Daily Tech News 8 October 2022

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Those stalwart chaps at the Bureau have warned that those darned Rooskis are coming to steal your vote again. (Bleeping Computer)

And that you should only follow trusted sources of news. Like the Bureau.

Unless you're a Republican, of course, in which case they've got a little list, and none of you'll be missed.

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Nick Rekieta's YouTube channel is back after being targeted by a mass false-reporting campaign by the deluded acolytes of some commie swine named Kerfuffles or something. (YouTube)

Proving once again that Twitter is the worst of all the social platforms.

YouTube routinely shuts down major channels that make them lots of money individually on your or my scale of things (Rekieta would have earned them over $150k the past year) and lots of money collectively even on Google's scale (Hololive has over 60 channels and Nijisanji around two hundred, many larger than Rekieta, and they routinely get deleted without warning).

But they put them back up within a couple of days. My sense of things is this is a legal issue - if they let the algorithm do its thing and manually intervene afterwards if it needs correction, they're harder to sue.

Sucks when your channel is down for three days, but until Elon Musk takes control he ain't getting his Twitter account back.
If a scammer takes control of your bank account, 90% of the time you're just basically fucked. (Krebs on Security)

Slightly less than 10% of affected accounts and slightly more than 10% of lost funds are reimbursed by the banks.
The Surface Pro 9 and Surface Laptop 5 are coming. (Thurrott.com)

They look to be just minor updates to the 8 and 4 respectively, with no AMD models listed for this lineup. Which is stupid on Microsoft's part, because the Ryzen 6000 lineup is hands down the best option for small laptops.
On the other hand, if you were waiting for a better mousetrap NUC Asus has just the thing. (Liliputing)

The ExpertCenter PN53 comes with a choice of a six core Ryzen 6600HS, or the eight core 6800HS or 6900HX. It has two SODIMM slots (the specs say it supports up to 32GB of RAM, but it should work fine with 64GB), two M.2 slots, and a 2.5" drive bay. (It also says it supports up to 2TB per M.2 slot, which is obvious nonsense - there is no such limit anywhere. So those numbers are more "we bothered to test this configuration and we're not going to say anything beyond that".)

I/O consists of two USB 4 ports, two HDMI ports, five USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A ports (that is, regular old USB 3), 2.5 Gb Ethernet, and a headphone jack, plus a little module that can give you another HDMI or DisplayPort output. But since the USB 4 ports support video and the chip can only drive four video outputs anyway, that seems superfluous.

It's slightly larger than the average NUC - 5" square instead of 4" - but has better I/O and expandability. And much better graphics - the integrated graphics on the 6800 and 6900 models are more than twice as fast as anything offered by Intel.
Axios.get is not a function you idiot. (GitHub)

Web framework Axios - which I've never heard of but there are thousands of the damn things these days - pushed a new release which broke thousands of production websites because web developers are fucking dumb.

To be clear: Axios said "hey guys, here's a new version for you".

And then the websites broke, because the people maintaining them either blindly deployed the code without testing, or, even worse, configured their websites to pull it directly without specifying a version.
To quine a phrase...

https://t.co/MAbIwtoonW
— quinetweet (@quinetweet) September 26, 2020

Looks innocuous enough, until you click on the link.

Here's the details of how it was done. (Oison Moran)

As to why it was done, well, why did Hillary Clinton bomb Mount Everest?

Disclaimer: Because it had information that could lead to her arrest, yes, but apart from that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Good evening Pixy

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2022 04:01 AM (xhxe8)

2 That's a good reason not to do any bank stuff of any kind on - line

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2022 04:03 AM (xhxe8)

3 Good morning Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 08, 2022 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 08, 2022 04:04 AM (T4tVD)

5 I didn't have online banking set up until this year. Had to do it to arrange my mortgage.

Yes, it's much, much easier, but yet another thing to worry about.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 08, 2022 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

6 Hi all

Posted by: Ciampino - at October 08, 2022 04:15 AM (qfLjt)

7 502 https://tinyurl.com/2p93mkwc
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2022 02:25 AM (xhxe

Thanks, Skip.

