Posts by exovert

One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant

what are they using for checking these log files, is it purview? if it was only reported in july, the log queries would still be queued

Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it

Re: While I love my thinkpad, I really can't use the nub

If I'm at a desk/docked, I'll use a mouse; I'm happy to primarily use a touchpad in the course of using a laptop otherwise, even relatively mediocre ones that were used on laptops 12 yr ago but if I want to land on a specific pixel, the trackpoint is for me the best way. That comes up often enough I like it to be there, grabbing window edges under nested remoteception for one, running 1440p in 1:1 scale doing anything at all, for another.

It's also great to have a single keyboard/mouse unit, for not-a-crash-cart use. lenovo please sell me another.

https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/accessories/acc500164-thinkpad-trackpoint-keyboard-ii-overview-and-service-parts

Intel to throw networking biz over the side of its rapidly shrinking ship

Microsoft seem able to reinvent themselves as something always even worse, so most likely not. Fabs however can't be summoned by a press release, they take money, effort, real expertise and a half decade to build, all things capital markets don't like and they decide, if not who the CEO is then at least, who it 'was'.

How good an investment was that $108bn spent on buybacks rather than expensive and troublesome technological development now. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bypn9cdrc .

Maybe 'intel' the ship of theseus entity deserves their situation for that. No matter how much many of its individual planks may not. I think we'll all hate it worse then they're bought out. And especially by whom.

Maybe this is a necessary step, but all the parts seem to be assembling into a jigsaw of desperation. I wonder at what point DEC realised they were in a death spiral, and if this looks like that.

Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development

I feel as though GNOME (3) & Wayland are as one developed from the "we're doing what we want to do" mindset, as though the entire basis of open source were not collaboration, at least with other developers. There are some worthwhile goals they want to achieve, and you can't get some of them except by pushing even when it's hard. But there are grey areas, as well as the total blackness of blind spots.

I did think the thought at some point, that 'what do I care if all x applications can read keypresses, they call come from the repos'. But maybe I do want the web browser not to be able to read what I'm typing into RDP sessions. Is that enough of a benefit to wipe out the *bsd's from the application ecosystem. maybe it won't, but it doesn't work yet.

Which incidentally even on xfreerdp directly, I still can't get to behave with multiple monitors. I have to keep bouncing into X11 for that. To work. Is that important enough? Guess not, fine on their laptop probably. (X11 forwarding not unuseful to get a window, out of WSL either)

Unfortunately the highly shall I say, disassociated politics of the driving agent for this fork (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1l9s7rg/comment/mxfigv7/ , not interested enough to find a direct source) make me feel more tantrum than movement.

Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds

astonishing; not so sure

to the chair warming class, nothing as insidious as something 5c cheaper and 50% more awful

The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity

The moment the likes of Prusa or Bambu notice they only need to make one 2d layer on a 3d printer I assume HP is a penny stock. All this time wasted making the next best thing to replicators

IT chiefs of UK's massive health service urge vendors to make public security pledge

Re: Easy to solve:

> they'll just refuse to sell to you

oh no

In the words of Adama, there are computers all over the ship, but they're not networked. I hope part two of this series goes better for the participants. But also just like it, it's as much the vendors that are actually providing the malware.

I don't market a simple solution, just stopping pretending it needs to be this way.

Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

Re: Fortunately...

I don't even know what to call it. Addiction seems like it doesn't meet the mark. Throw out your <= Gen 8 core computers, hand over all your email & communications and why not just the rest of your wallet while you're at it. But the Chief execs still want their surfaces & whatever their consultant mates are selling, that they understand and have control over even less.

I've worked inside a charity, currently support a number from outside. I've never been less happy about the idea of giving money to charities (don't worry, I pay for all those podcasts people listen to and skip ads on).

If it only took being fully justified to be correct. Should you learn the secret to making this translate into sense please share it.

Re: It's a pain - but there is a better solution

There is a discrete nonprofit intune plan 1. Whether that's also up for culling I'd be less than fully certain, though I didn't see it listed in any of the several upset charities I've seen forwarded emails from this week. It's still extra.

Large orgs can afford a large licence bill. Is I expect not recorded in an e-discoverable email somewhere.

UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land

France - & Belgium et al

https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

17.3% at time of writing

Vodafone and Three permitted to tie the knot – if they promise to behave

How then could they hold a spectrum auction every few years and force telcos (&downstream customers) to pay for it

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

The predecessor (Swan) had a tough ride, not being his fault they had to reheat Sky-lake,lake lake lake lake, and similarly, though alder lake isn't attributable to Gelsinger it seemed they had the auspices of being on the right track. They have competitive core products (but have to use TSMC to get them). These are big changes to the model that I think I'd argue made intel's past success.

I have to wonder if anyone other than someone like Gelsinger could have pushed them to that - or if we're now back to pumping stock with buybacks, than expensive fabs & development like 10yr ago when they seemingly spent the investment on there instead, and they'd otherwise be inheriting now.

not a good sign for intel.

but at least they get a $8bn performance bonus from Sam (yeah i'm sure they're 'not allowed' to buy their own stock, or sell for magic beans, like anyone will be around to answer for that). I await to see if they now double down on financial rather than product engineering. I don't know that i'm hopeful, the only reason I can think of to kick Gelsinger is they didn't want to stay that course.

Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts plot

Re: OK, then let's focus on really strict security

Why so much as 5 minutes, why not every connection. And a public key in a DNS record. I guess it couldn't be because the charlatan CA's (i.e. functionally all of them, in case it needed clarification) couldn't middle man rent money in this approach. It is a detriment to everyone, that it just happens this mess was the mechanism available when (Snowden) suddenly it became fashionable to have a lock in an address bar (but not effect any actual security, on any non-updated CMS on the website, of course).

I'll admit I don't require attention to the whole set of problems SSL was purported to solve. But to paraphrase, at least I'm not paid to not understand a decentralised solution could facilitate encryption between two endpoints.

This unread post continues after I click through the self signed cert warnings with, fire and damnation, for any non-public facing service.

At least these days even the non-LE ones are automatic in the sense I log tickets for someone else to swap. just in time.

Epic lawsuit's latest claims: Google slipped tons of cash to game devs, Android makers to cement Play store dominance

Re: Epic bluster

It's still possible to wish for a conflagration that costs all three, and of those three, epic are the only one I don't have to care about.

After all, if they here are the minnow it's only because of the sheer obscenity in wealth and control the other two have been given, and i suspect it's the public trawling of their businesses they'll be most rueful over long term, after they inevitably settle for a clean cash backroom handout.

Microsoft drops 64-bit OneDrive into the pool: Windows on ARM fans need not apply. As usual

How long before the supported path lengths are at least a full 9 bits?

Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy

Re: My Cherry MX Board 1.0 still looks better

With the same conditions of UK layout, I also failed over some time to source a Sun Type 7 - I found instead a Type 5 to USB adapter - https://drakware.com/product/Sun2USB (this was available for shipping + exorbitant customs charge, via popular e-junk retailer).

I have already had the Type 5 (which works wonderfully). I rather suspect more Type 5 than 7 keyboards to have existed.

Though I've never used a Type 7, I suspect it to be more like the Type 6.

US government sues ex-IT guy for breaking his NDA (Yes, we mean Edward Snowden)

Re: I'll have to wait

I'd like to think there'd be a more reliable means than downloading it and posting cash.