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stopthatgirl7, in The Cybertruck Must Be Huge—or It Will Dig Tesla’s Grave
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I feel like this would have been a hard sell even three years ago, but now, with Elon being as polarizing as he is, it’s going to be an even harder sell. I don’t know what demographic that thing is even for, other than hardcore Musk stans.

MayonnaiseArch,
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I’m just wondering if you mean “a fucking idiot” when you say polarizing

TQuid, in How can NFT and blockchain impact the supply chain industry?

Bullshit solution in search of problem continues grifting, film at 11.

recursive_recursion, in EPA destroys 7 years of John Deere BS with one letter :) - VIVA RIGHT TO REPAIR!
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Right to Repair FTW✊️

ciko22i3, in Elon Musk says Twitter's blue bird to be replaced by an X
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He should make the “X” a functional close button.

Skyline969, in Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma
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I’ll sell them Ligma for a cool mil.

kakes, in Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and Lies

For how long do we have to see these articles before people learn what an LLM is?

BaldProphet, in Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
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Which brands have this technology? I need to know which devices to douse with lighter fluid.

LollerCorleone,
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That is not clear yet. But wouldn't be surprised if a large number of them fits the bill.

Karlos_Cantana,
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It's in a lot of item's TOS. I've started finding the TOS online before I buy things. I also try not to have any "smart" items, but that's getting harder to do with IOT.

EmptyRadar, in Google Will Turn Off Cookies for 30 Million People on January 4

Trusting Google to oversee your privacy is like asking a grizzly bear to make sure no one eats this big pile of fresh salmon

BaldProphet, in Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them
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I didn't realize John Deere made trains.

magnetosphere, in The Cybertruck Must Be Huge—or It Will Dig Tesla’s Grave
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I wonder if they might pull it off. Two of the things that people talk about most often, looks and the mismatch between “EV buyers” and “truck buyers”, were already known and ignored by the people who made preorders.

It doesn’t matter if you or I think the Cybertruck is ugly. The people who put down money either disagree or are willing to tolerate it.

The other major factor is cost, and there’s no way to put a positive spin on that. The Cybertruck is more expensive than people were told it would be. Right now, I see that as the biggest problem, at least as far as preorders are concerned.

Heresy_generator, (edited )
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Those weren't "preoders"; that was another Telsa lie that everyone repeated uncritically. People paid $100 dollars for reservations. That does not represent a firm commitment, nor the wherewithal, to purchase a 6-figure vehicle.

magnetosphere,
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I’ll admit, I don’t know what the legal definition of “preorder” is. I’m just using the same term used in the article.

thefluffiest, in Substack Has a Nazi Problem

Not sure if you noticed, but there’s an ugly orange guy stomping around “getting the message out”. Maybe Substack’s not the core of problem.

LollerCorleone, in Researcher flags OpenCart security issue, founder rages
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Daniel Kerr's response to this article. Dude sounds a bit unstable, especially with that last line..

This is a reply to https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/24/opencart_vulnerability_dispute/

The Register seems to suffer from what many in the media do, which are lazy reporters. The register has not done its own research or even asked questions about what is being claimed.

“He who makes the claim carries the burden of proof!”

Should the question not have been asked, if the hacker has access to the admin and permissions to modify the security, then is it really a hack?

Same with the CVS report. They don't check that what is being reported is actually a vulnerability.

I don't want to link to this guy's site because he's a conman trying to get recognition for his fantasy.

https://0xbro.red/disclosures/disclosed-vulnerabilities/opencart-cve-2023-47444/

I don't even want to have to reply to this nonsense as I’m busy actually doing work!!

0xb120 even admits this:

“In OpenCart versions 4.0.0.0 to 4.0.2.3, authenticated backend users having common/security “access” and “modify” privileges can write arbitrary untrusted data inside config.php and admin/config.php, resulting in remote code execution on the underlying server.”

He's saying that for this vulnerability to work access and modify privileges. So why would you give permission to a low level user the ability to rename a directory? Another point is that said functionality to rename the directory is removed once you click the move storage directory!

Reasons that Authenticated Static Code Injections in OpenCart (CVE-2023-47444) not can be carried out:

Hackers need to know the admin name - If the default admin folder name is admin then when the user visits the opencart dashboard a security popup comes up telling the user to rename the admin directory.

Hackers need access to the admin - So first your hacker will need access to the opencart admin by having the username and password. There is also the optional 2 factor auth also that can be enabled.

Hackers need permission to view or modify - So not only does the hacker need a login but also needs a login with permission to modify the security popup.

Security popup - The security popup only works if the installation directory exists, storage path is in the web root or if the admin is named “admin”. If you have just begun to set up an opencart site then you would need to follow the security popup instructions to make your site secure. The security popup should not show up on a production site if you have followed the instructions.

It is quite clear that the security popup tells you that your site will be vulnerable to hacking if the opencart installation admin is not renamed, that the installation directory is not deleted and the storage folder is not moved!

It was also reported that I later merged a fix that fixes the alleged hack:

If you haven't followed the security instructions then there's a lot more security issues like the storage directory being exposed.

The fact that this guy claims he worked on the vulnerability for a month yet still can not pull it off without the end user giving him access to the site shows that opencart is very secure or this guy is completely useless at his job.

I got called a narcissist but I'm not the one making up claims. 0xb120 is trying to craft a narrative that makes him look like a hero! Who's the narcissist ! I didn’t contact him!

What a clown!~

OpenCart is currently at 298,000 Live sites! We have dropped a bit from 450,000 but the whole market has since COVID and the war in Ukraine.

The register also makes claims about my competitors:

Woocommerce - I have spoken with woo commerce a while ago and it seems u are confusing woocommerce with wordpress. Wordpress has over 1 million sites but they are a blogging platform. Woocommerce has very low numbers.

Same with Squarespace.

Magento has 160,000 live sites which is half of OpenCart and they got bought for 1.6 billion.

Shoppify overtook OpenCart in Sept 2017 after getting billions in investment. They are also not open source and you can't access their code base!

P.S

Also If anyone is looking for a good story I know a very good one that involves child traffickers, judges and police. It will make your blood boil!

https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/12947#issuecomment-1826347718

JelloBrains, in The end of anonymity on Chinese social media
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Those of us in the U.S. can say oh that's so China but Presidential candidate Nikki Hayley floated the same thing recently saying "Every person on social media should be verified by their name. It’s a national security threat,” she has since walked it back some after being called out for it, but authoritarians will probably come back to the idea.

LollerCorleone,
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This is something that the Government of India has been pushing for too. Get distracted for a minute, and this might happen in your country too before you even realise what is happening.

https://www.reuters.com/article/india-dataprotection-idINKBN1Y90OQ/

https://archive.is/20230812010424/https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/new-verification-features-may-add-to-social-media-platforms-woes-123062000707_1.html

alphapuggle, in Microsoft, can we please just call it Windows 11.1 already?

Idk I always understood the releases. ~YYMM then YYHX. The update from the second half of 2022 is 22H2, before that, 1909 for September 2019 (if I remember right it was delayed til October) but can you tell me how old 8.1 is just by looking at the number? >!2013 sometime I think?!< To me this just makes so much more sense idk. They mention “Fall Creators Update” and “Anniversary update” which are more akin to codenames than what they call the update.

HeartyBeast, in m/technology has a new owner
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LollerCorleone,
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Thank you!
I'll try my best!

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