ZeroConcerns

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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Hard disagree: there is a whole universe of Windows-based developers. But even for them, the best offer seems to be a frequently-updated but still-entirely-underwhelming Visual Studio Enterprise plug-in that after 6 months (or so) can'
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
> How did you manage this? I did absolutely nothing special, other than running the latest-and-greatest Windows 11 Enterprise, which is what we put on most of our laptops without any customizations other than "require 2FA and some
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Yeah, and I also bet their Outlook 'Copilot' button has more-than-zero options in its dropdown menu. But I'd actually love to know how to achieve that, and so far Microsoft AI is awfully silent on the subject...
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Absolutely! There are so many scenarios where they could actually add some value, and they're fulfilling, like, exactly none of those? Even in Visual Studio Enterprise, their flagship developer product, the GPT integration mostly
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Well, the major problem Microsoft is facing is that its AI products are not only shoddier than average , which is nothing new for them in many categories, but that this time the competition can actually easily leapfrog them. Like, I have a
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
> [spokesdrone] acknowledged that the artificial intelligence firm “fell short” in its execution of the recent promotional message While simultaneously admitting that promotional messages are fully on the roadmap, and they're in the
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Yeah, there is a whole layer of Rube Goldberg-esque nonsense between the public Microsoft SMTP servers and the actual destinations that not even the highest levels of their support seem to properly understand. Like: if you truly want to e
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
That's interesting! Can you share which provider their MX record pointed to? Silently disappearing emails are typical Microsoft Forefront antics (but definitely also a misfeature of other products), but mostly when the originating doma
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
> the retry interval should be at least 30 minutes, while the give-up time needs to be at least 4–5 days RFCs have very little to do anymore with the realities of email delivery. And advocating for password reset emails to only be retrie
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Still the 'r' parameters (reporting) in the DMARC record are optional, and there is no indication their presence bestows additional legitimacy to a sender. (For me, it's sort-of the opposite: there are fun spam patterns to be
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
We already had 'low effort' mail queues (for things like password reset emails: these are retried 1/2/4/8 minutes apart and don't generate bounces, other than an API flag and a metrics record), to which we adde
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
DMARC is a relatively recent addition to the email security space, and while it seems a bit superfluous at first, is actually quite useful! Sending and receiving the reports (which, should be noted, is entirely optional) might indeed be h
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
https://zerossl.com/pricing/ suggests a 3-cert limit on the free tier, as well as a huge influx of expected spam...
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
> other CAs aren't prohibitively priced Not if you look at the per-cert pricing, but if you factor in the cost of "dealing with incompetent sales" and "convincing accounting to keep the contract going", they abs
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
> I would like to see the metrics Well, I could regale you with my anecdotes on how all my 'grab a LetsEncrypt cert on Docker deploy and whenever remaining lifetime goes below 75%' services have not had a single TLS-related out
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Effectively single-vendor. I'm not aware of any ACME-compatible CAs that don't have pernicious limits on their free plans (and if there are, I'd love to hear!), and here in the EU we've even recently lost a rather big
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
I'm all for it -- it's hard to understate the extent to which LetsEncrypt has improved the WebPKI situation. Although the effective single-vendor situation isn't great, the "this is just something you only do via an auto
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Well, the original "AI winter" was caused by defense contracts running out without anything to show for it -- turns out, the generals of the time could only be fooled by Eliza clones for so long... The current AI hype is fueled
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
> this is very annoying for a parent with kids But the parents without kids, will they at least continue to be leafs? (Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry...)
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
What I'm advocating is a "downvote (or ignore) and move on" attitude, as opposed to "I'm going to post about this" stance. Because, similar to "your color scheme is not a11y-friendly" or "you&#x2
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
The claim "written by AI" is not really substantiated here, and as someone who's been accused of submitting AI-generated content repeatedly recently, while that was all honestly stuff I wrote myself (hey, what can I say? I
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Previously, pretty much everyone (not just 'rich people', although, well, 'rich' is relative here, of course...) had diesel generators, which were not connected to the grid, since that would be seriously expensive, plus
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by ZeroConcerns 10mo ago
Excellent results, even if the source article is a bit government-optimistic-press-releasy. The less-good news is that, even with abundant solar, you still need a functional grid (even more so than in traditional top-down energy distributio
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by ZeroConcerns 11mo ago
Oh, wow, I didn't expect that the best thing I'd read about software engineering, like, this year would come out of Microsoft! Don't get me wrong: I like .NET, especially its recent incarnation, but until just now, I woul
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by ZeroConcerns 11mo ago
Yup, and with an equal amount of mindblowing-units-of-money spent, infrastructure projects all around me are still failing as well, or at least being modified (read: downsized), delayed and/or budget-inflated beyond recognition. So,
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by ZeroConcerns 11mo ago
Even though most[1] 'Dark Modes' don't work for me (in the sense that everything just turns into a muddy blur and I can't make sense of anything anymore at all), I do realize that's entirely a personal thing, and
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by ZeroConcerns 11mo ago
He's still extremely relevant, if only to derail discussions as demonstrated here. I'm waiting for someone to bring up Al Franken!
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by ZeroConcerns 11mo ago
Well, good to see Hahhvuhhhd is not above the British monarchy when it comes to eventually ejecting sex pests! A low bar to clear, but well done! Now, just for certain ex-Brit colonies to follow their example! Quick... who can think of a po
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by ZeroConcerns 11mo ago
I would guess yes, unless you have a server with unlimited file descriptors and flawless connectivity to every other AS...
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by ZeroConcerns 11mo ago
Thank you for your service! Now, for an even bigger challenge: since it seems the increased demand for the Cloudflare status page brought down Amazon CloudFront for a bit as well, build a new CDN capable of handling that load as well...

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