The DMZ

3:15 AM

> Secondary spirit animal: Invisible Elephant

lols

5 hours later…

8:16 AM

9:11 AM

vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0027.html RCE guest to host in VMware ESXi, Fusion or Workstation

9:58 AM

Well VMWare has always been shit.

daya

10:39 AM

Do you guys use Termux? Seriously, I found it really awesome

Never heard of it.

daya

Well, I learned a lot of Linux commands through it I mean you can't open your laptop to try a newly learned command. So it's like a mini Linux in your pocket

And talking about stability. Wow

2 hours later…

12:25 PM

> Guru Meditation Error!

> data abort!

Ugh

> [script]: Unknown command: load

Every time I'm about to get this damn software working, something happens.

Ancient software from 2006 whose website vanished sometime around 2010, with multiple incompatible versions floating around that take configuration files hosted on Mediafire, Archive.org, and broken MegaUpload links, none of which specifies the version of the software they're compatible with...

And literally no documentation. Fucking homebrew.

Anonymous

Forests got his bot running again...

How else am I gonna play Saya no Uta on a train? With no laptop.

Cuz I'm going for a trip in a few days and need stuff to pass the time.

Anonymous

12:43 PM

Hah.

Anonymous

Why are you travelling without a laptop? :O

Anonymous

I take my laptop everywhere

I'll buy a laptop when I get to my destination.

I don't take computers long-distance.

OK there must be some weird corruption here, because it's giving me "unknown command: oad" and "unknown command: load", and the only valid command with a similar name is "bgload" and "fgload" (as far as I can see).

Anonymous

1:17 PM

@forest I see.

1:37 PM

> pc: E5931204 addr: E5931204

Well that doesn't look right.

2:04 PM

Elon Musk thanks us for our suppoot and is giving away Bitcoic to all community!

Seems legit!

@forest as legit as my shit turning to gold

twitter does a shit job at dealing with those.

Is that how Nigerian princes get so much money that they have to give it away?

Yes

@forest at this point... sounds almost like you should rewrite it ;p

@J.J I had the former.

I just have bad days now

as opposed to... welll....

"I cannot leave the house" days

I almost do want to rewrite it. At least I have the source code.

But I want to read a VN on the train and I have only a few more days. :(

Maybe I can get some Bitcoic and hire someone to rewrite it for me!

Rory Alsop

Your suppoot is very welcooom

2:17 PM

mmmh... Bitcoic

A: Does this mean Target's twitter was successfully attacked?

Yes, Target did have their account hacked. In fact, quite a lot of verified account holders have been hacked to further this scam, including Elon Musk's. This scam has made the hackers over $150,000. The Elon Musk scam is the most well-known now, but it appears Target was caught as well.

Someone downvoted me and I don't know why. :(

@forest Tim Post lost his keys?

but why are the posts marked as "promoted"?

or what I'm trying to ask: when I want to put up an ad on twitter can I just link anything I want including an impersonation of another account?

Anyone can promote a Tweet.

You just pay money and then it'll show up as an ad on other people's feeds.

@forest it seems that Musk did not have his account hacked. it's just that verified accounts get hacked and then the names and bios get changed to look like "famous" people. the handle from the linked musk post supposedly comes from capgemini australia

2:29 PM

Impersonating another account works if either 1) you hacked it, or 2) you change your name (but not @handle).

@TomK. Sure, but it's part of the same scam involving hacking verified accounts.

yeah, but you say in your answer "quite a lot of verified account holders have been hacked to further this scam, including Elon Musk's"

Oh you're right, lemme correct that.

corrected

@JourneymanGeek he was affected by this as well?

@TomK. thankfully no

Q: RIP Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL 9000

I think it's a meme.

I'm not on Meta enough to remember though.

Douglas Rain, who is best known for providing the eerie voice of the amoral HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, died today.

RIP

A: Should 'drive by' downvoting be more effectively caught?

2:34 PM

415

The answer was down voted because I lost my keys. Please, stay with me, let me explain this odd chain of events. Earlier today I couldn't get to the store on time because I could not find my keys. That caused me to miss the opportunity to run over a golf ball, which would have bounced between a...

Ah yeah that was it.

2:48 PM

cough

is that the office humour at SO?

@TomK. in a manner of speaking

3:34 PM

could someone here shed some light on this answer?

why isn't this used more often if it works like it is described there?

is it hard to implement?

Arminius

Thanks everyone

@TomK. Because you still need to ship client-side implementation of the scheme securely