Notices by Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)

@GossiTheDog @wdormann @FritzAdalis I just tested, and while you can create inetpub folder without elevation, you can't create an inetpub file, so you at least can't prevent the update from installing as a regular user.

@GossiTheDog @wdormann At least it looks like the update fails to apply if you create a file named inetpub in root first.

@GossiTheDog You mean the policy that's been deprecated?

@kaia @flacs Presumably because it supports 5Gbps speeds (which really makes me wonder what chipset's used – I've only seen 10 and 2.5G higher-speed eth ports so far).

@GossiTheDog Given the possible unbalance, even using the supplied cable probably won't help you in the long run – it likely will prevent the PSU-side connector from heating up, but not the GPU side. I'd keep the chassis open while gaming.

@ryanc Reminds me of an 8 GB CF card I bought years ago that was around 7 500 000 000 bytes (just about 7 GiB).

@cstross Do B&W lasers also print dot patterns? I'd imagine those would be quite a bit more noticeable than yellow ones…

@tbortels @klardotsh @dealingwith Markov chain generator?

@dalias @whitequark 15 or 25 years ago? :)

(also, any idea why cache was disabled?)

@dalias @wonka @foone IIRC, with USB2 you can't have more than 7 hubs (and a total of 127 devices). No idea about USB3, but I know that it's limited to 31 devices.

@lanodan @novenary @a1ba OpenWRT's had an automatic revert in place for the past several versions, too. After applying new settings through the web interface, if it doesn't get a connection from the browser within 90 seconds, it'll revert to previous settings.

@cstross I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't.
— Paul Verhoeven on Starship Troopers movie

@marmarta @cstross I learned Linux by doing a Gentoo Stage 1 install :)

@marmarta @cstross I did use Slackware before Gentoo – a friend set it up for me as a router when I got cable internet on an old Pentium 75 machine. I used that for a while, then read about this Gentoo thing and decided to try it when I bought a Via Eden mini-ITX motherboard.

@misty @AlanSill IIRC, @GossiTheDog's using toot.io.

@ryanc @Edent @retr0id It's been demonstrated to be possible, mainly because when people compare hashes (visually), they usually only look at the first and last few characters.

@thomasfuchs Hah, what's that from?

@thomasfuchs I remember Office 97 being an unstable piece of crap.

@joshuaelliott @mcc But they're smart!

@ryanc @jima Looked at the config pages: