There have recently been quite a few posts about oddball pinouts of ICs. Do any of you remember things like the NEC UPD78PG11E?
Quad-In-Line with additional 28-pin DIL socket-contacts on top...
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Mike Spooner
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mastodon 4.7.2+glitchErstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
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@mavnn @briankrebs@infosec.exchange @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social "sycophancy as a service" brilliant take, I'm going to borrow that.
Gold.
Yesterday's main local news, as reported on the national radio bulletin, was that several of the main dining/catering businesses on the island were stopping weekday daytime meals due to a "truly massive chef shortage".
Some wag called the radio station during the phone-in program to suggest that those businesses should try to recruit small and medium-sized chefs instead.
I've been giggling at that for the last 24 hours.
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@SteveRudolfi 'The leap from "the link can appear in a sponsored content item" to "you could be billed for clicks to a page you didn’t create" seems like a radical shift in the way the internet works'
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@dalias@hachyderm.io @arclight@oldbytes.space @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems This is not my experience since 2017, hosting four global email domains at home (on a static-but-still-residential-range public IP address). However, I am fortunate enough to be using an ISP that actually knows what they are doing, which makes a huge difference.
Also: rDNS, STARTTLS on the MX port, logins disallowed on the MX port, mandatory TLS on the submission/retrieval ports, strict SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc.
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@ratsnakegames@mastodon.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange You mean the same WhatsApp that is wholly-owned by Meta?
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@danielgibert@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr Some of us have been through that particular 360-degree cycle on multiple seperate "new technology" occasions, already.
It's not a one-off about-face, it's a perpetual roundabout.
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@xgranade and we've been working on it with digital logic for over 70 years already. Still haven't got it right, or even vaguely close.
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@bob_zim @gloriouscow Spinning drives do do better in the medium term, especially if they remain powered-on. As always, multiple copies with ECC or hash-check is wise.
They talk about "intelligence too cheap to meter" as if intelligence was something to be metered. The future these leaders present is horrific not because the machines will turn us all into paperclips but rather because they imagine themselves as building a moat around thinking itself.
https://huronbikes.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-not-a-software-engineer/
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@jacqueline@chaos.social If it also copes with puke, I'll take a dozen.
I've lost count of the number of computers I've had to repair due to "it hasn't worked since Fred/Bob/Alice/Mom/TheCat was sick on it".
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Need to be careful out there - I was approached on LinkedIn by a foreign 'communications' company to do similar, except that it was rather more than a couple of laptops and merely $250/month: five custom and uninspectable rack-mountable modules and $100,000/year, performing undisclosed communications services.
Of course I said no - as I would be on the local legal hook for the unknown content travelling through the network.
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@regehr Assuming that the latter will avoid The OOM Killer. Otherwise it would end up being an expensive version of an infinite loop.
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@revk@toot.me.uk @zhenech@chaos.social @Hoonse@chaos.social Yeah, the variance in consumer-protection laws in different jurisdictions might be a royal pain.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io @arclight@oldbytes.space @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems Although I remember the noughties when Barracuda Networks had wormed their way in to being *the* goto choice of SPAM filtering service for most commercial email service providers, and leveraged that position, to behave as a protection racket: "Nice email domain you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it...". They were quite blatant about it. Thankfully, their influence dropped off a cliff circa 2009.
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@jwz@mastodon.social @xgranade@wandering.shop @zzt@mas.to I still have the installer of IE5 for Solaris/SPARC.
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@jhwgh1968@chaos.social @nepi@gts.nepi.gay @starsider@valenciapa.ws including the tid-bit "Additionally, Samsung SDS has secured a reseller role for OpenAI services in South Korea". Yikes.
Hubris?
Security firm Checkmarx says its free and open-source tool that scans for security flaws, dubbed Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure (or KICS), was compromised and that its Docker, VSCode, and Open VSX extensions were manipulated to steal users' credentials.
https://checkmarx.com/blog/checkmarx-security-update-april-22/
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@gabboman @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Agreed, although a resilient pile of non-working turds is not going to cut it.
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@kim_harding@mastodon.scot Thwack!
"And in case you didn’t catch the irony: the Swiss military rejected Palantir in part because of fears about a heavy-handed American entity with uncomfortably close ties to U.S. intelligence. Palantir’s response to the reporting of that rejection? Behave like a heavy-handed American entity trying to bully a small foreign publication into submission. If anyone at Palantir had run this decision through their own pattern-recognition software, you’d hope a few red flags would have popped up."
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@carnage4life@mas.to *All* evil comes from seeing (some or more) people as "things" instead of as people.
IIRC, Ghandi made this point, although I can't find the exact quotation.
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@iFixit The upper one appears to have a different-size tiny SMD component near the far left side, and an additional tiny SMD component just above the right-hand side of the USB-C connector.
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@Mae@is.badat.dev @bagder@mastodon.social @yon@sakurajima.moe If there was an example already, surely it couldn't be novel?
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@accidentalciso@infosec.exchange Their own legal and compliance department and their insurers?
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@cemedia "When a mentally ill man with a history of violence stabbed two Jews and a Muslim in one day, Keir Starmer’s first instinct wasn’t to address the systemic failures in mental health care. It was to pretend the Muslim victim doesn’t exist"
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@BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange "*something*, *something*, mumble, data-ownership, responsibility, go to the cloud they said..."
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@erlenmayr@chaos.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social July 6th. Although, don't expect it to say anything useful.
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@alan @diazona @qgustavor @SecureOwl Some systems might require uniqueness per account, so deleteduser4738@ourdomain.org, deleteduser4739@ourdomain.org, etc.
Of course, when your org gets bought or undergoes corporate renaming, all bets are off anyway.
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@burnitdown@beige.party @gabrielesvelto@mas.to in the 70's, most issues were largely logic bugs, nowadays there are a larger proportion of timing/analogue issues.
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@wordshaper @cwebber They don't need to. Their age-old "how much revenue did you make last year? That will do nicely" ploy will still work in the agentic era.
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@infobeautiful@vis.social What kind of projection is the map? It's obviously not Mercator, but it still seems to have distorted northern area.
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@nickzoic@aus.social @webmink@meshed.cloud "Reliabilty and trust have always been central to Belkin".
'Always': except when our C-suite want to juice their bonuses.
'Central': only during those times when we have enough chocolate biscuits in the office.
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lol, Dick Van Dyke would be proud:
"The Gemini model I was using initially responded in a very US-American way, which didn't fit the British voice of my speaker. I told the model, via the system prompt, that the output was being spoken in a British voice, but the result was a bad US-American impersonation of British ("a'waight guv'nor apples and pears" etc etc)"
Some people were distressed by the events that transpired at the conclusion of the World Cup final, but we should perhaps be grateful that Infantino and Trump didn't try to kiss the players on the lips.