Waitman Gobble

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:44:59 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Hacker News wrote the following post Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:52:47 -0400

Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting," customer backups at risk
L: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/backblaze-responds-to-claims-of-sham-accounting-customer-backups-at-risk/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43827236
posted on 2025.04.28 at 19:30:24 (c=0, p=5)

I guess Passkeys is the hot new

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:27:17 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I've noticed articles popping up about Passkeys. a Passkey authentication scheme is very simple. The server sends a random challenge, the client signs it with their Passkey thingy, then sends back the signed data and public key. When they want to log in the server sends them all their public keys, and maybe some random ones two, and a new challenge. The client signs the challenge and sends the public key, key id, signed data back. (It also has some other data, like number of times the key was used, so you can update you data on the server)

If you use "windows hello" or whatever they call their passkey scheme, make sure to add another passkey as a backup!!! MS is common for "oops we f'd up, our bad" i guess.

A hardware device such as yubikey makes a good Passkey token

GitHub - arduent/passkey-credentials: minimal example using webauthn-framework to provide Passkey authentication to your web site

minimal example using webauthn-framework to provide Passkey authentication to your web site - arduent/passkey-credentials

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2763275/so-long-passwords-5-easy-ways-to-use-passkeys.html

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-we-want-a-passwordless-future-lets-get-our-passkey-story-straight/

Encryption is too hard. Our cheap-ass devs can't find the encrypt button on their AWS control panel.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:53:35 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Top employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots on thousands of users

WorkComposer leaking screenshots of user activity on the clear web

Marshall Sutherland

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:21:44 -0400 from hubzilla

Humans are the weakest link.

Bill Statler

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:40:47 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Wow, saving screenshots multiple times per minute! It's a good thing this isn't built directly into any operating system.

Marshall Sutherland

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:02:07 -0400 from hubzilla

I was reacting to the headline which, now that I read the article, I realize I didn't parse correctly.

There was no "top employee" monitoring an app and leaking screen shots, it was a top "employee monitoring app" leaking screen shots which makes more sense.

Waitman Gobble

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:22:16 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Woo hoo! Mission Accomplished..
I he going to get a huge banner to put on the x hq building? Here's a toast to thd great acheivements.

Elon Musk Accidentally Wasted a Vast Sum of Taxpayer Money Due to His Staggering Incompetence

Elon Musk's DOGE could actually be costing the government far more than it saves — an astronomical waste of taxpayer money.

Waitman Gobble

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:32:21 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

It's so annoying to have to put safety features in cars. If people die they just weren't strong enough to survivd, right?

US agency to ease some safety rules for self-driving vehicles

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Thursday it aims to speed up deployment of self-driving vehicles by exempting some from certain safety requirements designed for human drivers and easing rules that require the reporting of safety incidents. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the new framework to boost autonomous vehicles would help U.S. automakers compete with Chinese rivals. Tesla also faces scrutiny from NHTSA over its Full-Self Driving software after a fatal crash.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:28:14 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Dang that's a long nonstop flight to Florida. I guess the plane is going to take the road route. Wonder why they sent that with a subject line in Spanish:)
#bugalert

Bill Statler

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:57:06 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Flying west, perhaps...

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:18:36 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Musk is probably like "ok kids have fun, I've got to get back to my cars and spaceships.. take care and brush your hair".. slips out the back door

DOGE-Trolling Ransomware Hackers Demand $1 Trillion

Ransomware hackers imitate Elon Musk and DOGE with a trillion-dollar demand.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:33:57 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

30 years.. AFAIK there are not many people around who started in the 1990's with the first release. If you didn't know, PHP started as "Personal Home Page".

JetBrains PHPverse 2025 – Online Event Celebrating 30 Years of PHP

Join us for a free virtual event as we celebrate PHP’s 30th anniversary with top experts and thought leaders. Enjoy insightful talks, exciting announcements, and a look at the future of PHP development.

Bill Statler

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:48:43 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Huh, I never even thought about what it meant.

I wonder how many people remember what the first A in NASA means?

