We are the robots.

[reddragdiva]

• Don't use the Firefox NoScript extension — the developer has gone corrupt. Not a good thing in security software.

• Good Lord (courtesy themadcatlady)

• Rocknerd: Dancing about architecture! What is it good for?; Artist's shit.

• NotN: lots. Go click. Tell your friends.

This week has involved an anniversary dinner with arkady on Tuesday, getting smashed at the Dev with ashbet on Wednesday and manflu on the weekend, which led to blowing an appointment for aster13 to therapeutically beat the crap out of me. Bah. My parents are arriving in the UK tonight, going straight to the hotel and visiting our hovel tomorrow to meet their second grandchild for the first time.

Arkady is having tremendous fun with pndc's horrible old boat anchor, having set up a microphone to record herself and the girls singing over YouTube instrumentals. Freda also stands up and sings and dances at the microphone like the natural rock star she is.

Manflu does mean a few days with redcountess, which is nice in between being ill.

An md5sum hash of every file on a 500GB USB1.1 disk on a 233MHz Pentium I MMX takes about two days. In case you were wondering.

Comments

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Have you read the NoScript guy's side of the story? He fully and transperantly admits wrongdoing and explains also that not everything Adblock said was true (esp the comment about obfuscated code - it wasnt).

Either way, I never had a problem with ads or non-working of either extension!

[reddragdiva]

He fully and transparently admitted wrongdoing after he was caught and it was all over and around Slashdot. Blowing trust in the effort to get your ads in front of people is still not a winning move.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

And... what, he's dead to you now?

[reddragdiva]

"I know I hacked around other extensions to try to force you to look at my ads, but I'm really sorry now I've been busted."

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

This made MeFi today.

Are there any NoScript alternatives? I don't seem to have found any so far.

Because I've been browsing the net with FF on my Windows Machine without any plug-ins, and lordy, is The Net ugly.

Of course, all of this explained why NoScript likes to update so regularly, and always opened up the NS webpage.

Now, if I could get get CustomizeGoogle to start blocking Text Ads I'd be happy.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I use AdBlock. AdBlock Plus is too much of a hassle to set up in my experience.

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

Strange. I've never had any problems.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I know, i'm just a wuss.

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

You are?

I mean, if there's a problem I'll whine about it. And whines on this issue are snall.

Adbock works well, Filterset.G is ideal.
If you have issues, it's probably local.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It's not problems, exactly. It was just easier to set up Adblock to do what i wanted than ABP.

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

I have used ABP for some time without major issues, so.... YMMV

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is my question too. NoScript is corrupt here is a half-hour article to read that's nice, quick summary, is there anything I can actually do or does giving a shit belong on my `after thesis' list?

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

I read the article.
Short version: He prostrates himself on the altar of public opinion for being caught, and has fixed it.

For the moment we can go on with our lives until the next Internet drama.

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

I realise I didn't answer your question:
Worry about it later.

The Internerds will let you know in the meantime if a viable alternative arises and you need to do anything.

[reddragdiva]

NoScript is open source, so is about 100% likely to be forked very shortly.

This incident was bad enough that mozilla.org has changed the rules for addons - "no, you're really not allowed to fuck with other addons."

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

They mentioned that in the /. thread I mentioned above, but I haven't been back to check if anyone has done it yet.

I'm happy enough to continue to use NS (because it's better than nothing), but I do expect this to be the beginning of the end for it.

This incident was bad enough that mozilla.org has changed the rules for addons - "no, you're really not allowed to fuck with other addons."

Amazingly, I expected that would have been a rule. I must be hopelessly idealistic.

[reddragdiva]

Evidently they were hopelessly idealistic too, as they didn't presume that'd have to be a rule until it turned out it needed to be. (These are the rules for addons to be on https://addons.mozilla.org which tries to be a "trusted" source for addons.)

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

I think the NoScript issue was pulled in the last update.
There was a Slashdot thread about it in the last few days.

/I'd find it, but I've been Firefox'd.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Maone has posted an apology.

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

The name Ashbet rings a bell. I think I met her at Convergence this year.

[reddragdiva]

Almost certainly. This is her with cavalorn a few years ago.

[hestia.livejournal.com]

Yay for natural rock stars!

Shaeleigh likes to bop along to Fatboy Slim already, perhaps because this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAvpSdfYAlI") has hand puppets in it.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

> md5sum hash of every file

It is almost worth building that capability into the drive itself...

[reddragdiva]

ZFS builds it into the file system. It was so I could spot duplicates on my media bucket - multiple swathes of photos and so on.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I was really keen on ZFS for a while, but only ever installed it on one machine - which then developed a major disk fault.

[reddragdiva]

Clever software doesn't protect against that ;-)

It's sooooooooooooooper-nice in many ways. Of course, at work we tickled an obscure but crippling bug which we're about to put in a hotfix for and which *should* be fixed in the next Solaris 10 release ...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Presumably a bit of a nuisance for anyone researching hash collisions l-)

[ludy]

i've never understood what's so wierd/wrong in dancing about architecture - i dance about a lot of things :)