Root Access

bwDraco

12:08 AM

@Bob You really seem to like the phrase "die in a fire".

Next time I'm buying a laptop, it's more likely to be a thin system. Most gaming will happen on the desktop.

I'd have a job by then and my schedules are going to be radically different.

Ben N

turn off windows holographic update reminders

Tweeted by RikerGoogling on August 16, 2016 at 6:10 PM

allquicatic

12:28 AM

@BenN LOL

Ben N

@bwDraco chat.stackexchange.com/…

iKlsR

Wow, +1 for consistency

Ramhound

12:42 AM

@Ramhound your comment is not helpful to this conversation and I have written you to stop stalking me and to leave me alone ib writing. You stalk down vote and have not once contributed and violated my warning in writing. — fingertrick 12 mins ago

Since was reviewing an answer in the queue stalking somebody?

Ben N

Had you bumped into that user before?

Also, 10K users can't see deleted comments

(Mods can though)

Journeyman Geek

yes. no. Flag and move on

Ben N

Wait, are you saying that mods can't see deleted comments?

Also, good morning!

Journeyman Geek

yes we can no you can't? ;p

Ramhound

I have.

i have no idea if I "ran into" that user before

Journeyman Geek

12:49 AM

TBH, I'm waiting on a CM to ask about this

Ramhound

I don't recall the answer from yesterday even!

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound it was the one accusing you of mocking them for being disabled

Ramhound

my point is. I got more things on my mind then remembering the user past contributions.

Ben N

Maybe (s)he confused you with someone else then

Ramhound

oh, I am sure I have voted to deleted answers, but so did everyone else...

but I didn't vote because of whom submitted them

I voted delete them because they were below acceptable stand rads

had a bad enough day. Can't think about this. If I didn't select a reason, to delete that answer, I would have been better off clearly.

Going to bed....I hate that I feel this way. Feel powerless.

Ben N

12:55 AM

Shake it off ♫

Huh, that thumbnail is mildly NSFW (fixed, but I have no idea how to strikethrough in GCM)

Ben N

1:09 AM

Hmm, after the 1607 upgrade, the Hyper-V guests that have checkpoints can no longer start

Bob

@bwDraco Really? I hadn't noticed :P

(yea, at this point it's become a bit of a running gag)

allquicatic

1:25 AM

@BenN ---strikethrough---

though s---trikethroug---h doesn't work. Nor s---trikethrough--- nor ---strikethroug---h

~~strikethrough~~ blah---strike--- ---strike---blah lolol---this won't work---will it

boldworks though. worksbold and preboldpost

Ben N

~~Test with spaces~~ Ah, it does work. I had only tried two dashes

allquicatic

spaces are fine, just that a "word character" cannot immediately precede or follow a --- sequence if you want it to actually strike through

bold does not have that restriction... gotta love GCM

preitalic preitalicpost italicpost

works with *, ** but not --- -- don't ask me why

Guitar Shoe Dave

1:55 AM

interesting

allquicatic

2:10 AM

@Bob welp I've now migrated guacamole, two Teamspeak servers, and Cavil onto the new box.. I think that mostly covers stuff that other people care about, since I had my games running on the new box already

there was some weird but on Ubuntu 14.04 where something was eating 1-2 cores even when running nothing, but that's gone now apparently... the only load I'm seeing is from plainly obvious, legitimate userspace processes that should be using CPU time

with 32 hardware CPU threads and a load around 1 I'm not too worried :)

Rahul2001

Good morning!

Psycogeek

2:30 AM

Lol, Hello Brick and morter store, i am trying to buy something , and i do not see it on your website, is it possibly missing from the website, and does it exist in the store? clackity clacity click click, the guy looks on the web site. Uhhh yea 2 Feet, go like look on the shelf? you do know how to do that right?

