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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://hackaday.com/2018/02/25/css-steals-your-web-data/

CSS being used to steal data. Why am I so unsurprised?

It still requires at least a partial compromise of the server beforehand. Not really an issue.

...you’ve partially compromised the server or maybe you wrote a malicious browser extension.

JaredBusch

@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://hackaday.com/2018/02/25/css-steals-your-web-data/

CSS being used to steal data. Why am I so unsurprised?

It still requires at least a partial compromise of the server beforehand. Not really an issue.

...you’ve partially compromised the server or maybe you wrote a malicious browser extension.

Also, totally not practical.

black3dynamite

https://medium.com/elementaryos/secure-by-default-disk-encryption-3592bf25e3ce

black3dynamite

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-5-0-officially-released-and-fog-client-0-11-15-officially-released/

NashBrydges

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/dropbox-saved-almost-75-million-two-years-building-tech-infrastructure/

black3dynamite

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/google-enable-linux-apps-chrome-os-recent-code-commits-suggest

black3dynamite

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-software-snap-channels

scottalanmiller

Nice

Kelly

@nashbrydges said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/dropbox-saved-almost-75-million-two-years-building-tech-infrastructure/

Queue "The Cloud is Dying" articles.

PenguinWrangler

@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Grafana with Zimbra
https://grafana.com/dashboards/2846

I wish I was smart enough to make cool dashboards.

I can’t make dashboards either

Design isn't my strong suit. I've been thinking about a decent dashboard to show the health of our infrastructure for our CIO (and maybe put it in the public somewhere?) but just can't really get the look right. May try and do Grafana for that but it's a very low priority.

I think people either have an eye for design or don't. I do not.

dbeato

SAML Vulnerability
https://duo.com/blog/duo-finds-saml-vulnerabilities-affecting-multiple-implementations

scottalanmiller

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nashbrydges said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/dropbox-saved-almost-75-million-two-years-building-tech-infrastructure/

Queue "The Cloud is Dying" articles.

Which is funny because people confused DropBox with cloud. Although in reality, we can pretty safely assume that DropBox remained cloud, just stopped using a hosted one.

Danp

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/google-starts-a-push-for-cross-platform-app-development-with-flutter-sdk/

travisdh1

Another web hosting company offering "lifetime" service. How long before they fail like Cloud at Cost?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/get-a-lifetime-of-web-hosting-for-just-dollar25

Looks like it's a deal being offered through thedailybeast site. I don't trust either.

https://shop.thedailybeast.com/sales/startup-web-hosting-lifetime-subscription-1-yr-domain?utm_source=thedailybeast.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=startup-web-hosting-lifetime-subscription-1-yr-domain&utm_term=scsf-274756&utm_content=a0x1a000003bFRa&scsonar=1

JaredBusch

@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Another web hosting company offering "lifetime" service. How long before they fail like Cloud at Cost?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/get-a-lifetime-of-web-hosting-for-just-dollar25

Looks like it's a deal being offered through thedailybeast site. I don't trust either.

https://shop.thedailybeast.com/sales/startup-web-hosting-lifetime-subscription-1-yr-domain?utm_source=thedailybeast.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=startup-web-hosting-lifetime-subscription-1-yr-domain&utm_term=scsf-274756&utm_content=a0x1a000003bFRa&scsonar=1

umm, webhosting is not what C@C did.

lifetime anything is a gimmick of course. but don't conflate your issues.

travisdh1

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Another web hosting company offering "lifetime" service. How long before they fail like Cloud at Cost?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/get-a-lifetime-of-web-hosting-for-just-dollar25

Looks like it's a deal being offered through thedailybeast site. I don't trust either.

https://shop.thedailybeast.com/sales/startup-web-hosting-lifetime-subscription-1-yr-domain?utm_source=thedailybeast.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=startup-web-hosting-lifetime-subscription-1-yr-domain&utm_term=scsf-274756&utm_content=a0x1a000003bFRa&scsonar=1

umm, webhosting is not what C@C did.

lifetime anything is a gimmick of course. but don't conflate your issues.

Yes, C@C did not do web hosting, it's anything that offers "lifetime" that gets associated with them.

scottalanmiller

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Another web hosting company offering "lifetime" service. How long before they fail like Cloud at Cost?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/get-a-lifetime-of-web-hosting-for-just-dollar25

Looks like it's a deal being offered through thedailybeast site. I don't trust either.

https://shop.thedailybeast.com/sales/startup-web-hosting-lifetime-subscription-1-yr-domain?utm_source=thedailybeast.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=startup-web-hosting-lifetime-subscription-1-yr-domain&utm_term=scsf-274756&utm_content=a0x1a000003bFRa&scsonar=1

umm, webhosting is not what C@C did.

lifetime anything is a gimmick of course. but don't conflate your issues.

Reading it, I'm not sure he meant to group them together. I think that he was just making a point about the lifetime joke thing.

Pertino anyone? Another unrelated, but "lifetime" product already looking like it is going away for the lifetime users.

nadnerB

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/netgear-to-refund-customers-over-dodgy-warranties-485962

black3dynamite

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/first-falkon-web-browser-released

black3dynamite

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/samsung-linux-on-galaxy-video-demo