Posts by Eye Know

Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks

Plot twist

Those emails are DKIM signed by a .gov domain.

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

Re: Yeah but most of that is trivial.

I agree, it's a simple task on a webserver. Other systems use certificates though, that's where the problem will exist.

To force you into "serverless" cloud services

The alternative is to run your own CA.

Re: Just use Caddy

TLS is used for more than just web.

Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent

Personaly

I'm moving my data away from MS and Google, given their ties to the criminal in chief. Not so much because of paranoia but because they are going along with the coup.

CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract

He added: “I love you. Get out – you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

I finally jumped ship

Recent events have steered me away from products of the oligarchy, I needed a new PC anyway. A nice little Ryzen7 Chinese NUC style box which was booted into the preinstalled Win11 once, just to make sure there were no hardware issues then Ubuntu was installed.

After a flurry of configuration, getting auto-scrolling in my browsers and some short search to replace some 3rd party utils I'm loving it, no nagging from the OS and far fewer reboots.

The new PC is far faster than I need, it will probably outlast Windows 11 and maybe even 12.

New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left

Re: Why?

OWA standing on Edge's shoulders in a trench coat.

It's cost cutting, they want one codebase for x64, Arm, MacOS and not forgetting web.

We suffer so they can play space-race with Apple on Arm.

Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec

Re: Interesting.

Are you thinking of fire-and-rehire?

Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode

Re: Lack of due care

It's to sell cars, there will be no improvement in safety because sending very heavy boxes on wheels through towns at 30mph will always kill people, especially children.

Re: My car requires my full and total attention

Spoiler alert, neither will any other driver after the first few minutes.

Every other form of transport is held to a higher standard

Why is it that cars and their drivers are exempted from the high standards we hold aeroplanes, trains, trams and even buses to?!

As for the case, the driver set out to use the car in a dangerous and illegal way. Much like speeding, this was premeditated.

Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe

If only it were so simple

We had a VM go down, Azure support were non-existent, a manager emailed after some time to say they had no one available to help, this went on for most of the day, I gave up at 7pm on Friday night.

In the end I found a fix. The VM would not start because the load balancer's IP address was marked as already in use by the downed VM itself.

After some screenshots of the load balancer I deleted it and recreated, and the VM finally started. Two minutes later I finally got a call from Azure support, so I compared notes and closed the case.