Miscellaneous Tech News
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
"but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.
I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)
Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...
Right, don't get distracted by something completely different. That's viable and real, but in no way whatsoever what's happened here which is standard "profits through pure investment" strategy. No competitor was ever involved here, and there was never a "shutting down", let alone a shutting down to stifle competition.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
"but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.
I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)
Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...
Right, don't get distracted by something completely different. That's viable and real, but in no way whatsoever what's happened here which is standard "profits through pure investment" strategy. No competitor was ever involved here, and there was never a "shutting down", let alone a shutting down to stifle competition.
yes I completely understand that.
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
Seems unlikely to think he's make it public again. If you can operate a company, a private one is vastly more profitable. Everything he's proposing is to crush its value while getting things he personally wants.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
Seems unlikely to think he's make it public again. If you can operate a company, a private one is vastly more profitable. Everything he's proposing is to crush its value while getting things he personally wants.
Intrigued... Which parts of his proposal do you believe will crush its value?
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@pmoncho said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
Seems unlikely to think he's make it public again. If you can operate a company, a private one is vastly more profitable. Everything he's proposing is to crush its value while getting things he personally wants.
Intrigued... Which parts of his proposal do you believe will crush its value?
Anything that fundamentally changes the value proposition of the platform. Really key things include pushing to a pay based model (most of us are on the edge of not using the platform at all, who the heck would PAY for Twitter?), increasing the spam and garbage posts by removing moderation that barely keeps the platform usable as it is, and removing the "quotability" of having Tweets be immutable so that they can be used as a quote platform.
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American Dental Association hit by new Black Basta ransomware
Probably forget to secure their bluetooth
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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
American Dental Association hit by new Black Basta ransomware
Probably forget to secure their bluetooth
They were... bracing for this.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
American Dental Association hit by new Black Basta ransomware
Probably forget to secure their bluetooth
They were... bracing for this.
They really need to get things straightened out.
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I think there's a flossing joke in there somewhere, but I just can't extract it.
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@Danp braces
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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I think there's a flossing joke in there somewhere, but I just can't extract it.
You should really quit stringing this along.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox VE 7.2
https://www.proxmox.com/en/training/video-tutorials/item/what-s-new-in-proxmox-ve-7-2Nice. Time to run the updates.
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Fedora 36 has relelased.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/active-directory-defaults-lead-to-no-fix-privesc-vulnerability-579808
A security researcher has published a tool that can take advantage of an unfixable security issue that lets attackers escalate their privileges in Windows domains to those of the SYSTEM superuser.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/active-directory-defaults-lead-to-no-fix-privesc-vulnerability-579808
A security researcher has published a tool that can take advantage of an unfixable security issue that lets attackers escalate their privileges in Windows domains to those of the SYSTEM superuser.
^That appears to be a little sensationalist.^
From the (article) linked GitHub repo:
This is essentially a universal no-fix local privilege escalation in windows domain environments where LDAP signing is not enforced (the default settings).
(Bold added by me)It can be defended against, just not with default settings.
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Mars probe running Windows 98 receives software update after two decades
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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mars probe running Windows 98 receives software update after two decades
Why the heck does the Mars probe have a GUI?
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DId they actually expected Martians to exist, find it, and plug in a monitor?
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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mars probe running Windows 98 receives software update after two decades
So it's important to note that the news is a bit misleading in how they present this. YES, the probe supposedly runs Windows 98. But that's irrelevant to the news article. It was NOT Windows 98 getting patched even thought the article talks about patching. It was a software update for the space agency's own software that runs ON Windows 98, that's all. Their OWN developers haven't released an update in that long.
