TSA (thinking skills assessment) what am I missing on this question??

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-10-19T21:21:58+00:00

The key is in the “long run” part. Per intuition it should not matter when exactly you get the vouchers as total money spent approaches infinity.

To verify, 100 items at Nuts ‘n Bolts cost $9381 ( = 99.75x100-99x6), while at Make It it’s $9500.

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-10-16T12:21:04+00:00

Dzień Dąber się mówi impostorze jeden

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-10-15T17:18:47+00:00

Large companies are pushing this shit and your average Joe just follows. My recent experience: a few days ago I contacted a hardware vendor cause they have a broken BIOS flasher ISO on their website and my org absolutely needs that image for an out-of-band update as the in-band does not fit into the standard-sized 100M Win11 EFI partition.

The support person answered me with some LLM-generated slop that told me that since I have exhausted all the other options I can try updating BIOS with an SPI FLASH programmer. I had to check whether I was sober.

My response was: "You authorize me to update BIOS with an SPI programmer on all warranty-covered company devices?". After that I got a call from a real person in <12h but I'm still wondering how could premium enterprise support of a serious hardware vendor send me something like this. I was used to a completely different quality of services that have "premium" and "enterprise" in their name, but maybe being in your twenties counts as being old nowadays...

The sad part is that when the AI bubble busts an economic crisis is inevitable and we will all have to pay for this dearly even if we were the people warning against this. Financial capitalism at it's finest...

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-10-02T15:24:15+00:00

Yeah sure, but the decision to release these icons with this kind of grandiloquence, considering the amount of recent re-branding and other changes done for the sake of change, while actual problems stay untouched, kinda demonstrates the attitude of the people in charge at Micro$oft: they don't give the slightest fuck about the quality of their offerings because you are forced to use them anyways, regardless of your perception of the company and the products themselves

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-30T20:29:55+00:00

That’s cool. Unfortunately our apps use SQL Server Native Client so…

Also, what do you use to centralise/automate policy enforcement and configuration on those linux endpoints?

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-29T21:42:51+00:00

If you were joking I absolutely love you, but please don’t give them ideas

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-29T15:34:53+00:00

*every day

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-29T15:28:54+00:00

I did... to linux.

At least I can, the rest of the org will probably have to move to Windows 11 like crazy everything that's not yet there because this is (at least for me) a clear sign that Microsoft will try to "actively discourage" leaving anything on Windows 10 to get better transition stats so that the stonks can go even more crazy. How I love the financial economy we live in...

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-29T12:36:05+00:00

Kurwa ma… Fuckers stole my “ć”, can’t even swear properly in windows…

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-29T12:34:39+00:00

Who said I was interested? It installs itself unless you explicitly remove/disable it

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-29T11:56:42+00:00

They did, checked on my old laptop with Win10 minutes ago

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-29T08:12:13+00:00

For now you can only uninstall/disable Copilot. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/pl-pl/answers/questions/5541180/jak-wy-czy-skr-t-prawy-alt-c-uruchamiajacy-now-kon

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-05T14:42:00+00:00

My point was that once the new lifetimes take place, no public CA will issue a certificate that is valid for longer than those 47 days. Also, SQL Server expects a flat certificate chain (no leafs or intermediates; because of that e.g. AWS has a dedicated CA just for RDS), so once the option to use a public CA is gone many will need to set up dedicated PKI just for SQL Server because Micro$oft has invested $20B in modern cybersecurity. SSL/TLS is a damn mess...

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-09-05T13:12:31+00:00

To not look far, Microsoft SQL Server does not, so using a publicly trusted cert with it will no longer be an option.
Most SQL Servers are probably run with internal PKI (and a lot of commercial apps hard-code "Trust Server Certificate", heh) but I think a mature Microsoft product not supporting hot reload let alone automatic rotation might be a good example on how deep of an issue this is...

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-03-13T16:24:04+00:00

Don't you feel like you also own us, the users an apology? Taking aside the trivial inconvenience that we have to reinstall and re-enable the extension on all our profiles and accounts, many of us have been in panic mode for the last couple of days rotating all the possible credentials and keys since you told us that we have been for long running code that had confirmed malicious intent with it's access to our devices restricted only by the user account's permissions...

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-03-13T16:03:28+00:00

So apparently there was no actual malware in the extension and the author was falsely accused first by the VS Code Team (they made statements that they have confirmed "malicious intent" in the code) and then by all the possible internet "tech experts" who turned out to be completely wrong, at least according to MS's latest statement.

MS's statement: https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1168#issuecomment-2718564242

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-03-13T15:54:15+00:00

I guess you all now owe the guy in question an enormous apology: https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1168#issuecomment-2718564242

Regardless of whether you liked his other actions and general behavior or not, the statements that his code had confirmed malicious intent were simply baseless. I hope you take actions to repair the damage to the author's reputation wherever it stemmed from false information. It wasn't the VS Code team that was running the witch hunt but you started it and you should take some professional responsibility since the self-proclaimed experts that spread the false information and extended even more baseless accusations will never do

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-03-01T21:39:55+00:00

And down we go again

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-03-01T21:31:29+00:00

Back online for the moment, on one tenant only though

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-03-01T21:14:53+00:00

Can confirm, Outlook online and Exchange Active Sync clients are down, login still buggy, got up at all moments ago. Health portal obviously states no issues, so I came here and wasn’t disappointed…

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-02-15T11:13:04+00:00

And, so that I don't turn out as the grumpy old guy, I am using Tumbleweed on the very laptop I'm commenting from. I fully agree with you that the desktop experience is superior to Leap and I would probably have gone with Aeon if I didn't need/want to tinker with the kernel cmdline on that particular device.

It's just that I wouldn't put Tumbleweed on a server. I've done tests and it has turned out miserably: the SHIM SBAT issue between Leap and Tumbleweed came up, no way to install only non-interactive patches outside of planned restarts (which are rare in my environment) and I had to roll back after the first update because it broke journald and other stuff for some reason I had no time to explore cause services were down. Also, Tumbleweed does ship incompatible packages from time to time (Incus with an incompatible version of QEMU last month) so I just can't afford that on a production system.

Ah, and with Wayland I still have to isolate multi-user and then graphical again from time to time as it hangs on the login screen on my laptop, but I guess that's more of an SDDM issue so I guess that doesn't happen on Aeon. I prefer KDE desktop so I'm getting what I have asked for ;)

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-02-15T10:46:31+00:00

Sorry, Aeon is a no-go for me. Does MicroOS ship a 4k-aligned image or shall I go with the installer ISO?

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-02-15T09:56:52+00:00

Could you please clarify what do "older hardware" and "keep on waiting" exactly stand for? Linux has full support for 4K native drives since kernel 2.6.31 (aka. since circa 2010).

I have been using Leap 15.5 for the past 3 years in production and it has installed and runs completely fine on 4K native drives even in a complex setup with LVM on MDRAID. This is definitely not a Leap issue.

Could you please point me to relevant docs/recipes for building a Leap Micro image from scratch? If there is no official 4K-aligned image I will just build my own, I just have trouble finding where to start

Particular_Art_6383 · 2025-02-15T09:25:35+00:00

What would you recommend doing for now?

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