That’s because people are stupid enough to never write down their keys and it’s better to have somewhat worse encryption compared to no encryption.

In an enterprise the recovery keys are most often stored in AD or Entra.

That’s a shame. Well at least it is not as important since you don’t actually live there. Not saying it’s not important, it’s not just quite as important as someone actually living there.

If one system is somehow compromised, the attacker could effectively impersonate all the systems on your entire domain if they had the wildcard cert. Maybe it’s not a huge deal for individuals but for companies or other organisations it could be extremely dangerous.

If someone wanted a wildcard cert at work I would be very cautious before I even considered issuing one. Unfortunately there are a few wildcard certs on our domain, but those are from before my time.

Luckily, wildcard certs are insecure and should be avoided.

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Yeah, mate. I sure wish they did.

I played at launch (and after of course) I can’t recall that the driving was that bad on the keyboard. Maybe I’m just very used to driving with a keyboard but I didn’t really have any complaints even if it wasn’t exactly perfect.

Can’t you vote at an embassy or consulate?

Vote in person then 🤷

Here it’s only possible to mail vote from abroad and I have never done it but it doesn’t appear that you get a confirmation here either.

If we are talking about registers of who voted and not for whom. Why does it matter? Who voted isn’t secret at all. So why even bring that up? For the record I voted in the most recent EU and national elections.

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Why would the government know your voting history? Isn’t voting anonymous where you live?

No idea what a tax id is but in Sweden everyone’s home address, income, phone number, “personnummer” (a unique ID assigned to every citizen), and some other stuff. And for the most part it works pretty well. I’m usually concerned about privacy but I don’t mind this because it applies to everyone equally (except a few people with protected identity for safety reasons) and it’s just so open and convenient.

I’m not saying that all government documents should be public information but here most documents are.

The only reason that I have measured my server is that it has that feature built into the iDRAC. I have been thinking of buying an external power meter for years but have never bothered to do that.

Luckily I got my server for free from work. It was part of an old SAN so it came with 4 dual 16 Gbit fiber channel cards and 2 dual 10 gigabit ethernet cards. Before I took those out of the server it consumed around 150 watts at idle which is crazy.

You can do regular code blocks in Slack? I thought you only could do inline or in snippets.

We luckily use both at work.

Yeah server hardware isn’t the most efficient if you want to save power. It’s probably better to get a NUC or something.

With that said my old Dell PowerEdge R730 only uses around 84 watt (running around 5 VMs that are doing pretty much nothing) The server runs Proxmox and has 128 GB of ram, two Xeon E5-2667 v4 CPUs, 4 old used 1 TB HDDs I bought for cheap, and 4 old used 128 GB SATA SSDs I also bought for cheap (all storage is 2,5 drives).

All I had to do was change a few BIOS settings to prioritize efficiency over performance. 84 watts is obviously still not great but it’s not that bad.

Yeah, maybe Parsec.

Teams isn’t intended for streaming video games, it’s for meetings.

Have you used teams for sending code recently?

I tested it last week and it worked pretty well and even featured syntax highlighting. From the very limited one time test I actually prefer the way teams handle code since it doesn’t force you to use some kind of snippet.

Teams is also supposed to get better formatting and chats fairly soon. I will continue to use slack because I prefer it but it’s nice that teams is at least getting better.

There is a setting in slack that is enabled by default so that notifications will only arrive on your computer if you are active on it.

Discord does the same thing. It’s great, I wish teams and outlook did it too.

That’s not really Teams fault though. Sounds more like a team issue than a Teams issue.

Except the absolutely valid (I don’t not necessarily agree but it’s fair) criticism about mitm and other similar stuff, cloudflare actually does a lot of good stuff.

In general they stand their ground against companies who try to force them to do stuff like this.

They are also seemingly involved in developing and finding ways to make the internet a more secure place, like with encrypted client hello. And encrypted DNS.

No, pretty much everyone agrees with you. It’s like posting on unpopular opinions: “I think Hitler was a bad person”