Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

It gets better. If I pass the mouse pointer over the OneDrive tray icons, they all go away as soon as they find themselves under it.

You have OneDrive.

I have SeventeenDrive.

#Windows 10 22H2 with a wifi network set to metered.

Programming languages that use their own package managers are safer and more secure than programming languages that rely on the underlying OS's package manager, and other lies programmers tell each other: 2025-02-05 edition.

Ars Technica, "Go Module Mirror served backdoor to devs for 3+ years": https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/backdoored-package-in-go-mirror-site-went-unnoticed-for-3-years/

It's apparently a false positive: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/loader-needs-to-be-updated-14-stable.94857/ #FreeBSD

(The release notes URLs for 13.3-RELEASE and 13.4-RELEASE don't discuss boot loader changes or actions.)

#FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE-p2 amd64 with EFI (pretty sure UEFI), GPT, & encrypted ZFS root, after performing the steps recommended in:
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/#boot
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/#boot
- https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/#boot

Photographed with a Sony Mavica MVC-FD51, and read in using a SmartDisk FDUSB-TM2.

Task: Read an error message lasting only 0.5s between POST & OS loader.

Screenshot it: 🤡​

Take a photo with a smartphone: It unreliably spends up to 5s refocusing before snapping a blank screen.

Take a video with a smartphone: The error is too blurry to read, only coming into focus long after it's gone.

Take a photo with a flip phone's potato: It unreliably delays up to 2s.

Break out a 1998 camera that uses an actual floppy disk as film & USB FDD: Success on the very first try!

WAT 💾​