Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller what am i going to do?... oh wait, never used it before
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I'm disgusted with the EU's decision to fine Google. The EU can do one, and it looks like our government (British) is going back on the Brexit vote by not giving us the leave that we wanted. A complete mess our country is in controlled by corrupt governments.....
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I'm disgusted with the EU's decision to fine Google. The EU can do one, and it looks like our government (British) is going back on the Brexit vote by not giving us the leave that we wanted. A complete mess our country is in controlled by corrupt governments.....
I agree with the fine.
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@obsolesce consumer will pay more if Google charges manufacturers a licence fee..devices will become more expensive, it's always passed down...
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce consumer will pay more if Google charges manufacturers a licence fee..devices will become more expensive, it's always passed down...
You're not wrong, but if there is a license fee, then there can be competing solutions. It is hard to compete with free when you don't have the resources of Alphabet behind you. Google is not good for consumers in the long run.
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This is old news, but still relevant today: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2011/09/02/accelerating-your-it-career/. Despite all the changes in technology the fundamentals of being a good IT pro have not changed.
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
This is old news, but still relevant today: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2011/09/02/accelerating-your-it-career/. Despite all the changes in technology the fundamentals of being a good IT pro have not changed.
And probably never will. Even the technical pieces haven't really changed in decades.
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v2 is now available
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Spiceworks appears to be down, at least their hosted helpdesk.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Spiceworks appears to be down, at least their hosted helpdesk.
SW is down like every week
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Spiceworks appears to be down, at least their hosted helpdesk.
SW is down like every week
Not so much the helpdesk, I don't think. We use it heavily and tend to notice.
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Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database With 340 Million Records
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database With 340 Million Records
https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/Once the fuckbags that let this shit happen get strung up and publicly tortured.... then these breaches will finally stop.
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@rojoloco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database With 340 Million Records
https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/Once the fuckbags that let this shit happen get strung up and publicly tortured.... then these breaches will finally stop.
Publicly flogged twice for each record leaked. Fined, $100,000 for each record leaked ($99,000 of which goes to the person whose records were leaked), and the entire C-Level team fired if this was discovered and not reported for more than 36 hours.
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database With 340 Million Records
https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/Public ElasticSearch database
fucking idiots.
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Interesting possibility for SMB network monitoring: https://www.ipswitch.com/about/news-and-events/ipswitch-news/first-ever-free-edition-of-whatsup-gold-released-by-ipswitch. 5 nodes isn't a ton, but if all you need is your edge and your core then this is good.
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If your marketing people start complaining about the number of hits their sites are getting falling through the floor, this might be the culprit: https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/google-chrome-not-secure.html. (Since the link is not helpful, here is the headline from the article: "From today, Google Chrome starts marking all non-HTTPS sites 'Not Secure'".
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If your marketing people start complaining about the number of hits their sites are getting falling through the floor, this might be the culprit: https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/google-chrome-not-secure.html. (Since the link is not helpful, here is the headline from the article: "From today, Google Chrome starts marking all non-HTTPS sites 'Not Secure'".
Who doesn't have a site running HTTPS now? Before Letsencrypt made it free, maybe, but no excuse now! Even my home lab box runs everything over secured connections now.
