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This is only a problem with headsets that have poor drivers.

Better devices like Jabra headsets integrate directly with Teams and will actually synchronize mute status between the headset and Teams!

I have had similar realization with regard to simply mosquitoes. We used to have to put bug-nets on doors and windows to stop bugs flying in during the summer. Now, not needed anymore - at most we get one bug flying in per week.

> An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.

But what is it?

Or an IPFS transfer/mirror mechanism built into archive.org.

Geographic locationa affects far more than just latency. Even though you may have a 100 Mbps link on both client and server , only 10 Mbps might make it across the Atlantic Ocean. Connections between countries/ISPs are not unlimited in capacity!

Yeah, I am in the same boat - I have boatloads of unutilized bandwidth and storage space that I would love to contribute to a worthy cause like archive.org.

Ideally, I would like to be able to point at some RSS feed of torrents of relevant archive.org collections (whatever the curators believe popular enough to benefit from peer-to-peer distribution). I could then set a torrent client to donwload and seed everything on this feed.

Sounds more like a track record of owners not patching their routers. Every brand of network devices has had serious security flaws. At least MikroTik is cheap and functional.

https://sander.saares.eu/ on media streaming and DRM.

DRM is often seen as some sort of dark art. A lot of this comes from the proprietary nature of it, with NDAs on every corner and technology licensing processes that require months of effort to get access to even the basic documentation.

Over the past decade, ever-increasing standardization in the media industry has opened up DRM to a great degree, though much remains in the proprietary domain for legacy reasons. Even though standardization has helped a great deal, it is hard to find human-readable information about DRM. ISO/IEC 23001-7:2016 does not make for easy bedtime reading!

I have worked in the field for 12 years and was recently motivated to share my knowledge and remove some of the unwarranted mystery from the field. I am currently writing up a new series of articles, to be published starting May, opening up the topic of DRM for a wider audience. You will find them at my website, though right now there are only a few old articles from ancient history there.

If you make solutions that aim to provide Hollywood grade content or just think this topic sounds interesting, this upcoming series might be a good introduction to the necessary content security universe for you. I might also post other digital media topics there from time to time.

You might want to improve the designs to lengthen the shelf-life, to enable the use of smaller amounts of nuclear and conventional explosives, to increase efficiency and reduce the fallout created and so on. There are many more attributes to nuclear weapons than just how big of a bang they make.

My preferred API design is RPC - expose various method calls to other systems. In practice, this means gRPC whenever possible, basic HTTP RPC when not, and finally SOAP is also fine if you are on a platform that has a sane implementation.

I could try think of why but in practice, it just seems to work out the best. Are there reasons? Sure. But coming up with a detailed rationale would take some days of thinking. It just works very well.

This means on my service side I expose SaveWidget(id, body) ReadWidget(id) PatchWidget(id, changes) QueryForWidgetsByFoo(foo) QueryForWidgetsByFooBarAndSomeOtherSTuff(foo, bar, otherstuff) and on the client side I just call them as if they were local (but rather slow performing) functions.

Lots of little ifs and buts but this has proven the superior approach in all scenarios where I control both client and server. I might go for REST for wide-audience APIs just for the recognizability.

The article claims that there is some push towards centralized DNS. I do not see the evidence to support this - the only reason Cloudflare is the default in Firefox is that DoH implementations are still rare. PowerDNS is free to implement DoH themselves if they want their customers to be competitive, and so is every ISP.

Good one

The article in the linked post says nothing beyond repeating an obvious corporate soundbite and there is no list of articles in the comments. What list are you referring to?

> but not unheard of (maybe 2% of our customers right now).

That seems like a huge amount of customers, no? The income from 2% of customers is enough to pay for several employees' salaries, I bet.

BitLocker is great, especially as it can also take advantage of a TPM to protect against evil maid attacks .

In contrast, VeraCrypt developers did not seem to understand what a TPM is when I tried to discuss the topic with them.

What is this thing even for? I cannot make heads or tails of the description on the website.

But the good times came back with Google delisting threats (you cannot show different content to Googlebot VS users).

This meant you could keep scrolling and what do you see - a few pages after the blurred out answers were the real answers!

Every single version of Edge I have used has had unexplainable random pauses and jitter in GUI responsiveness. If they do some "clever" side-thread processing and queueing of inputs, I can imagine where this comes from. It was the number 1 thing preventing me from giving Edge more than a cursory try.

The Revelation Space book series by Alastair Reynolds [spoilers ahead] ends with such a paperclip maximizer scenario. Someone accidentally turns on advanced sentient self-replicating terraforming robots without programming their target area. They promptly begin to terraform the galaxy and don't take kindly to interference.

This is a tiny shade of background in the story, not the main story, but read the books if you like this kind of tale.

All of which would require the customer to make one of those lovely support calls and create opportunity for upselling!

Conversely, I recently did some driving in a recent Volvo with all the assist features and was pleasantly surprised to find it quite unobtrusive and actually helpful. There's hope!

What would solve it is having your DNS have a low lifetime and then changing the DNS to point to not-Cloudflare. It would still be down for some users as long as the old (Cloudflare) DNS is cached, though.

I want this. If I am connecting remotely, I want to use the keyboard layouts present on my remote station, since they are likely a good match for the physical keyboard I am actually sitting behind. Remember that keyboard layouts are not just different letters, they also define different sets of physical keys.

Hiding our heads in the sand only means that the vulnerabilities will not be fixed and that only especially crafty attackers (i.e. the most dangerous ones) can exploit them. We need more openness, not security based on someone's feelings of morality.

Thank you for linking some studies! This is very interesting to me, since I have noticed CO2 levels having a major effect on my work routine.

There is a CO2 sensor on my desk for 10 years already. Generally it is around 650 ppm during a working day but occasionally the building's ventilation system's power trips and air movement suddenly decreases. This causes CO2 levels to rise fast - once they hit 900-1000 ppm, I can definitely feel a decrease in my ability to focus and think clearly (and yes, I feel it even before looking at the numbers, ha!).

Obviously silly single anecdote but subjectively the link is very strong for me!

PS. On a sad note is that I remember the days when coming to work in the morning meant the CO2 level was at 350 ppm. These days clean air is 450 ppm in this city!

I am a real big fan of audiobooks but unfortunately am forced to pirate them because Audible only works with DRM. I would love to buy audiobooks legally but even if I consented on principle to DRM (I do not), my MP3 players do not support DRM.

The title gives the impression that this was an outage of Cloudflare's DNSSEC service, whereas in reality the Cloudflare website was down due to a DNSSEC error. Ideally the title should be clarified to make it obvious that Cloudflare customers were not affected.

What makes NH so special?

This looks like RTX versus Quake2 software renderer, so the pictures are somewhat deceptive as they do not use the more powerful original Quake2 renderers.

I would be interested how RTX compares to the other Quake2 renderers that it originally came with.

What does "opted out of contact" mean? I wonder if I am missing some communications because I unchecked some "don't send me spam" checkbox now!