#editorial | Logs for 2019-11-23

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[00:06:31] <Bytram> ~time x
[00:06:33] <exec> location not found - UTC timestamp: Saturday, 23 November 2019, 12:06 am
[00:07:35] <Bytram> commencing weekend story spacing
[00:07:39] <Fnord666> Evening all
[00:08:04] <Fnord666> Thanks chromas for pushing stories out last night!!
[00:08:23] <Bytram> Fnord666!!
[00:08:40] <Fnord666> Bytram!!
[00:08:56] <Bytram> watts opp?
[00:09:26] <Fnord666> Thanks to you also. I was stuck in the Philly airport until early this morning waiting to see if the plane was going to make it.
[00:09:37] <Bytram> blarg!
[00:09:56] <Bytram> I assume that, eventually, it succeeded?
[00:10:03] <Fnord666> At some point they had to jump start the plane
[00:10:17] <Fnord666> Yeah, we all got out and pushed
[00:10:27] <Fnord666> ok not really
[00:10:48] <Bytram> *laughter*
[00:11:15] <Bytram> there's always that *one* person who kept the engines from starting because they had not fastened their belt!
[00:11:21] <Fnord666> The pilot's trying to explain what's going on and everyone just wants less talkin and more flyin
[00:11:42] <Fnord666> In this case the APU (Aux Power Unit) was not working
[00:11:55] <Fnord666> which is what they use to start the engines
[00:12:10] <Bytram> hence the need to get out and push
[00:12:16] <Fnord666> they wanted to do a hot turnaround, fueling the plane with one engine still running
[00:12:28] <Bytram> zoinks!
[00:12:29] <Fnord666> the ground crew said hell no
[00:12:45] <Fnord666> so they had to get an external starter once the fueling was done
[00:12:45] <Bytram> good crew
[00:12:54] <Bytram> yuppers...
[00:13:03] <Bytram> On your marks.... Bang!
[00:13:03] <Fnord666> that was the first of two legs
[00:13:11] <Fnord666> the second we never heard details
[00:13:17] <Bytram> you're not pulling my leg, are you?
[00:13:30] <Fnord666> nope
[00:13:50] <Fnord666> First leg 1.5 hours behind but I had a 2.5 hour layover
[00:14:06] <Fnord666> didn't matter becaus ethe second leg left 3.5 houts late
[00:14:19] <Fnord666> s/houts/hours/
[00:14:20] <exec> <Fnord666> didn't matter becaus ethe second leg left 3.5 hours late
[00:14:22] <Bytram> that... stinks!
[00:15:08] <Fnord666> It was not great
[00:15:36] <Fnord666> But I'm home now so....
[00:15:46] <Fnord666> anyway how's things your way?
[00:15:50] <Bytram> something almost, but not entirely unlike, weak tea
[00:16:26] <Fnord666> lol
[00:17:28] * Bytram can never quite remember exactly how that one goes
[00:17:32] <Bytram> =g something almost, but not entirely unlike, weak tea
[00:17:34] <ClownHatLinux> https://en.wikipedia.org - Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia
[00:17:36] <exec> └─ 13Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia
[00:20:01] <Bytram> =g -wikipedia almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea
[00:20:02] <ClownHatLinux> https://www.goodreads.com - Quote by Douglas Adams: “After a fairly shaky start to the day ...
[00:20:06] <exec> └─ 13Quote by Douglas Adams: “After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's...”
[00:20:58] <Bytram> here it is, in all its glory:
[00:20:58] <Bytram> .
[00:20:59] <Bytram> “After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with.
[00:20:59] <Bytram> He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
[00:20:59] <Bytram> The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a
[00:21:03] <Bytram> cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”
[00:21:05] <Bytram> .
