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  • I did that once, I was staying at a family as an exchange student and immediately forced to help with chores. Now, they ran a large creche from that house so there were a lot of different chores and being on dishes could mean slaving away in the kitchen for well over an hour.

    Anyway, I didn't know shit about how to properly dispose of oil and in the first or second week poured a large pan of oil down the drain. It ended up ruining some stuff and they had a hefty repair bill. I may be cynical, but I never gave a damn about it as they were basically using me as free labor anyway. Helping with household chores = ok. Helping clean up the gigantic daily mess of those shitty kids in your shitty creche = not ok

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
  • It's stated in the synopsis, below where it says you need to pay for the article. Anyway, it might be true as the hosting servers themselves often host up to hundreds of Windows machines. But it really depends on what is measured and the method used, which we don't know because who the hell has a statista account anyway.

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
  • Marginal? You must be joking. A vast amount of servers run on Windows Server. Where I work alone we have several hundred and many companies have a similar setup. Statista put the Windows Server OS market share over 70% in 2019. While I find it hard to believe it would be that high, it does clearly indicate it's most certainly not a marginal percentage.

  • Microsoft download pages broken

    It keeps showing Internal server error and has been for over 2 hours now. I tested from different locations (China, US, EU) and same errors everywhere. Yet I don't see any news or posts about this anywhere. I have an exchange server that needs installing today and I can't download the prerequisites to even launch the install. Sigh

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    www.theguardian.com Vincent Kompany agrees deal to become Bayern Munich head coach

    Bayern Munich have agreed a three-year deal with Vincent Kompany to take over as head coach

    Vincent Kompany agrees deal to become Bayern Munich head coach

    Bayern Munich have agreed a three-year deal with Vincent Kompany to take over as head coach.

    A fee of £10.2m will be paid to Burnley to bring the 38-year-old to the Allianz Arena, where he will succeed Thomas Tuchel in the top job. The Bundesliga club failed in their attempts to convince the German to stay after a run to the Champions League semi-finals and were forced to search elsewhere for a replacement.

    Kompany, who began his managerial career at Anderlecht, earned a big reputation after joining Burnley two years ago. The former Manchester City defender took the Championship by storm, earning rave reviews after turning a defensive side into a thrilling attacking team, and led Burnley back into the Premier League at the first time of asking.

    There were hopes that Burnley could succeed at the highest level by sticking to their progressive style of play but a failure to reinforce his squad led to a 19th-placed finish and relegation. Allowing Kompany to make a swift departure will give Burnley time to find the right replacement as they gear up for another promotion campaign.

    There will be raised eyebrows at Kompany earning such a big job. Equally there is a feeling that the 38-year-old’s methods could work well with a side at the top level. Kompany has experience of living in Germany after representing Hamburg during his hugely successful playing career.

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    Unable to remove spoilers in post text

    [BUG] Unable to remove spoilers in post text --- Sample description When having a spoiler tag in the description of a post, like >!this!<, trying to reveal the text results in an error.

    Scenario (steps to reproduce)**

    1. Open post with spoiler tag in description
    2. Click on the spoiler

    Result(s) Error removing spoiler

    Device information

    Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay

    View type: Compact

    Device: OnePlus8 Model: OnePlus IN2013 Android: 13

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    www.theguardian.com Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation

    Exclusive: Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local elections

    Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation
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    Political Memes @lemmy.world Pringles @lemm.ee

    Progress in the Middle East

    In reference to https://truthout.org/articles/israel-leads-countries-in-jailing-reporters-since-start-of-genocide-in-palestine/

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    www.theguardian.com Five asylum seekers reportedly killed in attempt to cross Channel to UK

    Helicopters and rescue boats mobilised and searches continuing near French town of Wimereux, say reports

    Five asylum seekers reportedly killed in attempt to cross Channel to UK
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    Helping a detective

    This story is from a number of years ago. At the time I was still working my way up the IT ladder and in this position I was an on-site admin. My colleague, let's call him Bob, had more experience and was more like a proper system admin, except that he managed to land probably the cushiest job in the IT landscape. He was getting paid very good money as a full time consultant and had to do almost nothing. He spent his time looking at cars, vacation spots and getting frustrated on tinder. That's not to say he was lazy, but he did most of his work outside of company hours for his own company and regarded the office hours more as leisure time.

    Anyway, we received a mail from the police department that a laptop that had been turned over as evidence in an embezzlement case, could not be opened because the disk was encrypted. An investigator would come by to give us the laptop so that we could decrypt it. The investigation had been going on for over 5 years at that point and we pretty much instantly realized this was unlikely to succeed. So the investigator shows up one day with the laptop and we earnestly try to decrypt it, digging through all potential files that may maintain the correct decryption code. Iirc this was McAfee encryption and we did export the keys on a regular basis, but that was a practice I had introduced after too many codes were lost. Since this laptop was dated from well before my time, I was pretty sure we wouldn't find the code.

    Now Bob did think of a solution, with the caveat that it wasn't exactly a legal solution. Given we were dealing with the police, we couldn't really tell them we were about to use illegal methods to provide them potential evidence. When the investigator went on a coffee break, Bob prepared a usb stick that would decrypt the disk, using some obscure piece of software of which I can't remember the name. When the investigator got back, we told him that we were at wits end and that this could take a long time still. The guy was pretty resigned at that point, as he had been waiting for a couple of hours already, and said that he would leave the laptop with us and come back once it was decrypted.

    Bob and I waited until the doors of the elevator closed behind him. I'm pretty sure that by the time he got to the ground floor, we had already bypassed the mcafee screen and were logged on to the laptop. Bob launched the decryption and then we discussed when we should inform the investigator that the laptop was ready for pickup. We didn't want to make it suspicious and send the info to him right away, but we also didn't want to wait too long. Bob wanted to milk this thing, as all time spent working on this were bookable hours for him, so we settled on 3 days. So at the end of the week we informed the police the laptop was ready. We got a reply back he would pick it up 2 weeks later. 2 months later he actually did pick it up. I never learned what happened to the investigation.

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