this is barely one year after the CSRB recommended: "...Microsoft leadership should consider directing internal Microsoft teams to deprioritize feature developments across the company’s cloud infrastructure and product suite until substantial security improvements have been made in order to preclude competition for resources. In all instances, security risks should be fully and appropriately assessed and addressed before new features are deployed."

These recommendations followed a review of MS practices following the Exchange online compromise. I highly doubt anything changed at MS since then.

source: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/CSRBReviewO...

a long while ago i was considering a centrally monitored physical security system for my home. that was long before you could easily host your own security cameras with convenient mobile alerts.

The salesman comes to my home. wife and kids are around. He sits at my dinner table and begins with asking me "is your family important to you?"

to which i replied "please leave now". needless to say i didn't buy anything from him.

I have no time with shady sales tactics and manipulation. i can totally relate to this article.

This is so completely reasonable, and yet so unexpected that the "please leave now" actually reads like a joke punchline. In the last few years ads have become remarkably dystopian and unapologetic about it.. I mean it was always "No one will love you if you don't buy our thing!" but they didn't quite come out and say it before. The "less likes, more love" campaign comes to mind as ironically appropriate.

I'm not in a position where I deal with actual human salespeople that often, but we're all products of the culture we're embedded in. So I assume that's gotten more masks-off crazy and feral too.. just very openly trying to find your anxieties and squeeze.

> I have no time with shady sales tactics and manipulation. i can totally relate to this article.

Sometimes I recommend people to go to high pressure sales meetings, such as the ones where they try to sell time-shares (is that still a thing?). They'll pick you up at the hotel on a limo, and offer you free tickets to some shows if you go. It is insanely annoying, but it's a great exercise on your ability to say no under psychological pressure. They will try to attack you at your most core values and the moment you realize it is an attempt to manipulate you, you develop some immunity to it - the said ability to say "leave now".

On the time-share, the poor third (!) salesperson who tried to convince me surrendered to the math - US$100K for a week, for a ~300K apartment was about US$ 5 million, which was the going price for apartments in the very fancy building next to it. At that point they relented, gave us the tickets (they were sold out at the venue) and drove us back to our hotel.

Maybe two years ago I got a youtube ad that was literally an infomercial telling me that my penis was too small to please my partner, and presumably trying to sell me something for that, though I could not watch long enough to see where it was going. I was only able to make it as far into the ad out of incredulousness that it was actually as brazen as it seemed. It was mostly just funny to me, but also sort of amazing that YouTube was showing me such bottom-of-the-barrel ad content.

Pretty gross and awful, but I guess not especially new. What feels like a new thing in the last ~5 years is when you're browsing some actually reputable news site, and literally reading high brow analysis about misinformation and vulnerable populations, and meanwhile also still getting hammered with ads around the borders about "one weird trick seniors should know". Now that's dystopian.

There was a Reeses commercial about "your devices are listening to you" for example, and other stuff that I probably should not boost by describing specifically. But basically there's a new form that's pretty openly self-aware about "yeah this is unpleasant to watch, but what are you going to do, actually turn off your TV? just give us your money." When this stuff first appeared I thought the writing was just subpar, or that maybe the idea was that the public just can't parse anything more subtle. But it's more that anxiety still sells even if you're being blatant about stuff, and if you can create anxiety that isn't actually present yet, then you might be making society sicker but you're still making your ads more effective

so much truth in your statement.

I had a recent exchange with Microsoft and a group of CISOs and how it was explained to US by MS is that Copilot relies on existing file sharing security (OneDrive, Sharepoint) to determine what user could receive as feedback from Copilot. While it seems like a reasonable approach to rely on existing controls it honestly sent shivers down my spine. Anyone who had some experience securing MS platforms data sharing knows those become a total mess overtime for large organizations.

I just have to look at my ancient msn account being effectively turned unusable for several (notably: Skype, Xbox) MS services due to being stuck in some limbo between MS auth service migrations (?) to gauge my confidence in their control of user data.... And no, several hours with their support agents spread over several weeks did not resolve it.

Exactly what the article is about.

the parking is free so of course it's quite popular. Having been there regularly on the busiest weekdays you really have to arrive close to 8:00 to see a full lot. I do agree the REM is sweet and very effective.

today I'm with my father, he we scheduled for angioplasty which was unsuccessful as he will need heart surgery. His heart is to clogged up. We are now waiting to see the doctor for the next steps.

As I'm seeing him age and become more fragile, I also don't think I've done anything more important that what I'm doing right now.

thank you for sharing this story.

I helped guide my mother through a very rough patch of depression and suicidal ideation last year, no doubt exacerbated by her chronic health issues. It forced me to confront many of the issues we try to forget, not the least of which being that our parents are complicated people with their own lives, and that it's very hard to watch someone who has always been your 'rock' need you to do that for them.

As hard as it was, I'm glad I was able to be that for her. Love, it seems, is defined by the really hard times, not the easy, and sometimes, the most important thing is just being there when you're needed the most.

Is it clickbait when the top contributor/creator posts on his website? The same website that makes a strong promotion against ad tracking: https://lichess.org/ads

I clearly don't have the same definition of clickbait.

> The same website that makes a strong promotion against ad tracking: https://lichess.org/ads

What does this have to do with clickbait?

that's a great question. I had reviewed the Wikipedia page prior to my comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

it seems there is no universal definition of clickbait. So I based my comment on this:

1. the article was posted on Thibault's own website that doesn't generate revenue per click. Isn't clickbait associated with the possibility of additional ad revenue?

2. Thibault recently called for help on the issue. This post recaps what he went through. He clearly expressed that the code upgrade process didn't go as planned for him. the post and sub-title feels genuine.

3. Clickbait (to me at least) indicates that there's either intent on generating revenue or self-promotion. I fail to see those conditions here

So that's my logic. So why would this be considered clickbait?

Clickbait is a sensationalized or misleading title meant to draw extra attention (in the form of clicks).

Both "big upgrade" and "didn't go as planned" are technically true, but overpromise. A big upgrade could be new features, improved UI, something that affects the user experience.

"Updated Lichess language version, had to tweak cache settings" is a title that isn't trying to sell itself.

It's not anyone else's blame if you don't share their life passions.

Thibault isn't posting low-effort spam for profit, he's pouring years of his life energy into a beloved project that is a gift to the world.

A Fortnine analysis on the possibility of AI causing fatal accidents for motorcyclists

i just read that page[1] earlier this week. this gives a great view on the amount of work performed by the openssh project after the fork of the last open source version.

[1] https://www.openssh.com/history.html

It all depends on your use case. It can get below zero F here (northern Minnesota) for weeks at a time, but I don't regularly drive more than 10 miles round trip.

As a second/town vehicle, a cheaper EV sounds great for conditions I can't use the e-assist cargo bike.

In my experience, at -20C you lose about 10 miles of range to get the car up to temperature, plus about 20% of range to keep the car at temperature.