I.T. Phone Home

Ubiquiti's troublesome new telemetry, Jim's take on the modern Microsoft, and why Project Silica just might be the future of long term storage.

• Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it? — Ubiquiti Networks is fending off customer complaints after emitting a firmware update that caused its UniFi wireless routers to quietly phone HQ with telemetry.
• UI official: urgent, please answer | Ubiquiti Community
• Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection | Ubiquiti Community
• Possible example data
• Latest firmware with changes
• Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage | Ars Technica — Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for large-scale, (very) long duration cold storage.
• Project Silica
• The Future of Data Storage
• Microsoft Ignite 2019
• Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. But will anybody use it? | Ars Technica — At Microsoft Ignite a slide announced that Microsoft's project to rebase its perennially unloved Edge browser on Google's open source project Chromium is well underway. Sharper-eyed attendees also noticed a promise for future Linux support.
• Has Microsoft Changed?
• This isn’t your father’s Microsoft