Nintendo buying a Bandai Namco studio would've been a much bigger story back in 2005.

It appears Chrome may finally get JPEG XL support, although it sounds like Google wants someone outside of Google to actually provide the code for it. issues.chromium.org/issues/40168...

At least for my org, AWS seems to be deteriorating. We have less online now than at 7 AM ET this morning. In fact, more was functional an hour ago.

Microsoft has really dropped the ball with Windows 11. There are school districts choosing *Linux* going forward. Unbelievable to see in real life. This will eventually erode Entra and Azure, too. Without that tight OS integration, there's little reason not to go with other cloud solutions.

I don't know if the narrative is true that Microsoft is "replacing developers with AI," but regardless, what will be the incentive for future Microsoft employees to create efficiencies if they're afraid they'll eliminate their own jobs?

Legit looks like Musk.

@crh.bsky.social weren't you forcing MFA on logon of Windows at one point? Did you ever get it done?

@elnawser.bsky.social https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/s/wGNoETB1rz

@merill.net let's say I make a Conditional Access Policy that grants access only to device objects that have certain values in certain attributes (so device filtering). How difficult is that for an attacker to spoof? An attacker can't "pretend" to be a device to gain access, right?

@crh.bsky.social does your Microsoft 365 seller have any access to your tenant? We are looking to migrate from SHI which is an EEA to another provider which is a CSP. And they seem to want access to our tenant "to provide support." But I want nothing like that. But do you allow it?

@crh.bsky.social you told me this but I can't remember. If we have password writeback enabled and I want a user to be able to successfully change passwords, which portal should be used? Isn't there some subtle differences between, say, the Entra ID portal and the 365 admin portal?

Microsoft will look back at dropping free nonprofit licenses as a mistake.

Not gonna lie: if the "no tax on tips" provisions go through, I'm going to cut my tips by at least half. I've been having somewhat negative feelings about over-tipping for a while, and this would add to it.

ChatGPT is so wonky. It sometimes amazes me, but then you can give it something as simple as a title at the top of a CSV file and it responding "whoa buddy, that thing ain't readable!!!!!"

A year ago, this would have been called fear mongering perpetuated by the left. Today, it's just a headline right-wing nuts gloss over as normal.

Not being able to make Chrome go into true full-screen mode on macOS is a dumb limitation.

PSA: new Outlook will periodically lose your drafts.

The Microsoft IPP Class Driver does not seem to be working well. Users are so irritated by printing performance that we are having to switch back to the native drivers. The main issue we are seeing is pauses between printing of pages.

Prime example of AI feeding AI bullshit. Google's AI search results incorrectly say that Mediant SBC supports ACME. When asking ChatGPT the same question, it Googles the answer, which results in ChatGPT also having the wrong answer. They even both reference the same manual. lol

Let's Encrypt intentionally not publishing its IP list is dumb and inadvertently limiting IMO.

The U.S. has long not invested into education, but it seems to be entering a new era where over 40% of the populist truly thinks it's all ivory-tower, pie-in-the-sky, will-never-need-it bullshit.

I work in a university system. I was told tonight there will be huge cuts by June 1, 2026, as a result of state-level "efficiency" programs, inspired by DOGE. Specifically: HR, IT, and finance will be hit the hardest.

Apple officially supports application control in macOS. But Intune can't use those APIs. Why? Why do you need Jamf for this stuff?

Protip: if you have to question whether something you're contemplating doing is legal or not, there is at least a non-zero chance that it's not a good idea.

If you create a web clip on an iPad using Intune and then tell Intune to uninstall the web clip, it should uninstall, right? Or is this another dumb "Intune limitation?"

The hardest problem in computer science is properly enrolling an iPad into Intune.

This probably goes without saying, but don't let AI tell you what to buy. We had a project where we used ChatGPT to recommend items to purchase for a video/studio setup. We went back and forth with it for literal weeks. And 70% of its recommendations were flat-out terrible or wrong.

Where is there often lag when opening the the right-click menu in Windows 11? Man, this OS sucks.

U.S. unemployment numbers will be dragged in Feb. 2025 by approximately 55,000 newly unemployed, due to federal employee and federal contractor layoffs. There is still a possibility for a net increase in jobs for Feb. 2025, but it's expected to be substantially smaller than the previous estimate.

So Musk is literally leveraging his work in DOGE to force organizations to advertise on Twitter. The U.S. is getting close to Russian levels of corruption.

In AWS, why isn't there a security group that allows you to allow inbound traffic from CloudFront? This should be easy. Instead, you have to create a stupid ass Lambda function.

Only Fox News would say that fighting between the U.S. and Canada is a positive.

I can confirm this is the current behavior of AppLocker. I really, really wish it wasn't.

"Why would anyone ever want to store even a small file in 1Password?" UPDATE: Nevermind, I get it now! This has made my life and my team's life so much easier.

Gonna be a no from me, dawg.

Does anyone know anyone on the AppLocker team? It seems that it's impossible to allowlist bundled packaged apps?

"I just need to see a log." AWS: "Whoa there, little buddy. Log files ain't cheap! We can't just show you something like that on the screen! Get a bucket!" *makes bucket* AWS: "You can't just write to a bucket! Securritay! Write a JSON file to give correct permissions to the service!"

I fucking hate AWS.

"Why would anyone choose an alternative to AWS?" Because everything in AWS is painful. Yes, you can see your destination, but you're going to have to take a lot of one-way toll roads to get there.

Let's be honest. Here's how the budget showdown is gonna go: 1. Democrats will try to leverage the situation to get their demands on the table. 2. The American people will MYSTERIOUSLY forget why the Democrats are doing this. 3. The Democrats will capitulate as per usual.

Trump said he doesn't have to comply with federal court orders. We are now in a constitutional crisis. Right this minute.

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal

Predictable: Fox News is spinning the turmoil between the U.S. and Canada as a positive.

I feel like Bluesky, and how it's designed, is going to be more important to Americans in 180 days than it is today.

Fox News is not covering the tariffs at all. 100% chance that MAGA voters don't even know that they're implemented.

What is the name of the (new) feature that lets Windows and Windows Server communicate point-to-point using Kerberos (instead of NTLM), without a domain controller? I can't find it now and I swear it's real. Cc @nedpyle.com @syfuhs.net

On CNN a few moments ago, a Republican Congressman was asked if he supported eliminating free school lunches. He replied that students who don't have the money to pay for lunch should get a job.

To backup Microsoft Teams messages, you now must use paid APIs. lol This is so fucking corrupt. Pay for A5/E5 but can't access the data in a different way without being nicked and dimed?

Just when you think it can't get worse: the Trump administration has "paused" all grants and loans given to agencies. This might be the most economically catastrophic so far.