Notices by Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@mastodon.technology), page 3

@emsenn apropos a completely unrelated point to yours...

@emsenn I wonder what the intersection looks like between that group and the people worried about omnipotent AI?

@feld and for most purposes Wikipedia is a better source than wildjoesnews.tv

@davey The installer still asks you for a root password, AFAIK.

Though the threat models are completely different, and I am still less than convinced that 'su' is less secure than 'sudo'.

@gudenau most of the time I've seen this sort of an error it's been quote characters in data either not properly escaped, or not being treated as properly escaped by the importer.

@gudenau rush job version: load it into a spreadsheet, check to see if that line parsed correctly there.

If it did, do a global search and replace from tab to space, resave as tab separated no-quotes and load appropriately.

Not pretty, only a 50/50 chance you'll see what the problem is, but it will most likely work.

@gudenau actual csv?
MariaDB may not be treating quoting correctly.

...and while we're on the subject of Docker:

"docker (all versions) is vulnerable to a symlink-race attack"

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q2/131

(thanks to @bekopharm)

@strypey @Wolf480pl you are right, I haven't.

I am not the one making an exceptional claim.

@matthewreinbold How many hardware engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? "We'll fix it in software?"

@jack @Wolf480pl @hushroom the Gambler's Fallacy applies to tech advances as much as anything else.

If we get it, run with it. Otherwise plan for what we've got.

@mdszy I hope so. It's mainly cheap/novelty devices with the gross security holes.

@mdszy nobody's going to make that easy for free, and nobody wants to pay for it.

@mdszy and now you understand the state of security in
IoT devices.

@Wolf480pl @hushroom @jack yep. The ideal would be nuclear+wind+solar with pumped hydro and batteries for rapid emergency surge that can't be covered effectively by the nuclear plants.

It would be the safest and most cost-effective combination if we finally refuse to accept the crazy high body count associated with even the least dangerous fossil fuels.

If we ever get fusion, the equation changes again, but I'm not holding my breath for that.

@hushroom that's a totally irrational position. Opposing nuclear power has never prevented the manufacturing of nuclear weapons.

Should we outlaw JP-6 so that bombs can't be delivered?

@hushroom that it kills many orders of magnitude fewer people than fossil fuels.

Also, nuclear power != nuclear weapons. The false equivalence is a common propaganda technique.

@hushroom I don't care about it being cheap. I like it safe.

And it is.

@hushroom @strypey @Wolf480pl cancer rates that can be positively tied to a site/event are counted.

Hardhat events are in the mere dozens, not the few thousand I count.