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spogbiperon WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

> If you know what you're doing, WordPress fine.

Probably true, but for whatever reason Wordpress seems to attract an awful lot of people that do not know what they are doing

spogbiperon I said no and Apple said yes

it really is like the meme..

Apple users to Windows users: I feel bad for you

Windows users to Apple users: I don't think about you at all

spogbiperon Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown

Some keyboards of the time period even came with a special "general midi mode" specifically for this, i recall the ensoniq TS12 I used at the time did

spogbiperon Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways

"On Monday, Aug. 31, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) issued a memorandum revoking existing permits for automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems, commonly referred to by the brand name "Flock cameras," that are installed within the right of way of roads on the State Highway System."

Very first paragraph. "Flock" is basically being used like "Kleenex" here

spogbiperon ChatGPT Is Throwing 404

downdetector.com is showing Gemini issues as well

spogbiperon Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/apple-maps-changes-name-lak...

Apple updated it yesterday. If I were Google I'd turn down that refresh rate and let someone else take the bad PR next time

spogbiperon I Don't Have a Smartphone

calling it "Google's war" is an interesting take. No doubt they have added some hoops to jump through and reduced freedoms, but Apple has been leading the charge against installing arbitrary software for decades.

spogbiperon Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War

sometimes I wish I was born a few decades earlier. it would have been fun to work on things like this when they were new

spogbiperon Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

Yes, I recall that not all hardware was supported (or well supported) although it wasn't a huge problem and I was able to find drivers for everything I personally needed. Video drivers that supported the full capabilities of the card were the biggest issue as I recall

spogbiperon Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

I remember that campaign, me and a couple of college buddies convinced an IBM rep that we were an OS/2 User's Group and they sent us a crate full of Warp T-shirts, posters and buttons.

spogbiperon Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers

This study is using water "withdrawal" figures rather than consumptive use. Hydroelectric plants withdraw tons of water, but it goes right back into the river it came from.

Edit - good information on this here: https://news.bgov.com/environment-and-energy/data-centers-us...

The "Consumptive Use vs. Withdrawals" section discusses the trouble with using withdrawal as a meaningful data point.

spogbiperon Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

Kind of but not really. As I understand it some of the OS/2 dev team at Microsoft was involved in NT (after MS and IBM stopped working on OS/2 together) but they aren't the same code. The NT core is more closely related to DEC VMS than to OS/2. It can be confusing because the name OS/2 was applied to things that are NT at certain points along the way, and NT did have an OS/2 compatibility layer

spogbiperon Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

I remember being a big OS/2 user/fan and thinking surely everyone would realize that Win95 was inferior. I was wrong.

spogbiperon US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons

Only 0.5 trillion gallons is precious water, the rest is just regular water

spogbiperon Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

that would be nice, but unfortunately I think the supply vs demand situation is quite different this time

spogbiperon Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

There's NDK which seems supported. It's been some years since I messed with mobile stuff but https://developer.android.com/ndk

spogbiperon AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/mandatory_deposit.html

some form of mandatory deposit law has existed since 1790 in the US. other countries have similar laws. there is a very good chance the government already has a copy of anything that has been copyrighted

spogbiperon Finger: the 1971 social network that never died

i remember the good old days of wide open terminal servers. used to dial into my local uni so I could then telnet into MUDs all over the world.

spogbiperon Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers

the information I have says they use 3-5x, which isn't even one order of magnitude

spogbiperon We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

"rare" is used in these headlines/articles to incite and generate clicks

spogbiperon Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia

once while visiting Peru, I had a vivid memorable dream that my cat was jumping on the bed. woke up to learn that I'd slept through an earthquake.

spogbiperon 50k Boat Names

unsinkable-2 (copy)-FINAL.revised7-4-19

spogbiperon On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails

They aren't banning it. They are introducing a one time 24 hour waiting period. Not ideal, but not banning.

spogbiperon On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails

> install any operating system like you can with an actual computer

This is in practice only true of IBM PC compatibles these days, you really can't install any OS on modern Macs. Maybe you can on (some?) Chomebooks?

spogbiperon Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)

i've often wondered how Apple gets away with things like this, I guess its because they never gained the marketshare that Microsoft had

spogbiperon Show HN: 18 Words

HABIT worked for me

spogbiperon Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?

it can jump from wherever it is to your highly attractive ground line

spogbiperon Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?

my department manages a fleet of ~10k Windows PCs and it's pulling teeth to get the users to allow an automated reboot once a month for updates. they invent all kinds of silly ways to avoid it. your situation seems atypical.