This is Brexit

There are hundreds of AAD/O365 settings not configured with the most secure settings by default The team over at Trimarc is awesome for sharing so many of these :) One of my favorites? Be nice to your IR folks - ensure all mailbox auditing is enabled: github.com/nathanmcnulty/…

"Password expiration requirements do more harm than good, because these requirements make users select predictable passwords" Thank you Microsoft. NIST agrees. Everyone who attacks password auth agrees. Can we get compliance to update their requirements. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…

There is much talk happening on how to solve the so-called cost-of-living crisis. Most of it fails to recognise that the problem is much bigger than that: the whole economy is in meltdown. None seems to address the cost of energy itself. A thread on the last, vital, point….

Considering how obviously flawed it is, there are definitely interesting things to be learned from What3Words in terms of how effective they have been at convincing governments to use them, again and again, not matter how many times the tech proves to not work

Wow this really is inexcusably broken

While Jeremy Hunt previews the dreadful effects to people and services he will make, to fill the calamitous hole his government have left, I'm reminded about how less than 8 weeks ago he was giddily teasing me for being fiscally cautious. JUST 8 WEEKS AGO THESE CUTS DIDN'T EXIST!

Not much different to what production servers running the internet in 2022 look like tho 😅

After 16 years on Twitter, it looks like I’m moving to Mastodon: simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/5/mas…

Right. As a heavy tweeter/content creator who is now maintaining BOTH a Twitter and Mastodon presence, here is a short guide to what I have set up, how to do it and lessons I've learned, for others. TLDR: It's been WAY less hassle than I expected thanks to tips from followers /1

The answer as far as I can see, which is often the answer to these qs about how the country works, is snobbery.

Incredible collection of Truss fanboy reverse ferrets from Private Eye.

24 hours in Brexitland: Former Bank of England MPC member says Brexit "permanently damaged" Britain. London loses position as top European stock market to Paris. Former environment minister admits Australian trade deal "not actually very good".

Still, I'm sure that if politicians just keep on studiously pretending nothing's wrong with it, it'll all turn out fine.

Brexit isn’t working, and the Brexiters know it

🔥Superb speech by @JustinWelby in the Lords. "When we fail to challenge the harmful rhetoric that refugees are the cause of this country's ills, that they should be treated as problems, invaders to be tackled, we deny the essential value and dignity of fellow human beings." ~AA

After the lack of respect from Twitter to their developers. (daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01…) I’m off this platform. Catch me on mastodon @[email protected]

I'm not active here anymore, but I thought I'd mention I've reawakened my blog.. blog.danpoltawski.co.uk/2024/04/back-o…

Is this really all the EU has to show for? Here 25 tangible achievements, improvements and benefits that happened because we have the European Union 👇🇪🇺