Journeyman Geek

Someone just citation needed me ;p

bwDraco

*poke*

Journeyman Geek

annnnd the question was closed

Bob

2:52 AM

@allquicatic Nice

Journeyman Geek

got the sink out

used the crappy dremel clone to try to cut the nut, which vibration-loosened it. Then the nut got stuck. Had enough clearance for my (shitty in the right way) daiso saw to saw off the part of the fitting over the nut from the top

then just hit it with a hammer a few times

amusingly while the off brand dremel is shit, its perfect for vibrating stuck nuts into loosening

bwDraco

3:08 AM

welp. Looks like my electric shaver needs new blades

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill ^ so the dremel type tool worked. Just not quite as intended ;p

bwDraco

The battery is in great shape, though. Remington says it's NiMH (not cheap NiCd!) and they seem to be of the low self-discharge variety.

This shaver's been in use for what, five years? six years?

At least it's good to know that there are folks that aren't trying to cut corners in every last piece of their products. Remington Products quite evidently used high-quality cells here.

allquicatic

@bwDraco does it shave clean or is it a trimmer?

bwDraco

It's a Remington F4790 foil shaver.

allquicatic

I have a Wahl beard trimmer that can go from "barely 2-day stubble" (but not actually clean-shaven) to fairly long but neatly-trimmed beards... it lacks a battery; it's corded

I don't actually own any recently-used equipment for a clean shave o_o old equipment would probably injure me or not work well, like a 12-year old Norelco battery-powered shaver

bwDraco

3:11 AM

LSD NiMH cells last a good 10+ years if you take good care of them.

Journeyman Geek

I use one of those trimmers. Apparently its a human equivilent of a dog trimmer ;p

allquicatic

@bwDraco is it comfortable? as in, very unlikely to result in accidental cuts?

bwDraco

@allquicatic Generally comfortable but you might get a bit of blood if you try to shave too hard.

Journeyman Geek

I only need to go clean shaven one or two weeks in a year. I have a phillips somewhere that works well ... somewhere.

bwDraco

That's an F3800 (youtube.com/watch?v=LRH4LI_tX2E)

The cells say R2U—ready-to-use—which means they're LSD NiMH. Yup. High-quality cells.

allquicatic

3:14 AM

I used to go clean-shaven through high school and the first few years of college

it was painful because of persistent acne which would get cut up by the blades of my Norelco shaver

bwDraco

I'm pretty sure Remington used pretty much the same cells in my F4790.

allquicatic

now I use the eating benchmark to determine when to shave

specifically: if my moustache hairs get so long that I start accidentally pulling them into my mouth when I eat, then it's time to shave down with the Wahl to a #2 guard length

bwDraco

lol

I shave about twice a week these days.

Remington says the titanium-coated blades are good for one year of daily use, which is not bad at all.

The blades lasted me this long, that's for sure.

Journeyman Geek

@allquicatic eh, my face gets irritated without protective fuzz, Also, what's a schnauze less Schnauzer? ;p

so I let it grow for 2-3 months, scissor cut the stashe, and mow it when it gets itchy

allquicatic

I follow up the beard trimmers with scissors on the moustache

PIMP_JUICE_IT

3:33 AM

data.stackexchange.com/superuser/query/6348/… . . . Those stats!

Bob

@bwDraco o.O I don't think I've ever managed to get blood while shaving.

tbh I have no idea how it happens or how it's apparently so common

bwDraco

> What OS are you using?
What operating system?
What operating system are you using?

lol

Improved query, this time with average scores: data.stackexchange.com/superuser/query/edit/525305

Notice how "thank you" and similar responses tend to have very low scores.

allquicatic

@bwDraco lol. Why the downvote?

bwDraco

Repeating the query for Stack Overflow...

Fixed formatting: data.stackexchange.com/superuser/revision/525309/663863/…

"Thank you very much!" is #2 on Stack Overflow, while "You're welcome." is #3.

"What have you tried so far?" is #6 (no surprise), although such comments are deleted on a single flag.

allquicatic

3:51 AM

certainly a very interesting query

bwDraco

Loads of "thank you" and "you're welcome" comments show up.

> 2641
0.220371
Why the downvote?

allquicatic

lol

bwDraco

Anyway, it's getting late and I have an appointment tomorrow. Good night.

XKCD

$Then we move to phase two. Gas stations store fuel in underground tanks. Normally, these are inaccessible except via the pump. However, with hydraulic fracturing, we-- Wait! Come back!$

bwDraco

4:26 AM

engadget.com/2016/08/16/usb-certified-chargers

Now you can be sure USB Type-C chargers deliver the power you expect them to.

