Miscellaneous Tech News
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Summary: Teenager "hacks" replica voting database using trivially defeated attacks.
<opinion>That isn't to say that voting systems are all properly secured. I'm frustrated that DefCon would create an obviously insecure scenario in order to make a point. Contriving an insecure system to make a point does more to harm the process of securing something than it does to help.</opinion>
Agreed, it suggests that DefCon knew that hacking the real thing was too hard, so this actually implies to people hearing about it that voting machines are so secure that they can't be hacked at DefCon.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/08/interesting-facts-about-linux
That was a great read!
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Who in their right mind would work for a company like this?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-22/nobody-trusts-facebook-twitter-is-a-hot-mess-what-is-snap-s-evan-spiegel-doing -
@momurda if the paycheck is big enough you can afford a life raft. . .
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Sorry but $ is about the easiest thing to obtain in America.
Going to a place like that and needing to deal with the level of incompetence and pettiness certainly not worth it.
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@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Who in their right mind would work for a company like this?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-22/nobody-trusts-facebook-twitter-is-a-hot-mess-what-is-snap-s-evan-spiegel-doingWow, that's a weird company. No wonder their stuff is such garbage. That's not how you design software.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/08/ubuntu-18-10-use-nautilus-3-26
Ubuntu is getting more and more addicted to "falling behind."
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/08/ubuntu-18-10-use-nautilus-3-26
Ubuntu is getting more and more addicted to "falling behind."
Which is why I don't tend to use their desktop version anymore. They could help out the Red Hat dev who is working on the desktop extensions instead of holding back features.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/08/ubuntu-18-10-use-nautilus-3-26
Ubuntu is getting more and more addicted to "falling behind."
Which is why I don't tend to use their desktop version anymore. They could help out the Red Hat dev who is working on the desktop extensions instead of holding back features.
I agree, Ubuntu seems to always be at odds with the rest of industry development.
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Saw a new firmware announcement for UFiber 3.0 today. I doubt a whole lot of people are using them, but the features included in this release look to be great things for any network using them.
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If you're running a hybrid Exchange/Office 365 system you need to make sure that you're ready for when Microsoft drops support for versions of TLS older than 1.2: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2018/01/26/exchange-server-tls-guidance-part-1-getting-ready-for-tls-1-2/.
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Microsoft adds support for Google Gmail IDs to Azure Active Directory:
Surprise - Microsoft is enabling Gmail users to collaborate with others using Azure Active Directory B2B without requiring them to have a Microsoft account.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-support-for-google-gmail-ids-to-azure-active-directory/ -
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Some bad reporting here...
Author tries to make it sound like Windows 95 was SO important, that it bridged the gap between DOS and NT, between 16 bit and 32bit. However, Windows 95 was not an OS, it was a GUI on top of 16 bit DOS. And NT predated it by a year, already being fully 32bit, and based on OS/2 which was five years older still. Windows 95 was indeed important, but mostly for shocases a GUI that died off around 2010. Windows 95 gave us the Start button. That was its big thing, not technical advancements.
