"IBM Software Download Tips: Three Easy Steps to Make Download Director Work Again"

I'm pretty sure that not a single soul wants to make Download Director work again.

[RSS] The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/

[RSS] CVE Farming - Problem & Solution

https://jericho.blog/2025/01/25/cve-farming-problem-solution/

Many important, but often overlooked details about CVE assignment and vulnerability management in this one!

Project: golang/go https://github.com/golang/go
File: src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewritegeneric.go:20188 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/refs/tags/go1.23.4/src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/rewritegeneric.go#L20188

func rewriteValuegeneric_OpOr16(v *Value) bool

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I want to see less nostalgia for Geocities design and more nostalgia for web standards / proto-web 2.0 aesthetics

E.g., early CSS Zen Garden - linking you intentionally to the oldest entries from 20 years ago (cw: some lean heavily on the Orientalism, remember it’s from 20 years ago before you put a creator on blast)

https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/?pg=12

Context: The CSS Zen Garden was a groundbreaking project at the time, aiming to change minds about the viability of semantic HTML and CSS 2, separating contents from design.

The site had fixed HTML for its content, and designers were invited to submit designs. All looked radically different from each other. It inspired many people to step up their game and keep up with the new tech.

Many had a very bold design to distinguish themselves from each other.

You might have to zoom a bit on some of those, 1024×768px resolutions were the norm at the time.

Hang on now. How did they get this Juniper backdoor installed??

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/25/mysterious_backdoor_juniper_routers/

Slick C2 coding tho.

#malware #infosec

Which punk rock record would you have recorded on blank side 2 back then?

I got “Russia To Rocket” recorded on a cassette by a friend. My first punk rock cassette 📻

#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory

I got a letter from a company I’ve never heard of informing me of a “privacy event,” a new and stupid euphemism for “we collected your data and allowed it to be stolen.” The letter never says that the company is, in fact, United Healthcare.

[RSS] A brief and incomplete comparison of memory corruption detection tools

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250124-00/?p=110805

Whoever figured out that retirement homes and kindergartens can be merged should receive a Nobel prize (any field would do).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j-lU5Lvny8

(Hungarian, use auto-translate)

The second part is about teenagers teaching computer use for the elderly. Notice that a girl explains how to pirate movies on YT xD

👀🇵🇱🇭🇺 "If Orban really blocks European sanctions at a key moment for the war, it’ll be absolutely clear that in this big game for the security and future of Europe, he is playing in Putin’s team, not in ours. With all the consequences of this fact," — Polish PM Tusk

I wonder if those who find LLM's useful (esp. in case of programmers) do so because of the "rubber duck debuging" they do in the process?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

[RSS] Introduction to Fuzzing Android Native Components: Strategies for Harness Creation

https://blog.convisoappsec.com/en/introduction-to-fuzzing-android-native-components-strategies-for-harness-creation/

#fuzzing

[RSS] A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the XNU Kernel

https://jprx.io/cve-2024-54507/

CVE-2024-54507

As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.

#appreciation #accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #fediverse #gratitude #images #inclusivity #peoplewhocare #pictures #technology

BREAKING: UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack and data breach on its Change Healthcare subsidiary in February 2024 now affects around 190 million people — almost double the previous estimate.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/24/unitedhealth-confirms-190-million-americans-affected-by-change-healthcare-data-breach/

@HalvarFlake - I promised to take a better look at the #EuroStack but initially I could find no detail. Now there is a new (brief) document that looks very urgent but I haven't yet studied it: https://euro-stack.eu/a-pitch-paper/

Project: mpengine-x64-pdb 1.1.24090.11
File: mpengine.dll
Address: 75a20b610

Read

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C IS LEGAL AGAIN

Me clicking on a restaurant website: I wonder when they're open and what they serve

Restaurant website: O U R M I S S I O N