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Some knew in advance that Skynet was growing geometrically. The Cult of the Human Renaissance had spent years (and a lot of political capital) piggybacking Shuttle launches to build a lifeboat that could remain in orbit with a few hundred inhabitants before the inevitable end came for the billions below.
When the acute fallout had died back, the theory held, those left above could return to Earth as rulers of the ashes. There were problems with the theory, sure, but the Renaissance held true to its belief that the machines would simply admit defeat when met with their obvious betters.
August 1997 came and went, the world was enveloped in nuclear fire, and the Cult watched idly from their orbital vantage point. Thirty years up here, and they could emerge triumphant.
The months passed slowly in orbit, until the end of 1999. The station performed regular boosts to retain elevation, against the ever-so-slight drag of the wisps of atmosphere that were still present up here.
Until the Cult woke up on Jan 1, 2000, to find an error on the primary navigation display:
Component can't create object
Failed on creation from object context: CoCreateInstance (ProgId:
ADODB.Connection.2.0) (CLSID: {00000514-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4})See, all that lobbying to get space on launches, and the Cult's own human rocketry program, had meant they were strapped when it came to design and fit-out of the lifeboat itself. Mechanically it was sound and held pressure, but the navigation and station-keeping software was farmed out to third parties.
After three rounds of sub-sub-contracting, the work was done by a software engineer at a bank in South Korea. Or well, that was their day job; on the side, they reused much of the code for whatever jobs were going on Mechanical Turk.
And the day job was maintenance and new features for an ActiveX plugin for the bank, in Internet Explorer 4.01. The latest and greatest at the time of launch, but still not patched for the Y2K bug.
The millennium came, and station-keeping failed on the lifeboat. Unable to counter atmospheric drag, the Cult of the Human Renaissance came to a fiery end on August 29th 2000, three years to the day after the end of the world.
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Some knew in advance that Skynet was growing geometrically. The Cult of the Human Renaissance had spent years (and a lot of political capital) piggybacking Shuttle launches to build a lifeboat that could remain in orbit with a few hundred inhabitants before the inevitable end came for the billions below.
When the acute fallout had died back, the theory held, those left above could return to Earth as rulers of the ashes. There were problems with the theory, sure, but the Renaissance held true to its belief that the machines would simply admit defeat when met with their obvious betters.
August 1997 came and went, the world was enveloped in nuclear fire, and the Cult watched idly from their orbital vantage point. Thirty years up here, and they could emerge triumphant.
The months passed slowly in orbit, until the end of 1999. The station performed regular boosts to retain elevation, against the ever-so-slight drag of the wisps of atmosphere that were still present up here.
Until the Cult woke up on Jan 1, 2000, to find an error on the primary navigation display:
Component can't create object
Failed on creation from object context: CoCreateInstance (ProgId:
ADODB.Connection.2.0) (CLSID: {00000514-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4})See, all that lobbying to get space on launches, and the Cult's own human rocketry program, had meant they were strapped when it came to design and fit-out of the lifeboat itself. Mechanically it was sound and held pressure, but the navigation and station-keeping software was farmed out to third parties.
After three rounds of sub-sub-contracting, the work was done by a software engineer at a bank in South Korea. Or well, that was their day job; on the side, they reused much of the code for whatever jobs were going on Mechanical Turk.
And the day job was maintenance and new features for an ActiveX plugin for the bank, in Internet Explorer 4.01. The latest and greatest at the time of launch, but still not patched for the Y2K bug.
The millennium came, and station-keeping failed on the lifeboat. Unable to counter atmospheric drag, the Cult of the Human Renaissance came to a fiery end on August 29th 2000, three years to the day after the end of the world.
