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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Ubiquiti&#39;s troublesome new telemetry, Jim&#39;s take on the modern Microsoft, and why Project Silica just might be the future of long term storage.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_phone_home/">Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?</a> &mdash; Ubiquiti Networks is fending off customer complaints after emitting a firmware update that caused its UniFi wireless routers to quietly phone HQ with telemetry.</li><li><a title="UI official: urgent, please answer | Ubiquiti Community" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ui.com/questions/UI-official-urgent-please-answer/14259289-e4c3-4c5e-aaa0-02a5baa6cbbe?page=11">UI official: urgent, please answer | Ubiquiti Community</a></li><li><a title="Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection | Ubiquiti Community" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ui.com/questions/Update-UniFi-Phone-Home-Performance-Data-Collection/f84a71c9-0b81-4d69-a3b3-45640aba1c8b">Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection | Ubiquiti Community</a></li><li><a title="Possible example data" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ui.com/questions/UI-official-urgent-please-answer/14259289-e4c3-4c5e-aaa0-02a5baa6cbbe#answer/2eca7d3f-5824-43ae-bd1d-fe6a18af1c79">Possible example data</a></li><li><a title="Latest firmware with changes" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ui.com/releases/UAP-USW-Firmware-4-0-69-10871/245e428c-d111-4b9d-a550-ec0cc86ef646">Latest firmware with changes</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage | Ars Technica" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/microsofts-project-silica-offers-robust-thousand-year-storage/">Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage | Ars Technica</a> &mdash; Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for large-scale, (very) long duration cold storage.</li><li><a title="Project Silica" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/07/hotstorage18-paper-anderson.pdf">Project Silica</a></li><li><a title="The Future of Data Storage" rel="nofollow" href="https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/4/235573-the-future-of-data-storage/fulltext?mobile=false">The Future of Data Storage</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft Ignite 2019" rel="nofollow" href="https://news.microsoft.com/ignite2019/">Microsoft Ignite 2019</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. But will anybody use it? | Ars Technica" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/microsoft-edge-is-coming-to-linux-but-will-anybody-use-it/">Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. But will anybody use it? | Ars Technica</a> &mdash; 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.</li><li><a title="Has Microsoft Changed?" rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/@wtfmitchel/has-microsoft-changed-431db9d1d153">Has Microsoft Changed?</a></li><li><a title="This isn’t your father’s Microsoft" rel="nofollow" href="http://sawers.com/blog/this-isnt-your-fathers-microsoft/">This isn’t your father’s Microsoft</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Ubiquiti&#39;s troublesome new telemetry, Jim&#39;s take on the modern Microsoft, and why Project Silica just might be the future of long term storage.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_phone_home/">Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?</a> &mdash; Ubiquiti Networks is fending off customer complaints after emitting a firmware update that caused its UniFi wireless routers to quietly phone HQ with telemetry.</li><li><a title="UI official: urgent, please answer | Ubiquiti Community" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ui.com/questions/UI-official-urgent-please-answer/14259289-e4c3-4c5e-aaa0-02a5baa6cbbe?page=11">UI official: urgent, please answer | Ubiquiti Community</a></li><li><a title="Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection | Ubiquiti Community" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ui.com/questions/Update-UniFi-Phone-Home-Performance-Data-Collection/f84a71c9-0b81-4d69-a3b3-45640aba1c8b">Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection | Ubiquiti Community</a></li><li><a title="Possible example data" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ui.com/questions/UI-official-urgent-please-answer/14259289-e4c3-4c5e-aaa0-02a5baa6cbbe#answer/2eca7d3f-5824-43ae-bd1d-fe6a18af1c79">Possible example data</a></li><li><a title="Latest firmware with changes" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.ui.com/releases/UAP-USW-Firmware-4-0-69-10871/245e428c-d111-4b9d-a550-ec0cc86ef646">Latest firmware with changes</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage | Ars Technica" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/microsofts-project-silica-offers-robust-thousand-year-storage/">Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage | Ars Technica</a> &mdash; Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for large-scale, (very) long duration cold storage.</li><li><a title="Project Silica" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/07/hotstorage18-paper-anderson.pdf">Project Silica</a></li><li><a title="The Future of Data Storage" rel="nofollow" href="https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/4/235573-the-future-of-data-storage/fulltext?mobile=false">The Future of Data Storage</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft Ignite 2019" rel="nofollow" href="https://news.microsoft.com/ignite2019/">Microsoft Ignite 2019</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. But will anybody use it? | Ars Technica" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/microsoft-edge-is-coming-to-linux-but-will-anybody-use-it/">Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. But will anybody use it? | Ars Technica</a> &mdash; 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.</li><li><a title="Has Microsoft Changed?" rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/@wtfmitchel/has-microsoft-changed-431db9d1d153">Has Microsoft Changed?</a></li><li><a title="This isn’t your father’s Microsoft" rel="nofollow" href="http://sawers.com/blog/this-isnt-your-fathers-microsoft/">This isn’t your father’s Microsoft</a></li></ul>]]>
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