NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 2 weeks ago:
Certainly, but it doesn’t exist yet, and Microsoft has been developing their system for more than two decades. There is a lot of catching up to do to get to feature parity.
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 2 weeks ago:
Maybe… almost universally, open source software requires more initial configuration work and more long-term oversight to keep operational, so if you’re making a statement like this you have account for additional labor costs. Proprietary software is usually sold as an out-of-the-box solution (it usually isn’t, but it’s usually a lot closer than open source equivalents).
The entry cost for an open source solution might be lower (no licensing fees) but the long-term cost might actually be higher, especially when you start trying to make various pieces of software work together. One of the areas where Microsoft does really well is system administration tools. Active Directory is a full suite of tools that all work together through a unified interface. To replicate AD you would have to patch many different open source projects together, some of which would overlap in functionality and some of which wouldn’t quite meet in the middle. As your environment increases in complexity and your sysadmin needs expand, these interoperation problems grow exponentially, which means more labor time and more expertise requirements, less stability and more security holes between the patched-together solutions.
Don’t get me wrong, I love open source software, but so far there are no good open source sysadmin solutions that scale well for organizations with thousands of users.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, like the article I linked says:
It has now been nearly eight years since the “experimental” tag was removed, but many of btrfs’ age-old problems remain unaddressed and effectively unchanged. So, we’ll repeat this once more: as a single-disk filesystem, btrfs has been stable and for the most part performant for years. But the deeper you get into the new features btrfs offers, the shakier the ground you walk on—that’s what we’re focusing on today.
So if you’re just using it for your PC hard drive you’re probably fine. The problem is that BTRFS is intended to provide similar features to RAID and ZFS, but that’s where it starts failing.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 3 weeks ago:
free and open source operating system that never has issues like this
ever use BTRFS?
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 3 weeks ago:
yikes
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 5 weeks ago:
So check this out:
Lazard - Levelized Cost of Energy
This is an industry study that gets published every year by Lazard, for the past 18 years. It is focused on the US market. They put in a lot of effort to assess the whole cost of various forms of energy generation, including government subsidies.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but you don’t need an LLM for that. That’s like using a bazooka to kill a housefly.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 5 weeks ago:
There was trust?
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 5 weeks ago:
Great, a ridiculously expensive lorum ipsum generator.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 1 month ago:
If you are using ublock Origin you can just select the section of the page that shows the shorts and block it with the element picker.
- Comment on Romero Games have "completely" closed doors, but there's still hope for the Doom creator's new FPS 1 month ago:
- Comment on Neuralink competitor Paradromics completes first human implant 2 months ago:
- Comment on Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball 3 months ago:
AI is a surveillance technology.
- Comment on SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content 3 months ago:
Best update all your files with some trash first and let it sit for a couple months to hopefully overwrite any backups, there’s no guarantee that “deleting” it from your account will actually remove it from their servers.
- Comment on When technology is the problem, not the solution 3 months ago:
It’s your problem. It’s somebody else’s solution.
It’s not final yet.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 3 months ago:
How could this possibly be GDPR compliant?
- Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 4 months ago:
Yeah I put a screen protector on mine right away. It’s a portable device.
The combination of the etched screen and an etched screen protector definitely hurts the sharpness - I would’ve been better off with the standard glossy screen.
- Comment on Is upgrading the ssd easy enough that it is worth the cost savings? 4 months ago:
Have you installed a Linux operating system before?
The hardware swap is not difficult, but you do have to reinstall the OS on the new drive, so if you’re not already familiar with that process it may be a hurdle. The good news is there shouldn’t be any important data on it, so if you do have a problem you can just wipe it and start over.
I bought the original largest model, and in less than 6 months decided I wanted more than the 512GB. I wish I had saved the $200 and bought the cheapest model. There’s no other appreciable difference.
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 4 months ago:
Personally I just splice all my cables into MIL-DTL-26482 connectirs, that way I know they’re solid!
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 4 months ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 4 months ago:
AI is surveillance tool.
- Comment on Recommendations for games for 6 year old 5 months ago:
Aer
Rime
Stonefall
Shovel Knight
Journey
Spider Heck
Overcooked (1 & 2)
Snakeybus
Osmos
Sonic Mania
World of Goo
Duck Tales Remastered
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
- Comment on Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy. 6 months ago:
For-profit corporation makes profit-motivated decisions. Film at eleven.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 6 months ago:
You will own nothing and
like ithave no recourse. - Comment on Large Language Models Think Too Fast To Explore Effectively. 7 months ago:
Finally, we conduct an intervention to examine whether ablating the most correlated neuron causally reduces the corresponding exploration strategy employed by the LLM in the task.
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- Comment on AI-Generated Fake War Images Passed Off as Real 8 months ago:
We are on the verge of being completely snowed under by generated trash.
- Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC 11 months ago:
- Comment on Huawei’s $2,800 trifold phone is a real thing it wants people to hold and use 11 months ago:
butytho
- Comment on Roblox will start sharing more revenue with creators 11 months ago:
They’re still exploiting child labor for profit. Sharing a little more profit with the exploiters doesn’t change the child labor aspect.
- Comment on MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites, claims it took down “mothership” 1 year ago:
What if I have a sword?