[00:27:29] <Bytram> chromas: seems your bot does not much like technologyreview.com: https://soylentnews.org
[00:27:30] <ClownHatLinux> ^ 03Apple Just Released an App That Tracks Your Heart, Hearing, and Menstrual Cycles: SoylentNews Submission
[00:27:31] <exec> └─ 13Apple Just Released an App That Tracks Your Heart, Hearing, and Menstrual Cycles: SoylentNews Submission
[00:33:17] <chromas> Weird. Fpos
[00:33:48] <chromas> Storybot also wouldn't gibs me dat, but it's just complaining about the encoding
[00:34:24] <chromas> Oh, it's the bit janrinok was telling me about, where some strings need decoding and others don't
[00:34:37] <Bytram> hmmm
[00:34:45] <Bytram> ~arthur https://www.technologyreview.com
[00:34:47] <exec> └─ 13Apple just released an app that tracks your heart, hearing, and menstrual cycles - MIT Technology Review
[00:34:48] <exec> 940 stories loaded
[00:34:48] <exec> story not found
[00:35:10] <chromas> the arthur instance is probably better because it doesn't have the hack I put in
[00:35:28] <chromas> newscat scraper works too
[00:35:50] <chromas> chromas.0x.no/feedctl/xtractor.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.technologyreview.com%2Ff%2F614717%2Fapple-just-released-an-app-research-that-tracks-your-heart-hearing-and-menstrual-cycles%2F&scraper=newscat&output=text&title=on
[00:36:14] <Bytram> chromas++ Let me be the first to congratulate you on posting your 1050th story!
[00:36:14] <Bender> karma - chromas: 107
[00:36:29] <chromas> That many huh
[00:36:37] <chromas> Dang ol', I missed 1024 :'(
[00:36:39] <chromas> Thanks
[00:37:58] <Bytram> IIRC the counts get updated around midnight-ish UTC
[00:38:10] <Bytram> so, it's not yet official, but I can math
[00:39:56] <Bytram> https://www.smashingmagazine.com
[00:39:57] <ClownHatLinux> ^ 03Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users ( https://www.smashingmagazine.com )
[00:39:59] <exec> └─ 13Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users — Smashing Magazine
[00:46:08] <Fnord666> =g shrile
[00:46:08] <ClownHatLinux> https://www.karity.com - Shrile (Metallic) | Buy Cruelty-Free and Vegan Makeup Products
[00:46:11] <exec> └─ 13Shrile (Metallic) | Buy Cruelty-Free and Vegan Makeup Products
[00:46:13] <Fnord666> =g shrike
[00:46:14] <ClownHatLinux> https://en.wikipedia.org - Shrike - Wikipedia
[00:46:16] <exec> └─ 13Shrike - Wikipedia
[01:28:37] <Bytram> http://feedproxy.google.com
[01:28:38] <ClownHatLinux> ^ 031.2 billion records exposed in unsecured database ( https://www.cnet.com )
[01:28:39] <exec> └─ 131.2 billion records exposed in unsecured database - CNET
[01:28:40] <exec> └─ 131.2 billion records exposed in unsecured database - CNET
[03:03:09] <Bytram> =g GDPR
[03:03:10] <ClownHatLinux> https://eugdpr.org - GDPR
[03:03:12] <exec> └─ 13Under Construction
[03:03:25] <Bytram> =g global data protection
[03:03:26] <ClownHatLinux> https://en.wikipedia.org - General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia
[03:03:28] <exec> └─ 13General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia
[03:13:06] <Bytram> https://go.theregister.co.uk
[03:13:07] <ClownHatLinux> ^ 03RDP loves company: Kaspersky finds 37 security holes in VNC remote desktop software ( https://www.theregister.co.uk )
[03:13:09] <exec> └─ 13RDP loves company: Kaspersky finds 37 security holes in VNC remote desktop software • The Register
[03:13:09] <exec> └─ 13RDP loves company: Kaspersky finds 37 security holes in VNC remote desktop software • The Register
[03:21:16] <chromas> Holes aside, the protocol only supports 8-character passwords
[03:24:24] <Bytram> 8 *characters* or 8 *bytes* ??
[03:25:21] <Bytram> Unicode has something like 40k different 'characters" (technically code points which are presented as glyphs)
[03:25:50] <Bytram> (I could be off by +/- 10k or more on that)
[03:25:59] <chromas> both. Consider the ascii :)
[03:26:23] <chromas> Anyhow, it only supports 8 octets and the rest are psilently discarded
[03:26:46] <Bytram> ahhh, kinda what I expected. t
[03:26:48] <Bytram> ty
[03:26:49] <Fnord666> Well kiss my ascii
[03:28:05] <Fnord666> time to feed the queue
[03:28:29] <Bytram> better than EBCDIC with non-contiguous bytes for characters
[03:29:07] <Bytram> IOW: [a-z] != [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]
[03:31:05] <Bytram> .
