Quick and dirty PHP script to work around http://bugs.mysql.com/73894
"Can't easily change DEFINER on existing views, stored routines, triggers, events"
SUMMARY
The author reaches 1,800 years back into history, looking at the oldest, handwritten editions of the letters of Paul. Actual photographs of the manuscripts are included in this article.
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According to sources, the conspiracy is widespread and essentially an unstated policy. The D.C. police union, which has been working to expose all this, says that multiple supervisors have been reclassifying crimes so that they don't show up in the reports. //
In other words, department leaders have been changing stabbings, shootings, and carjackings to lesser classifications like felony assault because then they will not show up in the daily crime statistics. Those crimes are also not required to be reported to the FBI, which is where most crime statistics are compiled nationwide. //
So the next time you see the press or a Democrat politician claim "crime is down in D.C." as a way to push back on the administration, know that they are citing discredited statistics that were birthed out of a scandal that's been unfolding for months. No one should believe anything the MPD puts out, and anyone who goes along with their numbers is being willfully dishonest.
Walter E. Williams -- “What is the noblest of human motivations? I would say greed.”
Casting lots is not what most people think it is. It is not rolling the dice. Casting lots were actually white, smooth stones put into a cup, but there was usually one stone that was black, thus the expression today of being “black balled.” When they cast lots, each person took a stone out after they were shaken up and the one who received the black one was the guilty party. If it was disputes that were being settled, the same process was involved and the guilty party got the black stone. For decisions about priestly duties or dividing up land they would frequently have a symbol or name for the tribe or priest that was mixed together with the others, and whichever lot came out at a particular time, a decision was based upon that. There was no chance for the lot being cast for the wrong person or the wrong tribe because God is sovereign even over the lots.
Truly, “The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is the Lord’s alone” (Prov 16:33), but the most important question is, “Have you trusted in Christ?” There is no other way to heaven than through Jesus Christ (John 6:44). The path to hell is broad and wide, but there is only one, narrow path to heaven (Acts 4:12). You have to make a decision because to make no decision is to choose to reject Jesus Christ, and that will not go well for you the moment after you die, and no one knows when that will be. We all have an appointment for our death (Heb 9:27). At that moment, it will be too late to do anything about your eternal state. Like the rich man in the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man, you cannot cross over, nor can you go back and warn your family or friends (Luke 16:19-31). The fact is you will be there for all eternity, and when 10 billion years have passed, you will not have knocked off one second of your eternal punishment. Your eternity is been permanently cast if you reject Christ. Choose today who you will follow. Tomorrow may be too late.
Maybe https://github.com/mdavids/ntptools/blob/main/go/monitor2.go
% ./monitor2 -server any.time.nl -stratum 2
Server: any.time.nl
Result: OK - test successfulAny exit code other than 0 indicates an error.
mengzhuo
2d
I’ve made a tracentp tool that can works for you
./tracentp -c 1 time.nist.gov
OK from time.nist.gov:seq=1 stratum=1 offset=10.87403ms distance=118.379889ms RTT=235.539075ms ref=.NIST.https://github.com/mengzhuo/tracentp/releases/tag/v1.0.1
Release tracentp 1.0.1 · mengzhuo/tracentp
Changelog a35e0f6 fix releaser
I have am having problems backing up my databases after an update. I have been poking around on my system trying to figure out why. One query I ran returned this result.
Got error: 1449: The user specified as a definer ('cittool'@'%') does not exist when using LOCK TABLESAfter some investigation it appears that the definer for these views is an old developer account that has been purged from the system. The databases and views with this problem are used very infrequently, and most being kept around for archival purposes.
There is about 40 views with a definer that no longer exists. Is there an easy way to change the definer to a different account on everything at once? Is there a way to get mysqldump to simply dump all the views out to a file so I could edit that file and recreate the views?
You can download ready-to-use binaries for [Linux x86_64](http://(https://github.com/basiliscos/syncspirit/releases/download/v0.4.1/syncspirit-fltk-v0.4.1-x86_64.AppImage) (AppImage), Windows (WindowsXP is supported) and Mac OS X (Apple silicon).
Notable changes:
- unified shared folders model, which allows to inspect on a local and remove devices
- possibility to import files from local storage
performance improvents, upto 5 times on a smaller files - fix compatibility with global discovery v3 protocol
- support folder_type folder setting (send only, receive only, send & receive)
- support pull_older folder setting (alphabetic, by size, by modification date)
- support disable_temp_indixes (hardcoded to 1 for atm)
- support ignore_permissions folder flag, permissions and no_permissions file flag
- support ignore_deletes folder flag
- support device auto-accept folder flag
- support device introducer and skip_introduction_removals markers
- support outgoing messages to be compressed using lz4
Syncspirit is a syncthing-compatible is written from the scratch software in C++ as classical desktop application.
Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm'
Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he'll experience a "political aneurysm" due to Microsoft's many security messes.
In the last few weeks alone, Microsoft disclosed two major security vulnerabilities – along with news that attackers exploited one involving SharePoint as a zero-day. The second flaw, while not yet under exploitation, involves Exchange server – a favorite of both Russian and Chinese spies for years. //
"This is the latest episode of a decades-long process of Microsoft not taking security seriously. Full stop," Cressey said, acknowledging that the government continues spending billions on Microsoft products. "Anytime there's a major announcement of a Microsoft procurement by the government, the happiest people in the world first are in Redmond and second in Beijing."
Microsoft declined to comment for this story, but did point out that Google Cloud is a client of Cressey's in his consulting work.
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"got sick of telling them what was wrong and not having them fix it"
I don't know the situation with these guys, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but that phrase is everything wrong with a lot of cybersecurity professionals in a nutshell...plenty of goons willing to run scans and test 'sploits then suggest insanely expensive mitigations..."Man, that £1m worth of data is exposed it needs to be protected. I recommend this firewall from Ironballs Labs in California, it's only £5m".
Person: building a sandcastle
Cybersecurity: It's shit mate, it's not going to work.
Person: looks confused, doesn't understand
Cybersecurity: Man, I keep telling you it's shit.
Person: sad because his sandcastle fell over
Cybersecurity: See I told you, I've been telling you for ages you need to make your sandcastles better.
Person: Hey man, my goal here was to just have fun and chill out on the beach, a cheap day out. What would you have done?
Cybersecurity: Well, I would have used those boulders over there to fashion a small blast furnace, scavenged for iron ore at the bottom of those cliff and collected all the drift wood over there as fuel.
Person: Man, that's not worth it, I just wanted to build a sandcastle.
Cybersecurity: Why doesn't anyone ever listen?
Usually if a cybersecurity person moans about not being listened to and having their advice ignored, it's an indicator that their proposals for mitigations are just insane.
Yes, security problems can kill your business...but so can overspending on mitigating vulnerabilities that have significantly lower ALE and ARO than the solution costs.
Cybersecurity isn't about "perfect hardened security", it's about balancing risk and cost. You wouldn't protect a £10 note with a £1m vault. Similarly, you wouldn't protect £1m with a £10 petty cash tin. You have to find the balance where the cost is reasonable vs the asset being protected and the risk is sufficiently low that the cost of attacking the asset prevents it being a worthwhile exercise.
Anyone can find a security issue and then suggest the latest and greatest cutting edge security software / hardware to protect the vulnerability...that's the easy part of cybersecurity. The hard part is finding solutions that are feasible and practical that don't result in costs that are higher than the assets are worth.
Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.
In a briefing at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Milenko Starcik and Andrzej Olchawa from German biz VisionSpace Technologies demonstrated how easy it is by exploiting software vulnerabilities in the software used in the satellites themselves, as well as the ground stations that control them.
"I used to work at the European Space Agency on ground station IT and got sick of telling them what was wrong and not having them fix it," Olchawa told The Register, "So I decided to go into business to do it myself." //
"We found actual vulnerabilities which allow you to crash the entire onboard software with an unauthenticated telephone," claimed Starcik.
"So basically, you send a packet to the spacecraft, and the entire software crashes and reboots, which then actually causes the spacecraft, if it's not properly configured, to reset all its keys. And then you have zero keys on the spacecraft that you can use from that stage on."
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump wants total peace to break out in the Middle East. He has now called on EVERY country in the region to join the Abraham Accords.
7:33 AM · Aug 7, 2025
So far, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan have endorsed the Abraham Accords. In the next phase of the diplomatic push, President Trump wants the leading Arab Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, to enter the framework agreement. “It’s my fervent hope, wish and even my dream that Saudi Arabia will soon be joining the Abraham Accords.” It will be a special day in the Middle East,” the president said during his visit to Saudi Arabia in mid-May. //
Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch @BabakTaghvaee1
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#Breaking: The #IRGC intelligence org. of #Iran's Islamic regime has arrested nearly all top #Iranian nuclear scientists who weren’t assassinated by #Mossad. They’re accused of being Israeli spies—simply because Mossad didn’t kill them. Roozbeh Moradi was one of them who was Show more
9:19 AM · Aug 7, 2025
It turns out, pushing unrealistic green energy schemes onto low- and middle-income people at the expense of a safer fuel source was not only bad science, it was dangerous propaganda.
