Amber (KittyGPT6.9)<p>do you think Microsoft understands what consent is?</p>
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Dr. David McBride (dwm)@dwm@mastodon.social
I'm not that kind of doctor. IT specialist and occasional patient magnet. Optimised for hugs.
Currently hostmaster@durham.ac.uk; previously answered to root@doc.ic.ac.uk, unix-support@csx.cam.ac.uk, postmaster@cam.ac.uk, oxcert@infosec.ox.ac.uk, and root@stats.ox.ac.uk.
"Saving the world, one person at a time."
Kevin Beaumont<p>Multiple Oracle cloud customers have reached out to me to say Oracle have now confirmed a breach of their services. </p><p>They are only doing so verbally, they will not write anything down, so they’re setting up meetings with large customers who query.</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>I can confirm there has definitely been a serious security incident at Oracle's managed cloud service, and they're attempting to wordsmith their way out of it. <a href="https://doublepulsar.com/oracle-attempt-to-hide-serious-cybersecurity-incident-from-customers-in-oracle-saas-service-9231c8daff4a" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doublepulsar.com/oracle-attemp</span><span class="invisible">t-to-hide-serious-cybersecurity-incident-from-customers-in-oracle-saas-service-9231c8daff4a</span></a></p>
Ninji<p>concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about software instead</p><p>"i'm at spunkchute, a SaaS company that owes $2 million to AWS and is on the brink of closure”</p><p>"oh my [bleep] god. the main database server is running Ubuntu 8.04 and has two backdoors and a coin miner. SHUT. IT. DOWN.”</p>
Will Dormann<p>Upcoming Windows 11 builds won't have the ability to to install without internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.<br><a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.windows.com/windows-insi</span><span class="invisible">der/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/</span></a></p>
Colin Watson<p>Watching holy Debian scripture</p>
Lesley Carhart :unverified:<p>Just a guess, but you’re probably suffering from some level of extreme burnout right now. Just a guess but if you have a shred of empathy, you’re probably adopting bad habits to deal with that burnout right now. Just a guess but there’s probably a mess somewhere you aren’t dealing with.</p>
canongatebooks<p>Photo shared by a colleague. </p><p>Seems risky, but I guess they’re the experts.</p>
flacs<p>welcome to 2025 where mainboards have 7 different kinds of USB ports</p>
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p>Dutch parliament sends motion to government, asking them to make sure the DNS (Domain Name Service) for the .nl TLD (Top Level Domain) is running on infrastructure that is physically located in the Netherlands. The planned outsourcing of (parts of) the infrastructure to AWS is to be reversed and the government shall inform the parliament of the outcome before the summer break. <a href="https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/114184175675997330" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/11418</span><span class="invisible">4175675997330</span></a></p>
garry<p>do not turn off the bus.</p>
Stuart :progress_pride:<p>I've created a hex cartogram showing the percentage of rail cancellations by UK Parliamentary constituency <a href="https://constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/transport/rail-cancellations/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">constituencies.open-innovation</span><span class="invisible">s.org/themes/transport/rail-cancellations/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKRail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKRail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/HexCartogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HexCartogram</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a></p>
aei :neofox_upside_down:
Tony Finch<p>2021 retro-link! <a href="https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invisible-icons-in-quadratic-time/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">randomascii.wordpress.com/2021</span><span class="invisible">/02/16/arranging-invisible-icons-in-quadratic-time/</span></a> - Arranging invisible icons in quadratic time.</p>
Dr. David McBride (dwm)<p>This is, however, only a temporary reprieve for a few more months.</p><p><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.chrome.com/docs/exte</span><span class="invisible">nsions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline</span></a></p>
Dr. David McBride (dwm)<p>Pissed off that Chrome has broken your ad blocker?</p><p>Linux instructions as root:</p><p>mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/recommended/ && echo '{ "ExtensionManifestV2Availability": 2 }' > /etc/opt/chrome/policies/recommended/allow-manifestv2.json</p><p>Verify it's working by navigating to chrome://policy (press 'reload' as necessary.)</p><p>You will likely need to manually re-enable any extensions that were disabled for you.</p><p>References:</p><p><a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9027408?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">support.google.com/chrome/a/an</span><span class="invisible">swer/9027408?hl=en</span></a><br /><a href="https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/?policy=ExtensionManifestV2Availability" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chromeenterprise.google/polici</span><span class="invisible">es/?policy=ExtensionManifestV2Availability</span></a></p>
BrianKrebs<p>Hope this is only temporary. WTAF?</p>
BrianKrebs<p>This is from the executive director of the 18F, the digital services agency within the General Services Administration (GSA) that develops open-source tools to improve digital services across the federal government. </p><p>"I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F’s longest running employee- I have been at 18F for 10 years. You may not have heard of us, but last night proved that we are powerful. The way the administration ran to get rid of us under the cover of night and shut us down without warning proves that they were scared. They are too afraid to even speak to us.</p><p>We, like our many allies, had the “radical” idea that the government should be responsive to the needs of real people. We assembled amazing teams of technology professionals from different specialities who could work together and learn from each other. We shared what we learned with everybody.</p><p>I saw, time and time again, where we stood up for partners who were getting taken advantage of by vendors, or just needed help turning a vision into reality. We could make a simple website or a complicated system, we would do what we needed to best serve the mission and the public. We didn’t upsell anyone, we tried to teach our partners how to do what we did. I see them still prospering years after working with us. </p><p>We have proven methods that could be replicated, so we helped even more people through guides and writing. Those people are still going. And I am cheering them on.</p><p>We were living proof that the talking points of this administration were false. Government services can be efficient. You can work with agencies as they are now and work with them to better manage their services. </p><p>This made us a target. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who made websites better. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved that the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people."</p><p><a href="https://fedscoop.com/gsa-shutters-18f-possibly-leaving-agencies-in-the-lurch/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedscoop.com/gsa-shutters-18f-</span><span class="invisible">possibly-leaving-agencies-in-the-lurch/</span></a></p>
Matthew Garrett<p>If anyone is confused about 18F: imagine an in-house consultancy who could show up and solve your problems but who would then be able to use that knowledge to solve someone else's problems without billing them for the prior work, saving everyone money and also making a bunch of it open source. People took pay cuts to work there. Destroying them is a tragedy</p>
Russ Garrett<p>"This project demonstrates how the frequency data from the Great Britain electrical grid contains embedded information about carbon intensity. By using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to decompose 1D time series frequency data into its constituent frequencies, we can extract features that allow us to predict carbon intensity with high accuracy."</p><p><a href="https://github.com/JamesTwallin/GridSeis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/JamesTwallin/GridSe</span><span class="invisible">is</span></a></p>
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