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.https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/microsoft_greenwashing_ai/

Pretty great HumbleBundle going on right now:https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-month-mega-bundle-2024-oreilly-books

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.https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-tells-customers-it-lost-log-data-key-security-products-2024-10Paywall free: https://archive.is/a3WcA

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.

@raucao @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl Mauritius position is that it's Mauritius, not a separate territory. Even if it is to be a separate territory within Mauritius, it's unlikely it would be called the (something) Indian Ocean Territory given that Mauritius is also in the Indian Ocean

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