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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • With Windows 10, Microsoft started performing a monthly cumulative updating schedule. Every second Tuesday of the month is “patch day” and a new monthly cumulative update is made available.

    There are exceptions to this, for security and bug fixes that can’t wait until the next monthly round-up. So perhaps this month was one of those? But trends are that updates are monthly. I can see it being perceived as more often, as the update is forced onto us, with a reboot, which can be frustrating.

    Azure servers now support reboot-less updating, hopefully that makes its way to consumer products, but who knows.

    Microsoft has always had a bad rep for their OS being full of holes and getting exploited. However some of this was due to users not updating. Microsoft would patch an issue, but huge swaths of unpatched Windows machines would be exploited and used as botnets. I think the forced updates were in response to this situation. Not that I agree with it.


  • Sorry, you’re right. The point I was trying to clumsily make is that It didn’t have the effect that the RAF were aiming for. Which was to break morale and more importantly, stem the civilian population production of war. If anything, production increased, despite the terror.

    I’m incredibly ignorant on WW2, and in general knowledge, being a nerd and all, my brain is full of Linux. However I have recently been watching the World War in Color series. I’ve been watching several other similar series and I’m totally hooked now.

    The run-up to WW2 and current US affairs look strikingly similar. I look at the TV, then my phone, then back at the TV and “it’s the same picture”.








  • I note that you reported this post as “wild misinfomation”. Now I’m totally ignorant on the topic, so can you elaborate some more on how this is ECT?

    On face value, the Wikipedia article you posted describes ECT’s purpose is to induce a seizure.

    Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatric treatment that causes a generalized seizure by passing electrical current through the brain

    The article mentions something much milder

    by wearing a small device that applies mild electrical micro impulses

    ECT sounds horrific, but without further information, the articles only similarity is “electric meets brain”, but without the seizure part.





  • Many malicious actors don’t trigger their payload that you would notice until after data has been mined.

    I’ve visited businesses to help put together basic infrastructure after their systems were encrypted and ransomed. We would bring up a backup from the night before only to find the system still infected. We would go back a week, 2 weeks, a month.

    These things lie in wait and only as the final nuclear option do they get noticed.