The idea that Office 365 is compliant for use in any regulated space is *absolutely laughable*, but apparently the reason GCC High is approved for government use is because the government let agencies use it while they were evaluating it, and then realized so many agencies were now dependent on it, that they had to approve it even though it wasn't able to actually meet the security criteria.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.
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@cwebber @MichaelTBacon @alienghic We're gonna be like COBOL programmers are today. Few in number and vital to the functioning of modern society.
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@alienghic @cwebber @MichaelTBacon As an IT professional, *reviewing gigabytes of log files I generate daily to look for attackers* is absolutely something I want AI tools to do. But also that *has* to be local because of the potential sensitivity of the content.
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems I particularly love the ChatGPT pricing page: https://chatgpt.com/pricing/
You are buying "limited access" or "more access" or "expanded access" because nobody is confident in anything enough to give you an actual number for what you are paying for. It's just "give us some money and we'll treat you at a certain level of customer, and we'll decide day to day what that level of customer deserves based on market conditions and astrology".
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@thunfisch The US has always been super clear that data sovereignty claims by US tech companies doesn't absolve them the obligation to respond to data requests from the US.
But yeah, the comedy that they both created this sovereign EU cloud and then immediately turned around and went "but okay sometimes it's just gonna pipe stuff to the US anyways because AI" is *chef's kiss*.
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@weirdestate I assume the "to be built" means they just threw some AI at it.
Incredible that it gets worse the longer you look at it.
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@MichaelTBacon @alienghic @cwebber Yeah I think there's some use in some cases that work okay, but only make sense at the current financially unsustainable offers. As soon as the prices go up/everyone has to pay the piper, the cases where LLMs are useful won't be financially justifiable.
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@billyjoebowers I assume this is because they never had to actually grow up because they had so much money.
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems At work we spoke to a company about pricing for an AI thing, and I'm very confident that they just picked a large number and put it in a quote without any actual tie to expected usage or anything.
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems My understanding is that zero companies (except for NVIDIA) are actually profitable when it comes to AI, so everyone is just picking numbers out of their hat to try to make some of their money back, and figuring people will sort themselves into the maximum tier they can afford.
HN people, I swear. Claiming having only gigabit networking hardware at home is super slow and being surprised any people still have that. Valley folks legit live on another planet.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I feel like the law should, in this scenario, permit him to keep the car.
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@georgetakei Thankfully JD Vance is one of the least likeable people on the planet. The pope met him and promptly died. He stumped for a regime that has reigned for fifteen years and it immediately ended.
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@krans @alienghic @cwebber @MichaelTBacon The problem is it is very hard to convince bean counters to spend massive amounts of money on looking for things that might or might not be there. The use case that's most interesting is very hard to sell the cost of!
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@cas One thing that really excites me for hijacking prevention is @OpenSourceCollective.
The OSC can steward ownership of your project's domain name or trademarks, and no single individual can run off with it. OSC also will only permit transfer to other nonprofits. So it can be a real commitment to the commons and solid proof you can't go commercial.
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@alienghic @MichaelTBacon @cwebber Yeah that's exactly the stuff I'm talking about. We abstracted basic competency out of our software! Stuff people used to learn as a kid we're gonna end up having to train people about at the start of computer science in college!
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@ben I think it's really important though to remind people that if your browser extensions are numerous enough to be a fingerprinting vector, you have a bigger problem, because browser extensions completely undermine the Internet's security model and if you have more than like two you are hosed.
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@kimlockhartga @peterrenshaw Absolutely horrifying. You could literally put these straight into a horror film.
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@b0rk Another risk separate from GitHub's reliability I find concerning though: As people embrace AI workflows which have write access to people's repos, chatbots can rewrite history or force-push a repo to nothing.
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@jalefkowit@vmst.io @scarlett@gamepad.club This sounds so wild because it absolutely sounds like the plot of any number of episodes of science fiction shows I've watched.
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@theraccoonbytes@theforkiverse.com I don't think anyone main character'd themselves this week, that I noticed anyways.
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@a2_4am@mastodon.social Look. He was clear he didn't like it. What happens from there is on you. 😆
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@libreoffice@fosstodon.org LibreOffice should delete every one of these rampages about ODF vs OOXML, and loudly proclaim LibreOffice is the best solution for working with both of them. Because it is, but your blogs aren't selling that.
If you want ODF to be the dominant format, you need to get people using LibreOffice *first*, which comes from marketing compatibility, and then people will naturally defer to saving in the default/best supported format for their software.
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@libreoffice@fosstodon.org I sent Italo an email about this, but this series of blog posts is really sabotaging LibreOffice.
If you want the world to be able to escape Microsoft Office, you need to stop claiming LibreOffice is incompatible with it! LibreOffice is a great drop-in compatible replacement and *that* is what you should be marketing.
Telling people you can't work with Office is just announce LibreOffice can't do the job people need it to.
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@lunareclipse My personal position is that there are still cases an organization may "need Microsoft Office" but on-premise servers and LTSC software licenses are more cost effective and more secure.
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@selfhostingsh@mastodon.social It's important to define a difference between homelabbing and selfhosting.
I selfhost, I have a couple of cheap off-brand NUCs doing single-function duties, and one decent machine running Sandstorm as my app server. This infrastructure makes sense for what I need.
Homelabbers generally are trying to replicate/play with a similar environment to their work for testing and experimenting. It rarely is the right design choice for home, but it can be educational for work.
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@tbortels@infosec.exchange @Viss@mastodon.social One of the reasons I really like using a GUI client for git, I actually see the list of files I'm committing when I do so.
@badgefed @badgefed@vocalcat.com This is OpenBadges-based, I presume? Are you considering like annotating fedi identities into badge credentials?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Costs the businesses effectively $0 too. Restaurants and theaters are throwing away just as much as they serve anyways, the food is basically free, and he isn't telling them he's going to upsize them, so they aren't paying less than they would've anyways.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca Hard to make your company sound green when it's boiling the oceans (and rivers, in this case).
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social For what it's worth, I think this is probably one of the best possibilities in live theater. If you want to see a perfect exact rendition every time, watch a movie. Theater should embrace the moment.
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@qbe@chaos.social @JohnDal@mastodon.green @erkhyan@yiff.life A lot of things in Linux feel downright primitive compared to the options I have on a Windows system. There's totally reasonable reasons for that, mind you.
A finely-tuned Windows 10 install can be *a thing of elegance*, and it can run on a potato from a decade ago. But you had to have an enterprise license agreement to get rid of half the junk. I hope 11 gets back there, but there is some real jank with rough perf costs.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social The part that blows me away is deciding to give the dude exactly what he wants. If he allegedly wants to be a martyr... we should definitely not be livestreaming a public execution for him. It's the opposite of punishment.
We should give him really good healthcare and keep him alive until he's ninety.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Separation of church and state is *both* an American view and a Biblical one. Christian nationalists betray both.