[03:32:39] <Bytram> well that is going to have to do it for me. I've got the late shift at work tomorrow, but the nearby construction site starts around 7:45 AM and there's no sleeping past the jackhammers and blasting.
[03:32:55] <Bytram> Have a great night everybody!
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[10:09:50] <janrinok> I'm back - for better or worse!
[12:40:31] <Bytram> janrinok: hopefully for the better!
[13:12:47] <janrinok> ~gday Bytram
[13:12:48] * exec covertly extracts some cream of MII tapes from Bytram
[13:13:42] <Bytram> ~gday janrinok
[13:13:44] * exec inadequately ships a rusty trombone of extra lives with janrinok
[13:13:56] <janrinok> how's things with you and Pinky?
[13:14:49] <Bytram> woke up, had a burst of energy, and now am tempted to back to bed... have the late shift tonight so due in to work in 4.25 hrs and not out until 9 hours later
[13:15:23] <janrinok> give in to your temptation - have another hour or two in bed!
[13:15:47] <janrinok> queues are find until tomorrow
[13:15:52] <janrinok> fine*
[13:15:59] <Bytram> that does sound like a good idea...
[13:16:08] <Bytram> yes, I noticed that -- thank you!
[13:16:29] <Bytram> and I have tomorrow off, so maybe can catch up on some home obligations, too.
[13:17:10] <janrinok> I've had a visit from my son - who I haven't seen for over 18 months. And S had a series of med appts over the last few days
[13:21:13] <Bytram> busy busy busy!
[13:21:26] <Bytram> hope you were all able to enjoy the visit!
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[19:44:12] <fnord666_> =submit https://threatpost.com
[19:44:13] <exec> └─ 13Google Will Award $1M-Plus to People Who Can Hack Titan M Security Chip | Threatpost
[19:44:14] <ClownHatLinux> Submitting "Google Will Award $1M-Plus to People Who Can Hack Titan M Security Chip"...
[19:44:35] <ClownHatLinux> ✓ Sub-ccess! "Google Will Award $1M-Plus to People Who Can Hack Titan M Security Chip" (15 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[19:44:37] <exec> └─ 13Google Will Award $1M-Plus to People Who Can Hack Titan M Security Chip: SoylentNews Submission
[19:46:14] <fnord666_> =submit https://www.theverge.com
[19:46:15] <ClownHatLinux> Submitting "OnePlus discloses data breach, less than two years after the last one"...
[19:46:16] <exec> └─ 13OnePlus discloses data breach, less than two years after the last one - The Verge
[19:46:37] <ClownHatLinux> ✓ Sub-ccess! "OnePlus Discloses Data Breach, Less Than Two Years After the Last One" (9 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[19:46:39] <exec> └─ 13OnePlus Discloses Data Breach, Less Than Two Years After the Last One: SoylentNews Submission
[19:47:31] <fnord666_> =submit https://www.bleepingcomputer.com
[19:47:33] <ClownHatLinux> Submitting "TrickBot Trojan Getting Ready to Steal OpenSSH and OpenVPN Keys"...
[19:47:34] <exec> └─ 13TrickBot Trojan Getting Ready to Steal OpenSSH and OpenVPN Keys
[19:47:54] <ClownHatLinux> ✓ Sub-ccess! "TrickBot Trojan Getting Ready to Steal OpenSSH and OpenVPN Keys" (17 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[19:47:56] <exec> └─ 13TrickBot Trojan Getting Ready to Steal OpenSSH and OpenVPN Keys: SoylentNews Submission
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[19:51:28] <fnord666_> =submit https://www.bleepingcomputer.com
[19:51:29] <ClownHatLinux> Submitting "FBI Warns of Cyber Attacks Targeting US Automotive Industry"...
[19:51:30] <exec> └─ 13FBI Warns of Cyber Attacks Targeting US Automotive Industry
[19:51:51] <ClownHatLinux> ✓ Sub-ccess! "FBI Warns of Cyber Attacks Targeting US Automotive Industry" (20 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[19:51:53] <exec> └─ 13FBI Warns of Cyber Attacks Targeting US Automotive Industry: SoylentNews Submission
[19:53:18] <fnord666_> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com =submit
[19:53:19] <ClownHatLinux> ^ 03Card Skimmer Group Replaces Checkout Page to Steal Payment Info
[19:53:21] <exec> └─ 13Card Skimmer Group Replaces Checkout Page to Steal Payment Info
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