Notices by Krupo (krupo@infosec.exchange)

@sand I regret nothing. (And have brewed all the coffee.)

Still salty about the delayed strike call that left Bo in no man's land.

Also, not starting intentional walks earlier.

#WorldSeries

Friend of mine just shared this chef's kiss on the matter of #enshittification and my first thought was, has @pluralistic seen this??

@whitequark @promovicz @schrotthaufen @mainframed767 I've been trying to figure out how to apply a simple Windows update to my mom's Win 10 PC.

Sometime last fall it decided it didn't know how to apply an update so it just failed.

Tried the troubleshooting app MS supplies. It shrugged and claimed everything is fine.

Tried to get an update file from the MS Catalog site and figured out how to apply it. Realized I need the x64 version, probably. Started the process.

It returned with a message saying "this update does not apply to your system" or something similar.

Well, who needs security patches anyway....

Could your tool help figure out what is actually going on?

@GossiTheDog I feel like this content should all be mirrored in Canada. Or everywhere.

@molly0xfff I'm less concerned about personal security and more about people who single mindedly enforce policy like "this is the right way of tagging a photo you took and uploaded 15 years ago, change the tags or we'll delete the photo!"

Like, relax, it's a photo of a bus. Whatever free use copy tag is in fashion now, just tell me what it is to apply it I don't want to sift through a long WP:policy treatise to figure it out :ablobcatpeekbreadfast:

@JizzelEtBass @rebeccawatson omg wtf

He thinks there's a tradeoff between safety and customer experience?

"He added that the industry stood to gain from President-elect Donald Trump's more lenient regulatory policies.

"There's going to be a kind of unshackling," Biffle said. "We'll focus on what truly matters, like safety, and move away from concerns over regulating prices and customer experiences"

@patrickcmiller great lede

"How do we know there was dramaaaa? Even Vanity Fair piled in."

@horse combine it with a SharePoint style check-in/check-out system for maximum carnage.

@horse erased a bunch of "rich text" content from my comments.

It used to support this content. Whenever I got the last update applied reopening the document auto-nuked the rich text.

I didn't realize how upset I could get over Microsoft breaking their Word comment feature but they hit a new low.

Hours of work. Erased.

Astounding.

Of course I don't trust that company with anything serious so I had a backup. Of course restoring my work from the backup is still a pain.

I just look forward to the next surprising piece of idiocy.

The latest @pluralistic is full of so many fantastic points. I've forwarded this a half dozen ways with seperate pull quotes for each friend

"For a lot of people, the analysis stops here. "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product." Google locks in users and sells them to advertisers, who are their co-conspirators in a scheme to screw the rest of us.

But that's not right. For one thing, paying for a product doesn't mean you won't be the product. Apple charges a thousand bucks for an iPhone and then nonconsensually spies on every iOS user in order to target ads to them (and lies about it):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

John Deere charges six figures for its tractors, then runs a grift that blocks farmers from fixing their own machines, and then uses their control over repair to silence farmers who complain about it:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/31/dealers-choice/#be-a-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it "

All from: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

@mainframed767 @thomasfuchs it's not a racist desire to keep racists out of your community, Tommy.