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 04:24 AM (8rTNG)

8 Slow day in Blogland.....

Posted by: JT at October 08, 2022 04:43 AM (T4tVD)

9 Way pre-online-banking, I got a call at work from my bank, saying that I had transferred a whole lot of money ($10,000?) from *someone else's account* into my account and that that was illegal and I would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and blah, blah, blah. I just said, "I didn't do that" and hoped I might make some interest on the deposit. Turned out to be a clerical error at the bank, which was then reversed.

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 04:52 AM (8rTNG)

10 It really is a slow day.

Posted by: jwmiii at October 08, 2022 04:55 AM (ii2y5)

11 Morning all!

My wife is still old school and writes checks for the bills. We use the online banking but mainly to move money in accounts.
It's so strange going into a bank and seeing one teller.
And maybe one person at the window.

Posted by: Bruce at October 08, 2022 05:00 AM (vd8XM)

12 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Worked a 14-hour day at the 5-sided nut house in Arlington, VA yesterday. Hell hath no fury than perfumed princes scorned. Anyway, I'm going into work a bit later today. I wonder what fresh hell awaits!!?

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 08, 2022 05:02 AM (sAmhv)

13
Transfer money to friend
Friend gives you back half, spends all of his share
Demand bank give you all the money back

With all the scams out there, would not surprise me at all

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 08, 2022 05:05 AM (y3pKJ)

14 And the evening and the morning were the Saturday, and whoo-hoo! Day 2 of my 3-day weekend, and we are *supposed* to get lower temps and lower humidity by Sunday. I'll believe it when I feel it.

Online banking? My savings gets one e-deposit a month; I do 12 debit transactions to keep getting my interest; I print the statement online. The smaller checking account, I had an online account, but I hadn't accessed it in so long that when I called C-H-A-S-E, they had no record of it. I'd have to create a new one, and I haven't bothered. I get direct deposit into it, write checks and withdraw cash. That's all.

Online purchases are done by credit card.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2022 05:08 AM (c6xtn)

15 8 Slow day in Blogland.....
Posted by: JT at October 08, 2022 04:43 AM (T4tVD)

The Armageddon that was mentioned by the President of the United States, maybe.
Coincidentally, Zod showed up on the blog last night.

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 05:14 AM (8rTNG)

16 I learned this week that Microsoft products don't support comments in footnotes, which I didn't know as I haven't used Word for almost 15 years.
Which makes me wonder WHY anyone in academics doing online editing with another party would ever use Word or doc/docx/rtf for anything, ever.
The recipient didn't know this either, and thought I wasn't doing the work.

Posted by: LenNeal at October 08, 2022 05:21 AM (CfOiC)

17 If the bank stole.your money how would.you even know?

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at October 08, 2022 05:24 AM (b+v9B)

18 It really is a slow day.

Posted by: jwmiii at October 08, 2022 04:55 AM (ii2y5)

Wellllll..., how about the only bridge linking Crimea to Russia blew up real good today? All rail and road traffic is impossible for now. Daily Mail has some good pics and video:

https://tinyurl.com/n2pntszx

Who knows what squirrel thoughts are running about in Putin's sickly brain, but he does like mentioning nukes pretty regularly.

And this tidbit is kinda fun -- In Bribem's home state of DE, their SC declared that mail in voting and same day registrations to vote are illegal, per their constitution. The cheat just got a bit tougher.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 08, 2022 05:25 AM (JOtiF)

19 Speaking of Singapore, how did they come up with that name ?

Does everyone sing there ?

Posted by: JT at October 08, 2022 05:33 AM (T4tVD)

20 I'm also getting a warm fuzzy feeling that many EVs in FL, immersed in salty water, are spontaneously bursting into flames as they dry out.

