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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • MAHA is funny because it actually sounds like the 1 good thing out of all the crap that’s been going on. Then you look into it, and it’s just as bad as the rest… sure you got some stuff that is positive, but then you see the people who he looks to, and they are all extremists who either contradict themselves or dont actually have any real evidence of anything they spout. They also want some ridiculous changes as well. Idk why it’s so hard to do the right thing for anything, but here we are. Its not like we dont have a bunch of other countries to turn to for examples of what to do either!









  • “An issue with a routine firewall upgrade resulted in some callers from the Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales not being able to make emergency calls. Approximately 600 calls were identified to have failed during the outage, and at least four people who attempted to call Triple Zero during the outage have been confirmed to have died.”

    Wow, as someone who works in this exact role of upgrading firewalls i can tell you i have an incredible amount of anxiety when we need to do them because it is a high risk device that has caused issues in the past. Thankfully, our problems would never lead to the deaths of others, and I really can’t imagine how anyone who had a hand in this upgrade feels after hearing that. Plus, with how much attention it has, someone, if not multiple people, are going to lose their jobs. Sadly, after it upgraded, it probably worked fine except for this one or a few policies that controlled this one specific route. So nobody would have been able to tell until complaints rolled in. I dont even work in a huge company, and ours have hundreds of individual policies, so they easily could have a thousand or thousands of policies on 1 firewall. I really wonder what vendor they use.




  • Yeah, I know. All those ideas weren’t new, but I was happy to see them. I use ++ all the time, but i also like notepad just for quick notes. It’s fast and lightweight. Today, I was using ++ a lot actually to edit firewall configs and scripts. They both have their place for me, but I will definitely be forced to give it up the day I am greeted with a check out our AI when opening notepad.



  • I didn’t try, but a lot of those simple old apps were able to just run without any dependencies, and you may be lucky to just be able to copy the .exe from an older system to the new one.

    I actually have been enjoying the changes they did to it with new tabs and auto saving so you can reopen without losing anything. But wow, I never saw AI coming to this… I will need to find a way to prevent it from updating. Otherwise, I will also be going back.