In VLC I create a playlist myself, then save it as a file.

Then when playing that list the random function behaves as expected, by playing any random song after any other, including repeats and seeming omissions in no pattern whatsoever.

Disengage the random switch and it plays top-down.

Edit: This is in Windows, I haven't tried it in Android but have found the Android version to be less-capable in other ways.

I guess when you do the math that's Microsoft 364, and counting down :\

FAQ: Should I panic?

A: Yes. Panicking is the recommended response to any vulnerability with a website.

Bless their hearts, they didn't know any better.

No one could have forseen this. Internet connected devices being hacked is literally unprecedented.

I can only imagine, even small-time non-investors have been scratching their heads for a while now.

Yeah their debt is close to 70B and their major investors are microsoft and google who benefit from the cloud services anthropic relies on and pays these hyperscalers using the same money they invested. I know it is much more complex then that, but that is how the current state of the market is. And that has also rippled in other countries too

Just after I deployed a "currently patched" system yesterday and failed to uninstall Paint when I had the chance.

Normally have been 86-ing a number of annoying things such as OneDrive, but leaving Paint in place figuring it's got to still be harmless.

Creeping increases in attack vector when just the opposite is needed more than ever.

Some years ago, I ended up on a call with a support team guy, helping him under some parts of a system I worked on. He shared his screen, started drawing diagrams. It took me a whole 10 minutes to realise it was in paint, he was just that good at using it.

Turns out paint was the thing almost every customer had installed/had access to, so he worked to the lowest common denominator and got really good at using it. I guess now he'll need to find a new tool to astonish devs with.

If you're in support across multiple customers, especially in regulated industries, you learn to rely on the minimum common denominator, which usually means OS utils.

And at the end of the day $2 and $2000 screwdrivers are both still screwdrivers.

This is also why knowing the basics of "vi" is so useful on Linux/unix systems

...especially knowing how to save/exit without saving/quit, when it automatically opens up for some reason.

Before MS, there was a time where it wasn’t possible to get a virus by receiving an email. Users had to click on the attachment. Email itself is a text protocol after all.

Then they added automatic HTML parsing of incoming emails, and the attackers cheered.

Email may be text-based, but parsing MIME is a pain in the ass (speaking as somebody who wrote a console-based email client.)

You can go back to mutt's parsing, and CVE-1999-0940 for an old example. But I'm sure that's only one of many.

86-ing?

It comes from working in kitchens. It means to remove something from the menu, or otherwise make it unavailable.

Also seashells.

86 seashells? I don't even know what do with the three seashells.

Surely a SketchySeaBeast could come up with uses for at least three seashells

Traditionally tossing excess baggage overboard when the situation gets grim enough.

Like when a previously sturdy old sailing ship starts taking on water, for instance in the 18th century and beyond.

Numerical equivalent to "deep-six."

Dial-up modems were considered fully secure by comparison, when the remote appliance has its own private line.

After the 1900 hurricane the main part of the island of Galveston was raised 8 feet.

You mean they know more about engines than most people and often work for the most monopolistic big orgs that exist? Who would have guessed?

I guess search engines count for something if you shovel in enough coal ;)