Break out the weenies, we're having some carbeques.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 08, 2022 05:35 AM (JOtiF)

21 Delaware is blue and that is not changing.
ZH has a story up about CIA and SF operating in Ukraine. Davos needs this war to get worse because the world is proving more resilient.
And, good morning.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at October 08, 2022 05:36 AM (b+v9B)

22 18 Wellllll..., how about the only bridge linking Crimea to Russia blew up real good today? All rail and road traffic is impossible for now. Daily Mail has some good pics and video:

https://tinyurl.com/n2pntszx

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 08, 2022 05:25 AM (JOtiF)

Thanks, GnuBreed.

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 05:36 AM (8rTNG)

23 The writeup at https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet is fun; sounds like he had a great time doing that. I don't understand the tech, but still, fun.

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 05:39 AM (8rTNG)

24 from the quinetweet writeup:

"This does roughly what it says on the tin"

Pixy used that expression the other day. New to me. Geeky and British-influenced, maybe.

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 05:41 AM (8rTNG)

25 g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at October 08, 2022 05:44 AM (8oyo2)

26 "This does roughly what it says on the tin"

Pixy used that expression the other day. New to me. Geeky and British-influenced, maybe.
Posted by: m at October 08, 2022

***
"On the tin" = "on the can." Tinned peas, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2022 05:45 AM (c6xtn)

27 This Tennessee pit bull story is heart breaking. Just can't imagine people trusting that breed. Just like back in the day when we had a Jack, would have never left that one alone with my sisters "toy" dogs

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at October 08, 2022 05:47 AM (oWBc3)

28 Probably covered in the ONT, but when exactly do we get real about the ridiculous behavior at the FBI re the pro-lifers?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at October 08, 2022 05:49 AM (oWBc3)

29 Biggest News Today

The Ukrainians (or somebody) blew up a huge truck bomb on the Crimea to Russia bridge across the Azov Straits.

Several spans of the automotive bridge were dropped on one side. The automotive spans in the opposite direction look damaged.

There was a train with oil cars on the RR portion of the bridge. The explosion set several oil tanker cars on fire. The fire looks like it damaged the railroad tracks and bridge.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1578593471015051264

Posted by: rd at October 08, 2022 05:52 AM (Z32m1)

30 Probably covered in the ONT, but when exactly do we get real about the ridiculous behavior at the FBI re the pro-lifers?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

A strong letter is being drafted now.

Well, not now. It's a 3 day weekend. Plus a travel day on either side of it. And some are busy campaigning and can't possibly find the time to say anything. And then it's the elections and then the holidays. And you don't want to ruin anyones holiday.

So....Maybe February?

Posted by: Bruce at October 08, 2022 05:53 AM (vd8XM)

31 And my last comment of the day as my moral equivalence bullshit meter just pegged - car bomb on a civilian bridge in the Crimea is somehow good, car bomb in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza not so good? Just checking. As the great Norm Mac opined, "amazing that in the history books the good guys always win, what are the odds?" Farm life awaits.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at October 08, 2022 05:53 AM (oWBc3)

32 As the great Norm Mac opined, "amazing that in the history books the good guys always win, what are the odds?" Farm life awaits.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

It's not a war crime unless you lose the war.

Posted by: Bruce at October 08, 2022 05:55 AM (vd8XM)

33 31 As the great Norm Mac opined, "amazing that in the history books the good guys always win, what are the odds?"
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at October 08, 2022 05:53 AM (oWBc3)

Nice.

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 05:55 AM (8rTNG)

34 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at October 08, 2022 05:59 AM (UqnOO)

35 KRAK OF DAWN HAS ARRIVED

My work is done here

Posted by: Skip nood advisor at October 08, 2022 06:02 AM (xhxe8)

36 Various leftist factions have been writing European history since Bastille Day. The lies and delusions have always been evident.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at October 08, 2022 06:03 AM (b+v9B)

37 Maybe everybody is out celebrating Indigenous People's Day.

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 06:08 AM (8rTNG)

38 This will not be over until Odessa becomes a Russian asset. Ukraine will be denied.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 08, 2022 06:08 AM (z+OQR)

39 38 This will not be over until Odessa becomes a Russian asset. Ukraine will be denied.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 08, 2022 06:08 AM (z+OQR)

Good morning, Sunshine!

