When it refuses to allow a routine clean, defrag, back-up and archive because it wants to focus on doing something more interesting, then we'll talk.

Edited by Euodiachloris on Mar 23rd 2019 at 11:25:59 AM

I'm having trouble understanding quite what it did. It was supposed to create street maps from satellite images and vice-versa, and did so by encoding the satellite map file into the street data or what?

You know jpeg artifacts?

It basically used those to put the information needed to reconstruct the satellite map into the street map.

Does someone know why Windows 10 (or Mozilla; it's not entirely clear) does sometimes hang up for a few seconds with the message "System is not responding" (in German)? Looking at CPU data does not indicate anything out of the ordinary.

So there's a federated messaging and chat protocol called Matrix, with the "flagship" server of the project being hosted at Matrix.org. Matrix.org got owned *hard*.

An explanation: hacker gained access to their system and all user passwords. Proceeded to open github issues to help fix their security.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/15/microsoft_users_pwned/

Yes,hotmail accounts were haxxored,no they NEVER bothered to inform their users,i'm fuming because my netflix account was hacked and I blamed (at the time) poor password security

I'm disinclined to trust that article because of the... informality... of the language it uses. Still, this sounds like a relatively minor compromise in the grand scheme of things, since attackers had no access to passwords (unless people were sending their passwords via email).

What it does show is that social engineering remains one of the easiest and most accessible paths to crack a system's security.

Edited by Fighteer on Apr 16th 2019 at 8:43:39 AM

Did Google Sabotage Firefox and IE?

If Google keeps doing anticompetitive things, they're going to stop being able to claim any sort of ethical high ground.

"Don't be evil" and "Do the right thing" are two different statements to make.

And despite Google still retaining the former in their code of conduct and Alphabet overall using the latter, neither are actually reflected in Google's actions

Microsoft is the Asshole Victim in this: Bill Gates tried to kill Mozilla for years: MS hijacked javascript and used IE's position in Windows to push IE over Netscape to business IT- that's why many business websites have "best viewed in IE" or they force you to use IE.

Professor Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit views Google like the old 18th century "trusts". And like them (and like AT&T) it should be broken up.

Probably, but breaking up service companies in a way that doesn't destroy privacy laws and invalidate all services is about as far from a non-trivial task as you can get.

okay so my PC seems stuck at the preparing automatic repair screen, then the screen turns black after a minute or so, any helpful ideas for a fix?

That's a rough one. You might be hosed and have to reinstall your OS. If you can get it to boot into Safe Mode, give it a shot. Otherwise you may have to hope you have a recovery disc available. I went through this with my son's computer (my old one that I gave him after I upgraded) and I had to perform a clean install, losing everything. Fortunately, nothing important was on that computer that hadn't already been moved.

Edited by Fighteer on Apr 22nd 2019 at 12:53:47 PM

I might not be pressing the power button fast(?) enough, but I'm not getting Safe mode to pop up, which is worrying.

Safe mode has nothing to do with the power button in any case.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/

Firefox screwed with Add-ons. Most are disabled.

They're rolling out a hotfix. To make sure you receive it, check that the Preferences > Privacy & Security > Firefox Data Collection and Use > Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla > Allow Firefox to install and run studies setting is enabled (I put the full menu path to it because I couldn't find it when I first looked for it). You can force it to load the fix by going to about:config, making sure app.normandy.enabled is set to true, then set app.normandy.first_run to true and restart the browser.

On Firefox for Android (Fennec, package name org.mozilla.firefox) you can go to about:config and set the flag xpinstall.signatures.required to false. (Also works on desktop Developer Edition, Nightly, and ESR release channels)

Situations like this are why the standard stable release channel needs to have an override available for requiring extensions signing. Thanks Mozilla for not listening when people told y'all that removing it was a mistake.

I fixed mine last night by rolling back the date one day, reinstalling all my add-ons, then setting the date back to current. Seems to be working fine; should I worry about getting blasted again the next time the roll out a fix or a 'fix'?

Edited by ViperMagnum357 on May 4th 2019 at 4:45:42 AM

I would I let my Firefox get fixed by the roll out.

But I would have an alternate browser the next time Murphy's Law strikes.

Speak of the devil. I just got blitzed again, whatever they rolled out did the same thing-took all my extensions offline and prevented me from reactivating or downloading, again. Reset my date two days back this time, and had to download everything again. At least now I have a good idea of what extensions I use day-to-day.

We need to have backups in case the Firefox Dev team collects all the infinity stones again.....

Waterfox is an option if needed, its basicly firefox with the power user options added back, and suport for old pluggins,