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ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

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Linked – Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage

Linked – Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

As the article mentions, Microsoft does not make it easy to manage SAS tokens in bulk. It’s pretty easy to have a bunch of Azure data blob storage items lying around for years with active SAS tokens that were totally forgotten about.

If you’re using SAS tokens to share data, and it’s good for that, remember to clean up after yourself.

Feed Readers

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Remember back last year when I did a comparison of all the available RSS aggregators at that time. Do you have any idea how many I would have to download and use to do that now? Talk about an exploding market of choices! Well, if you want a somewhat rough idea of some of the…

Conflicting Reports

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

On the new Google Reader, Jason Clarke says: “It also solves the biggest knock against Bloglines, which is that clicking on a feed doesn’t immediately mark every post in that feed as read – they’re only marked read as you scroll past them.” While Steve Matthews, in a post talking about the 5 things he…

Linked – Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash
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Linked – Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Oh this is not going to sit well with all of the people who simply don’t trust the basic idea of self-driving cars. “The fatal crash that killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, in March occurred because of a software bug in Uber’s self-driving car technology, The Information’s Amir Efrati reported on Monday. According…

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Speaking of Delicious

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I noticed this evening that they’ve added a beta “browse bar” feature. Seems that, in a nutshell, you can use that address to simply browse from one bookmarked site to the next. Great for creating a to-read list, or even a nice quick check of a handful of sites you want to look at. Go…

Linked: 16% of workers think their mental health is supported
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Linked: 16% of workers think their mental health is supported

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Because if my value to my team is only a factor of productivity versus cost, and not as a human being, why should I put my own mental wellbeing at risk for you?

That makes no sense, and we are seeing more and more people recognize this fact. Either figure out how to support the human beings who work for you, or stop hiring them.

At least that way you aren’t actively harming anyone with your job.

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