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:07:30 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I hadn't heard about this. I saw a friend's name in here, Cat. I guess she started the lawsuit

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/lawsuit-californians-cash-thomson-reuters-20290760.php

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:48:51 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Hacker News wrote the following post Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:12:05 -0400

The CIA's 'Heart Attack Gun': A Cold War Weapon for Targeted Assassinations
L: https://www.military.com/history/cias-heart-attack-gun-cold-war-weapon-targeted-assassinations.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43779100
posted on 2025.04.23 at 23:49:06 (c=0, p=3)

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:50:24 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Though Embree discovered the right poison, the CIA still needed a delivery method that would allow an operative to literally get away with murder. Dr. Nathan Gordon, a researcher at Fort Detrick, Maryland, discovered that mixing the toxin with water and freezing it would allow a poison dart the width of a human hair and a quarter of an inch long to be fired from a modified M1911.

Once in the body, the victim experiences paralytic shellfish poisoning, which can present as a tingling sensation, followed by shortness of breath, abdominal pain, choking and lack of coordination. The victim is paralyzed before dying of respiratory failure in a process that can take seconds. The only evidence of foul play would be a small red puncture wound, one not easily found by a coroner not looking for it. The cause of death would appear to be a heart attack, even to a medical examiner.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:32:43 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Canadians having fun making prank food orders from restaurants in the USA (joking, in this case the guy made a wrong turn and ended up in Canada. Oopsies!)
Food Driver Deported After McDonald’s Delivery Goes Wrong

The Venezuelan man made a wrong turn into Canada from Detroit and when he tried to re-enter, was sent to El Salvador.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:34:53 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I wonder if he told them he delivering McDonalds. It's sorta funny but not sure the guy deserved to be sent to the crazy prison.

Bill Statler

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:01:32 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge

NPR has for months been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, has revealed more that 200 detentions this year at the bridge, including American citizen children.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:54:00 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

The Google family thing is somewhat useful, I found out if she adds something to a cart it asks me to pay for it, then magically appears on her device. However I don't think it works for me to initiate the purchase. So sometimes she puts like a $200 item and I have to deny it. A couple bucks is fine but $200 out of my disposable cash budget lol. I intensionally messed up her Google id on the image

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:40:28 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Prominent role of Pete Hegseth’s wife at Pentagon draws scrutiny | CNN Politics

News over the weekend that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer was included in a second group chat where he shared sensitive military operations details has focused attention on the prominent role she has occupied at the Pentagon without being formally employed during her husband’s short tenure running the US military.

no women on the tour- YouTube

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:17:15 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

See what happens with tariffs, can't get the big fat Canadian apples... Have to settle for these tiny ones from the US. One on the right is "normal size"

Bill Statler

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:13:47 -0400 from Bunny of Doom

Now there's a newspaper I haven't seen for a while. Amazing that it still exists.

We do manufacture some larger apples here in WA state. It's probably from the plutonium fertilizer.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:45:45 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Lol I was joking. But those apples are so tiny.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:14:14 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Salmon for dinner

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:16:20 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I thought they were finished with passwords.

Widespread Microsoft Entra lockouts tied to new security feature rollout

Windows administrators from numerous organizations report widespread account lockouts triggered by false positives in the rollout of a new Microsoft Entra ID's "leaked credentials" detection app called MACE.

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:00:28 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I know the area around that part of the state, family around there. I love the smell of burning coal in the winter but I think that girl in the article is right on about solar power. Article says West Virgina is the 49th state rated by energy costs, the guy representing the handful of people who want to get rich says the problem is they need more coal and less gas/other.

Maybe they should put a coal production factory over there in Mar a lardo since its so clean and natural.

A push for more coal has some in West Virginia worried about electricity prices

A new push by the Trump administration for more coal production is getting mixed reviews in West Virginia, where the majority of electricity is produced by coal and expensive for many residents.

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:46:20 -0400 last edited: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:47:01 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Replacing all workers with AI will cause explosive economic growth. For who?

In their scenario workers will have their own AI bots that bring home the bacon. Maybe some dude runs a factory of AI bots he is renting from his "employees" i guess?

Better get out to the garage to start working on building the bot team to keep food on the table and the lights on.

Announcing Mechanize Inc.

Mechanize Inc. is developing virtual environments and benchmarks to fully automate the economy.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:35:49 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Happy Easter!
God Hates Us All

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:23:42 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

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