In a bold bid to turn digital crooks away from a life of crime, Microsoft is offering a 50 percent discount on its Office suite to some people using pirated versions. Ghacks reports that a new message in the Office ribbon bar is appearing on pirated Office apps, tempting people with a 50 percent discount on a genuine Microsoft 365 subscription.
Looks like a bad deal.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/9/22825774/microsoft-office-pirated-software-discount-offer
Half the value was lost i fees when i got them into my own wallet.
Blockchain startup MonoX Finance said on Wednesday that a hacker stole $31 million by exploiting a bug in software the service uses to draft smart contracts.
I am waiting for the smart contracts to end up in court. Then we will see how smart the contracts are. Maybe they should not even be called contracts.
Texas have some social media moderation law that is called HB 20. It was stopped by a court. Lots of good things in the ruling. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211202/00403748039/texas-court-gets-it-right-dumps-texass-social-media-moderation-law-as-clearly-unconstitutional.shtml
This is for the common carrier troll.
This Court starts from the premise that social media platforms are not common carriers. “Equal access obligations . . . have long been imposed on telephone companies, railroads, and postal services, without raising any First Amendment issue.” United States Telecom Ass’n v. Fed. Commc’ns Comm’n, 825 F.3d 674, 740 (D.C. Cir. 2016). Little First Amendment concern exists because common carriers “merely facilitate the transmission of speech of others.” Id. at 741. In United States Telecom, the Court added broadband providers to its list of common carriers. Id. Unlike broadband providers and telephone companies, social media platforms “are not engaged in indiscriminate, neutral transmission of any and all users’ speech.”
Id. at 742.
HB 20’s pronouncement that social media platforms are common carriers… does not impact this Court’s legal analysis.
Social media can stop you bagging on their platforms if they want to.
Social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate content disseminated on their platforms. See Manhattan Cmty. Access Corp. v. Halleck, 139 S. Ct. 1921, 1932 (2019) (recognizing that “certain private entities[] have rights to exercise editorial control over speech and speakers on their properties or platforms”).
The State’s first interest fails on several accounts. First, social media platforms are privately owned platforms, not public forums. Second, this Court has found that the covered social media platforms are not common carriers. Even if they were, the State provides no convincing support for recognizing a governmental interest in the free and unobstructed use of common carriers’ information conduits. Third, the Supreme Court rejected an identical government interest in Tornillo. In Tornillo, Florida argued that “government has an obligation to ensure that a wide variety of views reach the public.” Tornillo, 418 U.S. at 247–48. After detailing the “problems related to government-enforced access,” the Court held that the state could not commandeer private companies to facilitate that access, even in the name of reducing the “abuses of bias and manipulative reportage [that] are . . . said to be the result of the vast accumulations of unreviewable power in the modern media empires.” Id. at 250, 254.
Chia mining dont need graphic cards. It needs lots of harddisks. It should be possible to power 16 harddisks with this card. That is enough even for me. You connect a ATX power supply to the card.
It is the best backup software i have seen. Sadly i used up the 10 licenses immediately. Is is some kind of desktop application. That is good. Some other have a web application. A desktop application can show more information and update it faster. It is easy to add computers to the inventory. Lots of settings and information. It is easy to see what the software is doing and if there was any error. Backups are fast. You can restore files in different ways. It can backup volumes, files and VMs.
https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html
https://www.veeam.com/blog/backup-replication-community-edition-features-description.html
It is Debian without systemd. I don’t understand why anybody would want that. Systemd is good. Starting services with scripts is stupid. The scrips can do anything. It is hard for me to know what the scripts do. It is difficult to know if you have stopped all the things a script have started.
Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers, Devuan Developers are delighted to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera 4.0 as the project’s new stable release. This is the result of many months of painstaking work by the Team and detailed testing by the wider Devuan community.
https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/chimaera-release-announce-2021-10-14
I tried to copy a CA certificate from one CA to another CA. At first it looked i had succeeded. I wanted to issue certificates from both CAs with the same keys. After i installed the certificates i got SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER every time. I did a search with google about that error. It was simple if i did not have CA root certificate with same name in the subject as i had in issuer on the server certificate i would get that error. I checked that i had added the root CA certificate to the trusted certificates in Firefox. It was there and the subject was correct. After building a debug version of Firefox and running it in the Visual studio debugger i understood how Firefox finds CA certs. It calculates a hash on the subject field and look for a CA cert in the cert database with the same hash. It calculates the hash from everything in subject. Length, string type and oid. When i looked at both certificates i noticed a small difference. One had PrintableString as type and the other had UTF8String for common name. That will make the hash different.
It is not impossible to get two node S2D cluster to handle a failover, but it is difficult. The nodes must always check if they in the majority of nodes. If a node believes it is not in the majority it must immediately shutdown cluster resources. As soon as i shutdown one node in two node cluster there is doubt on the remaining node if it belongs to the majority. That is why you need a witness. I used a file share witness. One time when i shutdown a node the other node failed to read the file share witness and the cluster went down. I fixed that by removing the witness from the cluster and added it back. A few days later i shutdown one node and the storage pool on the remaining node went offline. It said something about majority disks missing. At first i did not understand what that meant. After reading about storage pool quorum i understood it. A storage pool must always check if it has a majority of disks connected or else it will shutdown. If there is the same count of drives on both nodes a pool can stay up if it owns the pool resource. I had three HDDs and one SSD on both nodes so i did not know how to fix that. That was when i gave up on a two node cluster. A three node cluster is much easier. If one node disappears there is no doubt about it the two remaining nodes are a majority and if the nodes have equal amount of drives there be no question about if the pool have a majority of drives.