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Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
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#102Owwwwww...... :D I've no idea whether MS either has a veeeeery clever plan about what they are doing, and I just don't get it, or whether that's just completely stupid in the current times when Windows' fanbase is somewhat declining anyways. On the other hand, people always have a hard time understanding the trouble they order when they let things centralize too much. When they are too okay with depending on e.g. Big…
Satya Nadella had built up so much Microsoft goodwill from 2014 - 2022. When they first purchased Github, it looked like Microsoft was opening up and was going good things. The first sign things were souring was when Microsoft dumped their gaming plans after just buying up all he major studios. First sign they only cared about Azure and AI. Now it's blatantly obvious they're giving up everything to chase enterprise A…
Yes, maybe. Although they explicitly promised the opposite some days ago, no?
And there was also that article some days ago that told the story about all the management stupidities at MS from the last years/decades. It was very interesting, and would suggest that this might be yet another very stupid move.
I would just disagree with one detail: With some basic understanding about how human beings work, and how the world works, MS never stopped to be a problematic company. Some were optimistic when they started to open some things up a little, some less so. Are they today more open than they were 20 years ago? Definitely! Was it ever a company that was healthy to depend on? Not a single day imho.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the definition of FUD.
Or a reasonable security posture. Unless there is a vulnerability in the current version, why scramble to update? And if the author: 1. claims they do not have access to the signing account 2. Recently said that they are not planning any important release in the next 60 days Then I would claim that rushing to update is plain reckless. But move fast and break things, I guess
You're talking about security to people that give root access to their LLM
Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#104> The list of affected projects includes, but is not limited to, Virtual Private Network (VPN) software WireGuard, on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) utility VeraCrypt, the MemTest86 Random Access Memory (RAM) testing and diagnosis tool, and the Windscribe VPN software.
This, on top of the recent mystery app updates pushed by Apple, has me concerned. So much of security relies on the assumption that, say, Apple, Google, or Microsoft can't be coerced into pushing an update that undermines the entire security model. The "Apple gets hit with a wrench attack" is more salient nowadays.
Hopefully this is nothing but I think it's worth being vigilant. But judging by Microsoft's response, it seems more likely to be an administrative error commensurate with the state of their company rather than something more nefarious.
Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
#105Owwwwww...... :D I've no idea whether MS either has a veeeeery clever plan about what they are doing, and I just don't get it, or whether that's just completely stupid in the current times when Windows' fanbase is somewhat declining anyways. On the other hand, people always have a hard time understanding the trouble they order when they let things centralize too much. When they are too okay with depending on e.g. Big…
I spent 20 minutes trying to log in to Teams on my phone today and I just couldn’t. After my username and password, it would redirect to Microsoft Authenticator, then ask me to create a passkey for some reason, show a loader, and then bug out and restart the flow in an infinite loop. I’m being told we are in the incredible age of fully automated AI programming and yet Microsoft can’t even get login to work.
We are in the age of fully automated AI programming, and that's the expected outcome. (.. is what I would say if this wasn't Microsoft's standard for the last 10 years)
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I spent 20 minutes trying to log in to Teams on my phone today and I just couldn’t. After my username and password, it would redirect to Microsoft Authenticator, then ask me to create a passkey for some reason, show a loader, and then bug out and restart the flow in an infinite loop. I’m being told we are in the incredible age of fully automated AI programming and yet Microsoft can’t even get login to work.
> fully automated AI programming they would like you to use copilot, so it all checks out, have you installed it on your phone yet? /s
Well, what's the sarcasm?
If someone already has MS Teams installed, and their Authenticator App, there is no compelling reason to not install Copilot. Unless the system permissions they ask differ substantially, let's say.
Either you trust MS or you better have nothing installed from them on your (personal) devices at all. No?
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#107FYI: on macOS you can’t even ship VPN software that uses the modern APIs outside of the app store for self-distribution. An ADP membership is required , full stop.
Horseshit. Wireguard, tunnelblick, aws vpn client all self distribute
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#108Discussed here yesterday: Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (575 points, 239 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690977
The real discussion prior to that with input from devs and the update from Microsoft that came after that techcrunch article came out:
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
What marketing/sales/HR types don’t seem to understand is that when everything is the highest priority, nothing is.
I saw someone had an idea to have a ticket system where the user chose the priority, and it displaced the current ticket at that priority, with the catch being that this ticket was sent back to the user with "are you sure?" CEO can't login during a demo. Sandra from accounting can't print from the closest printer and confirmed this is higher priority
Currently having this issue, two critical tickets.
Ticket A: Elevated Response times for Server A outside of allowed tolerance, people experiencing timeouts
Ticket B: Change the colour of a button
I wish Ticket B Submitter could see the ticket before them to gauge what critical actually means.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Neo changes things. Only $600.
It is 800 euros for 8 GB device, no thanks, especially in coutries where many dream of getting 1000 euros a month.
Its $600 in the states. $500 if you are a student. What is a cheaper but good enough alternative in your opinion?