While Microsoft told BleepingComputer in March that it would “consider addressing” this zero-day flaw, even though it “does not meet the bar for immediate servicing,” it has yet to release security updates to patch this heavily exploited Windows vulnerability.

Sure, they have to triage threats to mitigate but you’d think active exploitation campaigns would bump up the priority a bit.

I setup moonlight+sunshine, I don’t even remember anything about the setup because it was straight forward and worked without any tinkering. I even used a raspberry pi 4 as a client and it felt fine. I say just go for it, you’ll be up and running in just a few minutes and you lose nothing if it doesn’t meet your needs.

Ah, the crowdstroke.

Looks like AMD has already patched it, also appears to affect older Intel versions of the same tech concept but not current generations.

Only really affects guests in multi tenant hypervisor environments, requires physical access to the hypervisor, requires external physical hardware, requires booting the host with said hardware attached, at some point this level of compromise is already absurd. This kind of research is important and shows that we still need to limit out level of trust with host providers but I don’t think anyone needs to panic.

while this is great and should be celebrated, keep in mind the specific word electricity. Those of us from warmer states probably arent familiar with how many joules of heat come from oil or gas furnaces which significantly reduces the electricity demand of each home. I was really surprised when I moved from FL to MA that I only had a 100A service line because the furnace and water heater are fueled by #2 oil. Gross. Anyway, according to these guys:
https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=SD
the population of SD is tiny so they don’t use much for heating either so that’s cool, hopefully with a bit more electrification they can redyce their consumption even more.

i use notepad to paste garbage that needs the formatting stripped out, they better not fuck that up.

nyan answered your question, I just want to add that older photoshop allegedly runs well in wine and for me personally i’ve had a lot of success with photopea although I’m a terrible example because I don’t do much with it.

not OP but yeah, hopefully it works in wine or has a webapp, failing that I look for alternative software that meets my needs. If all else fails I suppose I could use a windows VM until a better solution appears. It’s really going to depend on your specific case and how vendor locked you are.

Russian government officials trying to get away from windows, eh?

Man, it sure would suck if you could still get to safe mode from pressing f8. Can you imagine how terrible that’d be?

I had to deploy a couple MS SQL clusters years ago, I’m fuzzy on the details but for whatever reason we needed a domain admin to enable clustering and instead of following the permissions on the KB they gave up just made the service account a domain admin.

To this day I’ll never understand why a vendor would choose MS SQL or Oracle if they don’t have a very specific function that they need.