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Re: DOJ: Google illegally maintains its search monopoly

11-Sep-22 7:16

Thurrott[^]:
The U.S. Department of Justice told a federal judge today that Google illegally maintains its search monopoly by paying partners billions of dollars each year to Apple, Samsung, and a long list of wireless carriers— AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon in the U.S.—to ensure that it is always the default option on devices.

When your company name has become a verb, you might just be a monopoly

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Nelek11-Sep-22 22:24

Nelek

11-Sep-22 22:24

I don't want to defend Google, but most other search engines are still a bit away from delivering as good results as them to the queries (and I'm not saingy that google's results list has no issues).

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Re: DOJ: Google illegally maintains its search monopoly

Greg Utas11-Sep-22 23:44

Greg Utas

11-Sep-22 23:44

Unless you're searching on something where they've manipulated the results to exclude various websites.

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Re: DOJ: Google illegally maintains its search monopoly

Nelek12-Sep-22 10:47

Nelek

12-Sep-22 10:47

Or the others didn't pay enough to get into the list... I know.

M.D.V.

Re: DOJ: Google illegally maintains its search monopoly

obermd12-Sep-22 4:10

obermd

12-Sep-22 4:10

I flip my default search engine to DuckDuckGo immediately on getting a new computer. The only device I have that uses Google search by default is my Android phone.

New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities

Kent Sharkey11-Sep-22 7:16

Re: New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities

11-Sep-22 7:16

Ars Technica[^]:
With polymorphic encoding and a multistage infection chain, Shikitega is hard to detect.

Mysterious and spooky, it's altogether ooky

Nelek11-Sep-22 22:20

Nelek

11-Sep-22 22:20

Linux has no virus / malware, hasn't it?

I suppose we have to thank MS to the increase of bad actors in Linux, since the user base has grown quite a bit since MS started annoying people out of windows.

M.D.V.

GIFShell attack creates reverse shell using Microsoft Teams GIFs

Kent Sharkey11-Sep-22 7:01

Re: GIFShell attack creates reverse shell using Microsoft Teams GIFs

11-Sep-22 7:01

Bleeping Computer[^]:
A new attack technique called ‘GIFShell’ allows threat actors to abuse Microsoft Teams for novel phishing attacks and covertly executing commands to steal data using ... GIFs.

Beware of hackers bearing GIFs

"Microsoft supports sending HTML base64 encoded GIFs, but does not scan the byte content of those GIFs." <- because of course "no one" would ever do anything bad with those.

obermd12-Sep-22 4:06

obermd

12-Sep-22 4:06

The new attack scenario, shared exclusively with BleepingComputer, illustrates how attackers can string together numerous Microsoft Teams vulnerabilities and flaws

This is why even low priority security vulnerabilities need to be patched.

OK?

Kent Sharkey8-Sep-22 12:01

8-Sep-22 12:01

OK[^]:
OK? is a modern, dynamically typed programming language with a vision for the future. OK?'s mission is to do away with the needless complexity of today's programming languages and let you focus on what matters: writing code that makes a difference.

Because I haven't posted yet another new language in WEEKS, OK?

David O'Neil8-Sep-22 13:40

Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

8-Sep-22 13:40

let a = switch isprod {
  case true: "prod";
  case false: "dev";
}

And he has already lost his case for making a new language. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

C did it better, long ago.

if (isprod == true) a = "prod";
else a = "dev";

Quote:
the ternary operator looks like ... there's really only a handful of humans left on Earth who are capable of parsing that stupifying syntax.

Oh. I would say that they have read too many trinary operations, and turned their head to mush, but they were stupid before that point. Forcing single-line switch cases: gut laugh!

...

...

Now I feel stupid. This has to be a joke, and I fell for it. Nobody in their right mind would limit themselves back to 8 character variable names, or force themselves to have to use let x = !(a >= b); let y = !(b >= a); x || y instead of a != b. Nobody. Right? Or is this world that far out of whack? OMG | :OMG:

Is Jesse Duffield your pseudonym, Kent, and you did this as an elaborate hoax? If so, my hat is off to you. That took some effort!

Dan Neely9-Sep-22 3:34

Dan Neely

9-Sep-22 3:34

David O'Neil wrote:
Now I feel stupid. This has to be a joke, and I fell for it.

Of course it's a satire. The name itself was a hint, "Nulls Are Not OK" was clearly silly not just being opinionated, and anyone who didn't catch on after "One Comparison Operator" needs to take the rest of the day off because their brain's left for the weekend already.

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David O'Neil9-Sep-22 5:57

Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

9-Sep-22 5:57

My hat is off to them. They seem to have taken it all the way, with working code and everything else by the look of their git install instructions. Someone seems to have had way too much time on their hands. By the end of that read I was completely blown away by how stupid the ideas in it were. The only thing they could have done to complete the farce was to make goto the only flow control statement. Just for them, thanks to you:

Dead | X|

David O'Neil9-Sep-22 6:00

Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

9-Sep-22 6:00

Darn it! It seems Chris shrunk the page width. Or is that only on my system? The chud overfloweth!

Dan Neely9-Sep-22 7:35

Dan Neely

9-Sep-22 7:35

Are you on fixed layout (or otherwise a narrow screen)? That will break it.

David O'Neil9-Sep-22 7:53

Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

9-Sep-22 7:53

No. I'm on Normal - it doesn't even have a 'Fixed' option. Using Vivaldi, but FF and Chrome also give the narrower view that breaks it. Even on fullscreen. It seems like Chris narrowed the collumn.

trønderen9-Sep-22 8:27

trønderen

9-Sep-22 8:27

I believe (but not 100% sure) that the RH column width was increased when the "Straw poll" was added to the Lounge page.

But: With Edge, when you pull the window wider, when you increase the window width beyond a certain limit (which isn't very wide), the center area stops growing. Rather you have white margins outside both LH and RH columns.

On Firefox, the center area width continues to grow, with no outer white area, and there is no line overflow.

If you use an ad blocker, pages other than The Lounge, such as Insider News, have a a wide RH column with no contents. With no ad blocker, there will be ads, but with Firefox, they fill the column with no wasted outer white border. With Edge, space is wasted both for ads and this outer whitespace.

I recognize the need for ads, to finance the site. But the outer whitespace, especially when it appears with one browser and not the other one, I consider to be a CSS bug that should be fixed.

Dan Neely9-Sep-22 9:35

Dan Neely

9-Sep-22 9:35

Layout width is a separate setting controlled at the bottom of the page. Values are fixed and fluid. Once a year or so fluid setting gets reverted to fixed by the internet gremlins.

David O'Neil9-Sep-22 9:51

Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

9-Sep-22 9:51

Oh! There it is!