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Black Hat USA 2022 – Announcements Summary

Home › Network Security Black Hat USA 2022 – Announcements Summary By Eduard Kovacs on August 12, 2022 Tweet Hundreds of companies and organizations showcased their products and services this week at the 2022 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. To help cut through the clutter, the SecurityWeek team is publishing a digest summarizing some of the announcements made by vendors,…

There is no way I’m using Instagram for my personal art. There’s a sketchy copyright policy they have that enables them to use anything you post anytime..royalty-free...umm, yeah, what the fuck? I heard that there’s a pedophile problem there too.

I know pedophiles are everywhere, statistically, even if they don’t post or say anything, but I read somewhere that Instagram had a pedo problem specifically. I don’t know if it just seems like a big deal when it’s really a pocket that needs to be run out and seems bigger because of it, but that’s what I heard, and it doesn’t make me comfortable to post out of principle. It’s mostly the copyright business but the added dubiousness of the platform itself doesn’t help.

~In other news~

I was added on to the Pokemon Uranium animation team! ...a year ago! My GOD how time flies! Anyone who reads this, I have to say to you..it feels like a dream come true in some aspects. As an artist, my pathway to digital art was birthed from splicing Pokemon sprites and making sprite scenes using Super Mario World sheets, but now I get to make my very own in a way! They’re having me specifically on for Pokemon animations, some attack animations, trainer animations, and writing dialogue! I can’t spill the beans about who or what I’m working on exactly but hopefully you’ll be able to see soon yourself if you play the game =)

Stay safe during this crazy wacky time life threw at us,

I’m back and I’m pretty different to how I was before, so my blog is gonna change a little bit. I’m still a writer, but I want to talk about some other stuff with this blog/my youtube channel, so I’m just gonna bullet those things here. 

This Blog

random things from college, be it stories, out of context quotes, or little updates

similar to the first thing, I want to talk more about life in general, so life updates

photos! I’ll be sharing stuff I post on my instagram on here too

Still gonna do writing updates

My Youtube Channel

ASL Videos! I’m currently learning ASL, and I would love to make videos using ASL, maybe some ASL covers of songs or something, I don’t know yet

Discussion videos where I talk about topics I’m into. I have a few ideas

Since the beginning of the platform, you've always needed at least 2 virtual machines to offer any sort of resiliency in Azure (ASM or ARM) as your machines could go down without notice due to host maintenance. As long as you accounted for this in your architecture and build for availability with Availability Sets you’re covered.

But what if you only wanted one machine for a POC environment? Or what if resiliency and high availability were not an underlying design principal? In those cases, Microsoft is making things a bit easier with the introduction of a new platform capability which will allow your hosted virtual machines to be paused for up to 30 seconds while host maintenance is occurring.

Your virtual machines already benefit from this capability for certain critical security updates. With an upcoming platform update later in 2016, we’ll eliminate the need for virtual machine reboot for most patches on host operating systems. Our goal is to eliminate the need for virtual machine reboots for all updates to host operating systems.

Snapchat Reacted To User Feedback And Refocused Their Ad Strategy

Snapchat is a great, but tricky position as a platform. They’ve created an entirely new social consumption behavior,  have an established and highly profitable user base of younger millennials, and are commanding top dollar from advertisers looking to capitalize. However, with an ever increasing number of social messengers and networks vying for the user base’s attention. The tweak to their advertising plan was fueled by data suggesting their “Live Story” feature, with multiple snaps built around an event, was significantly more popular with users than the one-off paid branded snaps. Moving forward, Snapchat will remove the branded story option, and sell brand space in a live-story: think Pepsi messaging and context over a Superbowl live story. They will also sell region-based live story space at a reduced rate.