USB PD will be important going forward and a certification process can only help.

Journeyman Geek

I thought the problem was with the cables

bwDraco

netskope.com/blog/cuteransomware-uses-google-docs-fly-radar

...this why we need consumer-oriented UTM solutions.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco I think consumer routers that don't suck would be a starting point ;p

bwDraco

2FA has been in use for years in corporate environments but hasn't seen widespread consumer use until recently.

Why can't we secure home networks at the edge the way corporate networks are?

This is especially the case when home networks are increasingly incorporating IoT devices that have limited security measures.

Securing just the endpoints is no longer enough.

While there are products like the Bitdefender BOX that promise to provide security for IoT devices, we need to see more of these dedicated security appliances. Home networks desperately need to be secured at the edge.

Linus

4:43 AM

mornin

bwDraco

We seriously need more consumer UTM appliances. Defense in depth is what we need.

The conventional home network security paradigm of securing just the endpoints is no longer adequate.

Bob

Uhm.

I haven't seen an endpoint firewall in years.

Well, a proper one, not the rubbish Norton ships.

Also, security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security.

Hm. Forgot about the Windows one.

bwDraco

5:11 AM

Bitdefender is smart enough to realize that the only way to properly secure IoT devices is a UTM appliance, but why aren't these appliances more widely available?

I shouldn't have to spend $600 + $300/year on a FortiGate to get full network protection..

Psycogeek

@bwDraco hey did you build your desktop yet? Because i am selling a haswell

bwDraco

@Psycogeek No. I'll be a while before this is possible.

Psycogeek

i will get the most money for it by seling it back as components again, but i spent lots of time assembling it too :-( but assembled computers dont make good e-bay sales unless they are new.

it's not like it has that much stuff in it. one of them samsung 850 pro 256 60-70$ Gigabyte UD3 board $60 High end I5 $125 4core makes it to 4.6g easy, primo psu $50 sum extra nic card, fans, and 212 heat sink. then I could toss my 7970 in for $100. whats that come to?

Ohh 16 gig of ram another 70$

and a 4T green disk $50. whole 1200$ computer for $500.

the pity is it is used , but more like just driven off the lot.

I had not even got to putting all the software on .

Journeyman Geek

5:30 AM

cause home networks are a mess, and most people wouldn't know what to do with a device more complex than plug it in and turn it on

as I keep saying, we're mostly exceptions ;p

granted, I'm toying with running a dns server internally again since dns on my main router keeps crapping out, and I want to keep the damned thing running till newfangled mesh routers become a thing

Journeyman Geek

6:14 AM

@Bob the man o war is 375 grams. Oddly, the fishers sans cable are 283 g

Bob

6:33 AM

@JourneymanGeek ...That's almost exactly the same weight as the Corsair one :P

I think mine was 373 but I rounded to 375 (also, inaccurate scales, bleh)

I wonder if 375 is a target weight

Journeyman Geek

@Bob scale's digital

its about as accurate as a househole scale would get

Bob

@JourneymanGeek yea, same, but I still don't trust it :P

The auto-zero thing has been iffy in the past, and 2g difference really is within margin of error

Journeyman Geek

(fishers are 'smaller' but it feels heavier and more substancial)

Rahul2001

6:49 AM

We're going to lose this competition so badly...

It took us 4 hours to render a video, and then realised that our teammate spelled "retail" as "retal" 😭😭😭

Journeyman Geek

7:04 AM

@Bob eh

I trust baking scales cause some folk are a bit picky and bake French style. By weight not volume.

Linus

7:22 AM

is it even possible i am connected to internet but i can't access google,facebook stackoverflow and other websiite but i am chatting -_-

Bob

Sure, entirely possible.

Linus

how?

getting server not found on all website

DavidPostill

@PIMP_JUICE_IT Hehe. A lot of those are mine, via stackapps.com/questions/2116/…

Burgi

morning

what server/website monitoring software does everyone use?

Journeyman Geek

7:38 AM

Last workplace used sensu. Scaled well, not too annoying....

