I'm not sure that the image is the only thing AI generated in this one.

I didn't catch a single novel detail about Perfectl to support the claim that it's one of the most advanced threats. I'm not saying it's not just that I didn't catch in this article why it is.

Maybe it's there among all the noise and I just missed it.

There's a lot of the usual stuff. Maybe the novelty is just having it all in one worm? Other worms effectively have the same impact since they usually phone home, anyway, and a human invokes each of those other tools, if able.

TL;DR: Worm targets Bitcoin, but isn't above using infected open source developer packages (citation missing though - would love to know which packages). Uses usual techniques for usual reasons.

Maybe the novelty is that a bunch of the usual manual steps are maybe being invoked automatically? It's not clear.

Edit: I also couldn't find a source for the claim of millions of infected servers. This one feels more like a consulting flier selling to inept CISOs, than Cybersecurity news.

I've been trying, but it's tough. Is there a book club or something where we can share tips?

(I'm kidding. Instead I've settled for making sure they experience the great movies, books and videogames.)

make me question who bankrolled this research group.

Yeah. This reads a lot like "well known harmful but profitable product not as harmful as previously understood". I've seen that headline a lot of times over the years, and rarely was it honest.

Is there somewhere where people have tried to have this civil discussion that I could look at where it stayed civil?

I find that place can be here, with some liberal blocking of asshats.

I was surprised how much thoughtless angry contrarianess was from the same accounts over and over, once I started blocking them.

Uh....I think the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee reads my aimless ramblings on Lemmy...

Or maybe I was right about something. Nah. I'm an entertaining bullshitter. It's probably the first explanation...

Lol. I missed that. That's hilarious.

The Ruby community has been, at times, frustrated by people thinking that Ruby is only possible to use for making websites, due to Rails past dominance as a web library.

And the technology most ubiquitous to creating a quick website is, of course, WordPress.

Yeah. And Vim and VSCode are one product, as well, if configured correctly.

And why is the Ubuntu logo even on here?!

It appears that the behavior actually included a git clean. Which is insane in my opinion.

Yeah. Building a convenient accessible context free way to run git clean...sure feels like the actions of someone who just wants to watch the world burn.

Yeah. That's discussed in more detail in the code change that resulted from the issue report.

It's a ballsy move by the VSCode team to not only include git clean but to keep it after numerous issue reports.

As others discussed in that thread, git clean has no business being offered in a graphical menu where a git novice may find it.

That said, I do think the expanded warning mesage they added addresses the issue by calling out that whatever git may think, the user is about to lose some files.

When I left the project they rehired them and let them design the v2 of the project we just fixed.

Lol. Wow.

And that is why I've been unable to work myself out of a job in all my long years as a developer.

Nice. Honestly, pretty well corralled, I would say.

Incidentally, I'm amused that one of the more popular responses includes the classic phrase

"Why can't we all just get along"

Which I tend to notice after having had it explained well to me once by someone with more empathy than my own.

I won't belabor it, but they pointed out to me that being tempted to say "Why can't we all just get along" is usually a sign that we haven't actually listened effectively.

So now when I hear or read "Why can't we all just get along", I see that [X] and hear the buzz from "Family Feud", and hear one of the Family Feud host kindly say "No points. Let's try again."

That's why I think it's important that we bring Christmas back to its true religious roots: Fertility, hunting, and maybe a cult of the dead.

Well, that and I just kind of want to piss off all of my pearl clutching relatives.

But seriously, thank you for the reminder that this can be a particularly hard season.

I hope your solstice is marked by good times with real friends and chosen family.