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@rysiek It's all very odd. They surely must know that absolutely noone is buying the "but hackers" story - especially after PCERT decided it was credible.

I don't have knowledge of Polish cultural norms or media portrayal of "hacking", but their audience isn't Poles - it's rail operators across Europe. They've massively misjudged this by not just blaming it on an error, apologising profusely, fixing it and putting it to bed. Instead they're going for an industry-wide "Streisand Effect".

@rysiek Thanks for the English-lang reporting! I’m amazed Newag haven’t blamed it on a disgruntled former employee, fixed the trains and tried to move the story along. Every rail operator in Europe must be watching this and striking Newag off their “qualified bidder” lists. Who would buy multi-million-euro trains from a company that might do anything resembling this?

@inthehands AFAIK in the UK, it’s not uncommon to have a template which incl. “read them their rights, etc” and includes all the procedural stuff that should happen on every arrest. Officer then pads with specifics - if they miss it out in the words, then on the stand the defence will ask if they actually did “oh, you say you did now, but you ‘forgot’ just an hour after the arrest?”. An LLM seems as likely to miss key steps from CYA procedural boilerplate as a human.

@GossiTheDog FFS.
Out of interest, I have it in my head that Gov M365 is an isolated instance - a UKGov DC where MS install a dedicated M365 stack? Is that correct? Which doesn’t make it unhackable, but subtly different to being tenants in a public zone.

@thomasfuchs Mac Finder does the same. Hangs dreadfully if the share is slow or it needs to index. Surprising lack of concurrency to lock the entire app instead of putting a spinner in the window but keeping the UI interactive so you can click back out to a local folder or the parent you were in. I’d have thought that would have been std in modern OS file browsers, but they seem to assume you have sub-ms latency off NVMe and don’t behave gracefully when you don’t.

@thomasfuchs That article also links to the WorldCom bankruptcy in which “several executives … were convicted of a scheme to inflate the company's assets”. I can’t think of any contemporary cases like that in NYC right now 🤔 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Inc.

@thomasfuchs Although on the Tesla front it feels less like accounting fraud and more like Cyber Boer massively over leveraging himself on Xitter at the precise moment Tesla were losing their first mover advantage and needed to turn into a proper car company that had like… QA and build quality. Their model lineup is outdated (by automotive standards) and with no new cars in the pipeline they’re losing ground to other manufacturers. An absent CEO is death at that point.

@thomasfuchs nice ? what sort of exposure did that take? Magnitude 10 is dim!

@thomasfuchs amazing thankyou. I haven’t used pixinsight yet, but really interesting to know that’s an option. Still very much finding my way into astrophotography.

@thomasfuchs Gorgeous. How do you integrate multiple observing sessions? I’m just starting and have been treating sets of darks/flats/bias as unique to one set of lights in DSS. Do you throw all the frames from each session in together, or stack each session and then stack the resulting outputs in a separate stage?