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Archive.today (or archive.is archive.fo whatever it's supposed to be) has had some messed up Cloudflare config since 2015 or earlier. It's not the default confi

Archive.today (or archive.is archive.fo whatever it's supposed to be) has had some messed up Cloudflare config since 2015 or earlier. It's not the default config the rest of Cloudflare websites have. It's not even purely "I am under attack mode" as it often failed in other ways than what a site in IAUAM would behave like. > Windows UAC works just fine now. What the hell how does it work, it just makes a vague popup for doing anything ever and the user has know way to know what he's being asked or whether it's normal. Almost no user will ever do anything other than click through it.

PaulHoule 3y ago
I do a lot of things that don't generate a UAC popup, I find the cases where it appears to be pretty predictable. Arguably it's a problem that you need it to install almost any piece of software so in principle any malicious software at all can do something evil in the installer. That said Windows does have a reasonable model for people installing software just for themselves that some software actually uses.
- uconnectlol 3y ago
  i'm sorry but you don't know what you're talking about uac is pointless because the concept of "admin" or "root" is an obsolete boomer idea. we are never going back to shared OS, good riddance. 2GHz machines can be had for $5 from thrift stores. the only thing keeping them slow are the likes of Cloudflare who insist that the web should be viewed in a bloated proprietary way like using Firefox or Chrome (yes these are proprietary in every way other than literally since they have all the bad features of proprietary software: spyware, adware, bloat, news, "Firefox Suggest (TM)", infinite half implemented features, terrible perf due to letting websites use all these features) uac doesn't stop malware (as in, you wont even get a popup) from sending all your files to a remote party, which is the only thing i care about as a desktop user. i would prefer if windows went back to having no users and i didn't get random "permission denied" errors while browsing my documents.
  - PaulHoule 3y ago
    Yeah, the iPhone model where your whole digital life belongs to Apple and developers have to ask permission to go to the bathroom is so much more secure. Funny how millennials and younger repeat "a phone is a phone and a computer is a computer, silly boomer" (I'm not a boomer, I'm a member of an invisible generation that thank goddess never gets talked about by the media) even though the equivalency of computers was the first result of computer science which is proven every day by video game emulation which many of that generation are quite familiar with. That said my wife and I have separate accounts on a laptop that had the keyboard delaminated and replaces a mac mini 2013 that recently gave up the ghost. Works fine for us. Contrast that to the iPad which I don't really know how to share, and BTW she feels about the same as touching a touchscreen the way a lot of people would feel about putting their hand in a toilet. At work I've recently been issued a new Win 11 desktop and they have a system where any user registered against it can just log in and have their desktop materialize on that machine w/ microsoft domains. It "just works" for the most part but when I was in grad school I remember an attempt to make a Win NT cluster behave like an old-school minicomputer went so badly that the sysadmin's head exploded and he left in a huff to go get a job admining printers for the whole campus. But yeah, the current situation with virtualization does remind me of the old days when IBM never figured out how to make a general purpose OS for the 360 and wound up coming out with the 370 that supported virtualization... Thus a typical mainframe by 1980 was running many different operating systems and if you were doing software development you would end up spinning up a VM which ran a single user OS a lot like MS-DOS or CP/M.

PaulHoule 3y ago

I do a lot of things that don't generate a UAC popup, I find the cases where it appears to be pretty predictable. Arguably it's a problem that you need it to install almost any piece of software so in principle any malicious software at all can do something evil in the installer. That said Windows does have a reasonable model for people installing software just for themselves that some software actually uses.

uconnectlol 3y ago
i'm sorry but you don't know what you're talking about uac is pointless because the concept of "admin" or "root" is an obsolete boomer idea. we are never going back to shared OS, good riddance. 2GHz machines can be had for $5 from thrift stores. the only thing keeping them slow are the likes of Cloudflare who insist that the web should be viewed in a bloated proprietary way like using Firefox or Chrome (yes these are proprietary in every way other than literally since they have all the bad features of proprietary software: spyware, adware, bloat, news, "Firefox Suggest (TM)", infinite half implemented features, terrible perf due to letting websites use all these features) uac doesn't stop malware (as in, you wont even get a popup) from sending all your files to a remote party, which is the only thing i care about as a desktop user. i would prefer if windows went back to having no users and i didn't get random "permission denied" errors while browsing my documents.
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  Yeah, the iPhone model where your whole digital life belongs to Apple and developers have to ask permission to go to the bathroom is so much more secure. Funny how millennials and younger repeat "a phone is a phone and a computer is a computer, silly boomer" (I'm not a boomer, I'm a member of an invisible generation that thank goddess never gets talked about by the media) even though the equivalency of computers was the first result of computer science which is proven every day by video game emulation which many of that generation are quite familiar with. That said my wife and I have separate accounts on a laptop that had the keyboard delaminated and replaces a mac mini 2013 that recently gave up the ghost. Works fine for us. Contrast that to the iPad which I don't really know how to share, and BTW she feels about the same as touching a touchscreen the way a lot of people would feel about putting their hand in a toilet. At work I've recently been issued a new Win 11 desktop and they have a system where any user registered against it can just log in and have their desktop materialize on that machine w/ microsoft domains. It "just works" for the most part but when I was in grad school I remember an attempt to make a Win NT cluster behave like an old-school minicomputer went so badly that the sysadmin's head exploded and he left in a huff to go get a job admining printers for the whole campus. But yeah, the current situation with virtualization does remind me of the old days when IBM never figured out how to make a general purpose OS for the 360 and wound up coming out with the 370 that supported virtualization... Thus a typical mainframe by 1980 was running many different operating systems and if you were doing software development you would end up spinning up a VM which ran a single user OS a lot like MS-DOS or CP/M.