Burgi

> Sensu | Monitoring that doesn't suck.

i'm sold already!

we are using pingdom at the moment and its fine for websites but it doesn't really allow for server monitoring (CPU/RAM etc)

Journeyman Geek

We had it do things like report when systems were on 100 Mbps connections. And of course... Got the info off a home brew perl script cause minussquare vfx was all about reinventing all the wheels.

Burgi

minussquare... is that one of the cryptic company names you traditionally use?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Burgi

hmmm....

will i have heard of them outside of the industry?

Journeyman Geek

7:50 AM

> chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=24201377#24201377

@Burgi they worked on a lot of the marvel movies

Burgi

ah

i feel bad for not knowing them

Journeyman Geek

they used to be more on the high end, environmental destruction side of things

now I donno. The indian company they 'merged' with seems to be bleeding a lot of money

Burgi

accurate review: rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/15/no-mans-sky-pc-review

> I’ve no idea how PlayStations work – it’s probably something to do with cogs and goblins – but I’m aware they’re not as speedy as PCs

Journeyman Geek

> Disclosure: Our Alec did some last minute writing for No Man’s Sky. He won’t write about the game for us anymore, and is probably responsible for all the bad things about the game.

I read this in an old british lady voice

Burgi

8:09 AM

basically sony ruined the game

you has air con?

Journeyman Geek

that's my dad's 'office/den' area

we did the ... improviced piping

we used a pipe connector shaved down with a dremel to attach the air hose to, and diverted the hot air to the clothes drying area on the other end of the wall ;p

Oh, I have a split unit in my room

Boris_yo

8:35 AM

@Psycogeek This Windows Scan menu that shows. It is driver-based software that process scan after it's completed? If so, why can't it simulate how will image be affected after I adjust brightness and contrats if it already grabbed scan preview? All it takes is to simulate to reflect changes I will be making.

@JourneymanGeek Is this dehumidifier or mobile air conditioner?

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo portable air conditioner

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Do you drill a hole in wall to let the pipe out?

Journeyman Geek

That's what we were trying to avoid

instead we used some PVC pipe and connectors (with a homebrew adaptor) to vent the air out to another room where the warm air would help dry clothes faster ;)

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Interesting. Is that room far or isolated?

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo we're planing to curtain off the closed area. The hot air gets vented into a clothes drying area ;p

Burgi

8:40 AM

ffs...

Journeyman Geek

so we're using the force of the airflow and the wierd layout of my apartment to our advantage

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Are you familiar with air cooler? You fill in the water and so it cools the area. Requires positioning close to open window though.

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo had one. It has the unfortunate side effect of increasing humidity

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Yes. You have high humidity there?

What's your temperature in Celsius in Singapore?

Burgi

my minion introduced a serious frontend bug and i missed it when i merged the branches

oh and the company want me to do unpaid overtime

Journeyman Geek

8:51 AM

@Boris_yo 30s give or take 5 degrees

@Burgi that's always a bad thing

Even if you get OIL for that

Burgi

yeah

i got stung with that in the past

Bob

9:51 AM

@Dog well, it's really hard to test but I think the antenna is making the difference between 15 and 35 down :P

I'll try again when it's less congested later

then again, the non-CA modem pretty much had the same speeds

Dog

10:02 AM

@Bob Nice

@Burgi Nagios and Ganglia

Neither are particularly easy to set up or Windows friendly

Ferrybig

10:23 AM

A small question, is it possible to turn off the feature of google chrome that disconnects pending page loads with "net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED"? The reason being that google chrome is too aggressive with this and disconnects loading pages when my computer gets a new ipv6 address, even though the site I'm using is only IPv4

Journeyman Geek

I've only seen that on my phone

and its when the network actually changes

that, I'd add might be a question for the main site

@Bob I should be able to play today, with the usual interruptions

We ran low on dog food but I handled that in the afternoon. ;p

also, do you have the SR3 DLC?

Burgi

hmmm...

@Dog thanks

Psycogeek

10:46 AM

@Boris_yo yes is the software for the scanner, process after the raw image is captured, very rarely there will be like one item that actually changes the scan (other than the res) you should be able to preview approximations of how the software will effect the final. The cannoscan scan gear for cannon, does that. On it you scan a "preview" image, which is a low res quick scan, then alterations show on this preview.

