Under no circumstances should you click on this: https://election.omg.lol/

A very canny strategy—buying shares to gain inside information and propose changes at shareholder meetings—has revealed that Microsoft's deals with fossil fuel extractors contradict their carbon-friendly claims.

Microsoft AI called ‘greenwash’ fuel for Big Oil

Activists press Redmond to come clean on ‘material reputational, legal, and operational risks’

(www.theregister.com)

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I am begging you all to stop asking "B-b-b how can this person get away with this? It's against the RULES!"

There is no rule more important than power and the people who want to be near it. We've had some hard lessons about how flimsy rules really are in the face of unconstrained wealth and ego.

The rule of law matters, but is not omnipotent and can be bent or broken by individuals who have been allowed to accrue too much power.

Hey Microsoft, I'm beginning to suspect that you are not so good at making egg baskets, and I'm pretty sure I don't want my eggs in there! Not sure how I missed this.

Affected products included Microsoft Entra, an identity-management service. Microsoft Sentinel, a security information and event-management product, was also impacted, along with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Purview, a data loss prevention product.

Microsoft tells customers it lost log data for key security products

Microsoft told customers that a software bug caused inconsistent collection of log data for key cloud services.

Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)

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@vwbusguy https://achewood.com/2007/02/05/title.html

@vwbusguy @alpinelinux My current favorite container thing right now is what I am calling "Caddystack," which uses Alpine as the base for a Caddy/PHP web server. It's so light and easy to configure.

With age comes wisdom

One of the strongest arguments for right-to-repair (that no one wants to make) is that as the supply chain collapses, maintaining all the technology in our possession becomes exponentially more important. Parts must be interchangeable, accessible, and open for this to really work at all.

@vwbusguy Wait does that make Luther's 95 Theses a zine?

@erincandescent @thisismissem @mwl On the other hand, if there's a way for Mauritius to be compensated for maintenance, there's a sense of justice about it.

For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.

Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

(every.to)

(H/t @mwl )

Lmao accidentally learned that Signal uses WhatsApp/2 as its User-Agent for URL preview fetching.

@douglevin I'm sorry both she and you had to go through that. You're absolutely right that the state of tech (Windows especially) is utterly inaccessible to many—especially the elderly. I've worked these incidents for a number of users, and it's not just the confusion, but the feeling of humiliation after being successfully targeted. We have to do better, both in design and support. It's shameful.

@DrRac27 @vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman Yeah so this is why I teach starting with Swarm for orchestration, then moving to Podman/k3s once the need arises.

I like Podman a lot, but your concerns are real. I'd also add that while yes, much of Swarm functionality is achievable to a degree with Podman and a reverse proxy, that is additional deployment complexity for a solution designed to reduce it.

@danderson This sent me down a bit of a "Can I abuse this?" rabbit hole. Short answer: not really, without recompiling the browser and using that for a target. For those curious, here's where that PING value is set in Chromium. Literally a static string!

Search and explore code

(source.chromium.org)

@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman And I wasn't alone. I distinctly remember the conversation amongst a lot of working Linux folks at the time being one of excitement and optimism.

@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman Node resonates because that is a lot of how I got started using it. But it wasn't just hype. There were real problems of deployability and reproducibility that it solved for Linux admins and developers targeting Linux servers.

I'll cop to missing Solaris on account of being still in school and not being a BSD expert, but when I was running school IT systems, Docker arrived and immediately solved longstanding complications.

@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman Fair enough. To what do you attribute the rise of Docker?

@vwbusguy @Viss @arichtman While the concept of containers is old, I think we can both agree that the "productization" of them is less so.

And as far as scale, I'm referring specifically to choosing a container orchestrator as the deployment target from day one.