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Were paying for what we dont get: East D.C. neighbors frustrated with Amazons Prime delivery exclusions
Locals demand transparency - and a refund wouldn't hurt Feature  When data scientist Andrew Breza learned that the Washington, D.C. attorney general was suing Amazon for excluding his zip code from its fastest delivery service, he immediately wanted to see the proof for himself -
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Ich bin nicht wirklich , aber gerade wieder von einer Sharkey-Instanz zurckgezogen und hatte bisher ohnehin kein neuhier-Posting.
Im echten Leben ursprnglich aus und inzwischen mit der Lieblingsmenschin wohnhaft in fhle ich mich eigentlich als er. Das Futter fr meine Mischlingshndin (folgt dem !) verdiene ich mit -Security, und der . Privat verbringe ich die Nchte gerne auf den diversen norddeutschen -Tanzflchen oder auf den einschlgigen Festivals . Musikalisch darf es dabei gerne schwarz, elektronisch und schnell sein. Auch sonst mag ich viel Schwarzes (fritz-kola, Klamotten, Humor, ...), aber keinen Kaffee.
Die eigentlich nicht vorhandene Restzeit verbringe ich gerne mit , n (bevorzugt -Fi und ), n, -Spielen oder . Ansonsten kann ich mich auch fr , und berhaupt ganz viel technischen Spielkram begeistern.
Did my civic Linux duty yesterday and set up one of the Boomers here in the RV park with a Mint install. He's been using me for Amazon purchases for a while now so I figured turnabout is fair play, hehe.
Few months ago he noticed I was working on electronics and of course immediately enlisted me as IT for his so ancient it belongs in a museum HP G60 laptop. Circa 2008, Pent. 2 core, 4gb ram, 500gb HDD.
Surprisingly, it was running an up to date Win10, and while creakingly slow, it was able to run it and like, function, more or less. I cleaned it out and repasted the heat sinks, checked for any kinda bloatware and malicious shit and found none (also surprising) and gave it back to him.
So a couple days ago he came down carrying it and goes "this fuckin thing, it keeps freezing up on me now." So I said "Ok I'll take a look" and yeah, it now boots into desktop and then hangs so hard you can't really do anything. Like it'll acknowledge a click but then you just get a loading pinwheel forever, which is new behavior compared to a couple months ago.
Booted a Mint USB and checked around in the Win folders, couldn't find any new malicious shit. HDD didn't sound awful, but it's from 2011, so maybe I told him "Well, I think maybe the HDD is failing, and anyway an SSD would be a big help for this old thing. .. how attached are you to Win10" He shrugs "fuck I don't care what it runs as long as I can just use the stupid thing."
So I bought a PNY 250gb SATA SSD for like 20$ and installed it, then installed Mint. Went up to his place and updated the Mint in front of him, showed him around the OS a bit (made sure to show him how to open the Welcome dialog with all its helpful links), launched FF (I pref Librewolf but I don't wanna totally overwhelm him) and installed uBlock (" shit you can block ads" lol), ran a video, copied his files from the Win10.
As I left he said "Well shit, I'm a happy camper."
"Yeah.. use it a couple days before you decide that"
Now awaiting support tickets
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With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation
Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too Constellation Energy has won contracts worth more than $1 billion from the US government to supply nuclear power to over 13 federal agencies, validating efforts by datacenter operators to secure their own atomic sour
The danger of my job isn't that I can't do my job it's that I forget everything.
Oh wait, let's look in the documentation to remind myself..but oh no!
what's the thingy thing called
It does the *inserts completely new way of referring to the technology*
Hours later I work it out and I add another tag/term to the document so that I can find it the next time when I do the................
'what ya doyacallitthingy with the integrationary protocol login thing'
"Spending lots of time on manual IT tasks Make 2025 the year of API-driven IT solutions! By leveraging APIs, teams can automate repetitive task. Say goodbye to spreadsheets and hello to efficiency! "
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail
With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Comment  The US once led the world in the development and manufacturing of semiconductors and integrated circuits. And the $280 billion US CHIPS and Science Act sought to reestablish the country as a semiconductor manufacturing superpower and alle
The Register: Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC
A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language Feature  A generation of gray-haired IT folks learned computing using BASIC on 1980s home computers. Every pro since then holds it in disdain. What happened
LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
IBM and GlobalFoundries settle multibillion-dollar trade secret and contract lawsuits
Clears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair IBM and semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries have settled all of their litigation against each other, including breach of contract, patent, and trade secret suits, the pair say.
A customer uses software developed by a 45-year-old developer. It has been in production for over 10 years, the code is theirs, and the developer is paid to write and maintain it. In my opinion, this approach is correct, as it gives my client the freedom to use their own code. The program is written in C and works well, never having caused any particular issues, although, in my opinion, its quite heavy for what it actually needs to do.
Yesterday afternoon, I was at this clients for an emergency (which I will describe later), and since I was there, we tried to run it on FreeBSD, but it didnt work. The client asked me to take a look at the code, hoping I could figure out what was wrong. Despite not doing much development, I realized the issue was that the program was trying to access files on static Debian paths, and once fixed, everything worked fine.
