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w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from Windows 11 guide

Only consumer version of Windows (Home and Pro) have the Microsoft Account requirement.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created

There is this tool from Facebook.

"Certificate Transparencyis an open framework which helps log, audit and monitor publicly-trusted TLS certificates on the Internet. This tool lets you search for certificates issued for a given domain and subscribe to notifications from Facebook regarding new certificates and potential phishing attacks."

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/ct/search/

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk

Microsoft Safe Link technology does not actually inspect the link until the user clicks on the link. This is to avoid that confirmation links, used by some service to confirm registratio or as 2FA, may be triggered by the security engine without user consent.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Show HN: Faster-than-light ping (April Fools')

Ubuntu

  PING ftlping.net (82.165.188.205) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=131 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=121 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=110 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=88.0 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=105 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=6 ttl=49 time=80.5 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=7 ttl=49 time=69.9 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=8 ttl=49 time=58.6 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=9 ttl=49 time=55.8 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=10 ttl=49 time=40.1 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=11 ttl=49 time=30.7 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=12 ttl=49 time=20.6 ms
  ping: Warning: time of day goes back (-7859us), taking countermeasures
  ping: Warning: time of day goes back (-7746us), taking countermeasures
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=13 ttl=49 time=0.000 ms
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=14 ttl=49 time=18.7 ms
  ping: Warning: time of day goes back (-8431us), taking countermeasures
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=15 ttl=49 time=0.000 ms
  ping: Warning: time of day goes back (-17099us), taking countermeasures
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=16 ttl=49 time=0.000 ms
  ping: Warning: time of day goes back (-27144us), taking countermeasures
  64 bytes from rfc6921.net (82.165.188.205): icmp_seq=17 ttl=49 time=0.000 ms

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Linux 6.9 Set to Drop the Old NTFS File-System Driver

The new NTFS driver is still included in the kernel.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Comparing Postgres Managed Services: AWS, Azure, GCP and Supabase

Why not? Latency?

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

Old Outlook

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Google Pay app will no longer be available

Google Pay was rebranded as Google Wallet in the rest of the world in 2022. Only US and Singapore kept the Google Pay brand. (No idea why)

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pay-becomes-google-wall...

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs

Amazing site!

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon 'Impossible' to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenA

Is this made up?

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

Passenger Diego Murillo, who had been on his way to Ontario, California, said the gap was "as wide as a refrigerator" and described hearing a "really loud bang" as the oxygen masks dropped from above.

He told KPTV: "They said there was a kid in that row whose shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane and his mother was holding onto him to make sure he didn't go with it."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67899564

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Reports emerge suggesting Mt. Gox creditors are receiving repayments

the math is pretty complex, but it's around 0.16 BTC per BTC at today prices

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot

Wait, Microsoft 365 Copilot costs 30$/user per month. Or are you talking about just "Copilot" wich does not have any integration inside Microsoft 365 Apps (Office apps like Powerpoint or Outlook).

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon The Long Shadow of Checks

I don't undertand why there is not a better alternative in US, like a bank transfer/wire. In the EU, these transfers are often free at most banks, or at most, they incur a fee of 1 or 2 euros.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Wise (formerly Transfer Wise) are asking me to send them photo of my ID

In Italy we have SPID https://www.spid.gov.it/en/ I believe it is similar to login.gov in US.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data

I requested the personal information they have about me related to a Maestro debit card I use as my main debit card, and the result was: "We did not find matching results for you!".

I am in EU.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Credit card debt collection

That's because in the Netherlands most banks used Maestro (owned by Mastercard) and Vpay (owned by Visa) as international debit circuit. The acceptance for Maestro and Vpay online is much lower than "normal" Mastercard Debit and Visa Debit. Acceptance for Mastercard Debit and Visa Debit is practically the same online as Mastercard Credit and Visa Credit.

Maestro is being sunset by Mastercard and no new card can be issued. Only Mastercard Debit. So the problem with the fact that Dutch debit cards (Maestro) are not accepted online will be solved in a couple of years.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Visa, Mastercard Prepare to Raise Credit-Card Fees

Actually just a specific fee is capped in EU, the interchange fee.

"Interchange is a small fee typically paid by acquirers (retailer’s bank) to issuers (cardholder's bank), to recognise the value delivered to retailers, governments and consumers by accepting electronic payments."

The interchange fee does not go to Visa or Mastercard, do I think they are free to increase any other fee (if they are not colluding in a cartel ;)

BTW This is the reason that in EU credit cards gives no rewards or very small ones. Rewards are, for the most part, coming out of the interchange fee.

https://www.mastercard.com/europe/en/regulatory/european-int...

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Binance outflows hit $6B as Mazars halts ‘proof of reserves’ work

If they are in just for speculating/trading, they could trade ETFs denominated in BTC or ETH on regulated banks.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Why no Roman industrial revolution?

"And even if some ancient engineer magically did create a simple two stroke engine, there wouldn't be any incentive to invest as to produce them with regularity. At most, they would've been a curiosity of the wealthy with little usage beyond some minor conveniences."

To confirm this, ancient greeks invented a simple steam turbine, and was regarded as a "party trick".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Oauth2 support for GMail

Searching "gmail oauth malicious"

https://duo.com/blog/gmail-oauth-phishing-goes-viral

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Why is California wasting millions on hydrogen fuel pumps?

Also, the market deciding what should succeed is not science. I believe we have many examples.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022

Also, using TLS with Perfect Forward Secrecy (all modern ciphers), it's not possible to just capture the traffic and dectypt it later. You have to know the private key and do MITM.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon IPv4 Waiting List

"Since the RIPE NCC began operations in 1992, we have been responsible for distributing IP addresses and AS Numbers in our service region. In November 2019, we exhausted our remaining IPv4 pool. This means that networks in Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia are no longer able to receive “new” IPv4 addresses from us that haven’t previously been used by another network."

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure

The contract I have with my bank (Italy) states that in case of dispute they will refund the money immediately (end of the working day).

Then they take some time to review the transaction and then they can take their money back if they think my chargeback request was not legitimate.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon When McDonalds Came to Denmark

"When I bring this up, people sometimes respond by saying that these kinds of strikes are illegal in the US. This is a true and worthwhile bit of information, but insofar as it is meant to imply that the different legal environment is what accounts for the labor radicalism, this obviously has things backwards. The laws aren’t driving the labor radicalism, but rather the labor radicalism is driving the laws."

So true. Every kind of strikes was illegal before it became legal.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers

Most of these laws were written in Europe when staff leasing from external agencies was legalized at the end of '90/early '00. They were meant to avoid what you describe. I don't know if they work well, but it's better than nothing.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers

Google pays work agencies (like Adecco) that then pay workers. The worker has a temporary employment contract with the agency, but reports directly to Google staff.

The laws are meant to cover temporary staff hired by a work agency hired by google.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases

It's not just incompetence. Apart from costs, there are some strange limitation and very specific feature missing if you use Azure PaaS DBs with private endpoint enabled.

It's like private access has been added as an afterthought and lags behind the "normal" (public) access.

w3ll_w3ll_w3llon Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt

Let's encrypt decided for 3 month to force users to automate and avoid the burden of too much user support. They are a no-profit after all.

I believe commercial CA are offering free certificates milted to 3 months for the same reasons, and for the up-selling opportunities.

I think also cloud providers offer free 1 year TLS certificates, but of course you are also using their other services.