Burgi

11:20 AM

ugh

dev hell today :(

Journeyman Geek

ugh

I am suffering the cost of being a dumbass.

has a sore throat from grinding metal without a mask

Oliver Salzburg

Sounds nasty

Journeyman Geek

kinda

I had to saw apart a faucet to get it out. ;p

after trying to cut apart a bolt (losening it) and possibly releasing small quantities of magic smoke from a cheap grinder

Oliver Salzburg

Damn

Burgi

11:40 AM

i'm getting crazy ass IIS issues while i try to debug an issue

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi Sounds like a normal day to me

Burgi

i hate IIS

we need it for all the ~~shitty~~ umbraco sites i have inherited

getting this issue:

9

Q: Wordpress permalinks on IIS?

I am using WordPress on Windows 7 IIS to develop. I am uploading images in WordPress for a blog post. The image displays fine on the web site but as soon as I enable permalinks the images no longer work and any future images uploaded I get back an error: HTTP Error 500.50 - URL Rewrite Module Er...

Hennes

12:20 PM

uhm

lots of vmware-ish questions at

Both with hidden links to an external site

0

Q: How To Install Ubuntu On VMware Player?

I'm have the .vmx file for Ubuntu and I'm trying to install it with VMware but when it asks for to prepare the partion nothing shows up. How do I create a virtual disk for VMware Player?

vmware

I['][1]m have the .vmx file for Ubuntu and I'm trying to install it with VMware but when it asks for to prepare the partion nothing shows up.
How do I create a virtual disk for VMware Player?

[1]: http://www.sweethomesgroup.com/

Three question all with hidden links to his site

flagged as spam. Seems to best choice.

Journeyman Geek

12:41 PM

yeah

nuked, then suspended, then let the AU and SF mods know ;)

Hennes

OK :)

Journeyman Geek

12:59 PM

ALso, nice catch. Took me 2-3 attempts to find one of those, and I KNEW it was there.

Hennes

This one seems to manually craft his/her posts. Not a trivial as a markov-chain bot. :)

Journeyman Geek

yup. It was almost clever.

dino

@JourneymanGeek links?

Journeyman Geek

@dino terdon handled it

meta.askubuntu.com/questions/15938/… associated meta post

Also what happened to your ava 0_0

Oliver Salzburg

How do you change the color scheme in bash on Ubuntu for Windows?

Burgi

1:12 PM

@dino == @jokerdino?

Journeyman Geek

I would assume so

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek By live preview I mean it would instantly reflect changes I make with sliders. This is not possible with Windows-based one so maybe XnView does something like that? I have Paint.NET too and I have Google Picasa...

dino

@JourneymanGeek thanks

@Burgi just dino

Burgi

you've grown up and are now trying to shed the "joker" image?

dino

No.

@Burgi but that hurts

Boris_yo

1:16 PM

@JourneymanGeek Is air conditioner something you can live without in Singapore in summer?

Journeyman Geek

hackaday.com/2016/08/16/… for someone whose husband just set the kitchen on fire, that lady has tremendious presence of mind

@Boris_yo erm. Nowadays no.

We've gotten used to air con, and its warm this year

Burgi

@dino it was meant as a joke....

dino

@Burgi I see.

Journeyman Geek

and as far as inefficient methoids of cooling goes, we're reusing the warm air to dry the clothes ;p

Burgi

in my head i'm now going to call you @srsdino

dino

1:18 PM

heh, sure.

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Air conditioning comes 2nd from quality of life perspective. 1st is food and water.

dino

@Boris_yo when 1st is secured, it's natural to climb up.

Boris_yo

@dino You can't do office work without second. You can do physical job without it however.

dino

Yeah but I am not doing physical labour and I have reliable sources for food and water for the foreseeable future.

Boris_yo

@dino What work you do? There are 2 types - mental and physical.

You either stress brain or body.

DavidPostill

1:24 PM

@Boris_yo Or both. Or neither :)

Hennes

I like the 'or neither' one. :)

Time to stress the joy centers of my brain with some more critical role

Boris_yo

@DavidPostill Mental work requires concentration, focus, mental clarity i.e. body comfort which requires appropriate working conditions.

dino

What is it that you are getting at?

