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I could have made any number of glib comments, but it does actually look extremely interesting, so I deferred the "taking the piss" phase until after I've researched it a lot more.
You're absolutely right, though: taking it at face value, I'm fascinated at the advance.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Twitter is working to renew its relationship with developers. Here we go again.
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A new malware strain called BrickerBot is bricking Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the world by corrupting their storage capability and reconfiguring kernel parameters. Where is the kickstarter page for this project? I can't find it.
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You could not find the Leslie[^] too 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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That would be the first kickstarter I would help - and gladly. A Patreon account would be do just fine!
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Google's Fact Check feature is not new, but today the search giant is rolling out the feature around the world. Who decides what is fact? The Onion?
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I swear I read the subject as "fart-checking rollout" 
I definitively need more coffee
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So it occurred to me: how about I lock myself out of my account? "Reverse engineer" may be a more accurate term here. Kinda.
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Wow! Hollywood-style password crackers/decrypters really work!
But what really impressed me about the page (/site) was this:
This embedded content is from a site that does not comply with the Do Not Track (DNT) setting now enabled on your browser.
Please note, if you click through and view it anyway, you may be tracked by the website hosting the embed.
Learn More about Medium's DNT policy I think I like these guys.
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Next week Microsoft will begin the slowish rollout of its big update to Windows 10, the Creators Update. "Microsoft tries to avoid collecting personal information wherever possible" - Microsoft's Brian Lich. Uh huh.
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They should try harder**
or at least try
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Rash of in-the-wild attacks permanently destroys poorly secured IoT devices | Ars Technica[^]
As the image above shows, in addition to corrupting the storage device, BrickerBot.2 wipes all stored files, removes the default Internet gateway, disables TCP timestamps, and limits the maximum number of kernel threads to just one. That all but ensures that most damaged devices won't be restored without a major undertaking.
Looking at the list of commands being run by the bot, it's attempting to wipe all storage devices by using both dd and cat to overwrite them with random data. A question I've got is, isn't that redundant? Is there a reason why doing two passes with different tools actually makes sense, or are the pwndthing duhvelopers spending time that would be better spent removing default password telnet connections from their products instead spending them removing various bits of the *nix shell instead?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: spending time that would be better spent removing default password telnet connections from their products
IMO, the time would be better spent attacking the hackers and malicious-botnet distributors.
Attacking potential victims of a crime makes them victims of your crime, so I hope these "misguided chaps"* are taught a very strong lesson about what they are and are not allowed to do, under law.
* Read "arrogant c***s"
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I was making a suggestion for the people who wrote the internet of pwnd things duhvices, not our molotov cocktail tossing vigilanties.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Agreed that they're idiots, and agreed that they have to not be so stupid, but no-one has the right to brick anyone else's property, so the "heroes" (as they probably describe themselves) are worse than stupid; they're criminals.
How about if someone decides that winio is bad enough that they should do the same to it (which it is, by some definitions)? Or any other cr@ppy product (by any personal definition of the word "cr@ppy").
That kind of behaviour has to be nipped in the bud very quickly, and very harshly.
The browser wars were just rants. Imagine if people had gone that extra mile.
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This is an instruction booklet that shows you how to build a text editor in C. If you've ever wanted to build your own text editor, here's a perfect excuse to start.
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But what will you use to enter the code? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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copy con >myfile.c 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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A very fine chisel, a hard disk and a lot of patience 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I did write my own. In C# / WinForms. A TextBox handles all the basic editing functions and I added higher-level functions.
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Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Ubuntu phones and tablets also dead, but the desktop, server, and cloud live on.
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To translate; to UI that feels more like Win95 is preferred over the 'modern' UI.
Sean Ewington wrote: Ubuntu phones and tablets also dead, but the desktop, server, and cloud live on.
This is the year of Linux! 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I tried Ubuntu Unity. It was terrible.
"I heard there's a thing called a GUI."
"Cool, let's try some out and see what works."
"Nah, let's just make one"
(Not that Gnome is any better. I prefer Fedora with LXDE--a simple GUI that doesn't pretend to be at all sophisticated.)
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Four years ago, Google started to see the real potential for deploying neural networks to support a large number of new services. Google released an exhaustive comparison of the TPU’s performance and efficiencies compared with Haswell CPUs and Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs
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