Nobody Cares about Tech Support

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I'm laughing, sort of.

Apple shipped us a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery

Nobody should do it this way.

www.theverge.com

Maybe they should make it easy to open these things up?

Well have you ever taken a look at Daisy? No wonder Apple doesn't care...

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Deadlocks are the equivalent of "there was an old lady who swallowed a fly" except the second verse has the fly swallowing her.

 

[Khamon]

and then the third verse is her swallowing the fly again, and so on, until the old lady dies

can has job noa/

free pizza too

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

There's no third verse, the poem is deadlocked.

 

[Khamon]

Bonsai poetry is licensed to describe a recursive deadlock in the eighth dimension.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed the fly
Perhaps she'll SEGMENTATION VIOLATION

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

New uses for old technology.



Maglink

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Deadlocks are the equivalent of "there was an old lady who swallowed a fly" except the second verse has the fly swallowing her.

I know deadlocks well. Happened a lot on the old Amiga.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I know deadlocks well. Happened a lot on the old Amiga.

I know deadlocks well from sql. Some were not easy to track down.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I know deadlocks well. Happened a lot on the old Amiga.

For the same reason they happened a lot in early Minix. Message passing operating systems are prone to deadlocks if you implement your subsystems as "read a message, handle a message, pass it on, read next message". You need to "read all the messages, sort them, execute them in an appropriate order (eg, elevator algorithm, or spin off worker processes for long running requests, ....), pass them on". Monolithic kernels get you more horizontal parallelism automatically.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The obvious response of course is "you're supposed to use deliberately wrong answers for security questions so that bad actors can't social-engineer the correct answers out of you and break into your account", and of course that's technically true but it also defeats the original intention behind security questions, which was to use personal information you're unlikely to ever forget as a hedge to retrieve a password that you might very easily forget. Since unlike correct answers wrong/fictional answers to security questions have no deeper root in your memory than passwords, they're essentially just second passwords that you're even more likely to forget than the main password because you don't have the benefit of repeated use to aid retention, so you need to write them down somewhere but you could have just done that with your actual password too so what is the point???

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They used to let you provide your own questions, so I could go "how did they get that tank of nitrous into that worldcon party in 1978?".

 

[Essence Lumin]

The obvious response of course is "you're supposed to use deliberately wrong answers for security questions so that bad actors can't social-engineer the correct answers out of you and break into your account", and of course that's technically true but it also defeats the original intention behind security questions, which was to use personal information you're unlikely to ever forget as a hedge to retrieve a password that you might very easily forget. Since unlike correct answers wrong/fictional answers to security questions have no deeper root in your memory than passwords, they're essentially just second passwords that you're even more likely to forget than the main password because you don't have the benefit of repeated use to aid retention, so you need to write them down somewhere but you could have just done that with your actual password too so what is the point???

Yeah, forget that stuff. "What was your mother's maiden name?" asdf435r1423ewd.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

They used to let you provide your own questions, so I could go "how did they get that tank of nitrous into that worldcon party in 1978?".

Nihilistic Password Security Questions

What is the name of your least favorite child? In what year did you abandon your dreams? What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? At what...

www.mcsweeneys.net

 

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 site says it has an app for Windows called WARP, which I guess functions like a VPN more or less? But I don't see any real coverage about it from sources I think of as reliable. Anyone here know if it's any good, or have a link to some reputable articles?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 site says it has an app for Windows called WARP, which I guess functions like a VPN more or less? But I don't see any real coverage about it from sources I think of as reliable. Anyone here know if it's any good, or have a link to some reputable articles?

Read this review of WARP. Basically, it's a data encryptor and routing service, not much more. It doesn't have much of the functionality of a true VPN. One good use I can see for it is if you have to use your device on public WiFi hotspots. But, honestly, I think you're better off overall with a true VPN.