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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I hadn't heard of that. Thanks. Just marked up my neighborhood. This a real clever and simple way to get casual users to contribute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The modern direction is actually going the other way. Tying identity to hardware, preventing access on unapproved or uncompliant hardware. It has the advantage of allowing biometrics or things like simple pins. In an ideal world, SSO would ensure that every single account, across the many vendors, have these protections, although we are far from a perfect world.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kaspersky has caused BSODs because of updates in the past as well. Hardly an AV maker hasn't. The problem here is that Crowd Strike has captured the enterprise market in a large portion of the globe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's overhead is more subtle than task manager can tell. Because of all its watching and monitoring, it slows down applications themselves. Task take longer. Sometime it is by a trivial amount, but I've been able to measure a notable difference in some task with and without S1, even if task manager says all is well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

SentinelOne. They are more reseller/MSP friendly, but the product is very similar to CrowdStrike.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I know there is a lot of marketing fluff, but yes, it is an EDR. Which means instead of just checking file signatures against a database if known bad stuff, it actually examines what applications do and makes a sort of judgement on if it is acting maliciously or not. I use a similar product. Although the false positives can sometimes be baffling, it honestly can catch a legit program misbehaving.

On top of that, everything is logged. Every file, network connection, or registry key that every process on the computer touches is logged. That means when something happens, you can see the full and complete list of actions taken by the malicious system. Thus can actually be a drain on the computer, but modern systems handle it well enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its a classic republican tactic to claim the government is useless and needs to be replaced, then cut funding so the government can't do its job, then use that as proof that they were right to cut funding.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Financially? Yeah, AI is a bubble for sure. Gobs of money are being poured in with few results to show for it. That bubble will burst. But just like the dotcom bubble, that doesn't mean the technology is useless or won't change the world, just not instantly over night with a single investment, which is what the investment groups expect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Since I was personally called out here, Windows 10 was my last home version of Windows, but it was earlier days of 10. For work, however, I manage about 1700 Windows workstations and servers, so I know all those problems still. To be fair, I've been running Linux in some form since before Ubuntu existed. I think it was Debian in 2001 or 2002 that was my first Linux desktop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

West Side Story was made so that a new generation could understand Romeo and Juliet. It did well what this AI is probably going to do poorly. I agree that this is a dumb idea for a service, and I really doubt any of the current AIs will do it the original works any justice when it comes to wordplay, clever phrasing, or other subtle details expert authors put into their works. That doesn't, however, mean that rewriting works to be more accessible isn't a very valid thing to do. Hell, that's what translation does.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, get that West Side Story bullshit out of here. If you want to learn about Romeo and Juliet, you should read it in the original Shakespeare, preferably in his original hand writing.

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