However, I noticed a detail: at the start, it parses a configuration file (old-school, not json) to look for values set to "ON" and "OFF". The parsing happens on characters, but in the end, it doesn't matter much since its done only when the program launches. I noticed that a series of ints are defined, where ON is set to "1" and OFF to "0".
Out of curiosity (I imagine the developer might have labeled me as a troublemaker), I asked why they hadnt used bools, and if a different numeric value was expected. He replied, irritated, that it didnt make sense to use bools just to save "a few bytes". After taking a closer look at the code, I realized how it wasnt remotely optimized, resulting in "monstrous" computational complexities compared to the simple operations needed. Of course, I said nothing, but clearly, the developer noticed my expression. Unfortunately (or fortunately), Im very expressive. He started saying that hardware is advancing, the world is advancing, and that the "obsession" with optimization was pointless. I didnt respond. The client wasnt around, and I had no intention of sharing my thoughts on the code with him.
Back in the office, the client called and asked why the developer had complained that "I criticized the code," and what I thought about it. I simply replied that, in my opinion, and from what little I had seen, the code seemed fine I had only asked questions about some implementation choices. Everything was fine, everything was resolved - the developer isnt a bad person, just a little sensitive.
My takeaway here: the mini-PC I now have at home consumes half the power of the previous one, has extremely superior performance, and opens up new possibilities. Whats the point of creating better hardware if we "eat up" the advantage by filling the software with inefficiencies
Hacker News: Apple to Pay Siri Users $20 Per Device in Settlement Over Accidental Siri Privacy Violations
The Register: Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off
Tech titans hide in shadows awaiting Trump tariff threats
Being more diplomatic than the politicians makes sense amid fear of upsetting the next US President A eerie quiet has descended upon elements in the tech exec community, and even the typically more vocal souls in the highest seats in corporations are scared to put the wrong foot forward ahead of a certain President Elect coming t
Windows 11 Installation Media Bug causes Security Update Failures. :microsoft:
Microsoft is warning of an issue when using a media support to install Windows 11 version 24H2, that causes the operating system to not accept further security updates.
CAPTCHAs now run Doom on nightmare mode
As if the bot defense measure wasn't obnoxious enough Though the same couldn't be said for most of us mere mortals, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch had a productive festive period, resulting in a CAPTCHA that requires the user to kill three monsters in Doom on nightmare mode.
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Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust
Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Computer scientists affiliated with France's Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code into safe Rust code, in an effort to meet the growing demand for memory safety.
Coming from some calmer days into new year, I am thinking about re-patching our home network, simplifying a few things (wcgw).
In that context, Id like to use a mini rack like the UniFi Toolless Mini Rack to be placed in my office space for easier access and overview.
Does anyone have experience with it or has similar suggestions of other vendors
Network is UniFi-dominated and would basically fit the size of the UniFi rack (mostly fanless except for some components that generate minimal noise).
I appreciate all insights from experienced SoHo admins on a budget :-).
Hacker News: New AI Jailbreak Method 'Bad Likert Judge' Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60%
Kwetsbaarheden in Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Verholpen
Recent zijn er enkele kwetsbaarheden gedentificeerd en verholpen in de software WhatsUp Gold van Ipswitch, waarbij deze problemen vooral de versies v...
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Nick Clegg steps down as Meta's top flack in favor of more Trump-friendly candidate
Runny Clegg scrambles for door The Right Honourable Sir Nick Clegg (to give him his full title) has stepped down from his job as Meta's president of global affairs.
Accenture wins 35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to 'disaggregate'
System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says The UK tax collector has handed Accenture an additional 35.2 million without competition on a 70.4 million contract which was never tendered.
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AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives:
Hyper-personalized emails use "an immense amount" of scraped data.
The email address as user authentication, i.e. user name, makes sense to log in, as it is unique. But to recognize this on the login server must not be plain text or a simple hash. But as far as I'm concerned, many online providers fail.
ERP fail causes shows sales loss greater than project budget
South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Readers will be familiar with the concept of return on investment (ROI) when a tech project saves more than it costs but less well-known is the idea that, like in particle physics, there exists an anti-ROI.
Hacker News: LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers
The Register: HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair
Der wird uns in der langfristig berholen, da er bei die Chancen nutzt und auf eigenes anstatt auf outgesourcte setzt.
Strategisch ist das nachvollziehbar und klug.
Die und verpassen aktiv die nchste Chance fr die .
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Open Source im Globalen Sden mehr als nur ein technisches Werkzeug
HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair
Expansion port on the back lets you add Outfits with added functions Review  HMD's Fusion smartphone has a pogo-pin port on the back, allowing some nifty peripherals, including gaming controls, and its specs are open.
Mal ne Frage an die IT-Bubble:
Kann man einen Win11-Rechner eigentlich offline betreiben oder braucht das System ne stndige Verbindung zur Zentrale
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its customers iOS and macOS devices and enabled it by default, seemin
Sales tax growth demonstrates growing economy in Seguin
Hacker News: Critical Deadline: Update Old .NET Domains Before January 7, 2025 to Avoid Service Disruption