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo I built a chimney. It fell. I rebuilt it. It stands.

Boris_yo

Just stressing importance of office and home environment.

DavidPostill

1:30 PM

@Boris_yo "requires concentration, focus, mental clarity" many physical jobs require those as well, for example firefighter, sniper, jet fighter pilot, astronaut ...

Boris_yo

@DavidPostill Yeah but some of these do not have appropriate environmental conditions so it's tough. If I would not have those I would not be able to function, but it's just me. I am eastern european with weak resistance to hot climate.

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo I was merely sharing the mildly absurd engineering of it.

I just stuck some large gauge PVC pipe to a wall. ;p

Boris_yo

@JourneymanGeek Must be opposite of chimney.

Journeyman Geek

it blows not sucks

NEO

I'm trying to find a way to VERIFY if the SSL connection is working properly or not (Java). I'm aware that not using a proper certificate or wrong certificate will throw an exception but how to really see that the data is in fact ENCRYPTED? I can use network packet sniffing tools to check this, but any automated way to test this?

DavidPostill

1:36 PM

@Boris_yo It just takes gradual adjustment. Like you don't get in the hottest sauna first. You work your way up ... :)

Journeyman Geek

@NEO You might want to bulk that out into a question, then stick it on the main site.

DavidPostill

@NEO That might even be better suited to SO as there may be a way in your java program to get that info.

hi

hi

Hi!

1:40 PM

HI!!

woof

bark

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

poppycock!

!!nrooster

1:41 PM

@BenN Another one to block. Thanks :)

Journeyman Geek

o0

DavidPostill

@Hennes Now I'm hungry.

Poppycock® candied popcorn: The ultimate sweet and salty treat

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allquicatic

Wikipedia:Unusual articles

There are over five million articles in the English Wikipedia. These are the ones that Wikipedians have identified as being a bit unusual. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something you would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic. If you wish to add articles to this list, the article in question should preferably meet one or more of these criteria: The article is something...

Hennes

oh, I did not know that

Tiberius uses that word all the time

allquicatic

1:45 PM

warning: do not read; you might get fired from your job / quit school by getting so obsessed with that page

DavidPostill

@Hennes Neither did I till 2 minutes ago ;P

Journeyman Geek

Its good I am graduate and unemployed then? ;p

allquicatic

@DavidPostill I hate you so much! Why -- WHY did you have to implant that into my head?!?!?! Now I can hardly stand not going to the store and buying some today!

Ben N

I'm just admiring this picture:

allquicatic

that stuff is amazingly.... good/terrible

DavidPostill

1:46 PM

@allquicatic Oi. @Hennes is to blame. Not me!

I wonder if you can get something similar in the UK?

dino

@BenN Caption was udderly amoosing.

Hennes

grins.

allquicatic

wrong

Caption was utterly aMEWsing!!!

DavidPostill

@allquicatic Do american cows make a different noise then?

google.com/…

dino

maybe because they only have cattle in MURICA.

halilpazarlama

1:56 PM

Hi all, can JavaScript (*.js) files update theirselves? I saved a webpage (simply by pressing Ctrl+S) and all of its contents are saved in my Dropbox. I didn't share it with anyone, but every now and then, I see that those .js files are updated. Is this normal?

Ben N

They shouldn't be able to write anything to your hard drive

halilpazarlama

I think so too. So how come are they updated?

Burgi

is the code actually changing?

Ben N

Are you sure they're changed on disk?

allquicatic

if you have an old copy, try a SHA-1 or MD5 hash comparison between the files

if the contents are identical then it's probably just some scanner or dropbox or something periodically changing the date

in general though, if you're executing JavaScript in a web browser, the browser would not give enough permissions to the JS for there to be any chance at all for it to update files on your disk

but if you're executing the JavaScript in NodeJS, Node definitely gives the JavaScript runtime environment enough permission to do arbitrary disk access, including updating the original script

Ben N

2:08 PM

That applies to HTA documents/applications too, IIRC

halilpazarlama

I never checked inside the files. But no I'm not executing them, not even in a browser. So it's possible that Dropbox is doing that. But it's curious why it's only doing this to the .js files.

allquicatic