Onno (VK6FLAB)

I now write a date on them, so when I next lay eyes on it, I can decide if enough time has passed.

I recently returned an item purchased four years ago in its original packaging. No doubt I’ll milk that experience for the next 20 years to justify my box hoarding 😇

What does the fix look like?

Code scanners? Hackathons? Code review by new hires? Education? Methodology?

I spent quite some time trying to find a better way to put it, but stupid, idiot, ignorance, incredulity just didn’t seem to cover the experience of WTAF?

From the article:

helped in no small part by AMD reusing a publicly-accessible NIST example key as its security key

That’s a whole new level of … something.

Also perfectly fine: No tie at all.

An offline version with ads and no ability to store data locally sounds like an online version to me.

If you run out of Tuna, you can use Salmon.

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I was lead to believe that this bullshit was limited to the country where the Orange Fascist is in charge.

Not so.

This screenshot was just taken by me in Australia.

Meh, blame their phone, not your account.

I once sat in a technical audience where the supposedly technical speaker was explaining why our national organisation shouldn’t use Google Ads on our website. He explained that the ads were inappropriate, because when he tested, it only showed ads for women’s night wear.

The audience stayed very, very quiet.

Afterwards nobody had the courage to explain that the advertising was linked to the browser, not the website.

I was only told this recently after using a microwave oven for many years. Works as advertised.

Pretty much … source, I live here. The mosquitoes near the airport require landing clearance.

I’d be in favour of removing internet access from the person who prompted the image generator to make these images.

and was never exploited by an attacker

… that they know of or admitted to.

If you build a static website, you can host it on AWS S3 and it will likely cost you cents to run. S3 on its own will handle a lot of traffic and you’re unlikely to hit that threshold, but if you do, you can add AWS Cloud Front and have a site that can handle more traffic than you can imagine.

This will not work. It sounds great, it sounds plausible, even realistic at some level, but this will not work.

Here’s why.

The bot operator has more money than you do. If the efficiency of one bot decreases on one website, they’ll throw another bot at it, rinse and repeat until your website stops responding because it’s ground to dust.

Meta bots are good at doing this, hitting your site with thousands of requests a second, over and over again.

Meta is not alone in this, but in my experience it’s the most destructive.

Source: One of my clients runs a retail website and I’ve been dealing with this.

At the moment the “best” - least worse is probably more accurate - “solution” is to block them as if they’re malicious traffic - which essentially is what they are.

USA congress?

You can do whatever makes you feel beautiful.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Same user, more than one computer?

Pretty sure that the only criteria is long hair :)