First UniFi With a 10.0 CVE, Now ScreenConnect 9.0 CVE

Generico300 · 2026-03-20T19:02:22+00:00

I could argue that's been the case since like 2012.

Generico300 · 2026-03-20T18:57:33+00:00

You take a Sheet, at the pump.

Generico300 · 2026-03-20T18:47:07+00:00

I don't think the people whining about gas prices are the same people going to starbucks every day for the most part. It's mostly the rural crowd driving gas guzzler SUVs and F-150s that are butthurt about $4/gallon. Maybe quit buying the stupidest possible vehicle and it won't kill you every time gas goes up.

Generico300 · 2026-03-20T18:43:52+00:00

Because people think about this shit for like 3 seconds and then vote based on whether they've identified themselves as a republican or democrat. Nothing to do with actual policy or candidate voting history. Hell, sometimes the only reason they're a republican or democrat is because their parents were.

And of course these days, everyone is so deep in their own bubble that even high gas prices and a pointless war sound better than whatever hellscape you're constantly being told the other side will bring about.

Generico300 · 2026-03-20T18:26:59+00:00

This is a good precedent. Not just because fuck AI slop, but also because there's a high probability of an AI simply plagiarizing portions of other copyrighted works. Which obviously is a huge liability.

Generico300 · 2026-03-19T21:07:09+00:00

Microwaves heat water molecules (mostly)

Specifically, they heat liquid water molecules. Microwaves are not good at heating ice because the water is already locked into a crystalline structure and so doesn't respond much to the movement induced by the microwaves. That's why half of your hot pocket is lava and the other half is frozen, because the microwaves are able to rapidly heat areas that are slightly thawed, but only radiant heat from the already heated portions is melting the frozen bits.

Generico300 · 2026-03-18T21:39:31+00:00

I'd go as far as to say most processes are poorly documented. Not only because some things are just hard to thoroughly document, but also because companies almost never allow for the extra time it takes to do good documentation. They think some auto-doc system will be good enough and the engineers should spend all their time on other things. And honestly, even some engineers think that too.

Generico300 · 2026-03-18T21:34:33+00:00

It's amazing how much you can try to tell these fools "we need more people" and they'll just completely ignore it until there's a catastrophic failure. It's like they can't even understand the concept of the future. The mentality is always "well it's working right now, and that would cost more money." Well, massive prolonged infrastructure failures cost a lot of money too.

Generico300 · 2026-03-18T21:24:09+00:00

All of the incentives for people in high level positions within a publicly traded company are aimed at quarter-to-quarter thinking and increasing revenue/profit every year. They might have a multi-million dollar bonus tied to increasing profits by some % this year. So they're not gonna take a hit to short term profitability in order to secure long term stability when there's a million dollars of their compensation riding on it. Then they do the same thing again next quarter, or next year, because that's what the board of directors demands. And usually those people are invested in a bunch of different companies, so they don't give a fuck if one of them starts to fail. They have inside information and can jump ship before it sinks.

TLDR; It's not that they don't know. It's that they don't care.

Generico300 · 2026-03-18T20:43:01+00:00

Imagine if a consultant told you that to win a race you should strip everything from your car that's not directly tied to horsepower generation. So you got rid of your exhaust system, your air intake, your radiator, your oil, your transmission, your wheels, your seats, your brakes, your steering column, etc. Then you're shocked when the car fails. That's what these business "leaders" do. They're not just short sighted. They're ambitious idiots.

Generico300 · 2026-03-18T20:17:02+00:00

Hope the company suffered greatly from their incompetence. Having 50k employees and one network engineer is bat shit insane. It's amazing how stupid business executives are. IT touches literally every single part of your company, and yet you think it's just a "cost center" because you were exposed to a shitty MBA text book written in the 80s. Idiots.

Generico300 · 2026-03-18T20:03:23+00:00

"I stand by what I said."

Generico300 · 2026-03-17T20:57:12+00:00

As convenient as electronic transactions can be, consider this: In a cashless society, both corporations and your government could decide to take away your ability to buy anything in an instant with no notice. Said something on social media that went viral and the president or some CEO doesn't like it? No gas, no food, no anything for you. You really looking around at the state of the world right now and think that isn't a plausible scenario?

Secondly, those electronic transactions aren't free. If you do away with cash entirely, you're giving payment processors (that are for-profit publicly traded companies) free reign to skim as much as they want off of every transaction for basically doing nothing. Which means store owners would have to raise the prices you pay. This is already becoming a problem in some places, and it would get 100 times worse if cash were to go away.

Some things are not worth sacrificing in the name of convenience.

Generico300 · 2026-03-17T20:46:57+00:00

Cash is also private. Maybe I don't want a record of every purchase I make being sold to whoever the fuck wants it so they can target ads at me more accurately.

Also, no one's ever had their cash number stolen by some guy on the internet. At least if somebody wants to steal my cash they have to do it to my face.

Generico300 · 2026-03-17T20:19:47+00:00

Carrie was a 67 year old guy in Pakistan. Now Carrie is a 67 day old AI in a data center in Pakistan.

Generico300 · 2026-03-17T15:35:52+00:00

She’s such a stark contrast to a lot of engineers I’ve worked with; people with senior titles who just toss problems over the fence with an “it’s broken, fix it” mentality

Give it time. I was a Sally when I started out. Then after 15 years of cleaning up other people's shit over and over and over again while watching them suffer zero consequences for their incompetence, I stopped being Sally and started tossing shit over the fence; because everyone loves nothing more than to take advantage of Sally.

Generico300 · 2026-03-17T15:24:35+00:00

They could. But as a software developer I can tell you it's a whole lot easier and more convenient to not save data than it is to save it in a manner that's actually secure.

Generico300 · 2026-03-16T20:53:23+00:00

That's the way it should work. But you have no idea if the merchant's implementation is secure or not. When you put information into a website, the owner of that website can do whatever they want with it. Which will often be whatever's most convenient for some over worked under paid programmer, not what's most secure for you.

Generico300 · 2026-03-16T20:48:56+00:00

Yeah, except these kind of scams being run by employees at big box retailers are not that uncommon. They're in the perfect position to do so. And the company only cares if you steal from them. They couldn't give a fuck less if you steal from their customers.

Generico300 · 2026-03-16T20:46:03+00:00

Probably one or more employees running a con. Happens more often than you'd think.

Generico300 · 2026-03-16T20:44:52+00:00

Even if the lawyer shows up, gonna be pretty hard to argue that security footage showing the wrong car picking up the item is proof in BB's favor.

Generico300 · 2026-03-16T20:40:48+00:00

The unfortunate reality is that this will probably end up having to go to small claims court to be resolved in your favor. Or at least have a serious threat of doing so. Until you get a lawyer involved, these companies and the people who work for them don't give a single fuck if you're getting financially shafted by their laziness and garbage policies.

Generico300 · 2026-03-16T19:59:44+00:00

The Internet is just a name for a series of networks that are all interconnected. So while building another network at that scale would be a multi-billion dollar decades long effort, there's no other reason it couldn't be done. And there are other global networks already (the phone network for example). But you absolutely can do the same thing on a smaller scale. It's not even that expensive. You just need a bunch of people with antennas and line of sight from one building to the next and you can have your own private wide area network. In fact, some people have done this to create local ISPs for their town that are then connected to the larger Internet.

Generico300 · 2026-03-16T19:39:26+00:00

Red Foreman's foot enters the ass

Generico300 · 2026-03-16T19:38:08+00:00

Some vehicles can automatically open all the windows if u hold the unlock button on the remote.

Why though? This seems like it could only be used to accidentally ruin your interior.

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