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Comment Punishing the wrong people (Score 1) 125

Instead of looking at the refuse stream and scolding people who might have recyclables in there, we REALLY need to scold the people who "whishcycle" by putting non-recyclables in the recycling stream, contaminating those batches to the point they just get sent to the trash anyway because separating them would not be economical or practical.

Comment Work is more important now than ever. (Score 0) 2

This work is more important than ever. A lot US public records are in the process of or will be destroyed by the current administration, so an independent archive of the data is invaluable..The only thing I would suggest is that they have a couple of non-US mirrors.

This is also why newspapers publishing public notices, birth, death, and other records independent of government is important..

Submission + - Elon Musk's doge.gov website hacked (fortune.com) 1

Submitted by ArchieBunker
ArchieBunker writes: Hackers wasted no time in infiltrating the Department of Government Efficiency’s website.

After a hasty launch this week, at least two pages of the site have been defaced by critics who seemingly have accessed a database the page draws from. Two messages appeared on two separate pages of the site, reading “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”

The hacked pages, though still accessible as of 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday morning, no longer appear to people who navigate to the DOGE website in traditional methods.

404 Media, which first discovered the hacked pages, quoted anonymous experts who said the DOGE page does not appear to be hosted on government servers and was pulling data from a database that can be accessed by third parties. That opened the doors for the embarrassing criticism.

Submission + - DOGE Approved to Transfer Labor Dept Data Using PuTTY (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: NBC is reporting that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has received approval from the Labor Department to use software that could allow it to transfer vast amounts of data out of Labor’s systems, according to records seen by NBC News and interviews with two employees.

The approval for Musk’s team to use the remote-access and file-transfer software, known as PuTTY, has alarmed some of the Labor Department’s career employees. Musk, the head of DOGE, has dispatched subordinates throughout the government to radically overhaul or dismantle federal agencies with the backing of President Donald Trump.

Many of the details around DOGE’s actions have remained secret, though it has moved to gain access to large swaths of data held in the computer systems of individual agencies.

Concerns include the alleged use of artificial intelligence to analyze federal data and the alleged use of a computer server not familiar to government employees.

Transferring government data outside established protocols could have high stakes for anyone whose information is in those databases, because of the chance that more people would have access to their information than originally intended, increasing chances of a breach.

Two employees interviewed said that they considered the authorization to be a red flag because the DOGE members were new arrivals who, in their view, lacked sufficient vetting and experience for the access they were getting.

“We don’t know who they are, and we’re giving them free rein to extract whatever they want,” one employee said. “This is completely opposite of what we’d do to protect privacy.”

Submission + - "Largest data breach in US history": Three more lawsuits try to stop DOGE (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: The US DOGE Service's access to the private data of ordinary Americans and federal employees is being challenged in several lawsuits filed this week.

Three new complaints seek court orders that would stop the data access and require the deletion of unlawfully accessed data. Two of the complaints also seek financial damages for individuals whose data was accessed.

The US DOGE Service, Elon Musk, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell were named as defendants in one suit filed yesterday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

"The Privacy Act [of 1974] makes it unlawful for OPM Defendants to hand over access to OPM's millions of personnel records to DOGE Defendants, who lack a lawful and legitimate need for such access," the lawsuit said. "No exception to the Privacy Act covers DOGE Defendants' access to records held by OPM. OPM Defendants' action granting DOGE Defendants full, continuing, and ongoing access to OPM's systems and files for an unspecified period means that tens of millions of federal-government employees, retirees, contractors, job applicants, and impacted family members and other third parties have no assurance that their information will receive the protection that federal law affords."

The lawsuit names Musk as a defendant "in his capacity as director of the US Doge Temporary Service," which was created by President Trump and has a mandate lasting until July 4, 2026. The temporary organization is separate from the US DOGE Service, which used to be called the US Digital Service. DOGE, of course, is a reference to the popular meme involving a Shiba Inu and in the government context stands for the Department of Government Efficiency.

Comment Re:partially responsible for self-nullifying behav (Score 5, Insightful) 23

by chipperdog (#65123099) Attached to: Microsoft Takes on MongoDB with PostgreSQL-Based Document Database
Postgres can be a relational database, a document store (JSON) database, a key-value pair database, a geospatial database, a graph database, a full text search engine....
and Postgres JSONB performance almost always beats CouchDB, MongoDB and other dedicated document store DBs.

Comment Re:Hmmmmm (Score 0) 65

by chipperdog (#65085605) Attached to: Microsoft Is Testing 45% M365 Price Hikes in Asia
Too bad just about every "normal" user who tries to use it ends up not liking it, until you bring their MSO back.

Also a full 365 implementation is not just the Office suite, but also email/messaging, file shares, intranet type stuff, calendaring/booking, etc.. When the organizations I maintain moved to 365, I made it clear they have to make use of every feature to make it pay off for what the cost is.

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