• wander1236
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    “Microsoft’s latest update breaks [some] VPNs and there’s no fix [yet]”

    Windows is getting worse and worse, but do we have to spin legitimate bugs as some nefarious plot?

    • wander1236
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      It’s also very nice how this site tries to launch a new tab to ask to enable notifications.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      Windows is getting worse and worse

      and so is the press :( websites and content creators enshittification is as bad as other companies (one could even argue they have been among the first to do that)

    • FaceDeer
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      Too late, there’s a little blood in the water so now everyone hates Microsoft and is pouncing on every drop they think they smell. Being part of an angry mob is fun!

      Don’t worry, in a couple of weeks or months some other big company or rich person will become the focus and everyone will forget about Microsoft again.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 months ago

          I tried to turn in my buckets of thank yous at the bank but they didn’t take em. Gonna be windows for now

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        yup. i’m tied to unreal engine 5.

        (yes, i know there’s a version for linux. i need to be on windows for the latest updates and work though.)

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        No, but at work it’s someone else’s problem. I’m so glad that my employer agreed to replace my Windows machine with a Mac.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 months ago

          Because work usually does provide the computer and they don’t want you to tamper with it too much.

          • @[email protected]
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            Just uninstall the OS. If you have physical access then must do what you need to do in order to be productive

            • @[email protected]
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              42 months ago

              Usually the uefi is locked and secure boot is enabled. You could even boot a different OS if you wanted.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 months ago

              then must do what you need to do in order to be productive

              You clearly have not worked at most larger companies which have Acceptable Use Policies (AUP) which typically involves not modifying the PC and OS with threat of termination when (not if) discovered.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months ago

          Because the software we write has to run on windows and only windows. No Linux or wine or any other platform. It’s a fixed requirement from our client and unfortunately I don’t see that changing.

      • @Eezyville
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        12 months ago

        I guess you’ll have to accept your fate.

  • mub
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    This seems like bullshit to me. I’ve not seen anyone complaining their VPN isn’t working. And any business with staff using VPNs would not be happy if they managed to let that update get applied.

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      I noticed my main VPN and backup VPN failing to connect the other day, but that was 3-4 days ago. Haven’t tried since, because I switched to Pop!_OS in that time.

      At the time I thought it was just my ISP being my ISP.

      E: Both with Wireguard and OpenVPN, across multiple servers.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      I’ve been dealing with a VPN failure at work.

      About 80% of my day has been lost due to access issues into the secure space I work, since about 6 days back.

    • Dyskolos
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      32 months ago

      Don’t trust every “article” on some shitty website.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        Well yeah. That’s kinda the point I was trying to make…

        “It breaks VPNs!!”

        Name one….

        Oh yeah like a whole bUnCh!!!

        Name…… one…

        —- and in two articles I’ve seen they still have not named one. Great work there “journalists”

      • @[email protected]
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        132 months ago

        So like, the 0 that use that implementation. Like really, IPsec? No openvpn support? No wireguard support? What is this, 2004?

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            tbh if you managed to buy into meraki you deserved it

            anyways, look at this christmas tree out of meraki gear:

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          Our sister company had their VPN broken by this and we had to switch to another system. Even though it wasn’t a particularly secure VPN (IPSec), the builtin Windows VPN was extremely reliable and convenience compared to shit like Pulse.

        • @[email protected]
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          I used to live in an apartment with 4 other gay furries

          Somehow I don’t think you are the beacon of corporate experience here

  • @[email protected]
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    112 months ago

    Coincidentally I saw Edge pop up an ad for Microsoft VPN for the first time as soon as I started it today… Hmmm

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    I’m running windows and my nordvpn still works. So maybe this article shouldn’t even exist and the OP should lose all credibility when ti comes to anything technology related.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 months ago

    Oh wonderful! For all of our users that use VPN, we’re just screwed. Glad we began blocking access from non-Windows computers 😊