@pete-s said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

EU Commision proposes USB-C as mandatory standard for chargers. In an effort to curb electronic waste:

"USB-C will become the standard port for all smartphones, tablets, cameras, headphones, portable speakers and handheld videogame consoles."
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_4613

Apple is furious at EU plan.
https://news.yahoo.com/apple-furious-eu-plan-standard-142010661.html

Apple user: Can I borrow your Lightning cable?
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I started with VMware many moons ago and as a result, cleaning up snapshots was pretty much mandatory or deal with "delta hell". Since it became habitual, it naturally translated to the cloud.

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@dustinb3403 said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

@jaredbusch said in Apple plans to scan your images for child porn:

And the pile on officially begins.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/09/csam-scan-encrypted-messages/

Now we know how bad it is if the UK is supporting it! The ultimate surveillance state.

China is way worse...

Sort of. It depends on what you measure. Camera, they are worse (per capita, for real.) But when it comes to far more intrusive data, they are less.

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Uh that completely ignores the fact they monitor all of their internet traffic. They don't need to file data requests when they already have it?

@dustinb3403 said in The Failure of Windows as a Service:

@scottalanmiller said in The Failure of Windows as a Service:

@stuartjordan said in The Failure of Windows as a Service:

Like I've said in the past, this is where it is going towards, first business then will be consumer:

https://global.techradar.com/en-ae/news/microsoft-launches-windows-365-a-new-way-to-experience-windows-10-and-windows-11

Yeah, except their main markets are like the US and Canada where Internet reliability is really low. It's like no one there has ever been on the Internet. Oh wait...

I'm sure this has been stated before, but don't conflate you're poor experiences with Internet Connectivity with everywhere across the US.

Granted many places have very crappy options but they still get places "online".

Don't conflate your good experience in one location with my sampling of thousands of sites across the US that we support and monitor all the time. The US has, and is well documented to be, some of the worst Internet in the developed world and certainly not on par with some of the undeveloped world.

Fingers crossed. The 4Chan crap there did them the favour of getting them a LOT of attention.

@jospoortvliet said in Nextcloud Hub 22 is here 🎂:

@scottalanmiller Awesoem. I must say, the earlier beta's were quite messy compared to earlier releases, but it stabilized around the last beta and the RC's were ok. Haven't seen any big breakage either with final, so it worked out!

We waited till later beta to deploy :)

@pete-s said in Kaseya customers ransomware attack:

@obsolesce said in Kaseya customers ransomware attack:

Ransomware is a legacy tech concern, not a modern one.

What do you mean by modern? Are you talking about running kubernetes in the cloud or something else that would not be subject to ransomware?

I'm not talking about any specific product, e.g. K8s... Even with that, you could still implement poor data storage using legacy practices and technologies.

Think about it.

What important company data is being ransomware'd.... where is this data? How is the data presented? How did ransomware effect it? What technologies were used to provide and/or host the data?

@nadnerb said in Another Microsoft Breach, 92% of LinkedIn Users Compromised:

How did the 8% avoid being compromised?

I was wondering that.

@carnival-boy said in Ransomware Isn't the Problem, IT Departments Are:

I think just blaming IT departments is harsh. I know from back when I was running IT departments that there is constant pushback from users whenever security was tightened or new policies rolled out and it is critical to make clear that security is something being pushed from the very top and not from IT. In many companies, senior executives will actively undermine IT when it comes to security - that shouldn't happen.

This is completely true. However, I am also very critical of not allowing senior management to undermine IT by making IT decisions and then claiming to not be IT. Those "senior managers" without IT, are actually the IT managers in that situation. That they try to skirt blame by claiming other titles is irrelevant. IT is who does it.

It's like plumbing. If you hire a trained electrician and then he does your plumbing, he's a plumber. He might not be a trained plumber, he might not be a good plumber, but he's a plumber.

@scottalanmiller said in Mass Shooting, 13 Injured on Austin 6th St:

https://abc13.com/mass-shooting-austin-6th-street-texas-gun-violence/10779665/

Reporting right across from Touche ;(

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@hobbit666 said in VMWare vulnerabiliy being actively exploited:

1st on my Monday job list

We patched our stuff last week.

If it's anonymous, then why do we need to sign up or login with LinkedIn?
Buying reviews also leaves bad taste in my mouth. It's really no different than Chinese sellers on Amazon.

@black3dynamite said in Nextcloud desktop client 3.2 with status feature and Virtual Files available now:

Not on by default for Mac and Linux users

@jospoortvliet - posted at the bottom of their blog.

For people looking to test and play with this on Linux and Mac OS X:
You can set the configuration option in nextcloud.cfg: enableExperimentalOptions=true
Then you will be able to also see the virtual files.

@andrewwheaton said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:

@scottalanmiller said in MS Windows 7 SP1 Full Screen Alert:

Just got an R7 for the kids last week.

And how is it?

Still running great, it's so fast we still feel like it is new, even though it is a year and a half old and gets used constantly.