I’m pretty sure most people would actually scream if they ever encountered a command line interface, but yeah there’s definitely better technologies to choose from than WebMIDI of all things…

ÞAF*

Oof, that’s pretty bad… reminds me of when Tesseract dev put faulty DDoS code on their manifesto

As we previously reported, malicious code in Archive.today’s CAPTCHA page was used to direct a DDoS against the Gyrovague blog written by a man named Jani Patokallio. The Archive.today maintainer demanded that Patokallio take down a 2023 blog post that discussed the archive site founder’s possible identity. Patokallio wasn’t able to determine who runs Archive.today but mentioned apparent aliases such as “Denis Petrov” and “Masha Rabinovich,” and described evidence that the site is operated by someone from Russia.

In emails sent to Patokallio after the DDoS began, “Nora” from Archive.today threatened to create a public association between Patokallio’s name and AI porn and to create a gay dating app with Patokallio’s name. These threats were discussed by Wikipedia editors in their deliberations over whether to blacklist Archive.today, and then editors noticed that Patokallio’s name had been inserted into some Archive.today captures of webpages

“Honestly, I’m kind of in shock,” one editor wrote. “Just to make sure I’m understanding the implications of this: we have good reason to believe that the archive.today operator has tampered with the content of their archives, in a manner that suggests they were trying to further their position against the person they are in dispute with??? If this is true it essentially forces our hand, archive.today would have to go. The argument for allowing it has been verifiability, but that of course rests upon the fact the archives are accurate."

More than 695,000 links to Archive.today are distributed across 400,000 or so Wikipedia pages. The archive site is commonly used to bypass news paywalls, and the FBI has sought information on the site operator’s identity with a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows.

Rest In Peace your yellow and key black cartridges

Looks like the app has a bit more functionality. I can see it being useful if you have many different devices with a variety of chargers and voltages. Would be a pain to manage all those cables and wall plugs.

You can save profiles for each gadget and charger to the Werewolf app — and use the VFLEX dongle itself to test your power sources. Press the scan button, plug the dongle into your charger, plug it back into your phone, and the app will store your charger’s capabilities.

When it’s time to plug in my 19-volt monitor, I don’t need to pick “19 volts” or remember which of my chargers can deliver — I just tap the picture of my monitor, and the app tells me which of my saved chargers are compatible. Tap that charger, hit “Update” to program the dongle, then plug everything in correctly.

We’re talking about late 90s to early 2000’s in this thread. At the end of your comment you say peak internet was 2005, so I’m getting mixed signals here. What year are we talking about again?

I’m happy for you that you were gaming on Linux back then, but it absolutely wasn’t a mainstream thing. Windows dominated the market share. I knew one person with a Mac. Average users weren’t using Linux.

I really think you’re misremembering or blinded by rose tinted glasses, because almost every website had dodgey ads. Banner ads were basically Russian Roulette whether or not you got infected, and almost every site had them. Flash games sites, news sites, random user-hosted websites, yes porn sites, sometimes even MySpace pages, really almost every site was a risk and eventually the dice gave you malware. Unless by “being careful” you mean you stayed on Wikipedia and never actually used a web browser properly, you were getting exposed to these ads eventually.

Even the original article we’re commenting on mentions this, so I’m not sure why we’re all pretending that the internet was perfect back then.

I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. It was slow, ugly, unreliable, and full of cranks, a strange world of wheezing dial-up modems, Usenet flamewars, <marquee> tags, and dancing babies. […] None of this was entirely innocent. There were scams, viruses, Nazis, pornography, and chain emails from deposed Nigerian princes.

EEEE (clicking, chirping, and squeaking noises) EEEE

Is this doing anything for you?

Is this why people sometimes get triggered when I point out facts as they’re reminiscing nostalgically?

To Be Fair that’s all 4–6 months ago. Seems more like someone who:

• briefly tried out the Fediverse
• quit
• came back in desperation to “that Linux enthusiast place” for advice on this one game running poorly

Different kinds of danger. It’s the same reason why a shark feels more threatening than your steering wheel or a bottle of beer; our brains are not good at recognising abstract threats. If you see a disorderly drunk guy one time on the train and felt threatened, your amygdala will remember that literally forever

Up until now it’s kind of just been assumed that official device drivers are relatively benign and helpful. Y’know, like “install the printer driver so you can print things.” Device drivers have always been an attack vector though (further reading). Maybe tomorrow my printer will become malicious too! Though it’s arguably already borderline.

You can see by which posts I’ve commented on recently. Feels diverse enough for my needs

Sounds cool. Try to find other me’s and talk about any differences we have. Explore that avenue. I wouldn’t believe the 4 year thing until it happened, otherwise you’re basing major life decisions on a diagnosis from an untrusted source.

Getting drive-by zero click malware from an Adobe Flash / ActiveX embed banner ad, or JavaScript / CSS vulnerability, had nothing to do with how careful you were. You just randomly got viruses from your computer existing with an Ethernet cable connected. Antivirus were also pretty useless.

If you never got one, you were either extremely lucky, or just didn’t notice and it was sneaky spyware

There’s always tedious work. Documentation, bureaucracy, reports, emails, “rewrite the soul module in Rust”, etc

You can get it to do the tedious work, so researchers can focus more on innovation. In reality, organisations often cancel out any performance improvements by firing people to make up the difference; but that’s not really the technology’s fault

You asked for it. Grok, enhance this guy’s ass.

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It says it uses “favorites”, which seems like a strange metric to use. I don’t think I’ve ever favorited a tag in my life. I was expecting total post count or score or something