The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall interesting.
When I was porting some Bitcoin elliptic curve cryptography code to JavaScript back in 2017 I got curious about the origins of the cryptography it uses. Turns out the elliptic curve Bitcoin addresses use (secp256k1) has a bunch of constants that no one knows the origin of other than they literally came from the NSA (I’m not making that up). The crypto anarchists fucking hate it when you point that out.
The US government owns Bitcoin as far as I’m concerned or at least has a back door to get the private key for any public address (which amounts to the same thing). Quantum computing will probably eventually be able to trivially crack secp256k1 even without a backdoor anyway.
Right. I figured something like that was in the works, nations do not give up currency power readily. Part of why my answer when you initially asked about bitcoin was government action.
I am foolish about one thing, I keep forgetting to make money off the suckers when the fundamentals are wrong but greed and emotion is high.
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Will be very interesting to see if this is turns out to be any good or not.
Midjourney Leaps into AI Video Creation - Decrypt
AI image generator MidJourney will begin video model training in the coming days and expects to release a final product in a few months.
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Still a way to go for video I think. The videos won’t be much longer than a GIF for a while because of the processing power needed and you really need control in video to “direct” what happens.
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Kohler's Newest Bidet Finally Brings Alexa and Google to Your Butt
It's one of the many new connected bathroom fixtures the company is debuting at CES 2024.
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FINALLY! I have been waiting for this for YEARS!!!
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“Alexa, wash my dirty ass. No, harder. Much harder”
And future generations will wonder why SkyNet tried to take us out…
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
“Alexa, wash my dirty ass. No, harder. Much harder”
And future generations will wonder why SkyNet tried to take us out…
Do you really think Skynet couldn’t take us out? I mean currently we are a culture where people’s lives are ruined because they got “raped” in the metaverse.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Kohler's Newest Bidet Finally Brings Alexa and Google to Your Butt
It's one of the many new connected bathroom fixtures the company is debuting at CES 2024.
I looked at various pampering heated and blow-job bidets for my new place, but unfortunately not until after the tile-work was completed and I did not think to put AC power in an inconspicuous place near the throne.
So I ended up with a number of Brondell unpowered seats and one Kohler PureWash. The design of the Brondell is superior, but they only come in white. The Kohler PureWash comes in the biscuit color that I needed for the one throne room.
A decidedly first-world problem that needed a solution . . . a warm solution through the use of a mixing valve.
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Fuck these “Modern Solution” assholes. Seriously.
He discovered that the Modern Solution code made an MySQL connection to a MariaDB database server operated by the vendor. It turned out the password to access that remote server was stored in plain text in the program file MSConnect.exe, and opening it in a simple text editor would reveal the unencrypted hardcoded credential.
With that easy-to-find password in hand, anyone could log into the remote server and access data belonging to not just that one customer of Modern Solution, but data belonging to all of the vendor’s clients stored on that database server. That info is said to have included personal details of those customers’ own customers. And we’re told that Modern Solution’s program files were available for free from the web, so truly anyone could inspect the executables in a text editor for plain-text hardcoded database passwords.
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In September 2021 police in Germany seized the IT consultant’s computers following a complaint from Modern Solution that claimed he could only have obtained the password through insider knowledge – he worked previously for a related firm – and the biz claimed he was a competitor.
Their fucking staggering incompetence is maddening enough but then to weaponize the legal system against the dude who reported it to them is immoral.
IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security
Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime
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@Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions. Dealing with passwords can be a pain in the ass in those environments, but at the very least use an environment variable or preferably a secrets vault. Also the article is kinda mistitled as he wasn’t their consultant, but simply hacking without malicious intent. He didn’t have their permission to pen test their systems, so it was technically illegal. The whole thing could have been handled better by both the company and government.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions.
Well that’s a really weird distinction. Presumably the programmer was an employee or contracted to modern solutions at the time it was written so it’s pretty much their fuck up any way you cut it. Modern Solutions as a corporate entity is a name in a registry and an articles of incorporation. “Modern Solutions” isn’t capable of anything, good or bad, if you are going to separate it from its people.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions.
Well that’s a really weird distinction. Presumably the programmer was an employee or contracted to modern solutions at the time it was written so it’s pretty much their fuck up any way you cut it. Modern Solutions as a corporate entity is a name in a registry and an articles of incorporation. “Modern Solutions” isn’t capable of anything, good or bad, if you are going to separate it from its people.