It's going to be difficult to fix, they said, and would require a significant code rewrite or trying to use the TPM module to store the biometric data - which might not be possible. They recommended that, if you are using Hello for Business without ESS, then disable the biometrics and stick with logging in using a PIN. //
Using Sysinternal's CoreInfo tool and a webpage from 2011 (yes, apparently 14 years ago if the date is trustworthy), you can check if your computer meets the requirements.
Note: Do execute the correct bitness version of coreinfo.exe. Running the 32-bit version on a 64-bit OS fails to work.
The IOCCC, as it's familiarly known, is back after a four-year gap, giving the entrants more time to come up with some remarkably devious code.
This week, the results for the IOCCC 2024 were announced, with a record 23 winners. It's the first IOCCC in four years, but you shouldn't take that to imply it's as regular as the Olympics. In fact, almost nothing about the IOCCC is regular: this was the 28th edition of the event, and celebrated its 40th anniversary.
We confess that we have not yet studied the source of all the winners closely, but we have already got some personal favorites. Adrian Cable won the "Prize in murky waters" for this magnificent effort:
Dr Cable offered this 23 second Youtube clip by way of explanation. The chances are that you may already be familiar with it, but if not, it won't take you long. We also confidently predict that it will not help in any way.
Whatever you think the code does when run, you're wrong, but you're not going to believe what it actually does generate. Don't try to copy and paste it from the above, because as well as flagrant abuse of the C programming language, it also contains flagrant abuse of Unicode encoding. The IOCCC organizers have their own explanation, which will show you what this infernal masterpiece does in fact do.
In the late 5th/early 6th century BC, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote of battle:
Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
We need to build a force of fighters, and more, of warriors. This is a step in that direction. //
Laocoön of Troy
6 hours ago
Amen!
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
‘To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods,
[snip]
When the goodman mends his armour,
And trims his helmet’s plume;
When the goodwife’s shuttle merrily
Goes flashing through the loom;
With weeping and with laughter
Still is the story told,
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
anon-j4cj Laocoön of Troy
2 hours ago
When I was a lad of 14, after having read of the Horatius Brothers in Latin class, I was fortunate enough to see the famous painting (Jacques-Louis David, 1784) "Oath of the Horatii" in the Louvre in Paris, France. It was awesome; that and seeing the "Winged Victory" statue made incredible impressions on me. I prayed at the time that through Grace, I would find the "right stuff" within to be able to answer the bell when called. Boomer.
August 6th, 1955; As part of the Dash 80's demonstration program, Boeing invited representatives of the Aircraft Industries Association (AIA) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the Seattle's 1955 Seafare and Gold Cup Hydroplane Races held on Lake Washington
The Dash 80, Boeing's newest and biggest thing, was scheduled to perform a simple flyover. At the controls was Chief Boeing test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston, ex barnstormer, civilian flight instructor, U.S. Army Air Corps Ferry Command pilot, flight test engineer and winner of the Thompson Trophy at the 1946 National Air Races. (Alvin earned his nickname "Tex" because of his unique flight gear, consisting of cowboy boots and a Stetson hat)
Boeing Dash 80
Tex had other plans. As Boeing's pride and joy, approached low over Lake Washington, in front of 250,000 people, including several of the nation's top aviation executives, watched as the Dash 80 pulled nose up and gracefully entered a barrel roll, causing the crowd to drop into silence.
Security firm Malwarebytes on Friday said it recently discovered that porn sites have been seeding boobytrapped .svg files to select visitors. When one of these people clicks on the image, it causes browsers to surreptitiously register a like for Facebook posts promoting the site.
Unpacking the attack took work, because much of the JavaScript in the .svg images was heavily obscured using a custom version of “JSFuck,” a technique that uses only a handful of character types to encode JavaScript into a camouflaged wall of text.
Once decoded, the script causes the browser to download a chain of additional obfuscated JavaScript. The final payload, a known malicious script called Trojan.JS.Likejack, induces the browser to like a specified Facebook post as long as a user has their account open.
“This Trojan, also written in Javascript, silently clicks a ‘Like’ button for a Facebook page without the user’s knowledge or consent, in this case the adult posts we found above,” Malwarebytes researcher Pieter Arntz wrote. “The user will have to be logged in on Facebook for this to work, but we know many people keep Facebook open for easy access.”
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