Interesting Tech Articles

[aygart]

Lots of jokes going around today about a wallpaper of R Shayala making the mouse stop working

[mevinyavin]

Lots of jokes going around today about a wallpaper of R Shayala making the mouse stop working

My father's Rebbe zatzal once joked that the reason Chazal say that bread a mouse ate from is kosheh leshikchah is because when your "bread" has a mouse attached, there's no motivation to do a proper chazara.

[mevinyavin]

#1 is now an almost closed loophole
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-will-force-windows-11-installs-to-use-a-microsoft-account-confirms-removal-of-popular-setup-bypass
/snip

Every time I read about this I get so angry at Microsoft....

You and lots of other people.
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-blocks-the-most-popular-windows-11-bypass-for-internet-msa-making-users-angry/
Some juicy quotes such as

What about PCs that don't have and will never have internet connectivity?
Is that not a legitimate use case now?

and dont give me that "everyone has the internet" excuse... sometimes you have situations where computers will never and i mean never be on the internet, I know we have a few use cases at work where we forbid specific systems from ever being network connected..

[mevinyavin]

TBH I'm not even sure the title is clickbait
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2770385/i-saw-how-an-evil-ai-finds-vulnerabilities-its-as-scary-as-you-think.html

[mevinyavin]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptomining/energy-use-in-a-kuwaiti-city-fell-by-over-50-percent-after-authorities-cracked-down-on-crypto-mining