My bad, I was thinking “modern solutions” as an architectural approach…the buzzword. Missed that was the name of the company, but I am still trying to wake up here. Yeah, the company is ultimately responsible for it but I don’t know many people still hard coding credentials in their software distributions anymore given the options and current security risk environment. Ultimately whoever built that made some bad decisions.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions.
Well that’s a really weird distinction. Presumably the programmer was an employee or contracted to modern solutions at the time it was written so it’s pretty much their fuck up any way you cut it. Modern Solutions as a corporate entity is a name in a registry and an articles of incorporation. “Modern Solutions” isn’t capable of anything, good or bad, if you are going to separate it from its people.
My bad, I was thinking “modern solutions” as an architectural approach…the buzzword. Missed that was the name of the company, but I am still trying to wake up here. Yeah, the company is ultimately responsible for it but I don’t know many people still hard coding credentials in their software distributions anymore given the options and current security risk environment. Ultimately whoever built that made some bad decisions.
Just go back to bed!
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions.
Well that’s a really weird distinction. Presumably the programmer was an employee or contracted to modern solutions at the time it was written so it’s pretty much their fuck up any way you cut it. Modern Solutions as a corporate entity is a name in a registry and an articles of incorporation. “Modern Solutions” isn’t capable of anything, good or bad, if you are going to separate it from its people.
My bad, I was thinking “modern solutions” as an architectural approach…the buzzword. Missed that was the name of the company, but I am still trying to wake up here. Yeah, the company is ultimately responsible for it but I don’t know many people still hard coding credentials in their software distributions anymore given the options and current security risk environment. Ultimately whoever built that made some bad decisions.
Just go back to bed!
No time, I have many posts to make today!
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions.
Well that’s a really weird distinction. Presumably the programmer was an employee or contracted to modern solutions at the time it was written so it’s pretty much their fuck up any way you cut it. Modern Solutions as a corporate entity is a name in a registry and an articles of incorporation. “Modern Solutions” isn’t capable of anything, good or bad, if you are going to separate it from its people.
My bad, I was thinking “modern solutions” as an architectural approach…the buzzword. Missed that was the name of the company, but I am still trying to wake up here. Yeah, the company is ultimately responsible for it but I don’t know many people still hard coding credentials in their software distributions anymore given the options and current security risk environment. Ultimately whoever built that made some bad decisions.
At least a significant part of their business is SaaS (the part that’s detailed in the article) in which they are putting their customer’s data (apostrophe is significant) in the cloud so they absolutely need to be on top of shit like that.
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions.
Well that’s a really weird distinction. Presumably the programmer was an employee or contracted to modern solutions at the time it was written so it’s pretty much their fuck up any way you cut it. Modern Solutions as a corporate entity is a name in a registry and an articles of incorporation. “Modern Solutions” isn’t capable of anything, good or bad, if you are going to separate it from its people.
My bad, I was thinking “modern solutions” as an architectural approach…the buzzword. Missed that was the name of the company, but I am still trying to wake up here. Yeah, the company is ultimately responsible for it but I don’t know many people still hard coding credentials in their software distributions anymore given the options and current security risk environment. Ultimately whoever built that made some bad decisions.
Just go back to bed!
You gonna let a lawyer slap you around when code is on the line?
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions.
Well that’s a really weird distinction. Presumably the programmer was an employee or contracted to modern solutions at the time it was written so it’s pretty much their fuck up any way you cut it. Modern Solutions as a corporate entity is a name in a registry and an articles of incorporation. “Modern Solutions” isn’t capable of anything, good or bad, if you are going to separate it from its people.
My bad, I was thinking “modern solutions” as an architectural approach…the buzzword. Missed that was the name of the company, but I am still trying to wake up here. Yeah, the company is ultimately responsible for it but I don’t know many people still hard coding credentials in their software distributions anymore given the options and current security risk environment. Ultimately whoever built that made some bad decisions.
Just go back to bed!
You gonna let a lawyer slap you around when code is on the line?
It’s someone else’s code…I give zero shits.
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Fuck Google! Every time they launch some service and you get used to it, they fucking shut it down. I had Google music and now its gone. Just got into podcasts about a year ago and again they are shutting that shit down. Maybe I need to switch and be an appletard?
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Amazon scamma-ramma-ding-dong.
GTFO
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Fuck Google! Every time they launch some service and you get used to it, they fucking shut it down. I had Google music and now it’s gone. Just got into podcasts about a year ago and again they are shutting that shit down. Maybe I need to switch and be an appletard?
Kept you from spending money on Apple so did it’s job.
Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal
