There’s some AV packages like Lookout that are pretty common in corporate environments.

And really any big data collection through apps will make itself to servers eventually if course. You don’t need to open a URL for this to trigger, the eicar code being in memory of a process is enough.

Of course you do need to decode the QR. But I’m sure many environments focused on video data collection would device QR codes.

Torrents, you can’t peer with other people behind NAT.

Interesting. I’d actually pay for an in browser VPN, it’s handy to be able to switch countries on the fly. Ideally even per browser tab.

I would not however pay for Mozilla’s mullvad thing. I don’t like mullvad since they dropped port forwarding and OpenVPN. I use proton now for that. But in the browser is a different usecase for me.

It’s just weird that it’s not possible to pay for this but only for the thing I don’t want.

No it’s not but the whole point of it is that antivirus packages detect it, and they will kill and quarantine the process handling the data. Its purpose is to trigger an antivirus response for testing purposes.

So it can indeed be used as a DoS kinda thing in many cases.

True though I block all the cookies anyway so accepting it doesn’t actually do anything :)

It feels like we need a new internet yes. With all the enshittification, commercialisation, surveillance by governments and industry, age verification etc, the old internet is ruined.

Maybe something like the dark web but more mainstream and less creepy.

Microsoft don’t care about file shares anymore anyway, they want you to sign up for OneDrive :(

Microsoft also make the one app that actually shines in electron: vs code. It’s really quite optimised. But somehow they didn’t bother learning lessons from that and keep rolling out terrible slop like teams and new outlook.

It’s weird how one company can do things right and also be do incompetent at the same time.

Probably but Jira makes it so hard.

For example if I type 1h 33m it’s ok but 1h33m is not. It’s just a really awkward UI.

We don’t do any of those things. We’re not even developers. We just use Jira to log hours (which is basically one big fantasy obviously)

Nothing. I really hate the agile thing anyway.

Nothing, personally. Jira at our place only serves the bean counters in the programme management department. The data is a mess anyway, it just gives them the illusion of control.

I work in a large enterprise and most of our work is just stupid red tape satisfying processes and other teams’ rules, many of which just exist to keep those teams employed. There’s so much unnecessary work and BS going on.

I hope they will go down the drain. No more Jira! 🙏