Michael Fisher / is on Nostr

All worn-out and tired after a long squawk 🦜

IT Cloud Solutions Architect. Other interests: sci-tech, astronomy, weather, music. He/him. DMs are not guaranteed to be private; I don’t block them, but please use a non-Mastodon channel for private communications.

“Kindness needs an infrastructure.” - D. Stern

Location: Dallas, TX, USA
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mjf_dfw
GitHub: https://github.com/mjf-pro

Last Notes

2024-07-08 17:53:27

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Is it even possible to create a new password that isn’t already included in the dump? (Asked only half-jokingly)

2024-06-08 00:50:21

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Microsoft burning customer trust to the ground over the last decade is probably the most important factor, more so than the specific technical details, because the technical decisions so far were driven by the priority they’ve given to trust. What you put into the product builds it or destroys it, and Recall is a force 10 trust wrecking ball.
https://hachyderm.io/@mjf_pro/112571238676363819
What MS needs to do to rebuild customer credibility and trust at a high level: (1/2)

2024-06-08 00:50:21

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1. Stop giving the customers what you think we “should” want (AI-equipped everything, clickbait widgets, and ads popping up in our damn start menus)
2. Start giving us what we in fact thought we were paying you for (flexibility, stability, safety, security, and support)
3. Then and only then will we give a 🐀 🫏 about how and where to work AI into the mix. (2/2)

2024-06-07 22:25:46

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How will MSFT prevent that from happening? And will hardware vendors also set their system’s NPU to disabled state out of the box, and fire off a TPM-like alarm or pause the boot process when its state changes? (2/2)

2024-06-07 22:25:45

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Opt-in isn’t enough. If the feature is in fact in a disabled-by-default state, and can be left that way without destroying OS or application functionality, and in fact doesn’t capture *anything* when disabled, there’s one more question: If it can be enabled or disabled in software, then a malicious actor may be able to write their own malware or use existing/updated C&C botnets to flip the feature on without the user’s knowledge. (1/2)

2024-05-30 16:08:33

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https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/530/430/932/932/579/original/85962468b53bb799.mp4

2024-05-30 16:01:32

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Labeling any human “God-like” (who isn’t actually St. Freaking Teresa while she was still alive) illuminates so much about why things are the way they are.

2024-04-20 01:56:16

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Agnostic-plus. She doesn’t reach my core taste in music personally, but she’s got a ton of talent and does a lot of good things right. I wish her well! 🫶

2024-04-15 01:42:50

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We can’t control what others do, but we can (and I think are) providing a decent alternative to corporate social media that has easily reached critical mass. Our task is to continue being better — and if “product” and “quality” and “experience” are the driving forces rather than “engagement” and “addiction” and “profit”, then were doing something right.

2024-04-08 21:01:28

Mmmmghsyehz shh kzhagcj 😳😳😳🤯 #eclipse #dfw #dallas
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2024-04-08 14:45:57

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If it’s smart it will have gone outside too, now that it knows there are cats on patrol.

2024-04-05 13:43:46

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Filing in the “Getting Old Effing Sucks” folder. 😕

2024-04-03 14:49:27

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George and Washy’s hidden talents could be put to great use here.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/207/368/258/710/972/original/b0624db32662c87e.mp4

2024-03-31 18:30:51

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I just had a very uncharitable thought that I will otherwise keep to myself.

2024-03-28 20:22:38

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Unexpected, but perhaps the sins of these particular parents have a shot at redemption.