Chinese state-sponsored spies have been spotted inside a global engineering firm’s network, having gained initial entry using an admin portal’s default credentials on an IBM AIX server.

In an exclusive interview with The Register, Binary Defense’s Director of Security Research John Dwyer said the cyber snoops first compromised one of the victim’s three unmanaged AIX servers in March, and remained inside the US-headquartered manufacturer’s IT environment for four months while poking around for more boxes to commandeer.

Emphasis mine.

“Hmm, yes. Let’s connect this server to our trusted network and never touch it again.” FFS.

Honestly, this is the question people should be asking in response. I totally get the gut reaction against censorship, but I don’t think anyone would agree that Facebook, Xitter, etm. are innocent, neutral parties in all of this.

Part of the issue (as the article points out) is that those companies have been allowed to essentially craft people’s internal narrative, often amplifying our worst impulses and inclinations—all in service of making the black line go up for investors.

So is banning social media for teens the correct path forward? Maybe in the short term, but until we direct the governance to the companies creating the problems in the first place, we’re almost certainly going to have this conversation again in the future.

And D&D

It’s still an ad, intentional or not, mainly because of the unrestrained, almost hyperbolic positivity. It sounds almost exactly like a pitch to investors, assuring them that they can invest in this totally-not-a-fad tech scheme. Also, it’s a wall of text…

Which is exactly what I’d expect from a LLM that doesn’t actually comprehend what it’s writing but instead plagiarizes and amalgamates businesses pitches and internet fanboy screed.

It’s not a copyright suit, it’s a patent suit. So it’s indeed just like the Apple suit, though what patents were infringed upon is still unknown as of now.

Eat shit, Nintendo. I hope you lose and experience the Streisand effect.

If it happens, do post to !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz. I know lots of people would be interested.

That’s cool. I agree that it’s not as portable as some other options, but it wouldn’t be able to do what it does if it was.

That’s why there’s still good options out there for everyone! It’s a great time for gaming.

I would actually recommend Spiral Linux if somebody new wanted to go with Debian. It’s the Debian analog to Endeavor.

Hey, that’s good to know!

I do QA Automation for a large software company. We still have manual QA testing, because it’s costly and sometimes impossible to automate everything.

Also, there is no scenario where you can automate everything until you can automate social engineering. It’s why scammers don’t bother trying to hack your bank but instead try to get you to buy $2000 in Applebee’s gift cards to settle “an IRS debt that you need to fix RIGHT NOW!”

No, I just thought they were vaguely similar enough words to make a dumb internet joke.

Oh, the artificial humanity!

And you’re entitled to your opinion. I also have small hands, and I don’t find its size or weight to be a problem for me.

I got a 1st Gen 3DS second hand some time ago. What I like:

• Pokemon, Zelda, and Animal Crossing.
• The 3D effect and dual cameras are neat, though a little gimmicky.

What I don’t like:

• The heavy reliance upon internet connectivity. I can’t change the details of the account on it without losing access to the downloaded games. I can’t even change it anyway, because the online store is closed.
• The control stick sucks. It’s good for a very flat control stick, but it doesn’t feel nice to use.
• Proprietary power connector.
• The viewing angle on the screen is pretty shallow.

I have a Steam Deck, and it’s just better in all respects. I get that it’s comparing a very new device against an old device, but I don’t really see a reason to pull out the 3DS when I could have a better experience on the SD.

This is a very good point, and it’s one of the reasons I don’t use my old laptop as an always-on server.

I had heard that. Maybe I’ll get my hands on one someday. I hear Commodore makes one.

(I do wonder now if whatever variable is being used to denote time is signed or unsigned, because that would make a big difference, too.)

Doh! You are absolutely right.

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Plasma has a Win 11 menu clone as well, iirc. I forget what it’s called.