Reading Ant

Quant researcher, programmer, geek, nerd. Also part time audiophile, wine-snob and watch collector

[マニアーーー@マルイチ電奇 @tyuunitokaiuna]

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[Edge Security @EdgeSecurity]

WireGuard has some big updates ready to go on Windows, our first on the platform in nearly 4 years. We've done some nice modernizations and improvements, fixed bugs, added features, updated the toolchain, and more. But our release is currently blocked by @Microsoft.

The recent thread on Hacker News encouraged me to write this up, rather than just grumbling to myself privately about it as I have the last two weeks.

I logged in to get the WireGuardNT driver signed -- a necessary step for driver authors -- and was greeted by this vague message that the account has been suspended. Looking further into it, it seems like they instituted an identity verification policy, didn't notify me about it, and then I guess they suspended accounts who didn't do the verification. So of course I did the ID card verification immediately, but now an appeal is necessary. The appeals process requires filing a support ticket, but filing a support ticket requires a non-suspended account... Catch-22, eventually resolved by filing one through Azure and getting it rerouted to the right department. That was two weeks ago. Now they've told me there's a 60 day appeal review period. Wish us luck!

It's a little crazy, because what if there was some critical ring 0 RCE vuln that was being exploited in the wild and that needed to be patched immediately? (Just hypothetical; there isn't.) In that case, telling users "sorry, you've got to wait 60 days" would be sort of bad. And users of WireGuard for Windows are also Microsoft Windows users, so I can't see how this is good for Microsoft either. I think it must just be a case of bureaucracy gone slightly off the rails. Happens.

If any Microsofters are able to make this take not-sixty-days, please do get in touch.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

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[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

@havelysk @Osinttechnical With an unbelievably amount of stupidity 😂

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

Why do Kier Starmer keeps saying “lack of Truss”? We all know she lost her seat, thank you #MicDrop

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

@dazraf It is! At least back in the days I was doing GCSE

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

@jed_ops Or out of decent MPs!

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

@jayforeman Need some help?

[Felix Krause @KrauseFx]

This sums up @1Password and Big Tech so well

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

@sadge_hk Same here. I'm at Tai Tam. Seems like the whole HK island then.

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

Rule of thumb.m: if you’re dealing with 4k60hz or above, stick with displayport as much as you can

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

(DP requires an active clock from the source, whereas HDMI doesn’t have that, so most of the cheaper passive DP HDMI converter only works one way but not the other)

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

(DP requires an active clock from the source, whereas HDMI doesn’t have that, so most of the cheaper passive DP HDMI converter only works one way but not the other)

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

HDMI is such a pain
All the older 4k monitors have only hdmi 1.4 port (plus DP 1.3+). Using the HDMI port? Enjoy the 4k30hz laggy experience. Want to grab a HDMI to DP converter? Prepare to find out your converter won’t work if the DP is on the monitor unless it’s the active ones

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

HDMI is such a pain
All the older 4k monitors have only hdmi 1.4 port (plus DP 1.3+). Using the HDMI port? Enjoy the 4k30hz laggy experience. Want to grab a HDMI to DP converter? Prepare to find out your converter won’t work if the DP is on the monitor unless it’s the active ones

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

@Yenthe666 And yes I’ve ran one that does around a few thousands an hour (but for a few hours of spikes only). Running on GCP + their managed Postgres service

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

@Yenthe666 I always wonder if you could do multiple physical box (each running multi worker odoo) connecting to same Postgres. I guess the bottle neck is SQL though

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@chitownpc @GoDaddy @GoDaddyHelp I'm seeing my sites up again just now

[Reading Ant @reading_ant]

@servicesdown_ Seems back up now

[singh purna @chitownpc]

@GoDaddy @GoDaddyHelp your DNS services are down. Please update on the status and ETA.