 4, Insightful) 132

>The headline and the summary don't seem to quite agree here
why not!?

The main pain of security issues is finding them!!
After claude found the issues, humans could check and fix them, that for many issues isn't that hard. Again the hard part is pinpoint that some check fails to catch a corner case or a buffer may have the wrong size

Comment Re:Surprised? (Score 3, Informative) 15

perl directly is not a issue, as long you understand what it is doing. Just because is not a hyped language anymore, it still works very well
No tests and push to prod are a problem.

About the hack, i have 4 reservations, yet i only received notification about one of them, that is strange. I have both older and newer reservations of that affected. Maybe it was just the interconnect with other platforms (airbnb? other house renting service?)

Comment Re:So which should a nerd use? (Score 1) 34

at least the MBWay, to use, all you need is a national bank account and a phone, register that phone in the bank app or via the bank site or via ATM code and share your phone number to receive/send payments.
PIX, AFAIK, it is similar
for the rest of european payments, should be mostly similar

you can get payment terminal and associate with those payments or use Stripe, Antom, HiPay, PayPay, EasyPay and many other online payment services and enable and associate the mbway in there

So if you have mbway, you can receive and make payments. But if you only want to receive payments, probably many of the above (and many others) payment services may (i didn't test it) act as middleman and receive the payment and forward the money to your account. Search your prefered payment service and mbway (or any other method) and see if they support it

Comment Re:man lsof -or- appropos list open connections (Score 2) 66

think this as wireshark and lsof/netstat/ss had a child

it sniff network traffic via the kernel, show what connections open and close and log them per PID ... finally, show that in a nice web interface

So wireshark without dumping ALL the traffic payload, that can identify to what PID it belongs and all in real time, something lsof/netstat/ss can only show in THAT exact moment, not during time (so fail to detect short live requests)

Comment Re:Microsoft issues the Linux keys too (Score 4, Interesting) 102

the secure boot in windows enables other features, but in linux it doesn't do anything useful... yes, you have the flag of secure boot, but it is not used by almost anything (may exist tools that check this, but not something breaking)

secure boot in linux is mostly useful for (stupid) laptops where you can't disable secure boot

Comment i smell (Score 2) 262

i smell just a cover history to hide that they are listening to all Iran comms and when Iranian reports pointing that the pilot should be in a certain area, they rushed support to take him first. or simply it was a mirror signal, but that would not make them look good, just incompetent... so lets tell a stupid high tech story, just to look great

Comment Re:Indeed (Score 1) 112

hey, also blame those that only think in profit and allowed trump to win ("he is a business men, economy will get better!" No, he is just a dangerous child blackmailer, that break everything if doesn't win everytime)... now they get a worse economy, high gas prices, a war, bad climate, less tax for rich but much higher debt... even got their own population killed by "pseudo-cops"

MAGA people are retards but they are too few, i do blame more the others, that should know better and yet voted for him... specially non-white people, that had already been targeted by him and still supported him

Comment Re:Indeed (Score 1) 112

>The problem is climate change caused by a warming planet. Everyone thinks that means winters get more pleasant, maybe summers get hotter.

Not even that simple!

there is more energy in the atmosphere, stronger wind, drought in some places, floods in others, huge heat waves reaching north but also polar cold waved being pushed from north to south (ie: "heat wave" in north pole and push south the polar cold air to south, bringing freezing low temperatures). higher air and ocean temperature mean stronger hurricanes and storms

Everything get more erratic and generate more extreme events, usually also stronger too

Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 46

they could not use openoffice as Oracle had the trademark for the name when acquired sun and did changed the license of openoffice from GPL to a more restrictive one... so getting a new name was required and libre was a good option as to say that libreoffice was still GPL, openoffice was just open source, but with many restrictions that didn't existed before
The best thing that apache could do would offer openoffice name to libreoffice, so it could be renamed back to openoffice. I do agree that openoffice is burned in the mind of many people while libreoffice is not

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