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Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project. [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@ocdtrekkie on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Why does neither Google nor Microsoft's cloud services understand the "Maximum size exceeded" error in an email rejection? If a competent mail service rejects an email that is too large, Microsoft will tell users the email was rejected as spam and Google will tell users the email was rejected […]

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This man's face communicates what everyone in the world feels every day now.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Hard same.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

In the past day or so, it was pointed out that my FediForum co-organizer has made some public statements that are incompatible with the kind of community we want to bring together at FediForum, and that I personally disagree with. Accordingly, Kaliya and I have agreed that she will be […]

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Microsoft: In two years, we're changing this update URL. We'll remind you of this every 90 days. Broadcom: We're going to break updates on all our products in 30 days unless you do this manual steps. You should probably get on that. #vmware

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

A thing I try to ask myself about new technology, products, and services I use: how can I dissent from the choices implicitly or explicitly made by this product or service on my behalf? Put differently, how difficult is it to exit onto an alternative that makes different choices?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Microsoft can't keep basic Office 365 services running for like a solid week anymore. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-exchange-online-outage-affects-outlook-web-users/

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

What this will not change, regardless of whether or not it gets government approval, is that Google fundamentally doesn't understand security and can't do it well. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/google-is-buying-wiz-for-32b-to-beef-up-in-cloud-security/

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

When Microsoft accidentally does something good, and has to apologize for it. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-march-windows-updates-mistakenly-uninstall-copilot/ #microsoft #copilot #windows

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

IT in a nutshell

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Just as a note, last week Comcast/NBC unceremoniously shut down the Universal Kids channel, and we are all still upset here.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @gruber, if you're using Apple Intelligence you might be missing one fact about it that makes me want to curse out Apple every couple of weeks. Ever since they decided to make it the default, they also forgot how to respect their users at all: Every single security patch turns it back on […]

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/06/brazilian-court-apple-sideloading-ios/

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Can you find a more succinct example of how absolutely pointless AI chatbots are? #ai #chatbot #amazon

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Pro-tip: Tying your malicious sabotage code to your account is a great way to provide airtight evidence of a crime. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/developer-guilty-of-using-kill-switch-to-sabotage-employers-systems/

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Antitrust is bipartisan. Bet Sundar feels like he isn't getting much out of his million dollar fealty donation now. https://www.wired.com/story/the-doj-still-wants-google-to-divest-chrome/ #google #chrome #antitrust

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

There are few things in life more satisfying than a brand-new pair of wire strippers effortlessly sliding the insulation off of a copper wire. ...I have had a very sorry excuse for a wire stripper for way too long.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I'm playing with Purelymail tonight. It's... just that. And really cheap. I am going to use it for some automation upon which my $10 might last virtually forever. https://purelymail.com/ Note that one of the catches is that the "team" is... one guy.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

"Brin told employees that working 60 hours a week is a “sweet spot” for productivity." I'm sure Sergey is doing his part here and not enjoying his entire fleet of yachts... https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/sergey-brin-says-rto-is-key-to-google-winning-the-agi-race/

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

I wonder how many laid off software engineers will build competitors that take down entrenched companies. You'd think good businesspeople would account for the risk of making too many good software engineers available on the cheap.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

go to the cloud they said it'll be fine they said

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a […]

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

Finally saw #section31. One starship was cool, the rest, meh. You want to do twists in a movie, you got to make them not obvious.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments