The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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What moron at CrowdStrike thought this was a good idea:
CrowdStrike faces backlash as ‘thank you’ gift cards are blocked
$10 UberEats vouchers sent to people who helped after global IT outage are flagged as potential fraud
Sending people who probably didn’t sleep for 96 hours because of your companies fuckup a $10 gift voucher would be the definition of adding insult to injury. Those $10 gift vouchers being blocked for fraud when people tried to redeem them…
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Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
Keys were labeled “DO NOT TRUST.” Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.
tl;dr Hundreds of computer models have their secure boot installations protected by a single key. That key was uploaded to GitHub and “encrypted” with a four digit password that was trivially brute forced.
Edit: bottom of that article lists the devices affected.
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Ex-Twitter dev reminisces about finding 700 unused Nvidia GPUs after takeover — forgotten cluster was ‘powered on and idle’
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Record-Breaking $75 Million Ransom Paid To Dark Angels Gang
You may not have heard of these ransomware criminals, but according to threat intelligence researchers, they’ve hit a $75 million ransom payday. Meet the Dark Angels.
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I picked the wrong career. I could have worked out of Finland where they couldn’t find me because it doesn’t exist and got rich!
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Logitech’s ‘Forever Mouse’ Might Require a Monthly Subscription
Just what the market has been crying out for: A mouse that accumulates decades of dust and gunk in its internals and that you have to pay a monthly subscription for.
I wonder if fast scroll speed is disabled unless you get the premium subscription. Maybe mouse-wheel click too.
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BMW has been doing this shit and sadly people keep buying it. We need to push back against that kind of pricing.
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Stupid
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@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Stupid
Particularly on something as commoditized as a mouse. I had to look at what mouse I’m using, it’s this one:
I certainly never bought it; It must have came free with a computer I bought in the last 5 years. It has 6400 DPI, 7 buttons and RGB lighting and I’ve never had a complaint with it but, it’s so cheap it was thrown in with something else. Amazon Egypt are still selling them for $13.50.
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Greed
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
BMW has been doing this shit and sadly people keep buying it. We need to push back against that kind of pricing.
If I remember right BMW had that controversy lately where you had to pay a sub to activate your heated seats (even though everything required to do that was actually already in the car, that you already paid for).
People freaked out and the company backpedaled iirc.
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I didn’t see where they backed off it but may have missed it. When Adobe went to subscription pricing I was kinda pissed. I met an Adobe salesperson in the hotel lounge and gave them an earful. Maybe I am becoming a commie?
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I didn’t see where they backed off it but may have missed it. When Adobe went to subscription pricing I was kinda pissed. I met an Adobe salesperson in the hotel lounge and gave them an earful. Maybe I am becoming a commie?
No. Just old and cranky.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I didn’t see where they backed off it but may have missed it. When Adobe went to subscription pricing I was kinda pissed. I met an Adobe salesperson in the hotel lounge and gave them an earful. Maybe I am becoming a commie?
BMW drops plan to charge a monthly fee for heated seats
BMW’s microtransaction experiments have not always been successful.
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why not just drive an older car and customize it to what you like.
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@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
why not just drive an older car and customize it to what you like.
I get your point but there are big trade offs here. For instance ‘infotainment’ systems, if you want them, are pretty shit in the after market for older vehicles. Frankly I think these are distracting as hell and part of the reason Tesla drives seem to suck more than "pick any other vehicle type’.
however there usually are bluetooth integrations, backup cams, and most everything else you can think of that are easily integrated into most cars built in the last 30 years. most people don’t know that say their base model Camry has all the wiring harnesses to enable all the features from the high end model sitting there ready to be used (true for any other make/model).
This takes time, a little research, and elbow grease for a DIY though or a considerable amount of money for someone else to do it.
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
This takes time, a little research, and elbow grease for a DIY though or a considerable amount of money for someone else to do it.
or you could just pay… and pay… and pay…
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@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
or you could just pay… and pay… and pay…
Let me Steel Man the argument from the car OEM side.
“We’re already wiring up all the features whether you use them or not, our plan then is to deliver one base model that you can ‘enable’ individual features if you like”
That is my assumption from their part. It is easy to be cynical and say this is a money grab, however, you have to consider the supply chain optimization having a single model will deliver for them.
Now between you and I, so not a fan of these models. But I’m not blind to the efficiency this could enable and the fact that this ‘could’ (likely wouldn’t) deliver lower costs for me the end consumer.
Also keep in mind all the car OEMs have very popular leasing models. “Leasing features” is a logical progression IMO.
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or you could just make do with the transportation feature and skip all the rest…
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
or you could just pay… and pay… and pay…
Let me Steel Man the argument from the car OEM side.
“We’re already wiring up all the features whether you use them or not, our plan then is to deliver one base model that you can ‘enable’ individual features if you like”
That is my assumption from their part. It is easy to be cynical and say this is a money grab, however, you have to consider the supply chain optimization having a single model will deliver for them.
Now between you and I, so not a fan of these models. But I’m not blind to the efficiency this could enable and the fact that this ‘could’ (likely wouldn’t) deliver lower costs for me the end consumer.
Also keep in mind all the car OEMs have very popular leasing models. “Leasing features” is a logical progression IMO.
IBM mainframes literally have had this model for decades.
When you order one, you get one of a few models, all decked out with full capacity cause it’s cheaper to make them all the same.
You then pay by how many MIPS you want (old school term, the current usage is MSUs). IBM engineers then use the ‘golden screwdriver’ to allow your machine to make just the paid for resources available. You can then play around with the settings, including how many CPUs you use, and pay for more I/O channels.
Then the software people get into the act with pricing models based on the MIPS/MSUs. Last time I was involved, the IBM hardware and OS pricing was comparable to their UNIX machines but the software apps people were exorbitant.
Ex-Twitter dev reminisces about finding 700 unused Nvidia GPUs after takeover — forgotten cluster was 'powered on and idle'
