What is so compelling about MS outlook/exchange server that companies still suffer it?

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Why orgs use Exchange/M365: Active Directory integration —- Single sign-on, group policies, user provisioning — deep Windows ecosystem lock-in Calendar/scheduling —- Room booking, shared calendars, meeting invites “just work” across Outlook clients Compliance/legal hold —- eDiscovery, retention policies, audit logs — enterprise/legal requirements Familiar UI —- Users know Outlook; retraining costs money “Nobody gets fired … Read more

Mastery and Fumblery

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RE reflection on dev of an image editing tool in browser raw javascript — this is insanely good. this is the problem with you, ai, you magnify the greatness and also theawfulness . humans are not used to this much power in an exoskeleton. we’re just not. Thinking… That’s… genuinely profound. And true. We just … Read more

Dither Noise Improves LLM Prevents Compounding Insanity

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20261108

So funny, was thinking of injecting “noise” some months ago to possibly improve LLM — RE digital audio sound improved by injection of noise called “dither”. Stanford paper shows that was actually insightful. The helps prevent ‘death spiral’ (the resource-wasteful reaching of massive yet insane conclusion) due to perturbations on higher / earlier hallucinations. I … Read more

google made Kubernetes K8S, but 99pct of Companies Are Not Google, making K8S = SFTS Silly From The Start

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Reminds of X509 ‘full monte’ security, another overblown monster. Kubernetes orchestrates thousands of containers, but maintaining the orchestrator itself costs more: The sought ‘microservice-everything’ counterproductively sucks time and cost via management versus writing business logic — not an engineered solution but instead an awful and expensive liability. The smartest CTOs in 2026 aren’t those hyping … Read more

FireFox is Screwing Itself via Us First – How but not yet Why

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We’ve been using a browser session cookie named “cookie” for decades. Preposterously, firefox since ‘some time ago’ (within past year) has been blocking that cookie name as somehow insecure; today it bloomed to emergency head. Absurd inability and/or unwillingness to abide basic published standards ruins time and trust. Firefox has self-downgraded again. Perfect. This is … Read more

PHP Exploit Quick-Fix for PHP2Shell

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One idea for quick-fix. Not very tested. Use at your own risk. Patch up to latest PHP versions ASAP. …provided Apache has mod_security2 loaded and blocking is enabled. Use: SecRuleEngine On SecRequestBodyAccess On SecRule ARGS_NAMES “@rx (?i)^PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS$” \ “id:10961801,phase:2,deny,status:403,log,msg:’PHP2Shell upload-progress blocked'” phase:2 lets ModSecurity parse the multipart body, then rejects it before Apache forwards the … Read more

The Grabsteria of Cloudflare et al

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Think twice. Cloudflare’s “prove you are human” wall is not a neutral speed bump; it is an involuntary inspection booth wedged between readers and the web. Their own Turnstile privacy addendum says the system processes “client-side signals” including IP address, TLS fingerprint, User-Agent header, sitekey, and origin, and that the same addendum applies to Cloudflare’s … Read more

Good Riddance, Adobe

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20261008

A great use of AI and open-source. Deeply, thoroughly open-sourced in fast, solid RUST language, https://github.com/storytold/photocraft is clean-room reimplementation — recreation of the workflows, muscle memory, panels, formats, and habits without copying Adobe’s proprietary code/assets. In other words: not “piracy,” but far more humiliating: A public dashing of its empire as mechanically reproducible. Adobe is … Read more