Daily Tech News 22 September 2021

• So I'm banned from Twitter again. They have at least sped up the appeals process. Where it used to take a week for a bot to automatically reject your appeal, it now takes less than 24 hours.
  
  I only really used it to mock the stupid - because that's where they congregate - and it turns out the stupid didn't appreciate it.
  
  
  
• Specifically I was banned for suggesting that Comrade Dan Andrews - Premier of Victoria - should resign or be thrown into a volcano, whichever works. And this morning Melbourne got hit by a 5.6 earthquake, so while Twitter might have banned me it appears that someone was listening.
  
  Oh, and despite the earthquake the tradies were on the march again - and Comrade Dan banned the news networks from filming the protest from the air. That's because they want to keep up the propaganda effort that it's a small group of Neo-Nazis, and that lie dies instantly when you see the extent of the protests from above.
  
  (Also dies instantly when you see the large Sikh contingent.)
  
  
  
• Update: Here's the latest from Melbourne. Bit harder for me to track it now that I've been banned from Twitter.
  
  Dictator Dan had his stormtroopers firing non-lethal rounds at protestors at the Shrine of Remembrance.
  
  

  Police firing at protesters at the Shrine of Remembrance in Victoria. pic.twitter.com/rR51MzaCuW

  — Antonio Montana 🇦🇺 (@dnforca) September 22, 2021

  
  
  Great optics there, Danny Boy.
  
  
  
• If you're a farm service provider don't use chicken1 as your password. (ZDNet)
  
  Make it chicken123 next time. Get the hackers to put in a little effort.

• The new Windows 11 Update Checker tells you why you can't update to Windows 11. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Funny, all it seems to say is because fuck you, that's why.
  
  
  
• If you let goats eat the underbrush, it can't catch fire. (New York Times)
  
  Thank you Captain Obvious.
  
  Also you can eat the goats. Not bad, actually.
  
  
  
• We also run Linux. (Pluralistic)
  
  More nice words being written about the Framework laptop, this time from a hardcore Linux user. Only major issues she raises are the fiddly installation of the tiny WiFi module if you buy the DIY model, and the lack of a trackpoint when coming from a long line of Lenovo laptops.
  
  
  
• PostgreSQL 14 has updated the JSON query syntax. (Crunchydata)
  
  And gets it almost sort of right. PostgreSQL's query syntax is a complete mess when it comes to supporting advanced features.
  
  
  
• A new bug in MacOS lets web bookmarks execute arbitrary commands. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  You need to persuade the user to click on them, but you wouldn't expect a bookmark of a web page to run things on your computer.
  
  
  
• Atlassian's Trello is down, improving the productivity of software developers everywhere. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Trello sucks.
  
  
  
• The FBI had a key to decrypt servers hit by the REvil ransomware. (Washington Post)
  
  They kept this secret from the companies hit by ransomware attacks because they were planning some kind of operation against the Russian hacker group - exactly what doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere - only REvil disappeared before they could do it.
  
  And then popped right back up again.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:20 AM

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