| lotuspsychj3 | good morning | 01:45 |
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| === leamas1 is now known as leamas | ||
| ogra_ | https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/ubuntu-saves-kerala-government-during-microsoft-outage-1.9741831 | 14:01 |
| ogra_ | 😄 | 14:01 |
| pragmaticenigma | considering the issue wasn't even microsoft's... I don't understand what you are getting at here | 14:19 |
| ogra_ | that there are people (actually a government) bragging about how ubuntu saved them from being affected by that monopolistic issue ... | 14:22 |
| pragmaticenigma | Ubuntu didn't save them from anything. They made a choice not to use a Microsoft based platform and therefor were unaffected. You can't be "saved" from something you were never in danger of experiencing | 14:23 |
| ogra_ | thats pretty nitpicky of you 🙂 | 14:24 |
| ogra_ | they surely made that decision but they are also so happy about it that they felt the need to write an article about it | 14:24 |
| ogra_ | which makes me happy as user as well as ubuntu dev, which is why i felt it isnt bad to share it with others here | 14:25 |
| pragmaticenigma | they? Unless that is a state run media outlet, pretty sure that's just some dude with a 'puter making articles for advertising revenue | 14:25 |
| ogra_ | right, i'll refrain from sharing positive news here then, if it really bothers you | 14:27 |
| daftykins | i'd have to agree that that's one of those really stupid clickbaity pieces | 14:28 |
| ogra_ | yeah, sorry then i'll keep quiet in the future (though it is very diasappointing to see how the community has changed in my 20y in here to find the worst in things instead of simply celebrating good news, but then i'm probably just getting old ) | 14:31 |
| lotuspsychj3 | a few opinions wont change the good ubuntu community feeling :p | 14:34 |
| ogra_ | heh, true dat | 14:35 |
| lotuspsychj3 | ogra_: someone adviced us a new rss feed of this, in case you dont already follow it ogra_ https://linmob.net/ | 14:36 |
| ogra_ | oh, thanks ! | 14:38 |
| lotuspsychj3 | added on #techrss for those who want/need | 14:39 |
| pragmaticenigma | ogra_: ultimately... in those 20y, I personally am tired of the smear, mudd slinging habits of the community. It's campy and really doesn't serve any purpose other than to stoke the fires of age old flamewars that really would be better to be left to go out. It doesn't benefit anyone. What those articles and similar ones are the equivalent of chastising someone for using a flat head screwdriver, when there's phillips, torx, hex, | 14:47 |
| pragmaticenigma | pozidriv, robertson, tripoint. They are all tools, and they all effectively do the same thing. | 14:47 |
| ogra_ | nobodxy is chasing anyone with that article, it simply points out that more diversity in your digital choices will protect you from such things (it will indeed not protect you from issues with ubuntu, but i think it is an important point nontheless) | 15:16 |
| ogra_ | the community i was talking about didnt have flamewars internally, they were only induced from the outside ... but that was obviously long ago ... | 15:17 |
| ogra_ | (nobody felt the need to flame anyone ... critics were calm and mindful and we used to have fruitful discussions, even heated ones, nontheless) | 15:19 |
| daftykins | shame it'll never return to that :) | 15:21 |
| daftykins | er *:( | 15:21 |
| ogra_ | the thing that shocks me a bit about todays ubuntu community is simply that everyone assumes bad intentions (i.e. above bad intentions of me posting that link here or bad intentions of the author writing it to "only get some clickbait money"), it used to be the exact other way around | 15:21 |
| ogra_ | well if i had given up hope that it potentially could change back, i'd have left already 🙂 | 15:22 |
| daftykins | hah, been a while though hasn't it? | 15:22 |
| ogra_ | heh, yeah | 15:22 |
| pragmaticenigma | ogra_: The problem I took personally with the article is that I have been following the issue. And the issue had nothing to do with Microsoft. It was crowdstrike, a "security" software company that thought they needed to place hooks into the Windows NT kernel to make their software work, then left behind bad code in their update which BSOD'd millions of companies networks. | 15:26 |
| daftykins | everyone just loves to pile on, details are ignored quickly | 15:29 |
| pragmaticenigma | indeed... it also doesn't help that Microsoft did coincidentally have a service outage earlier in the day | 15:29 |
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| ogra_ | pragmaticenigma, it was actually two issues and one of them *had* to do with microsoft (massive azure outage) .... | 16:00 |
| ogra_ | but that wasnt the point of me posting it here, it was "just some positive ubuntu news" i ran across and thought i'd share | 16:01 |
| daftykins | never once been any issues in other camps, that's for sure ;) | 16:05 |
| ogra_ | lol | 16:05 |
| Bashing-om | UWN: Issue849 now available to our reading public: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-849/46432 :D | 19:33 |
| Bashing-om | UWN: Bloggded - setting up 850 next. | 20:11 |
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| JanC | that CrowdStrike Falcon software works on Ubuntu too, so using Ubuntu won't save you from it :) | 23:39 |
| pragmaticenigma | using any half baked former penetration testing tool for a security suite is going to give someone a bad time, sooner or later | 23:46 |
| JanC | it wasn't the first time they had such an issue, from what I understand | 23:48 |
| pragmaticenigma | nope, and is my resounding reason that I'm adamant that 3rd party security software is just snake oil. | 23:54 |
| pragmaticenigma | Nearly every security software suite on the market fails to protect the system, and instead creates a bigger security hole by being vulnerable itself. | 23:55 |
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