@scottalanmiller said in macOS 10.13 High Sierra Coming with APFS Filesystem:

So for those using APFS, how is it looking now that you've had a few weeks with it?

Nothing noticeably different.

@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld 2017:

@travisdh1 said in SpiceWorld 2017:

@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld 2017:

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Is that THE parking garage?

Yes, it is.

Epic.

@strongbad said in ARM RISC Linux Laptop Released from TERES-I:

Of course, for that price and specs, you could just get a Chromebook and put Linux on it.

Oh yeah, that makes more sense. LOL.

The Linux world is complex enough for normal users. BSD just pushed them that much farther over the edge.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Haiu-R1-Chugging

Windows 10 Mobile wasn't abandoned already?

LOLOLOL

@scottalanmiller said in Public and Private key Library Breached:

Can't help but point out that the author of the article doesn't know what "ironic" means.

Now I have to read it. LOL

Edit: It isn't ironic when TPM, which is created to be more secure than standard, is, in fact, less secure?

@zachary715 said in Congressional Pharmacist Accidentally Tells That Some Congresspeople Have Alzheimer's!:

It's fairly common knowledge (speculation) that one of our Senators has Alzheimber's, Dementia, or something of the like, yet somehow this knowledge wasn't enough to get him dethroned during his most recent election. When you've been there long enough and have some clout, people just get scared of losing that power and with it losing money for your state.

That's because voter's tend to be sheep that'll vote for the person they've always voted for.

Remember the comedy about it with Eddie Murphy?

IRS finally did something about it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/after-second-bungle-irs-suspends-equifaxs-taxpayer-identity-contract/

@nerdydad said in Equifax Has 143 Million Americans Data Compromised:

Because of this contract, now the government has a stake in the game. They will probably do a full investigation to see if their information was compromised, who was incompetent, who made the decisions, etc.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/03/former-equifax-ceo-says-breach-boiled-down-to-one-person-not-doing-their-job/
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/03/news/companies/equifax-ceo-congress/index.html

This contract with the IRS that was just rewarded on Friday?

I doubt there will be any governmental or organizational blow back. Everyone is already on to the next big thing that comes from twitter.

@tim_g said in Las Vegas Shooting - Lone Shooter - 50 Killed 200+ injured:

The media only labels someone a terrorist if they are of foreign nationality and of a specific religion. That's where my issue lies.

Your absolutely right about that

@dashrender said in ISPs inject malware into chat download streams:

@scottalanmiller said in ISPs inject malware into chat download streams:

@dashrender said in ISPs inject malware into chat download streams:

@scottalanmiller said in ISPs inject malware into chat download streams:

@dashrender said in ISPs inject malware into chat download streams:

@scottalanmiller said in ISPs inject malware into chat download streams:

@dashrender said in ISPs inject malware into chat download streams:

How do they MiT you on an encrypted connection? i.e. if you're using HTTPS, they have no ability to inject anything.

Oh there are ways. How do you think that tools like Palo Alto do deep channel inspection?

And of course there are ways - but I will never install an ISP cert as long as another internet connection option is available.

But once that option is gone, well, so is the free and open internet.

Lots of people don't have alternative options to check and see if they are getting an ISP cert or not.

Oh.. I think I see where you are going here... but now my question is - will that work?

Let's assuming I'm trying to download telegram, so I go to https://telegram.org. The ISP can't fake the cert for Telegram.org - I mean they can, but your browser won't trust their fake cert, unless they got the ISP's own root cert into the user's computer's root store.

But when EVERY site says you have a fake cert, I know no one that doesn't accept them. One time, sure. I stopped Dominica just the other night because some site had a cert problem and I knew something had happened. But when it is every site and you can't do anything without accepting them, you start accepting them. What else can you do?

You can get another ISP - at least until there is no option for another ISP.

But things like Chrome completely freak out when it runs into a fake google cert - I'm not sure if that freak out includes simply not working for google properties or not though.

Sometimes you can. Sometimes you can't. Often you can't.

@dustinb3403 said in In Other News - iPhone 8 has earpiece issues:

@minion-queen said in In Other News - iPhone 8 has earpiece issues:

I can't imagine having that not work. I use it constantly (though I have broken I think like 6 pairs of the ear buds).

I generally just have my ear buds get into a massive knot and then I throw them out in a rage.

Well sure, but earbuds suck. Get some damn headphones.

@tim_g said in Microsoft Announces Merging of Skype for Business into Teams:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Announces Merging of Skype for Business into Teams:

I've been on G Suite for two weeks and so far my impression is that provisioning is broken, GMail is actually just as bad as Exchange, and Keep is the only good thing that they make. Google Docs aren't bad, but not great. That they are fast and completely hosted is nice, but they are no LibreOffice, that's for sure. Hangouts and Meet are crippled to the point of useless. Hoping once @Romo takes over management of G Suite that he can sort some of this out. But overall, not impressed, at all.

Why'd you go G Suite over MS?

Already in place, and with engineering moving with pedal to the floor, not a good time to rip and replace the existing infrastructure. Won't put in MS, though. We've got zero dependency on that stuff, no reason to consider Exchange.

Ouch, now that is a serious bit of embarrassment.

This is what we keep telling ourselves, at least 😉