For anyone with voting power re: Debian's General Resolution - please vote option 1 to fully ban LLM contributions. #noai
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitch2x Master of Science Infosec/Cybersec | Typical Grumpy Sysadmin
Been doing IT for the past 300 years
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Go away AI:
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Apple really needs a master switch to turn off Apple Intelligence + delete the models. 256GB Mac Minis are suffering.
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@BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange they also incorrectly deactivated a lot of Office for Mac perpetual installs but never fixed it.
"Pacing the frontier" may just be the most pretentious nonsense phrase I've heard in a long time
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@adamhotep@infosec.exchange @servo@floss.social gross. At least Waterfox and LibreWolf remove this crap.
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@Negahyphen@infosec.exchange Moving to Linux Mint is the right move overall, but just for fun, If you're powershell saavy you can have some (emphasis on "Some") more granular control if you check for/install updates via the pswindowsupdate module.
Some examples:
#check for updates (and don't install them):
get-windowsupdate
#Install updates (it will prompt for consent for each entry, allowing one to skip):
get-windowsupdate -download -install
#If you want to check for updates from Microsoft Update:
Get-WindowsUpdate -MicrosoftUpdate -Verbose
Doing this along with a combination of disabling wuauserv can maybe ease the pain, but I agree overall that MS has made this entire process unacceptable and stupid. You made the right move by just exiting the OS.
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@FinFangFoomed@mastodon.social @h2onolan@infosec.exchange I’m happy I’m not the only one who remembers those times (before wifi at home was common + we had MKDS)
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@Javvad@infosec.exchange Why is it the Microsoft 365 director making this statement and not the ACTUAL head of Windows?
Also under what actual guidelines/standards is the three day thing coming from? Or is it them just panicking without merit?
Also is Microsoft prepared to release immediate fixes for the frequent situation where their patches aren't tested and break more than they fix?)
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@psh@infosec.exchange I was noticing my FreshRSS was frequently failing to pull from my Reddit URLs. They might have seen people flock to that after they closed off old.reddit.com from non logged in users and are making the workaround unreliable. Bleh.
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@willb@infosec.exchange I miss marathoning boxes of those as a kid. Nowadays I'd probably die if I did.
I love when a vulnerability scan (cough TENABLE cough) is just outright belligerently false on a scan. Not only is the vulnerability 5+ years old, the fix is known and documented, but Nessus be like "there is no fix for this" um excuse me, solved problem half a decade ago. Fix your database...
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@binsk@infosec.exchange I'm perpetually stuck in that loop. On days I have to actually get up early, body wants to sleep till noon. On a day off? I'm up insanely early with no alarm for no explainable reason.
*checks Microsoft Docs for correct syntax/example of an MgGraph set command*
ofc it doesn't actually work in a real setting
#msgraph #powershell #azure
Old greybeard Napster-era complaint - when making mp3/ogg/flac/whatever files, don't name them with weird characters that don't work well in every OS. Keep it simple.
Being a sysadmin is like the Wacky Workbench levels in Sonic CD - the goal (getting things done) isn't far away, but literally everything is trying to bounce you a thousand miles away into dead-ends and go-back-to-start loops.
macOS patches way too slow. The check takes forever, the download takes forever, and the reboot is unnecessarily complicated and long to stand back up. Linux and even Windows go so much faster in comparison.
Of the most unhinged useless features Apple could work on, the "AI will reset your passwords" thing they are putting into iCloud Keychain has to be at the top of the list. I wouldn't ever recommend to ANYONE to run that, and from what I'm hearing, it doesn't even work all that well to begin with (shocker). So glad I use KeePass instead...
Trying to reload my balance for a $highwaytolltransponderthinghere and the site seemingly keeps blocking my system from accessing it after logging in. First off, the page is incredibly slow to even log in and work (a great confidence booster for having to input PCI), and seemingly as a reward for waiting for the page to load, I get some idiotically configured IDS going "we blocked you for security reasons" - I think it's blanket blocking Linux OSes and security forks of Firefox like LibreWolf. That is NOT how things should be. The more secure configuration should never be blocked.
