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Comment Also runs Windoze - the drivers are out (Score 2) 57

by ihaveamo on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:29PM (#62640998) Attached to: Valve's Steam Deck Makes a Brilliant Case Against Walled Gardens

So the walled garden is not limited to software, but even back at the OS layer. Dual-booting is in the works with STEAMOS3

Comment Cancel Culture is much more of a right wing thing. (Score -1, Flamebait) 142

by ihaveamo on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:35AM (#62418262) Attached to: Efforts To Ban Books Jumped an 'Unprecedented' Four-Fold In 2021

This is proof. And much more dangerous than a few pronouns.

Comment Notice it was someone who just purchased it? (Score 1) 74

by ihaveamo on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:30PM (#62232311) Attached to: VR to the ER: Metaverse Early Adopters Prove Accident Prone

That's as stupid as saying "We purchased a bicycle for little Johnny and within hours we were at ER with a broken kneecap".

Comment Obligatory space elevator comment (Score 1) 88

by ihaveamo on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:08PM (#62232259) Attached to: New Lightweight Material is Stronger Than Steel

I wonder if this material is space-elevator worthy? (When I say "I don't wanna live on this planet anymore", I want to be able to DO something about it!)

Comment ED 209.. (Score 1) 65

by ihaveamo on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:21PM (#62074031) Attached to: An Experimental Target-Recognition AI Mistakenly Thought It Was Succeeding 90% of the Time

I think this AI is fine fine- as long as gives you a certain amount of seconds to comply.

Submission + - RCE 0-day exploit "log4shell" found in log4j, a popular Java logging package (lunasec.io)

Submitted by alfabravoteam on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:00PM

alfabravoteam writes: A 0-day was found on log4j v2, a very popular logging library on Java environments.

Given how ubiquitous this library is, the impact of the exploit (full server control), and how easy it is to exploit, the impact of this vulnerability is quite severe. We're calling it "Log4Shell" for short (CVE-2021-44228 just isn't as memorable).
The 0-day was tweeted along with a POC posted on GitHub. (...) This has been published as CVE-2021-44228 now.
Many, many services are vulnerable to this exploit. Cloud services like Steam, Apple iCloud, and apps like Minecraft have already been found to be vulnerable.
Anybody using Apache Struts is likely vulnerable. We've seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach.
Many Open Source projects like the Minecraft server, Paper, have already begun patching their usage of log4j.

Comment Too new. Where's the updates for my era of games? (Score 2) 60

by ihaveamo on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:23AM (#62050981) Attached to: After 25 Years, Quake 1 Gets Major 'Horde' Mode Update

Love to see a hoard mode in Zork. (As usual, Nethack already has it - damn you, shopkeeper kops!)

Comment Re:Planet 9 has (Score 1) 101

by ihaveamo on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:27AM (#61995215) Attached to: Mysterious Object Glimpsed Decades Ago Might Have Actually Been Planet Nine

I didn't get the reference at first - but now I see that planet IX or "Planet 9" from that brilliant scifi movie that everyone's talking about right now.. "Planet 9 from outer space" Thank you ;)

Comment Absolutely Loved Lynch's Dune (Score 1) 201

by ihaveamo on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:50PM (#61911909) Attached to: Before the New Version, Let's Revisit 1984's Dune

I truly believe it's a masterpiece. Impacted me more as a kid than any of the star wars movies. Ominous, different, and culturally "alien", which is what I want to see in a scifi movie. Also the writing was great - I was surprised that some of my favorite quotes weren't even in the book. Such as the whole juice of sapho chant - "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.". That's my relationship with Coffee ;)

Comment Wizard Wizard (Score 1) 48

by ihaveamo on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:37PM (#61897155) Attached to: New Zealand Council Ends Contract With Wizard After Two Decades of Service

I accidentally disabled what I thought was a rogue service account called Wizard Wizard. (Hey, apps often have installation "wizards" in Microsoft land!). Not long after, Mr. Wizard Wizard called me to say he couldn't log in. That's when I realized name change petitions aren't that hard.

Comment Re:The Wizard of NZ (Score 1) 48

by ihaveamo on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:32PM (#61897145) Attached to: New Zealand Council Ends Contract With Wizard After Two Decades of Service

He should move to Australia, and then it's actually OZ.

Comment I've seen this movie... (Score 2) 6

by ihaveamo on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:53PM (#61515448) Attached to: DeepMind Uses AI To Tackle Neglected Deadly Diseases

As long as as the AI doesn't calculate that Humanity is the deadliest parasitic disease, we'll be fine.

Comment Telewriter 64 for the Tandy COCO (Score 1) 148

by ihaveamo on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:55PM (#61425582) Attached to: What is your preferred word processor?

NVME M.2 drives may be the rage ....I always feel more comfortable storing my documents on audio cassette tapes.

Comment Re:There's only one possible choice. (Score 1) 150

by ihaveamo on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:50PM (#61329532) Attached to: Microsoft Is Changing the Default Office Font

Wingdings! It's the esperanto of fonts!

Comment Well done VLC (Score 2) 53

by ihaveamo on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:14PM (#61017146) Attached to: VideoLAN, Maker of Popular Media Player VLC, Turns 20

I'm not sure why all the hate - I see VLC as one of the pivotal open source success stories. I don't care that it may take a few more seconds to start up - When I have moms and pops calling me to ask "what do I need to watch this video file?" , Mac/Win/Nix . . . doesn't matter... VLC is always the answer. "It Just Works (tm)"

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