It appears another (there have been many the past months) CRITICAL "zero auth" attack for N-Able dropped over the weekend, and N-Able has no response other than "Shut it down and await further instructions" today.

Sorry for linking to poison site, but it's the only place they have a public visible mention of it. Nothing on their site, not even logged in.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Nable/comments/1xrspdf/important_ncentral_critical_security_incident/

I know we're in the age of AI ruining absolutely everything, but the last few months of them calling us ON THE PHONE to insist we patch RIGHT NOW, TODAY leading up to WE HAVE NO PATCH, SHUT IT DOWN is my "last straw" with this company.

Will edit this post when/if I hear back. We're what- 6 hours in as a paying customer and they're full radio silence outside of the email telling us to shut 'er down.

edited again: 8 hours later, absolute radio silence. If you have NABL stock, (not a financial advisor) I suggest you dump it first thing in the morning.

Edit again, late Tuesday: hotfix released, unknown how much it covers, they're warning there will be more hotfixes soon. They at least told clients that once updated we can let the servers go live again.

Our office neighbor is the property owner's wife- thinks herself a "picker" and occasionally has sale events right next to us-

Think: $400 rotted old wagon wheels and various delapidated old shit to decorate "kitchy" houses all over the northern USA.

They descend upon me now, I can see the parking lot filling. I see the Buick that did a u-turn in the grass. Thousands of Karens- The tidal wave of SEEYOURMANAGER!SEEYOURMANAGER! is already ringing in my ears and the Toyota Highlanders already blot out the sun.

Odin welcome me, your doomed soldier who laughs in the face of death

Even task manager incorrectly reports CPU usage to the task bar now. Vibe code harder, Microsoft. Burn it all down.

Very interesting video if you scroll down their page a short distance.

I was told about this band today and a coworker showed me a youtube video of what they're like.
My question is not a joke, but the existence of this band may be?
Help me understand? Wtf this is? Is this an attempt to troll the world that people have accepted as "rock music" so they kept going? Is this "real music" and I'm the idiot?

It feels like elevator music for people in the "Beavis and Butthead" universe.

WTF IS HAPPENING?! (And no I'm not just talking about their absolutely ludicrous appearance, I'm talking about the whole package. The music sounds like LSD fueled song intros looped together without ever reaching a chorus, ever.

I'm starting to understand myself a little bit better these days.

I work a job for a brainless fuckwit who thinks a single google search can replace a skilled network engineer. I'm just about ready to walk out and let them find out just how well that would work out for them.

My family is completely bonkers. Father's an ultra far-right maga nazi. My mother is a bible bashing obedient enabler. My sister is a new wave hippy 'artist' who hasn't held a job for 20 year that refuses to speak to me because I joked about her friends doing psychedelics.

I'm too old to date, useless if I DID find a way to GET a date, and not interesting enough to hold a conversation on a date if I did, unless the other person wanted me to rant about the state of things for hours and somehow enjoyed that.

My old friends have either married and had kids, gone completely mental, (One was such a gun nut that they pointed one of their guns in my face) moved away and lost contact, or died.

I have 2 'friends' who I chat with on Discord. That's what I'm reduced to. Two people who enjoy joking around with me but probably wouldn't like me IRL.

I'm in North America and every time I see a lifted truck with the DPF removed, blasting silt out the 7 inch tailpipe with at least 1 TRUMP bumper sticker on it, I get a near unbearable urge to find the nearest bridge embankment at high speed. I never do and you don't need to give me resources for mental health, a psychiatrist, or 'prevention' resources, so don't trouble yourself with that.

If alien craft came to earth, I'd race to the nearest one, stick my thumb in the air and scream GET ME OUT OF HERE until I went hoarse.

Last night there was a "dangers of AI" talk at the local tech school, free for the public to attend, hosted by 2 local detectives from the police department.

I didn't have high hopes of technical information, but what I didn't expect was a standard "Here's how to protect yourselves from scams, elderly people" with the term "AI" glued on, and an extra 5 minutes of "They're cloning voices, do not fall for your "grandkid" calling from jail urgently needing bail money."

What I took from the talk and the questions from the public is this. No-one understands. The local police in my town are nice and are trying, but have absolutely no idea what they're up against, OR they are aware but unwilling to explain it to a room full of mostly elderly people. Maybe they've been told to "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"- to not spook the public?

The public, admittedly 90% elderly at this talk, haven't got a single solitary clue or a lick of critical thinking, asking questions like "how do I tell an email isn't from the person it says it is?" They asked questions like "So my Alexa is listening to me? Could that be used to clone my voice?"

The responses from the local speakers (again who I think are respectable, nice local cops) didn't respond with "Drown your Alexa in the bathtub when you get home" but assured the woman that "We don't think so, but if Amazon gets compromised, it's a possibility."

There was a little "think critically!" mixed in but it was not featured, not stressed as "the most important thing".

The worst takeaway was an organizer from the tech school bragging that they're integrating AI in to all of their courses.

If this is the level of understanding the general public has, I don't think we can expect them to act/vote accordingly for the threats we're facing.

I was just lamenting my cold weather gloves and thinking about how each type I try sucks in new and interesting ways and I thought-

Cyclists are probably glove experts. Anyone here willing to educate me on comfortable gloves that last and work with touch screens/etc? I don't ride, so I won't require big protection from road rash or extra padding/protection, so I might be asking in the wrong place.

Just a thought that occurred to me, a few thousand riders probably know where the good gloves are. Thanks in advance, or sorry in advance, whichever applies.

Critical thinking truly is dying, and at such speed I can barely believe my eyes. This is tough read.

Years ago I became a customer for MAIL. ** JUST. MAIL.**

I now have access to
VPN
-Don't care, don't want. I use a different service.
Drive
-I'd rather eat my own head than trust someone else's computer with my files. I self host.
Docs+Sheets, storing the documents in the abovementioned "Drive"
Are you joking?
ProtonPass
-Use a different self hosted solution
Wallet
-Not on your @#^ing life
Lumo AI
GFYS

Every single time I find out more trash got glued to my account I get angrier.

Either provide a "Mail+Calendar ONLY" package for a discount or prepare to lose a customer.