I'm surprised to have read to the end and found that they're still not performing any hardware monitoring and alerting. SMART may not always show up pre-failure warnings but when it does they can usually be trusted.
Wasn't it a conclusion of the Google hard drive reliability study that models based on SMART were not useful? I.e. drives with sector reallocations are much more likely to fail than those without, but their failure rate is still something like 15% per year, so what useful thing can you do with that signal?
Well I don't see why you'd want to keep running a drive that is showing warning signs, it's just asking for trouble. But even if one doesn't replace them from this data, if you start seeing alerts and at the same time your database suffers from corruption, that also shows the use of SMART.
N=1, but I had a drive show catastrophic SMART failures once. I figured I'd take the opportunity to tinker with the exposed serial port on the drive's PCB and wiped the SMART values.
Funny thing was, I didn't actually observe any data loss. I stressed the drive for several days, no errors. It went back in my daily driver for the next 5 years with no failure. It's been 15 years since that happened and the drive still hasn't failed.
I've known a fair few drives with uncorrectable sectors or adaptor warnings that continue to work but a lot more that have degraded or just outright failed.
Hard Disk Sentinel is really good for this type of thing. The developer is awesome and some years ago after I asked for some new features added code to better support my RAID adapter.
With this change of policy the foundation does not "have any control or influence over what WinGet does", one of the first class methods to install python.
The article links to a statement made by Backblaze:
"The Backup Client now excludes popular cloud storage providers [...] this change aligns with Backblaze’s policy to back up only local and directly connected storage."
I guess windows 10 and 11 users aren't backing up much to Backblaze, since microsoft is tricking so many into moving all of their data to onedrive.
"In terms of implementation, the most interesting one is “Іron Wаllеt” (the I, a, and e are Cyrillic). Three seconds after install, it fetches the phishing page’s URL from the first record of a NocoDB spreadsheet and opens it [...] The API key had write access, so I wiped the spreadsheet."
You do realize that the english speaking world is much bigger than the USA right? The fact it is the default language for business/trade means that it is known and spoken all over the world. So no, there is no "reasonnable default".
In case you didn't know, it is called english for a reason, USA didn't create it.
Also there is absolutely 0 correlation between where a website is based or hosted and its visitors origins unless it tackles only topic that are specific to a particular area ou in a language known by a very limited population.
We could have said that for publisher a few years back. Its death knell has been sounded and microsoft aren't even offering any way for people to properly view or print their publisher files, let alone edit them.
The UK's BT Broadband did this around 2007 via Phorm. Actually they did worse - used the data to inject custom advertising. Not only were their customers chill with it, so was the Information Commissioner's Office, the government arm that ostensibly protects our privacy.
