GitHub Copilot

Useful assistant or money down the drain?
Is GitHub Copilot a useful assistant or rather a waste of money and a hindrance to work? My personal experience giving it a try.

Stupid SMTP spam

If you take SPF and DKIM into account and then proceed to spam anyway
SPF and DKIM are a thing. Maybe you should start respecting them.

Illegal networking on US warships

If you cannot find the WIFI nor the Starlink antenna 😁
For months there was an illegal WIFI running on the USS Manchester (LCS-14) that provided internet access via Starlink to NCOs.

Content control: Down with the encryption!

How the problem has not been understood 30 years later
Somehow I must have missed a post by Meredith Whittaker in June, in which she complains about the new branding of this nonsense.

Is agile development dead?

Why nobody wants to work agile anymore
For some time now, articles have been appearing explaining why agile is dead, why it is not dead, why the failure rates mentioned in a study are or are not correct and whether or not we hate agile software development.

Dovecot can be attacked remotely

DoS attacks on current versions of Dovecot possible
Several versions of Dovecot offer an attack surface for DoS attacks. A secure version is available with 2.3.21.

Crowdstrike has released an RCA concerning the latest outage

A slightly convoluted explanation
Crowdstrike has released an RCA about the recent major outage. According to the introduction it is less technical and uses generalized terminology. I would not subscribe to that. The document is extensive... after fighting your way through a protective layer of bullshit.

A subscription plan for your mouse

After subscription plans for printers behold ...here comes the subscription for the mouse. Possibly.
Logitech is considering a subscription for the mouse.

Drupal 7 EOL on 5th of January 2025

Houston, do we have a problem?
Drupal 7 will be retired on January 5, 2025 after 14 years and this time the date is likely to be final, making an upgrade to Drupal 10 or a complete system switch unavoidable if you don't want to pay extra for support.

Microsoft has a bad month

DDoS attack follows CrowdStrike debacle and misconfiguration
After Microsoft was already a victim of the CrowdStrike update in the middle of the month, a DDoS attack has now been added to the mix, which has succeeded despite protection mechanisms that were apparently not configured correctly.