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Sean Ewington wrote: Google was so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. If that were only a problem with google...
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That reminds me of one my favorite quotes from a "Star Trek" movie. The president of the Federation said, "Just because we can do a thing does not mean we must do that thing."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Can you quickly tell which of the URLs below is legitimate and which one is a malicious phish that drops evil.exe?
https://github.com∕kubernetes∕kubernetes∕archive∕refs∕tags∕@v1271.zip
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/archive/refs/tags/v1.27.1.zip
If the previous article left you thinking .zip wasn't any worse than other garbage fire TLDs like .biz or .info; it's actually much worse.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Select link, save as...
First is html
Second is a real zip file
But I see your point. One has to be damn careful when clicking a link and I guess a huge amount of people will step in the trap sooner or later.
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I think their is a proposed RFC to make the @ part of the URL throw a hard error and not navigate.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new guideline on non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), which recommends against the use of NSS to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). You're 144 years too late, WHO. I'm already dead.
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I wonder how much this study cost. Artificial sweeteners have long been known to have zero nutritional value and the empirical evidence tying them to weight gain and the associated conditions has been available since at least the 80s.
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Note that beer is more than twice as fattening as suggested by the calories indicated on the can: It makes you crave for huge amounts of fat, salty and/or sugary snacks to go with it.
I don't know the details of this study, but it seems to suggest that these sweetening chemicals have effects not only on your taste buds, but in other ways as well. What if it reduces your metabolism? Or reduces your level of physical activity so that your muscles burn less calories, not needing as much energy? What if it purely psychological: When you stick to artificially sweetened soft drinks, you are more careless about other calorie-rich foods, your calorie budget "can afford it" thanks to the non-calorie drinks?
From what I have read about this study, the essential observation is that there is very little (inverse) correlation between obesity and consumption of artificially sweetened drinks(/food). Groups where zero-calorie drinks at dominating do not have any less obesity than in groups where sweetening with sugar is the rule. Despite the fact that artificial sweeteners have zero calories, those enjoying them find other ways of keeping their body weight up, ways that are not found by those favoring natural sugar.
Like table salt: It has zero calories, and you will never eat so much of it that your body weight goes up from the salt itself, but it could make you drink so much extra water that your weight goes up anyway. Without the salt, you would have been less thirsty.
I got the impression that the study essentially makes an observation: People are just as fat with artificial sweeteners as they are with sugar. You may of course argue that those using artificial sweeteners would have been significantly fatter than they are, and fatter than the sugar eaters, if they went back to sugar. That those using the artificial stuff are doing so because they need to. If that is right, an interesting study would be to search for the factors making some people fatter than others from sugar, and the psychological mechanisms leading those to switch to artificial sweeteners in a much higher degree than the sugar eaters.
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trønderen wrote: Note that beer is more than twice as fattening as suggested by the calories indicated on the can: It makes you crave for huge amounts of fat, salty and/or sugary snacks to go with it. Really? I don't see any difference in my consume of junk food if I drink beer or if I don't
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My suspicion is that people consume a zero calorie drink and think that allows them to consume something which is high in calories. (It may be as simple as ordering large fries instead of small.)
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Microsoft has been spotted scanning for malware within password protected zip files stored on its cloud services. Maybe they should create a mascot, Rover. "He's sniffing your password protected files to make sure they aren't gangrenous."
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I have a Dejà Vóu[^]
In your defense, I didn't post the article, because it was in german, so it is not a real leslie
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.zip
.piz (reverse the extension letters)
.rar
.7z
password protected files
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Thanks for the flashbacks. 🤬
I so don't miss the BS games we played at my last job to sneak executables and installers for beta software builds past our going and clients incoming mail filters. Policy on both sides meant we couldn't use any 3rd party file sharing sites and cripplingly slow bureaucracy meant the external sharepoint that was how we were supposed to share files was effectively unusable due to extreme delays in getting anything posted to it and getting the intended recipients access to download it after the fact.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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For a security researcher the author of the article I read seemed clueless, implying that Microsoft is cracking their passwords.
I suspect that they are looking at the length of the file and the CRC in the ZIP directory and comparing to known length and CRC of malware. The ZIP file has done the work for them.
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That's IF the malware is a file per se, if it is included in another file (i.e. Office Macros, VBScript) the variance is way too wide to just compare the CRC (if even possible).
Or am I overseeing something?
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Following in the wake of Elon Musk’s announcement that Twitter will start purging inactive accounts, Google has said that it will be doing the same for old Gmail accounts. I can't log into all those dummy email accounts I created anyway because you want a phone number. Have at it, hoss.
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I wonder if they'll delete accounts that are only used by Android phones.
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I'll tell you in a couple of weeks if the execute the menace.
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Technical debt is easily the most used buzzword these days. People say, “We are moving fast on our MVP while minimizing technical debt!”. They mention technical debt in there to sound cool or something. This applies to most jobs? Doctors fixing people that just die.
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Article is full of FUD and "look at me" garbage.
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I hate it when buzzwords become popular because then the phrase becomes misused by people who don't know what it actually means.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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That's because they got technical debt.
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Many Apple Silicon Macs still haven't made the jump from the M1 generation to the M2, and the Mac Pro is still using an Intel processor, but some app developers have already begun to see signs that Apple is testing members of the M3 chip family. "uh-huh. yea. ok. mmm-hmm. ok but how about support for at least 2 external screens?"
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Google released the top-level domain .zip to the public recently, which means that interested organizations and users may register .zip domains. Cyber criminals are already using .zip domains in phishing campaigns. If you build it, they will come.
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