mrkramer

I meant top management is in deep shit if their finical departments run low quality buggy accounting software not the staff. Or in this case post office branches run the buggy software. All in all, decentralized nature of post office system was the thing that drove everything to this madness.

I meant courts should've called in multiple expert witnesses and even computer forensics companies. This case looks like government or in this case courts colluded with British Post Office.

Fujitsu was all to blame, after all they created and maintained the software. It just blows my mind why would courts pursue the individuals and not the creator of the software, when they realized that this mess was widespread and not isolated.

Yea management failed but wouldn't the most logical thing be to call in computer forensics experts and quality test the software, reverse engineering it and try to catch the bugs. This wasn't the classic case of financial fraud, this was all about faulty software.

"The Horizon IT system contained "hundreds" of bugs[0]."

If your accounting software has hundreds of bugs then you are really in the deep shit.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal#:~...

I thought British legal system and computer forensics were serious but this case is just a travesty of justice.

Reminds me of a recent thing when PCgamer.com replaced Disqus with its own native comment system and wiped thousands of comments from their website.

Probably the next big thing will be Chinese GPUs that are the same quality as NVIDIA GPUs but at least 10-20% cheaper aaand we will have to wait for that maybe 5-10 years.

I mean they can try.

Reminds me of those videos where people make computers and games within Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiapbD0Xfg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I

Ah ok, I thought it was some startup.

>I know that Coinbase used to spend $35,000 a month to back up the data directory of ETH nodes.

They paid backups to whom? Who was vendor....I'm interested.

His track record is exceptional, he must be a Godlike programmer!

And who says that SaaS doesn't pay off?! It pays off like hell!

I thought he is all in for AR/VR; there is opportunity cost in investing billions in AI because those billions could be spent on AR/VR research hence his branding change from Facebook to Meta. But I guess Meta has so much cash on hands, they can afford to spend billions on both AR/VR and AI.

Yea I know and some computers might not be connected to the internet but to some local network and tbh 99% of people won't install Russian or some ex-USSR language packs just to potentially protect from Russian made malware.

I'm not a reverse engineer or a white hacker but I like reading about it. Most of the malware is made for Windows OS because of the Windows' enormous market share.

Majority of information about Windows malware I get from big computer security companies' research blogs like:

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research.html

https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog

https://research.checkpoint.com/

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/

Microsoft also got good security research blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/

Majority of the research combes down to researching malware's capabilities regarding malware persistence, anti-VM techniques and anti-debugging techniques.

Here is for example good compilation of malware's anti-debugging and anti-VM techniques:

https://anti-debug.checkpoint.com/

https://github.com/CheckPointSW/Evasions

Is there a way to check which one is currently in use? There must be. So Russians are slacking on this one? Also they could check in which language are files and folders named or they could check timezone or something. Years ago I loved to read malware RE articles and I remember they also checked for Belarussian, Ukrainian and most of the ex-USSR countries' languages. Isn't the most efficient way to check external IP address of the device, ofc if it has one.

Yea sophisticated malware checks how many CPU cores PC has, how much hard drive space, some even check hardware temperature or if any debuggers are present. Windows malware got pretty sophisticated in the last 30 years.

That's a funny way to combat Russian made malware but I think Russian malware checks which keyboard language you are currently using and not which ones are in total present on your OS.

But that doesn't scale or it does, oldschool Facebook was like that before algorithmic feed took over. Enshittification is real.

For example John Wayne Gacy underwent psychiatric evaluation and "Two doctors concluded he had an antisocial personality disorder (the clinical term for sociopathy and/or psychopathy), was unlikely to benefit from treatment, and that his behavior pattern was likely to bring him into repeated conflict with society. The doctors concluded Gacy was mentally competent to stand trial[0]."

After that he was granted parole and released from prison and in the following years he murdered more than 30 young boys. So yea, the system failed us all. Although it is hard to evaluate and predict who will turn out to be maniac killer out of thousands and thousands of psychiatric cases health system deals with.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy#:~:text=Two%20...

It's not about race, it is about personality, even cats have different personalities which are shaped by their genes[0].

Evolution uses variation so you can adapt and survive but variation is experimental meaning its results are nor perfect nor conclusive.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250626-how-loud-a-cat-m...

This article was on HN frontpage 2 days ago.

But what is alternative to titles and thumbnails?

Perhaps but I would argue that the most likely reason is genetics plus traumatic childhood. Manson had traumatic childhood; living on the streets, committing crime and spending half of his life in prison and in state institutions. When you add drugs and hippie flower power music scene to that you get Manson.

Bundy also had traumatic childhood not knowing who his real father is and believing his mother is his older sister while being raised by his grandparents. He was violent sex addict always craving for more and more. Imo his genetics played the key part in his deviant violent behavior.

30 years late!

Holy shit how shitty Microsoft is! We should start selling and buying en masse preinstalled Linux PCs and laptops.

Bug bounty programs will blossom like hell!!

Is there really a reason why should I pay for vibe coding apps like this when I can vibe code for free and unlimited with Google's Gemini?

I also noticed fake buffering[0], it is disgusting but it seems like they are usually on their adblocker blocking spree for a few weeks and then they give up. Their goal is to annoy you not to unblock adblocker and watch ads but to make you buy YouTube Premium because they would earn more money from subscription than they would from you watching ads.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/v1YSWVM.png