Posts by alison@burningboard.net
(DIR) Post #AwcBSvxZYQIdTv1XSC by alison@burningboard.net
2025-07-29T04:51:53Z
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@debian Too bad that Joey Hess left Debian over the systemd controversy. I'm amazed if he worked on the bug and failed to fix it.
(DIR) Post #AwodBYur1hEOLfs2e8 by alison@burningboard.net
2025-08-04T04:59:08Z
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@kyle At least there's no concurrency. Are there punch cards involved, is what we all want to know.
(DIR) Post #AxILbW6s731Gk3W3bE by alison@burningboard.net
2025-08-16T05:19:14Z
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@mjg59 Microsoft certainly did have plots to kill Linux at various times, peaking according to rumor with Windows XP. They were in fact very bad at it. An insider told me that MS's purchase of Hotmail motivated the change in attitude, since they saw how well Linux-based Hotmail worked. I see their first kernel patch dates to 2011.
(DIR) Post #AxLpW1KahSU5w06lEG by alison@burningboard.net
2025-08-20T05:22:49Z
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@Nonilex The son of an American friend married a Vietnamese woman. In 2024 the US government granted her a visa. However, the US Embassy in Hanoi will not schedule an appointment so that she might pick it up. Her husband has changed jobs so that he can work remotely part of the year overseas. Comment seems superfluous!
(DIR) Post #AxiZl4RuGAd7JklLpA by alison@burningboard.net
2025-08-31T04:44:26Z
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@kyle Wow, that's beautiful. The color scheme strikes me as rather Ghanaian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ghana#/media/File:Flag_of_Ghana.svg Perhaps you could make some doilies for all those boxes @jezra crafted. How long did the fabrication take and what is the fiber?
(DIR) Post #AxkdoPLDpO5D7CP1o8 by alison@burningboard.net
2025-09-01T04:39:23Z
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@kyle I nominated a colleague who was born overseas for a professional society award. Because the colleague is not a native speaker, he/she added some biographical details and then asked ChatGPT to fix up the resulting text. The result simply didn't scan -- full of em dashes, which I never use in sentences (except for today). Another sentence had no verb.
(DIR) Post #AyDf9yILYCh51kNPO4 by alison@burningboard.net
2025-09-15T04:38:43Z
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@embedded Also, do you folks know about Gnu Octave? https://octave.org/ Octave does not include the many specialized libraries which Matlab offers, but is great for developing the basic logic of scripts.
(DIR) Post #B1HENHVW1CIPIJepsm by alison@burningboard.net
2025-12-15T04:46:40Z
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I'm delighted to hear @unnamedre back on the air again. The most recent episode https://reverseengineering.libsyn.com/076-living-in-a-vast-world-of-crazinessis an interview Dan Walters of Bytetinker, who runs an ISP-hacking village at Cyphercon. The news here is not reassuring! While the Kernel Hardening and Linux Zero-Day projects are exemplary and important @kees , the networks through which our packets pass are not so secure. Yes, encryption protects the contents of messages, but cannot save them from DNS hacks ( @kyle ) or a variety of man-in-the-middle attacks. We end up with heavily armored secure enclaves surrounded with rather scary transits between them.
(DIR) Post #B1IPaXGs0tjsbTI2t6 by alison@burningboard.net
2025-12-16T05:16:25Z
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@kyle @unnamedre @kees Dan Walters made the same comment about VPNs: why trust them more than your ISP? From what I've read about cell towers, the situation is even worse.
(DIR) Post #B1KVrPbekglBnOMZ28 by alison@burningboard.net
2025-12-17T05:36:13Z
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@kyle Wow, that totally makes sense as an extension of the paid-search-engine-default model.