@scottalanmiller Having remote backups in another part of the world (geo-redundant backups) is a solid disaster recovery strategy. It helps protect against data loss from natural disasters, regional outages, or local ransomware attacks. But remote backups are only as secure as the passwords and encryption protecting them.

@Obsolesce Well that's unexpected. Pretty cool to see it making inroads. Microsoft screwed the pooch a bit lately, good time for Linux to get some momentum.

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/shocker-french-make-surprise-arrest-of-telegram-founder-at-paris-airport/

I saw that and just had to laugh, because these people and governments don't understand what encryption means and is meant to do.

It's made for hiding your criminal activities, YAY!!!!!

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Future:

@EddieJennings said in MeshCentral Future:

The one ask I have of MeshCentral is Wayland support. 🙂

Maybe, at some point, it's Wayland that needs to step it up.

1.24 is out now.

@free games a plugin that incorporates an OpenAI chatbot with AI. You can use it to generate messages, access information quickly, get precise answers to your questions, and even have your code built directly in ONLYOFFICE editors.

@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:

This also flags ChatGPT because it misunderstood the topic.

Like this?
Interactive AI incorrectly describes Japan's Shiga gov. as 'Rurouni Kenshin' manga creator

OTSU -- Shiga Gov. Taizo Mikazuki is a "manga artist" known for the popular work "Rurouni Kenshin" -- or at least that's the mistaken description one artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot would have users believe.

When a Shiga Prefectural Government employee asked ChatGPT about Taizo Mikazuki it apparently explained that he was a "Japanese manga artist." Microsoft's Bing AI, meanwhile, correctly gave his job title as governor of Shiga Prefecture but provided an incorrect job history. The interactions serve as a reminder that chatbots may be providing a mixture of false information to users.

@Pete-S said in 3CX Desktop VoIP Client Hit with Supply Chain Attack:

But if I understand correctly it was only there it had been compromised, not upstream.

That's what it seems like from all of the reports. Otherwise there should have been a HUGE report of an open source ecosystem hit. Closed source vendors would have been all over that.

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft script recreates shortcuts deleted by bad Defender ASR rule:

The question is, why are you trying to vilify the entire concept of code review and openness, especially when none of that was involved in the issue, let alone was the issue an... issue.

He must think it's not possible or less likely for closed source to contain bugs, bad code, or malicious actors, and that if it does they would catch and disclose it more openly and better? Unsure of the logic there.