alyandon

You wasted their time delaying them moving on to someone else. Mission accomplished.

I don't have a specific answer for that but it is really a problem that residential ISPs are going to have to solve now that gigabit or faster symmetric internet connections are becoming the norm.

If someone is reporting malicious traffic coming from the ISP's network then an ISP should be obligated to investigate and shut off the offending customer if necessary until they've resolved the problem.

Not a 100% solution but would help greatly if ISPs:

1) performed egress filtering to prevent spoofing arbitrary source addresses

2) temporarily shut off customers that are sending a large volume of malicious traffic

Installing old versions of Windows doesn't mean you can still access the drivers that were available when the OS was still supported.

If you still have the drivers handy - sure. I personally would trust older versions of Linux more than older versions of Windows though. And I say that as someone that is also typing this comment from a Windows desktop.

Oh sure - you could also just run an older kernel that still supports it and take precautions.

Linux being open source completely enables that possibility where otherwise you'd be screwed.

Unfortunately, there is no guarantee. If the maintainer for a driver stops maintaining it and no one else steps in to pick up the work then eventually it'll get removed if it isn't widely used.

DJGPP was (is?) such an amazing thing for me. It was the first baby step towards the world of open source and unix-like operating systems.

It's about having a fully supported Windows 11 install vs bypassing the CPU and TPM check the installer does.

I get that security is part of the posturing - I just think it is tone deaf to the reality that not everyone is going to be willing to spend $500-$2000 USD just to be able to "run" Windows 11.

I have friends and family that will continue to run EOL Windows 10 which is worse unless I convince them to migrate to Linux.

This really just blows my mind that Microsoft believes people are going to throw their perfectly functional laptops/desktops into the trash. All Microsoft has to do to keep people on Windows and in the Microsoft ecosystem would be to offer a supported version of Windows 11 without the CPU and TPM 2.0 requirements.

For me, every one of the older machines in my household (laptops and desktops) that are currently on Windows 10 that cannot run Windows 11 in a fully supported manner will be migrated to a KDE based Linux distro.

I reached a similar point where I was done dealing with crappy consumer gear but even OpenWRT didn't help my situation much because the hardware I had was just plain bad.

That's when I decided to switch to Mikrotik routers and Ubiquity for APs and have had no regrets about that decision other than the relatively steep learning curve.

I am so glad I stopped using Authy and (painfully via the desktop extension and some hacking to get my TOTP keys) migrated to Aegis. I eventually moved from Aegis to keeping everything in Bitwarden + self-hosted Vaultwarden.

  they have a terrible release "process" that seems to not include testing

I wouldn't say they have no testing process at all but it seems to me that they lack discipline when it comes to building releases and testing. I've seen releases that had debug-by-logging type code left in spamming the VM logs as well as breakage in what most would consider very common host + guest combinations.

It's a shame that Oracle doesn't seem to care much about the overall quality of that product. I guess we should be happy Oracle cares enough to still develop it. :-/

Edit: And right now - VirtualBox is still not offering v7.1.8 inside the GUI app and there is no mention of this CVE in the 7.1.8 change logs.

Just give users the ability to pin the icons they care about and hide the others in a pop-out panel like Windows does.

I've always joked about the eventual evolution of the GNOME desktop converging to a single login screen followed by a full screen button labeled LOGOFF because they will claim anything else is too confusing for their users.

17/20 for me on Windows 10 with a cheap(ish) 27" 1440p gaming monitor. I really struggled with the purples so I'm wondering if that is more the monitor than my eyeballs.

FYI - The last release of XChat was in 2010 so not really sure why it was posted or upvoted.

What benefit is there to me to do so?

Why would I want to be locked out of my own PC if I have an extended internet outage and the cached credential expires? What if Microsoft bans my Microsoft account? Note that I also refuse to set up a login "pin" which reduces security to bypass my proper password.

Also, and picking at nits at this point, I hate how it takes the username@outlook.com account name and creates a profile directory with a truncated version of that. It's just always rubbed me the wrong way as well.

I guess I should say - I'm just picky about things on my PC so I tend not to automatically embrace every change Microsoft makes unless there is a clear benefit to me to do so.

It is absurd but I also got tired of fighting it. I use a Microsoft account associated with an outlook.com address I never use for anything important to collect the local PC entitlements. After that, I create a local account and never touch the online one again.

I'll check that out - thanks for the pointer.

I had a similar issue with a Gitea instance that has some public repos. Gitea doesn't follow best practices for a web application and the action to create an archive of a repo is an HTTP GET request instead of an HTTP POST. AI crawlers were hitting that link over and over again causing the server to repeatedly run itself out of disk space.

I've slowly been converting from screen to tmux. However, muscle memory is really hard to overcome so I've come up with this:

https://gist.github.com/alyandon/b19e2634fac6505bb5bd0e0c99d...

Yes - I'm a terrible person.

  Are those supposed to be high?  

Yes, for me they are high relative to the apparent value they bring to the table regarding Firefox.

  What's a reasonable salary for executives?

I won't take a hard position on that. I'd examine the mission of the charity, how well they execute on that mission, what their contribution is to the betterment of humanity, etc to arrive at a value.

  Is there any indication Mozilla's salaries are too high aside from "higher pay than FAANG engineers"?

For me - yes. Exactly for the reasons I stated.

Kind of in a ranty mood today.

I'd gladly pay to support development of Firefox if it were possible to fund it directly via something like a recurring subscription.

Instead my only option is to donate to the Mozilla foundation which lists the following salaries for their executives (according to Charity Navigator):

  Mark Surman, President & Executive Director - $661,886
  J Bob Alotta, Svp, Global Programs - $417,327
  Angela Plohman, Coo, Secretary & Treasurer - $415,549
  Ashley Boyd, Svp, Global Advocacy - $368,445

No thanks. While I don't expect people to work for free there is no way I'm going to make charitable contributions that support those kinds of salaries considering their failed stewardship of Firefox.

I had some success in soaking gooey rubber parts in a vinegar and water bath overnight. It seemed to cause the gooey stuff to slough off enough that I was able to removed by scrubbing lightly with a dish rag.

Yeah, I wonder what the Frontier devs could have done with $500M USD. More than $500M USD and 12+ years of development and the game is still in such a sorry state it barely qualifies as little more than a tech demo.

Yeah, they never should have expected to take an FPS game engine like CryEngine and expected to be able to modify it to work as the basis for a large scale space MMO game.

Their backend is probably an async nightmare of replicated state that gets corrupted over time. Would explain why a lot of things seem to work more or less bug free after an update and then things fall to pieces and the same old bugs start showing up after a few weeks.

And to be clear, I've spent money on SC and I've played enough hours goofing off with friends to have got my money's worth out of it. I'm just really bummed out about the whole thing.

  And Star Citizen will prove to have been worth it along along

Sounds like someone isn't happy with the 4.0 eternally incrementing "alpha" version release. :-D

I keep checking in on SC every 6 months or so and still see the same old bugs. What a waste of potential. Fortunately, Elite Dangerous is enough of a space game to scratch my space game itch.

Yep, you hit the nail on the head. That is the reality of working with LLMs from the big players these days.