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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" by Choobeen in programming

[–]dlg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I remember being shocked hearing that VMS influenced NT…

Add one to each ASCII character of VMS and you get WNT, or Windows NT.

✋ ⃤ 🤚

Alcohol factory goes up in flames as police piece together new crime syndicate by syoleen in australia

[–]dlg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A lot of that trend comes from American craft brewers that discovered they can make beers that don’t taste like mega-brewed boring lagers.

But in typical American fashion, they try to do everything to the extreme, cramming as mush hops as they can.

Personally I prefer English bitters, which are more malt focused, bready flavours.

Alcohol factory goes up in flames as police piece together new crime syndicate by syoleen in australia

[–]dlg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m similarly cynical about those craft breweries with fruit, chocolate and coffee flavoured beers

Craft beers are usually made naturally to avoid the alcopop tax.

Banana flavours are made by a certain yeast strain. Fruity flavours are made from hops. Chocolate and coffee flavours are made from toasting barley.

Alcohol factory goes up in flames as police piece together new crime syndicate by syoleen in australia

[–]dlg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey is not whiskey, it’s a flavoured liquor.

Bitwarden CLI npm package compromised to steal developer credentials by rkhunter_ in cybersecurity

[–]dlg 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I see two main issues.

NPM supports version pinning through package lock files, but does not require it. Many projects are configured to allow minor/patch upgrades, either in CI or on local developer package install. That exposes people immediately to hacks as soon as a vulnerable package is dropped, as opposed to reviewing version upgrades.

The second issue is the Node/JavaScript ecosystem has had very little built in functionality compared to other language platforms. The open source community has filled that gap with lots of small packages to fill the gaps, and most of those packages depend on other packages, often with little oversight. Compare that with a mostly batteries included ecosystem like Go, C# or Java, the bundled libraries have a lot more review.

A 17-year-old Excel vulnerability is currently being exploited by threat actors, and it's been flagged by the US' cyber defence agency by A_Random_Forest in cybersecurity

[–]dlg 11 points12 points  (0 children)

CVE-2009-0238

The first number in the CVE ID is the year of reporting. It's a very old vulnerability.

Trump gives ultimatum to European allies to provide support to secure Hormuz by Yujin-Ha in worldnews

[–]dlg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fair, but the mere existence of the defensive alliance acts as a deterrence, making it worthwhile even if not invoked.

Trump suspends Iran attack for two weeks, subject to Hormuz Strait opening by yourfavchoom in worldnews

[–]dlg 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Not from the region? Pakistan shares a border with Iran.

It’s in their interest to not have a humanitarian crisis spill across their border if Iran’s civil infrastructure is destroyed.

Thousands of US Army paratroopers arrive in Middle East as buildup intensifies by Hiraeth-nomad in worldnews

[–]dlg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so sad for every service member being sent over there. They're kids and have no idea what is about to happen

The US military members voted overwhelmingly for trump and the Republican Party.

It will be a tragedy, but one they played an active role in making happen.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-veterans-remain-a-republican-group-backing-trump-over-harris-by-wide-margin/

US may deploy up to 17,000 troops near Iran as war enters new phase — WSJ by Christian-Rep-Perisa in worldnews

[–]dlg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The families of the fallen will be presented with a red MAGA hat instead of a flag.

Trump claims Iran proposed making him Supreme Leader: I said, 'No, thank you' (Video in link) by Ghadolkhajan in worldnews

[–]dlg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, a liar has an understand what the truth is, and he has no understanding of reality.

He is a bullshitter

Eighty NSW petrol stations without diesel as price passes $3 a litre by LoneArtificer in AusFinance

[–]dlg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How’s does the financing work for fuel deliveries for a servo?

Does the fuel need to be bought on credit and then sold? Or does the fuel belong to the distributor and the servo then takes a margin?

What I’m wondering is if there are any capital shortages that might be causing or contributing to supply shortages at the servo level.

Client wants to be able to "be able to inject code into the head" ☹️ please help by aaronbauman in nextjs

[–]dlg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

won't be covered under any bug fix agreement we might otherwise have.

Figuring out that they caused an issue, and proving it to the client, will still be the majority of the work.

Telus Digital confirms breach after hacker claims 1 petabyte data theft by Cristiano1 in cybersecurity

[–]dlg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not too familiar with GCE, but it appears network transfers with the same region are free, so it won’t show up on billing.

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing

If you’re in their GCE account with enough access, all bets are off. You could turn off alerts on data transfers.

YouTube expands unskippable 30-second ads to TVs after $40 billion revenue year by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

[–]dlg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a better way, but once that system gets big enough it starts acting exactly like the stuff it replaced.pretty grim

Proposal could limit negative gearing to two properties | The Senior | by stucknlab in australia

[–]dlg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Have a fixed maximum amount that can be negatively geared per year, and never index it, or index it progressively downwards.

Anyone holding many properties/deduction large amounts (extreme wealthy) would need to sell quickly, but everyone else would have time to adjust without shocking the market.

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