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Re: Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup ...
This happened to me. I was wondering why my internet speeds were slow when I discovered that Microsoft was in the process of uploading my users directory, they had already uploaded almost two gigs when I realized. They also changed the path to these directories to something like C:\Users\name\OneDrive\Desktop\. Another poster in this thread claimed it's easy to reverse -- I disagree, it's a pain in the ass to track down the setting, and I shouldn't have to do this. When I did, it gave me an error for one of the directories and refuses to revert (documents?).
I don't like leaving negative or hyperbolic comments on HN, but this was enraging and unacceptable to me. It's hard to convey without coming off as unhinged. I only ever boot into Windows nowadays when I need to compile and test a Windows build of software. I understand Microsoft has built up good will through efforts like VS Code, but it's all undone because of things like this. I avoid MS products, they cannot be trusted.
suby, 1 hour ago
This happened to me. I was wondering why my internet speeds were slow when I discovered that Microsoft was in the process of uploading my users directory, they had already uploaded almost two gigs when I realized. They also changed the path to these directories to something like C:\Users\name\OneDrive\Desktop\. Another poster in this thread claimed it's easy to reverse -- I disagree, it's a pain in the ass to track down the setting, and I shouldn't have to do this. When I did, it gave me an error for one of the directories and refuses to revert (documents?).
I don't like leaving negative or hyperbolic comments on HN, but this was enraging and unacceptable to me. It's hard to convey without coming off as unhinged. I only ever boot into Windows nowadays when I need to compile and test a Windows build of software. I understand Microsoft has built up good will through efforts like VS Code, but it's all undone because of things like this. I avoid MS products, they cannot be trusted.
suby, 1 hour ago
Dolboeb-driven Development
https://www.wired.com/1999/02/a-free-pc-gimme/
>When Free-PC.com said it would give away computers to everyone willing to pony up personal data for advertisers, it expected 10,000 takers. It got 500,000.
Forwarded from Times of Ukraine: Новини | Україна
❗️Загинув 15-річний підліток, який за допомогою молотка та «болгарки» розбирав на подвірʼї «шахед», — «Думская».
Надзвичайна подія сталася на Одещині. Хлопець знайшов уламки ударного дрона в лісосмузі і приніс його додому. Він хотів розколупати бойову частину. Після чергового удару пролунав вибух і спалахнула пожежа. Травми виявились несумісні з життям.
Times of Ukraine
Надзвичайна подія сталася на Одещині. Хлопець знайшов уламки ударного дрона в лісосмузі і приніс його додому. Він хотів розколупати бойову частину. Після чергового удару пролунав вибух і спалахнула пожежа. Травми виявились несумісні з життям.
Times of Ukraine
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Ukr.net при регистрации почты угрожает заблокировать аккаунт за использование AdBlock)
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Dolboeb-driven Development
https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/
Спойлер: у чувака была возможность бесплатно менять имя пользователя аккаунта внутреннего WiFi самолета, и он написал поверх этого протокол типа TCP/IP и провел по нему инет с HTTP
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Re: Crowdstrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo...
Took down our entire emergency department as we were treating a heart attack. 911 down for our state too. Nowhere for people to be diverted to because the other nearby hospitals are down. Hard to imagine how many millions of not billions of dollars this one bad update caused.
jmcgough, 2 hours ago
Took down our entire emergency department as we were treating a heart attack. 911 down for our state too. Nowhere for people to be diverted to because the other nearby hospitals are down. Hard to imagine how many millions of not billions of dollars this one bad update caused.
jmcgough, 2 hours ago
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Re: Crowdstrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo...
The details (the particular companies / systems etc) of this global incident don't really matter.
When the entire society and economy are being digitized AND that digitisation is controlled and passes through a handful of choke points its an invitation to major disaster.
It is risk management 101, never put all your digital eggs in one (or even a few) baskets.
The love affair with oligopoly, cornered markets and power concentration (which creates abnormal returns for a select few) is priming the rest of us for major disasters.
As a rule of thumb there should be at least ten alternatives in any diversified set of critical infrastructure service providers, all of them instantly replaceable / forced to provide interoperability...
Some truths will hit you in the face again and again until you acknowledge the nature of reality.
openrisk, 1 hour ago
The details (the particular companies / systems etc) of this global incident don't really matter.
When the entire society and economy are being digitized AND that digitisation is controlled and passes through a handful of choke points its an invitation to major disaster.
It is risk management 101, never put all your digital eggs in one (or even a few) baskets.
The love affair with oligopoly, cornered markets and power concentration (which creates abnormal returns for a select few) is priming the rest of us for major disasters.
As a rule of thumb there should be at least ten alternatives in any diversified set of critical infrastructure service providers, all of them instantly replaceable / forced to provide interoperability...
Some truths will hit you in the face again and again until you acknowledge the nature of reality.
openrisk, 1 hour ago
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Re: Crowdstrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo...
So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it.
My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer starting up and then in the critical path of every network connection the computer makes. The risk of ZScaler being a central point of failure is not considered. But - the risk of failing the compliance checkbox it satisfies is paramount.
All over the place I'm seeing checkbox compliance being prioritised above actual real risks from how the compliance is implemented. Orgs are doing this because they are more scared of failing an audit than they are of the consequences failure of the underlying systems the audits are supposed to be protecting. So we need to hold regulatory bodies accountable as well - when they frame regulation such that organisations are cornered into this they get to be part of the culpability here too.
zmmmmm, 58 minutes ago
So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it.
My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer starting up and then in the critical path of every network connection the computer makes. The risk of ZScaler being a central point of failure is not considered. But - the risk of failing the compliance checkbox it satisfies is paramount.
All over the place I'm seeing checkbox compliance being prioritised above actual real risks from how the compliance is implemented. Orgs are doing this because they are more scared of failing an audit than they are of the consequences failure of the underlying systems the audits are supposed to be protecting. So we need to hold regulatory bodies accountable as well - when they frame regulation such that organisations are cornered into this they get to be part of the culpability here too.
zmmmmm, 58 minutes ago
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