Bert Driehuis
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Security noob since 1986
@Bette @johntimaeus @briankrebs the only critters I've ever actually seen on them are stink bugs. But they're an unlikely culprit, because they seem to eat the fruit and use the leaves for cover. Plus they're rare where I live: I see one maybe every other year.
I always inspect every raspberry I eat inside and out, whether store bought or from my garden. Experience.
@Bette @johntimaeus @briankrebs still trying to figure out who eats the leaves of my beloved raspberries when I sleep... I go to bed, the plant is fine. I wake up, and the leaves are gone. No culprit in sight.
@luna I sometimes feel like I'm missing the point. Like MS Teams on Android losing usability with every release. It would've made sense if they hadn't killed Windows Phone eons ago. Are they just softening us up?
@hell for years, I installed Emacs everywhere (or MicroEmacs if space constrained), until I got a job that literally meant I had to support every UNIX on the planet. Building Emacs that often gets old real soon and I settled on vi then.
@mjdxp mine is in storage for that reason... It's been years since it was last powered up. And I lost the cassette tapes, so I have nothing to run on it. The little spare time I spend on retro computing these days goes to the PiDP11 with its beautiful blinkenlights. If ever I reach retirement age, I will probably sink some time in modifying the PiDP8 into the PDP8/e looks, especially the toggle switches...
@mjdxp I really wanted a TRS-80, but could afford a secondhand PET 2001 only. Learned a ton from it. Had a blast reading through the disassembly of the BASIC ROM. I vividly recall discovering the tokenizer. It seeded my interest in lexers and later yacc and regular expressions. The hardware being way to advanced (a single chip CPU, a 6522 for almost all I/O, etc). I was as elated that my high school had a disused PDP8, with schematics, which allowed me to study how instructions flowed through simple TTL logic. I hate all the black boxes we have to use ever since.
@julia there's more than one actual CVE that has "run this with administrative privileges and bad things will happen". Even had disagreements with a customer about my refusal to fix them for the petty reason that no fixes were available because upstream said "works as designed".
This was decades before the cottage industry of security researchers without a clue started spoiling the broth.
@stepleton @tubetime I wasn't aware NE555's could even fail. Together with the SN74141, it's on my list of indestructible parts. There goes another childhood illusion...
@0xabad1dea thanks for being the adult in the room! ❤️
@sly_vi @briankrebs @GossiTheDog I'm not privy to the situation that made this guy do what he did, but MS have quite a history of responding to notifications with "works a designed" or other ways of shifting the blame to the user. In some cases, they fixed issues silently after sending the researcher into the weeds.
Mind you, I feel their pain. I would hate to do triage on their product line"s CVD, and that's even without considering all the crap reports everyone gets these days from folks whose expertise consists of reading chapter one from "ethical hacking for dummies" (now with free reporting templates).