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Angriffe auf #Chrome, #Zimbra, #ThreatSonar und #ActiveX-Modul beobachtet | Security https://www.heise.de/news/Angriffe-auf-Chrome-Zimbra-ThreatSonar-und-ActiveX-Modul-beobachtet-11180463.html #Patchday #ChromeBrowser #GoogleChrome
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Angriffe auf #Chrome, #Zimbra, #ThreatSonar und #ActiveX-Modul beobachtet | Security https://www.heise.de/news/Angriffe-auf-Chrome-Zimbra-ThreatSonar-und-ActiveX-Modul-beobachtet-11180463.html #Patchday #ChromeBrowser #GoogleChrome
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Der neue #Cybersecurity Digest ist online! 📲
Die Themenexperten von HiSolutions haben in der Mai-Ausgabe News aus der Welt der Informationssicherheit für Sie zusammengetragen und bewertet:👉 Woher kommen eigentlich #Zero-Days?
👉 #Google M-Trends 2025 – Neues aus der #IR-Welt
👉 #ActiveX ist endlich weg – also fast
👉 #Windows Server kann jetzt #HotpatchingJetzt lesen + abonnieren ▶️ https://www.hisolutions.com/detail/digest-mai-2025
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#Development #Debates
The future of web development · Get on or get left behind https://ilo.im/163oqw_____
#WebTechnology #AI #Blockchain #CSSinJS #PWA #Flash #ActiveX #WebDev #Frontend #Backend -
#Development #Debates
The future of web development · Get on or get left behind https://ilo.im/163oqw_____
#WebTechnology #AI #Blockchain #CSSinJS #PWA #Flash #ActiveX #WebDev #Frontend #Backend -
Raggiungiamo le 88 miglia all'ora e... torniamo indietro al 1998! ⌚⌛
Nella live di questa sera, un esperimento di "vintage coding": installeremo #Visual #Basic 6 all'interno di una #Windows Sandbox! 🩴
C'è stato un tempo in cui andavano di moda cose come "controlli #ActiveX", Form con "bordi 3D", controllate da "P-Code"... 👽
Unisciti a me sul mio canale #Twitch e partecipa in diretta! 🤗
👉 https://twitch.tv/compilaquindivaSperiamo di non modificare il passato creando un futuro... troppo alternativo! 😅
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Microsoft 365 將預設關閉 ActiveX？！
在「ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365」這邊看到的消息，原文在微軟自家的站上：「ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365」。 官方公告預設關閉 ActiveX： Starting this month, the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Visio will have a new default configuration for ActiveX controls: Disable all controls without notification. 然後既有的 ActiveX…
#365 #activex #ie #microsoft #security
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Microsoft 365 將預設關閉 ActiveX？！
在「ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365」這邊看到的消息，原文在微軟自家的站上：「ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365」。 官方公告預設關閉 ActiveX： Starting this month, the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Visio will have a new default configuration for ActiveX controls: Disable all controls without notification. 然後既有的 ActiveX…
#365 #activex #ie #microsoft #security
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2025年4月よりActiveXが既定無効、Microsoft 365のWord、Excel、PowerPoint、Visioで／「ActiveXを有効にしろ」はすべて詐欺です
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ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK? – Source: go.theregister.com https://ciso2ciso.com/activex-blocked-by-default-in-microsoft-365-because-remote-code-execution-is-bad-ok-source-go-theregister-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #TheRegisterSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #TheRegister #ActiveX
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ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK? – Source: go.theregister.com https://ciso2ciso.com/activex-blocked-by-default-in-microsoft-365-because-remote-code-execution-is-bad-ok-source-go-theregister-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #TheRegisterSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #TheRegister #ActiveX
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ActiveX is disabled by default on Office now. Hey, I wrote some ActiveX apps back in the day. It was a security disaster then too.
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ActiveX is disabled by default on Office now. Hey, I wrote some ActiveX apps back in the day. It was a security disaster then too.
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Microsoft Office: ActiveX wird abgedreht | heise online
https://heise.de/-9865690 #MicrosoftOffice #ActiveX -
Microsoft Office: ActiveX wird abgedreht | heise online
https://heise.de/-9865690 #MicrosoftOffice #ActiveX -
Vous aviez des soucis pour afficher vos présentations et autres documents .docx .pptx sur LibreOffice ou autres suites bureautiques ?
