none_to_remain (u/none_to_remain)

none_to_remain commented on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software github.com/Homebrew/brew/... · Posted by u/firexcy

mzajc · a month ago

It seems the maintainers are very eager to lock issues and threads on GitHub that receive any pushback to this decision. Where is this coming from? I thought Homebrew was pro-user software, which requiring Apple's approval to run software on my computer is ostensibly not.

none_to_remain · a month ago

The user's name is Tim Cook and it's very rude to use his computer in ways he wouldn't like

none_to_remain commented on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates lwn.net/Articles/1043103/... · Posted by u/blueflow

nine_k · 2 months ago

This doesn't look like a bug, that is, something overlooked in the logic. This seems like a deliberately introduced regression. Accepting an option and ignoring it is a deliberate action, and not crashing with an error message when an unsupported option is passed must be a deliberate, and wrong, decision.

none_to_remain · 2 months ago

It certainly doesn't look intentional to me- it looks like at some point someone added "-r" as a valid option, but until this surfaced as a bug, no one actually implemented anything for it (and the logic happens to fall through to using the current date).

none_to_remain commented on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates lwn.net/Articles/1043103/... · Posted by u/blueflow

evil-olive · 2 months ago

annoyingly, they don't link to the actual bug in question, just say:

> Systems with the rust-coreutils package version 0.2.2-0ubuntu2 or earlier have the bug, it is fixed in 0.2.2-0ubuntu2.1 or later.

based on the changelog [0] it seems to be:

> date: use reference file (LP: #2127970)

from there: [1]

> This is fixed upstream in 88a7fa7adfa048dabdffc99451d7aba1d9e6a9b6

which in turn leads to [2, 3]

> Display the date and time of the last modification of file, instead of the current date and time.

this is not the type of bug I was expecting, I assumed it would be something related to a subtle timezone edge case or whatever.

instead, `date -r` is supposed to print the modtime of a given file:

    > date --utc -Is -r ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
    2025-04-29T19:25:01+00:00
    > date --utc -Is
    2025-10-23T21:46:47+00:00

and it seems like the Rust version just...silently ignored that expected behavior?

maybe I'm missing something? if not this seems really sloppy and not at all what I'd expect from a project aiming to replace coreutils with "safer" versions.

0: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/questing/+source/rust-coreutils...

1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-coreutils/+bu...

2: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/8621

3: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8630

none_to_remain · 2 months ago

There were no buffer overflows, though!

none_to_remain commented on I hacked Monster Energy bobdahacker.com/blog/mons... · Posted by u/speckx

darth_avocado · 4 months ago

It is common practice to give the company sufficient time and communicate, and then release the details once the vulnerability is patched. But it’s also common in practice to disclose the vulnerability after a set period of time if the company does not engage in any form of communication and refuses to patch the vulnerability. In this case they didn’t engage in any form of communication and then partially patched the problems. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

none_to_remain · 4 months ago

I have seen this in practice for vulnerabilities that affect many users of some software. If some Hackermann finds that Microsoft Windows version X or Oracle Database server version Y has a security flaw then disclosure is virtuous so that people using those can take measures. That reasoning doesn't seem to apply here.

none_to_remain commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt

sojournerc · 4 months ago

Cool take. Shitting on the south is an age old American tradition. I have a hard time understanding why people gleefully have these attitudes towards fellow human beings. Does someone from Mississippi not deserve factual actual push back against these laws? If we can't fight it there, it'll be in Connecticut soon enough.

none_to_remain · 4 months ago

You could very well read that as praise for Mississippi

none_to_remain commented on Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/Kye

Hobadee · 4 months ago

All arguments about age checks themselves aside, why can BlueSky implement age checks in the UK, but not Mississippi? Seems to me like the only difference would be Mississippi requiring everyone to log in, whereas currently I assume UK requires a login just for age-restricted material. (Although I don't use BlueSky in the UK, so shrugs)

none_to_remain · 4 months ago

Their wording had me imagining technological schemes that blind BlueSky from knowing but reading again I think what's going on is:

Mississippi: They track "underage" and "adult" UK: They track "unknown [treated as underage]" and "adult"

none_to_remain commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

none_to_remain · 4 months ago

The matter was settled in 1783

none_to_remain commented on Notion releases offline mode notion.com/help/guides/wo... · Posted by u/ericzawo

neonnoodle · 4 months ago

"It's true, we inserted disks into our beige towers and installed desktop software..."

"Let's get you to bed, grandma..."

none_to_remain · 4 months ago

We have strayed so far from God's light

none_to_remain commented on You know more Finnish than you think dannybate.com/2025/08/03/... · Posted by u/infinate

none_to_remain · 5 months ago

I played the game Noita where the enemies have inscrutable names like "Haulikkohiisi." I was amused to learn that is just the Finnish for "Shotgun Goblin", and that was the general pattern of names

none_to_remain commented on Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations cpb.org/pressroom/Corpora... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

none_to_remain · 5 months ago

I recall NPR throwing a fit over getting a "state media" label on Twitter.