Miscellaneous Tech News

coliver

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/suspicious-event-hijacks-amazon-traffic-for-2-hours-steals-cryptocurrency/#p3

black3dynamite

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/microsoft-appears-to-be-making-yet-another-windows-variant-windows-10-lean/

StuartJordan

Windows lean wtf? Probably be as useless as the ARM Edition

scottalanmiller

It could be okay, depends what they are stripping out. Windows is very bloated by default, so the idea is sound.

black3dynamite

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

It could be okay, depends what they are stripping out. Windows is very bloated by default, so the idea is sound.

They are removing things like the desktop wallpaper, Registry Editor and MMC management console and more.

Obsolesce

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

Typical

nadnerB

PC has dramas? Reinstall! None of this troubleshooting nonsense.

That being said, there isn’t a published target audience. Perhaps they really want the kiosk business...

DustinB3403

@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

PC has dramas? Reinstall! None of this troubleshooting nonsense.

That being said, there isn’t a published target audience. Perhaps they really want the kiosk business...

I actually just reset my gaming laptop, both the wireless interface and the Ethernet were getting piss poor performance.

Next step perform a clean install.

It's gonna suck having to reinstall everything tonight though. . .

Dashrender

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

eh?
To me it appears they are trying to make a new OS - one they've had since Windows 8, but has gained no traction at all.

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Seems like they are keeping the bloat, and removing useful things... wtf.

eh?
To me it appears they are trying to make a new OS - one they've had since Windows 8, but has gained no traction at all.

Nothing new or different, same OS just with fewer packages installed.

DustinB3403

Node.js released version 10. Version 8 is officially their LTS and required for XOCE community users.

Need people to test.

Worked for me, please confirm.

Obsolesce

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

dbeato

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Yeah, @coliver told us about it and I was dealing with something similar on some AWS servers yesterday.

scottalanmiller

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Holy cow, that's pretty huge.

dbeato

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/04/more-secure-sign-in-chrome.html

DustinB3403

In other news, Windows blows and essentially cripples great hardware.

Obsolesce

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Yeah, @coliver told us about it and I was dealing with something similar on some AWS servers yesterday.

ah, missed that

stacksofplates

Ubuntu 18.04 has been released:

https://www.ubuntu.com/download

scottalanmiller

@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubuntu 18.04 has been released:

https://www.ubuntu.com/download

I installed it yesterday