416: I.T. Phone Home
Ubiquiti's troublesome new telemetry, Jim's take on the modern Microsoft, and why Project Silica just might be the future of long term storage.
Links:
- Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it? — Ubiquiti Networks is fending off customer complaints after emitting a firmware update that caused its UniFi wireless routers to quietly phone HQ with telemetry.
- UI official: urgent, please answer | Ubiquiti Community\n
- Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection | Ubiquiti Community\n
- Possible example data\n
- Latest firmware with changes\n
- Microsoft\u2019s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage | Ars Technica — Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for large-scale, (very) long duration cold storage.
- Project Silica\n
- The Future of Data Storage\n
- Microsoft Ignite 2019\n
- Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. But will anybody use it? | Ars Technica — At Microsoft Ignite a slide announced that Microsoft's project to rebase its perennially unloved Edge browser on Google's open source project Chromium is well underway. Sharper-eyed attendees also noticed a promise for future Linux support.
- Has Microsoft Changed?\n
- This isn\u2019t your father\u2019s Microsoft\n