Ne vous inquiétez pas, vous aurez aussi ces soucis dès 2025 avec Office 24 et Microsoft 365.
https://next.ink/brief_article/office-2024-desactivera-par-defaut-les-controles-activex/[Suggestion]
Peut-être que le mieux serait d'abandonner ces formats de fichiers...#Microsoft365 #Office2024 #LibreOffice #Docx #Pptx #Microsoft #ActiveX
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#Microsoft #Office 2024 to disable #ActiveX controls by default
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When Office 2024 launches in Oct, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio. ActiveX lets developers create interactive objects to embed in Office documents.
#microsoft #office #word #excel #activex
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-office-2024-to-disable-activex-controls-by-default/ -
When Office 2024 launches in Oct, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio. ActiveX lets developers create interactive objects to embed in Office documents.
#microsoft #office #word #excel #activex
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-office-2024-to-disable-activex-controls-by-default/ -
I still giggle when I look at the Ford Mustang Mach-E listings, especially those that have a digital Monroney sticker. The stickers list the seats as "ActiveX".
I mean, we've gone so far as most youths won't know about the hilarious and painful memories of what ActiveX meant back in the 90s and 2000s. ☠️
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I still giggle when I look at the Ford Mustang Mach-E listings, especially those that have a digital Monroney sticker. The stickers list the seats as "ActiveX".
I mean, we've gone so far as most youths won't know about the hilarious and painful memories of what ActiveX meant back in the 90s and 2000s. ☠️
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@cyberfeed I had to check twice.
The video was uploaded on YouTube 11. Feb 2024, and John Hammond talks about #ActiveX objects.I believed ActiveX is dead since nearly a decade. Is ActiveX still a thing in enterprises?
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@jesse @genehack @d #ActiveState knew no fear—they made a #Microsoft Active Scripting (formerly #ActiveX Scripting) engine called #PerlScript. You could use it in #Windows Scripting Host or embed #Perl in HTML <script> tags that #InternetExplorer would run if the machine had PerlScript installed.
I don’t know if their hosted ActiveState Platform will build it for you now, though.
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@jesse @genehack @d #ActiveState knew no fear—they made a #Microsoft Active Scripting (formerly #ActiveX Scripting) engine called #PerlScript. You could use it in #Windows Scripting Host or embed #Perl in HTML <script> tags that #InternetExplorer would run if the machine had PerlScript installed.
I don’t know if their hosted ActiveState Platform will build it for you now, though.
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you dont make stuff like that up...
apparently #microsoft holds the legal rights to #x; #activex #xbox
(besides; when have we given up completely on triviality right claims. x is a f*cking letter. a letter. the #phoenicians #greeks might own the fkin #copyright) anyway... normally you check with your legal department BEFORE you relabel your internat. brand. -
you dont make stuff like that up...
apparently #microsoft holds the legal rights to #x; #activex #xbox
(besides; when have we given up completely on triviality right claims. x is a f*cking letter. a letter. the #phoenicians #greeks might own the fkin #copyright) anyway... normally you check with your legal department BEFORE you relabel your internat. brand. -
#ActiveX, #Flash, #Silverlight are all dead b/c they were proprietary platforms that couldn't survive once some real competition from open standards and FOSS platforms happened.
People jumped on #JavaScript feet first, despite all its issues. Proprietary platforms on the web can't survive given a cross-platform environment.
The one sore thumb is #Perl. It lost a lot of popularity due to TIMTOWTDI complexity + the announced breakage in Perl 6. #Scala contributors should take notes.
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#ActiveX, #Flash, #Silverlight are all dead b/c they were proprietary platforms that couldn't survive once some real competition from open standards and FOSS platforms happened.
People jumped on #JavaScript feet first, despite all its issues. Proprietary platforms on the web can't survive given a cross-platform environment.
The one sore thumb is #Perl. It lost a lot of popularity due to TIMTOWTDI complexity + the announced breakage in Perl 6. #Scala contributors should take notes.
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@chrisdemarco "This vulnerability could lead to a browser sandbox escape."
When people said the 1990s are back in fashion, I didn't think they'd be bringing back #ActiveX exploits.
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@chrisdemarco "This vulnerability could lead to a browser sandbox escape."
When people said the 1990s are back in fashion, I didn't think they'd be bringing back #ActiveX exploits.