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone Prism Launcher helps with that - it will cache the credentials and files so offline mode works for a while (I believe it still requires a re-auth after some time though, but it's not every time like the official app)
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Teams is also SharePoint in a trenchcoat so it might as well be a Teams vuln too.
iPadOS feels like drunk macOS. Cmd H is effectively minimize….but so is Cmd W? Sometimes? Minimize might also have the same functionality. Who knows? Apps don’t “close” on this OS, they are put in stasis…unless they don’t.
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone @mjdxp@labyrinth.zone the App Store is mostly junk apps. Homebrew is where it’s at.
Oh no I’ve falling into the special interest rabbit hole about Centralia PA again
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@atpfm@mastodon.social I love searching transcripts on Youtube for topics or mentions that are normally very difficult to find without manually scrubbing through the media. With podcasts, the same benefits absolutely apply (+in the past I remember someone saying...something...somewhere, but it was 5+ years and 700 listened podcast episodes ago)
RE: https://flipboard.com/@techcrunch/artificial-intelligence-in-2023-news-and-updates-o5ja4lvnz/-/a-sVehttH7QQGeCKrhgVDG3A%3Aa%3A3199687-%2F0
So, the entire site can be reported?
Embarrassing.. Microsoft, don't you make these pages with AI? How'd you miss this?
Every goddamn day vs code wants to update
Muting and blocking bad Reddit moderators is my passion
If I were Microsoft, I'd be sweating it right now. In July they were all happy and giddy about fixing 500+ vulnerabilities with AI, but I bet most of them weren't even real and now they have a big list of unknown problems (maybe sleeper cell malware) in the OS code. https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/03/ai-slop-pollutes-the-cve-pipeline-with-fake-vulns/5282462
The articles I'm seeing about people raising a stink about Codeberg discouraging LLMs reeks of the same "muh freedom of speech" chud energy...
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@michaelharley@infosec.exchange Consider Waterfox or Librewolf before jumping. Both forks are fantastic and remove the nonsense from Mozilla. Vivaldi is Chromium based so I don't trust it personally.
A Sun Cruiser and Almost Gothic by Steely Dan fixes anyone
I think openai just committed a certified textbook "this is precisely what you DON'T do when you're being sued" moment
I don't know who needs to hear this, but for those who do it - The "subject" field is NOT the body! Stop putting 3 paragraph essays into email subjects!
Does Apple even know how to host email? iCloud Mail - if you create inbox rules in iCloud for the web, the rules are only viewable and editable there - they don't even appear in Mail.app on macOS! Let alone Thunderbird or anywhere else. That is insane.
Christ I just want to use a Win11 VM for ONE THING and it needs like 30 minutes to install some update nobody cares about come onnnnn
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@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange @trcwm@mastodon.social Tbh that sounds like a Chrome problem. Does the same happen in Firefox?
I'm a few months late to this but I saw a little article that Donald Fagen has quietly retired. That's fine, but I'm just bittersweet about it, right as I catch up on all his solo work along with the rest of Steely Dan's stuff, he's winding down. At least he seems to be making a few silly appearances on Amy Helm's Instagram now though, which is amusing.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ThreeBallSpare/116975563434282931
Figure I'd make a page for this in the Fediverse and try to make it more of a thing here! Go check it out if you're interested.
Why does it take literally 30+ minutes to update powershell modules (especially microsoft.graph)? Doing it manually is instantaneous, what is update-module choking on?
Weird "ok boomer" moment in American Ninja Warrior - announcer says "$contestant hasn't ever used a Rubik's Cube, kids these days are all just playing video gamez!" Glad to know we don't have any commentator integrity anymore...
Reverse-engineering an image in Krita (isolating each element to its own layer) is so therapeutic.