duncans

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by duncans 4mo ago
Get better at Googling https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Open+Book+in+Richmond
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by duncans 10mo ago
You spoke too soon!
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First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor Stealing Your Emails(koi.security)
3 points by duncans 1y ago|0 comments
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by duncans 1y ago
Unrelated, but Microsoft should be ashamed that most of the links in that blog no longer work.
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by duncans 1y ago
It's not surprising that due to massive advertising that VPN companies do that people such as MPs think that VPNs are a necessity for general web browsing etc. I think more people need to be aware that, (unless they are wanting to acce
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by duncans 1y ago
Feeling very nostalgic about getting interested in XML and XSLT circa 2000-2001 and all that Semantic Web stuff. Amazed to see that people were still taking it seriously nearly 10 years later https://www.flickr.com/groups&#x
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by duncans 1y ago
In her late 60s so I expect she's retired but has the threat of impending prosecution hanging over her head along with other colleagues https://archive.ph/YH9GO
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by duncans 1y ago
What is amazing is the engineers the Fujitsu employed would testify in court against some of the subpostmasters saying "there were no faults" where in unearthed evidence of their support logs they could be clearly acknowledging bu
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by duncans 1y ago
The thing here is that the Post Office as the "victim" could also act as its own investigator and prosecutor, due to historical reasons going back to the 17th century when it effectively functioned as part of the state and as such
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by duncans 1y ago
It's worth pointing out that Mr Bates vs The Post Office screened in early 2024. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry was set up in 2020/2021 and the public hearings started in 2023. So it may have looked like "it was TV what d
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by duncans 1y ago
Reminds me of the Modernizr JS library from 2009 which would replace <html class="no-js"> with "js" for this purpose. https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/blob/v1.1/modernizr.j
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by duncans 2y ago
Just be sure to note that the left side pedal (as you sit on it) has a left-hand thread: https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help/pedal-instal...
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Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more(world.hey.com)
49 points by duncans 2y ago|4 comments
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by duncans 2y ago
Plus, fraught with usability issues https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...
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by duncans 2y ago
It was Azure Front Door: their reverse-proxy/CDN service. I doubt it's running on Windows.
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by duncans 2y ago
CTRL-C will copy the entire text to the clipboard for standard message boxes.
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by duncans 2y ago
Yes, it requires getting admin to the AD FS server https://www.netwrix.com/golden_saml_attack.html which is kind of glossed over but surely is the real "hack"?
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by duncans 3y ago
Lowercase ’c’ makes it pretty clear it’s not the country … you tiresome tumbler of nephritic laughing jackass soot.
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by duncans 3y ago
See also https://www.postofficescandal.uk/post/ecce-chambers/ > The Postmaster reported that the problem at his one specific site had been been happening intermittently all year. He told NBSC who sent experienc
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by duncans 3y ago
Yes, but at the end of the day nobody wanted to lose face and admit the system was flawed and people ended up in jail/going bankrupt/committing suicide or all three because £10,000s of discrepancies were assumed to be fraud and no
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by duncans 3y ago
See also the Fujitsu whistleblower, Richard Rolls’ witness statement https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/witn007...
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by duncans 3y ago
The system was originally connected via private ISDN lines so that wouldn’t have been a factor for the first cases.
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by duncans 3y ago
Yes, you’d think so, but the Post Office “auditors” didn’t do that and just blindly believed what the computer said the balance should be.
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by duncans 3y ago
Also all links are tracking links to http://click1.marketing.csid.com ... note they are plain http, of course. It's all so incompetently done I can only assume it's legitimate.
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by duncans 4y ago
It would have been around a few 100MB as most hard drives were less than 1GB back then.
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by duncans 4y ago
Regarding the pop-out door handles - this is a fascinating video on how the Tesla Model S door handles design has been refined and made more reliable by someone who used to work at Tesla (SuperfastMatt) https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by duncans 4y ago
No, you tap the button on the end if the indicator stalk. This gives you a wipe, and a wiper speed menu will appear on the screen if you want to override the auto wiper speed. Saying that, the auto wipers can be dreadful. They mostly work O
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by duncans 4y ago
From the paywalled https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/new-and-used-cars/article/ca... > Tesla's electric cars may look like the future, but once again, feedback from owners reveal the brand's disapp
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by duncans 4y ago
Probably Scott Hanselman’s ‘How to REALLY use Microsoft Word’
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by duncans 4y ago
New batteries are $49 https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair

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