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nightpaws

9 karma · joined June 8, 2020

Hey all, I'm a Security Engineer but I'm also a wolf online. Say hi if you see me around.
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nightpaws··on MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry
Starting to think MSFT have completely forgotten the days of the browser choice button. Wonder when we'll see that again...
nightpaws··on Bezos shares profanity-laced email from customer angry about Black Lives Matter
As controversial and problematic as Bezos can be. This is a good take on a bad customer.

They can’t always be right and sometimes need to be told how wrong they are before they hurt themselves.

I do hope there was a formal response from Amazon too, preferably one the form of confirming their intent to no longer use the service.

nightpaws··on Centralisation and Mastodon
Mastodon is a difficult one. The decentralisation of users runs contrary to the natural predisposition people have toward following the crowd.

As the writer puts it, people need to use other instances, but (myself included as a guilty mastodon.social user) the comfort of being on the bigger boat draws people in since they think it’ll be the last to sink.