Monday, July 04

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Daily News Stuff 4 July 2022

Blargh Edition

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  • Happy birthday, America! If there's one truth you should always keep close to your heart, it is this: Communists are not people.


  • Meanwhile, I really could have done without that sequence of events, though if Event C hadn't led me to discover Event D when I did, it could have been a whole lot worse.

    I'll just say I'm glad I bought that carpet washer and that it has a dry function as well as shampoo and vacuum.


  • On the other hand, those LG UP850-W monitors I bought and still hadn't got around to unboxing? Pretty sweet monitors.


  • Speaking of things we could do without: Bug bounty company HackerOne had a weasel in its midst. (Bleeping Computer)

    The idea behind this is pretty straightforward:

    1. You spot a security flaw (might be another bug, but security problems are the big ones) in an online service.
    2. You report the details via HackerOne.
    3. The operator of the online service pays you for the information. And hopefully fixes the problem.

    Where this came unstuck is that a HackerOne employee decided to cut out the middle man - which is to say, HackerOne - and just sell the security flaws to the highest bidder.

    Which was very lucrative for them, right up until they got caught.

    Also, this year being this year, there's this stupidity:
    HackerOne notes that its former employee had used "threatening” and "intimidating” language in their interaction with customers and urged customers to contact the company if they received disclosures made in an aggressive tone.
    Sure, they stole security information and sold it to hackers, but they were also rude.


Tech News

Disclaimer: I wonder what is the Docker equivalent of a carpet washer with a dry function.

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1 We solved the problem of dependency hell by forcing you to install a rogue DNS, a non-caching https proxy, a keylogger, ten gigabytes of icons, and a virtual machine running windows vista so you can upload files to a "cloud" server in Bangladesh.  Thank the Lord in Heaven above we don't use that icky old ftp stuff no more.

Posted by: normal at Tuesday, July 05 2022 01:27 AM (obo9H)

2 Dependency hell was enabled by a cadre of graduates who were given architect status because of course they were, and who proceeded to write library after library with no thought toward backward-compatibility.
Yet another problem which had been encountered and addressed, and then rejected by the cadres of new graduates because the existing solutions were all created by the previous generation of out-of-touch old guys on mainframe-dinosaur-stupid machines.
We have layers and layers of stupid code which exists solely to put a band-aid over lower layers and layers of stupid code, because no one is smart enough to say "hey, this preferred-best-practice-of-the-week is stupid, and I'm not going to fall into this mess it creates."

Posted by: Kurt Duncan at Wednesday, July 06 2022 12:59 AM (y8o1E)

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Apple pies are delicious. But never mind apple pies. What colour is a green orange?




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