Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Erich Templar]

You've purchased (presumably on disks...

How to tell us you're old without saying "I'm old".

Presumably the Office suite automatically updates, in which case this is just included in the update (probably before Microsoft made this announcement).

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

*smugly waving my Office97 cd around

 

[Noodles]

See, this is why I started writing everything in Markdown.

 

[Free]

*smugly waving my Office97 cd around

/me laughs in MS Office 2010.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

How to tell us you're old without saying "I'm old".

Presumably the Office suite automatically updates, in which case this is just included in the update (probably before Microsoft made this announcement).

Yeah my understanding is, the apps *check* for updates at least, if the computer is online. Support has already been ended so there won't be any updates, but evidently at the same time it checks to verify some kind of certificate, and those certificates are what's about to expire. Microsoft can easily renew them, it would cost them literally nothing, but they've decided not to do that in order to force Office 2019 users to give them more money.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

And you don't get to "keep your data" if you used Publisher. They recommended making pdfs as no Office product currently available will open the Publisher files.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Cabel Sasser (@cabel.panic.com)

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

bsky.app

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Cabel Sasser (@cabel.panic.com)

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

bsky.app

Yep, saw the easter egg on the r/c64 reddit.

5 print"{clr}"
10 v=53248:poke v+21,0:x=120:y=120:poke v+4,x:poke v+5,y:poke v+21,4
11 poke 2042,13:poke 53277,15:poke 53289,7
20 for n=0 to 62:read q:poke 832+n,q:next:dx=7:dy=3
30 x=x+dx:if x>255 then x=255:dx=-dx
31 if x<65 then x=65:dx=-dx
35 y=y+dy:if y>200 then y=200:dy=-dy
36 if y<65 then y=65:dy=-dy
40 poke v+4,x:poke v+5,y:goto 30
200 data 0,0,0, 0,0,0, 12,68,96, 56,108,56, 120,124,60, 120,124,60
207 data 252,124,126, 255,255,254, 255,255,254, 255,255,254
211 data 143,255,226, 7,255,192, 3,255,128, 2,124,128
215 data 0,56,0, 0,56,0, 0,16,0, 0,16,0, 0,0,0, 0,0,0, 0,0,0

Line 5 with the the {clr} (shift+clr/home) was suggested by a redditor to remove any onscreen text before creating the sprite. The easter egg is C64 specific, it won't work on the other 8bits. People guessed it was for the C64 because of the poke location and the fact that the listing on Batman's screen is inside a border like a C64 and the font looks like the C64 one. And the keyboard on Batman's computer has c64 styled and colored function keys on the right side.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Just how is that supposed to work? You've purchased (presumably on disks) the program and installed it. The only way MS could make this work is if they somehow connect to your installed program and alter it in the way you described. Or had they built in this termination of full service in the original programs without telling you?

My possibly flawed understanding of this is, the program makes a call to Microsoft on launch to look for updates. Evidently somehow this call includes a check for some certificate. I'm not sure what the certificate's function was - maybe for verifying your CD security key against? Whatever its purpose, the certificate is what Microsoft is allowing to expire. Once the certificate isn't valid anymore, your program can't verify your CD key anymore, so everything except read functionality is locked.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Microsoft disabled over 70 of its own Github repositiories after hackers managed to push malware on them. The malware is designed to run and steal credentials of users whenever someone accesses the repositories using the Claude or Gemini chatbots or VS Code.

Hackers from the group TeamPCP previously compromised Microsoft’s durabletask, publishing three malicious versions of the tool in May. TeamPCP has performed a wealth of supply chain attacks in the first half of this year, impacting hundreds of organizations, WIRED reported.

In practice, this means that any GitHub actions that used those repositories will no longer function. And coupled with the statement and research, indicates Microsoft did not fully protect itself and its users after the earlier compromise.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

www.wired.com

 

[Free]

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

www.wired.com

Not sus at all.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Microsoft disabled over 70 of its own Github repositiories after hackers managed to push malware on them. The malware is designed to run and steal credentials of users whenever someone accesses the repositories using the Claude or Gemini chatbots or VS Code.

Should provide a nice little boost for LibreOffice, et. al.