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Archive for July 30th, 2024

CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30

I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party

A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip

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Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly ESXi flaw • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30

Do you have your VMware ESXi hypervisor joined to Active Directory? Well, the latest news from Microsoft serves as a reminder that you might not want to do that given the recently patched vulnerability that has security experts deeply concerned.

Essentially, if an attacker was able to add an AD group called “ESX Admins,” any user added to it would by default be considered an admin.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/30/make_me_admin_esxi_flaw/

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Saving an era of indie games: Ruffle – an Adobe Flash Player written in Rust compiled to WebAssembly

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30

I forgot this was in the queue: [Wayback/Archive] ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust.

It is cool and plays a lot of Adobe Flash content and supports quite a bit of the underlying ActionScript language.

I really wish the web version could play web.archive.org/web/20160706140910oe_/http://games.erdener.org/laser/laser.swf (older), web.archive.org/web/20061211011310/http://www.gamuz.com/jeux/laser.swf (newer) or web.archive.org/web/20030827220214oe_/http://www.lurghi.net/laser/laser.swf (newest) but alas when running from https://ruffle.rs/demo/, that SWF is trying to download https://ruffle.rs/demo/config.txt some 20-30 times per second.

Maybe there is a workaround, as I have only tried the [Wayback/Archive] Ruffle Web Demo page (which is the easiest way to get started).

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