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What is the point of an OS (Win11) requiring a TPM (or vTPM) beyond a layer of DRM?

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Joseph Michael

Windows 11 requiring a TPM of some sort seems more like a DRM preventing me from duplicating a W11 Virtual Machine on multiple systems and distributing it versus any tangible benefit to the end-user.
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Is MariaDB Server obsolete for PHP and WordPress projects?

Posted on August 11, 2021 by Joseph Michael

PHP (and by extension WordPress) only supports MySQL native & sha256 password authentication.
MariaDB Server only supports MySQL native & ed25519 password authentication.
Since MySQL native password authentication uses SHA-1 and is… Continue reading Is MariaDB Server obsolete for PHP and WordPress projects?→