Posted by: m at October 08, 2022 06:09 AM (8rTNG)

40 An analogy just popped to mind re: Amazon's Rings of Power.

Jeff Bezos would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for some pesky fans.

Jinkies!

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2022 06:32 AM (qtcbX)

41
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Posted by: Kathleen Wright at October 08, 2022 06:52 AM (Txiqg)

42 One day a surfeit of posts the next a dearth.

GIVE ME SURFEIT OR GIVE ME DEARTH !!!

Don't worry Pixy there all heading for Ayers Rock to escape Biden's ARMAGEDDON .

Posted by: safristi at October 08, 2022 07:05 AM (qktfm)

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Posted by: www.Profit97.Com at October 08, 2022 07:21 AM (EehQB)

44 Late to the thread, but

YouTube routinely shuts down major channels that make them lots of money... many... routinely get deleted without warning). But they put them back up within a couple of days.

Been more than a week since YouTube took down my Mindful Webworks YT channel. Don't expect a nobody like me to be reinstated; won't be a hue and cry, just my appeal asking what complaints and violations. Nobody tol' me nuthin' - one morning it was just gone.

Posted by: mindful webworker - we're all targets at October 08, 2022 08:20 AM (Atpgj)

45 present

Posted by: DB at October 08, 2022 08:33 AM (geLO8)

46 Surface Pro 9 additional items thoughts.

With this version the SP X (ARM CPU) is being folded into the SP 9. It is unclear how the case will be designed. The SP X was ventless and thinner than the Intel SP8. If MSFT goes with the vented case for both it will OK and if they go with ventless case I can see thermal throttling being an issue for the Intel skus.

As a long time SP user over multiple versions, I have found the SP 8 to be a near perfect thin/light PC with excellent performance, sweet fit/finish, and great ergonomics with or without the keyboard attached. My SP 8 is an iCore 7, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD.

If you have reasonable expectations for W11 in tablet mode and set things up with some care it works just fine as a tablet for general use such as reading AOS. Typing your first novel in tablet mode is proof of existing emotional issues.

The cellular support matrix is a mystery as far as I know but it seems reasonable that the ARM version will have it by default. In the past certain x86 SPs, if bought from with a business SKU, could be had with cellular support. Who knows going forward if that will continue.

Over and out.

Posted by: Lost In Space at October 08, 2022 09:01 AM (/qNGG)

47 Loved the quine tweet, thanks Pixy!

Posted by: Draki at October 08, 2022 10:02 AM (GXviE)

48 >>>Looks innocuous enough, until you click on the link.

Indeed.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 08, 2022 11:08 AM (yHsuS)

49 I have never gotten an answer to the question "What did the Russians do in 2016 (or 2018, or 2020) that was not also done by Mexico, or Japan, or South Africa, or Iran, or Germany, or China, or India, or...or...or...

What did Russia do that the US didn't do in other countries' elections? What was so unique about the Russian activities as to be specially called out?

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Posted by: www.Profit97.Com at October 08, 2022 12:51 PM (/He30)

51 >web developers are fucking dumb

They're taking over where I work. They've suborned the C-suite by showing how they can get new features into production in a fraction of the time - because they don't do any testing or security auditing.

I caused a major scandal by telling them about the One Question Senior Engineer Test: if your daily driver OS is macOS, you are not a senior engineer. I had to go speak to the CEO about my "attitude", until I patiently explained the concept of "cross-platform development" and that there are no macOS servers.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at October 08, 2022 02:09 PM (TMX68)

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