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@Kelly @aaronstuder In my head this is something I would expect to see more in a server environment, where a Linux application could be deployed on a Windows server in a more traditional "Role" than the overhead of deploying a full VM for the service.

@scottalanmiller According to John Grubers piece on it they designed themselves into a corner

But they were forthcoming about the fact that the current Mac Pro isn’t meeting the needs of all the users who need a Mac Pro. Federighi:
"I think we designed ourselves into a bit of a thermal corner, if you will. We designed a system with the kind of GPUs that at the time we thought we needed, and that we thought we could well serve with a two GPU architecture. That that was the thermal limit we needed, or the thermal capacity we needed. But workloads didn’t materialize to fit that as broadly as we hoped.
Being able to put larger single GPUs required a different system architecture and more thermal capacity than that system was designed to accommodate. So it became fairly difficult to adjust. At the same time, so many of our customers were moving to iMac that we saw a path to address many, many more of those that were finding themselves limited by a Mac Pro through next generation iMac. And really put a lot of our energy behind that."

@dafyre I was wondering about what they were storing 2TB on to charge $25k alright

@Minion-Queen @DustinB3403 And even if mastodon.social is closed, they would encourage you to look to any of the other instances with open registration.

I'm currently @aidan_walsh@mastadon.social, though I have been thinking of creating my own single account instance.

EDIT: Forgot to link the instances list.

I was going to say its unlikely, but then I remembered that there are phones shipping with more RAM than my last laptop came with.

I bet you didn't know there is a UN Office for Outer Space Affairs. Specifically, the Outer Space Treaty (1966) says

*the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind;
*outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;
*outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means;
*States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;
*the Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes;
*astronauts shall be regarded as the envoys of mankind;
*States shall be responsible for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities;
*States shall be liable for damage caused by their space objects; and
*States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies.

For weekly news I used to listen to TechSnap and Risky Business, and the daily SANS Internet Storm Centre Stormcast for a quick overview of security issues of the day.

@brianlittlejohn said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Apple Admits to slowing down older iPhones.

http://fox6now.com/2017/12/21/apple-admits-it-slows-down-older-iphones-to-prevent-battery-issues/

Not the worst reasoning for doing it, but my word they screwed the pooch in communicating this one. They spent years denying that they did it at all.

Got Korora 25 XFCE running on an Acer Aspire E5-511. Want to do a refresh on it, but I'm going to wait until Korora 26 I think.

@dafyre said in NextCloud Android App Syncing:

What version of the app are you using?

I am running the Dev version from F-Droid and I have options to use that, but I have not tested them.

The standard version of F-Droid has the same, photo/video only auto-upload options.

@jimmy9008 Yesterday. The patches are being held until your AV drops a particular registry key though, as some were found to bluescreen.

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/ADV180002
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ie/help/4073119/windows-client-guidance-for-it-pros-to-protect-against-speculative-exe
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ie/help/4072699/important-information-regarding-the-windows-security-updates-released

@jimmy9008 said in Major Intel CPU vulnerability:

Does the update have a KB number and is it rolled out to supported devices via Windows Update?

I haven't seen them listed on any of the advisory pages, but this comes from the PatchManagement.org mailing list.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056893 (1507)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056888 (1511)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056890 (1607, Windows Server 2016)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056891 (1703)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056892 (1709)

Edit: From BleepingComputer
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056897 (Windows 7 SP 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056898 (Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2)

They'll be out on Windows Update, and are already downloadable from the Windows Update Catalog. Again, they will only show in Windows Update if the registry condition is correct.

Michael Schwarz: "Using Meltdown to steal passwords in real-time" https://twitter.com/misc0110/status/948706387491786752

@dashrender said in Outlook 2016 emails with attachements won't forward the attachment:

MS knows of the issue.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/68eb21a3-9a37-42b8-8539-f6afb9be5aef/kb4011626-update-for-outlook-2016-32bit-causes-pdf-attachments-to-be-stripped-out-of-forwarded?forum=ConfigMgrCompliance

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4011626/descriptionofthesecurityupdateforoutlook2016january9-2018

Improvements and fixes
This security update contains improvements and fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:

• Some attachments are not removed when you forward mails that contain inline images and you check the Read all mails as Plain Text check box.

Known issues in this security update

• After you install this security update, attachments are removed when you forward plain text emails.

LattePanda is a neat looking board. Supports Ubuntu 16.04 as well as Windows.

One Raspberry Pi 3 that I previously used as a low speed torrent box, but now have running a SANS DShield sensor.

@scottalanmiller Much appreciated.