maynarkh

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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

You're right it should work like that, but I remember trying it, and it didn't because of some weird security policy.

It is a very good tip though.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As someone who has worked for investment banks, it's incremental and everyone is either focused on some small aspect that is "not so bad", or so above and detached that it is not real to them. The individuals are people who are thinking, feeling, but the system is a machine that is most definitely not.

The top level though, the people who have insight into how this works, and power to change it and lose a miniscule amount of money, now those are the scum of the earth. Just don't blame the worker.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Would this let me do something like SSH to a bastion host, elevate privs with sudo, and SSH forward from there, then elevate privs again on the final target I'm trying to get to? Maybe do that on 100 servers at the same time?

Back a half decade, I and my team of DBAs would have killed for something like that.

Sorry if I'm the "can it do this weird and unnecessary thing" guy, but it really looks like a dream come true if it's what I think it is

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

iF yOu HaVe NoThInG tO hIdE

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haven't used apt in a while, is it not atomic? What happens if you mess with it?

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 16 points 10 months ago

They called it Federated Learning of Cohorts at one point. Instead of you sending raw activity data to Google servers and them running their models there, the model runs in Chrome and they only send back the ad targeting groups you belong to. All in the name of privacy of course.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 points 10 months ago

I wonder how this interacts with their DMA compliance. This might be fine for the US court that ruled in the Epic case, but the EU law was made to prevent exactly this.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

One has to wonder why in Star Trek the Federation did not simply sue the Borg.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 81 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thus, Windows will again be instrumental in driving growth for the minimum memory capacity acceptable in new PCs.

I love that the primary driver towards more powerful hardware is Windows just bloating itself bigger and bigger. It's a grift in its own way, consumers are subsidizing the requirements for Microsoft's idiotic data processing. And MSFT is not alone in this, Google doing away with cookies also conveniently shifts away most ad processing from their servers into Chrome (while killing their competition).

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 16 points 10 months ago

Not VC, more like hedge funds and institutional investors. But yes, all public companies work primarily for higher share prices, and then everything else. I've experienced a public US company paying more than a million USD to save 300k just so they can put out good articles about themselves that they kept promises to shareholders.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The actual EU documents say the complete opposite. They say that the cookie law is going nowhere, this new thing is a framework for easier compliance with the existing law for big business.

From the letter issued by the EU Supervisory Authority to the Commission about this :

While voluntary commitments [of companies to adhere to the GDPR] may be a useful tool, the pledging principles should by no means be used to circumvent legal obligations. In addition, undertaking voluntary commitments does not equate or guarantee compliance with the applicable data protection and privacy framework.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 0 points 10 months ago

when Microsoft was buying Bethesda and Activision

I think that was equal part MSFT simping and Bethesda/Activision hate. Bethesda hasn't chosen to release anything comparable to Skyrim since 2011, and Activision is just a shitshow all around, especially with Blizzard. Market consolidation is never good, but when EA bought Westwood, I felt that something of value has been lost. Not the case with these acquisitions.

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