huh, grafana and friends are being considered #legacytech already.
are there viable alternatives in the oss realm or time to brush up on #b4devops tools like nagios, munin smokeping, and cacti?
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/GrafanaAndLokiLegacyHere
I found an old box of technology from my childhood in my parents' attic. This got me thinking about all the old technical devices that are out there waiting for a purpose and to be used again.
#ChatGPT #ai #legacytech
Brand new HP M501dn has TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled, no way to disable.
Update firmware to latest(!) 2021(!) version and now there’s a menu page to turn that off.
Printer came out in 2016, sadly no “use by 2019” date on the package…
So, why is #dotnet involved in the blame for #MicrosoftAzure CLI upload to blob storage being weird?
Due to how #dotnet computes an MD5, and returns an array of 16 bytes (the output of `xxd -r -p` in the cautionary tale), instead of the more common hexadecimal string.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.cryptography.md5?view=net-10.0#remarks
An MD5 string is 32 bytes, so #Microsoft saved 16 bytes by making it less easy to get an MD5 string... #640kEnoughForAnyone
#MicrosoftLogic #ShamelessTechShaming #LegacyTech #LegacyCode
I imagine it went down like this at the #MicrosoftAzure design meeting:
> Microsoft engineer: We should store the MD5 of the content in the blob storage database.
> Senior Microsoft engineer: Let's use #dotnet (!), and interpret the hexadecimal MD5 (with a newline!) as binary, and then base64 encode it!
They might have saved a couple of bytes... #dotnet ...👏 ...😬
#MicrosoftLogic #ShamelessTechShaming #LegacyTech #LegacyCode #LegacyCodeProblems
But try uploading a single file to blob storage with the #MicrosoftAzure CLI! (and consume it with official #dotnet API's - which require an MD5 checksum for blobs)
Surely `az storage blob upload --file foo [account] [container] [dst]` is enough?
Wrong! You need `az storage blob upload --file foo --content-md5 $(md5sum foo | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xxd -r -p | base64) [account] [container] [dst]` 😬
Likely due to doing stuff with #dotnet
#ShamelessTechShaming #MicrosoftLogic #LegacyTech #LegacyCode
#USpol #GeoPol #Security #China
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...thinking out-of-the-box. Time for the #US to stop the partisan fighting and catch up.
These big #LegacyTech #AircraftCarriers from the (previous) #ColdWar period?--I think the #60Minutes report indirectly shows that they could be "sitting ducks" for the #PRC's new rockets...
Oh, and yes, 2027 seems like a plausible date for a #Chinese invasion of the #RepublicOfChina. If #MoscowAgentGriftingAmerica, #MAGA #Trump remains the...
"a stark new #reality: With #AI, #legacytech companies are sucking the innovation out of the room like a giant squid & more rapidly than w previous waves of #technology. And they're doing it right under the noses of #regulators. Requirements around computing power & talent hv made it too expensive for most companies to build cutting-edge #generativeAI models without e #patronage of a tech giant .. Bec #bigtech buys, rather than innovates, the strategy benefits #Microsoft"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2762829/the-ai-assembly-line-ends-with-the-tech-giants
I have an original Microsoft Surface Pro with original keyboard in near pristine condition. Now running Windows 10. It was bought for me at a Microsoft convention in California in (I think) 2015, just after the Surface range was launched. Now has an aftermarket charger, but I still have the original USA charger, which works, but has an output cable fault. Is this thing of any value? #microsoft #computers #legacytech
DVDs are going the way of the cassette tape. The latest company to say goodbye is Best Buy.
#LegacyTech #DVDs
https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-goodbye-to-more-dvds-best-buy-plans-to-phase-out-sales-of-physical-movies-in-the-coming-months/
Step into the world of technical debt and learn from the legacy of long-dead techs. Discover our reflections on the journey in our latest blog post.
https://www.eliza-ng.me/post/javatechnicalde/
#technicaldebt #legacytech #blogging #techreflections
I'm trying to remember the term for when a company stops supporting your "smart" thermostat. It's so horrible what happened to these people.
#ArtificialEyes #BionicEyes #LegacyTech #MedicalAppliance #PlannedObsolescence #UnplannedObsolesence #InternetOfShit
I haven’t used a floppy disk since 2005, but yes they are still using them because of legacy machines. Probably most if not all of Gen Z wonder, what are those things called floppy disks.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/why-the-floppy-disk-just-wont-die/
