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Yeah, it’s called the generic stuff

She’s looking at him and thinking, Oh that’s the reason he’s so bad. Good thing I have the pool boy.

They know this, it’s not like any of this is a revelation. But the company has been lazy and would rather just test in production because that’s cheaper and most of the time perfectly fine.

There are technical solutions to this. You update half your servers, and then if they die you just disconnect them from the network while you fix them and then have your own unaffected servers take up the load. Now yes, this doesn’t get a fixout quickly, but if you update kills your entire system, you’re not going to get the fix out quickly anyway.

I hate it but there really isn’t much in the way of an alternative. Which is why they’re dominant, they’re the only game in town

So I work in the IT department of a pretty large company. One of the things that we do on a regular basis is staged updates, so we’ll get a small number of computers and we’ll update the software on them to the latest version or whatever. Then we leave it for about a week, and if the world doesn’t end we update the software onto the next group and then the next and then the next until everything is upgraded. We don’t just slap it onto production infrastructure and then go to the pub.

But apparently our standards are slightly higher than that of an international organisation who’s whole purpose is cyber security.

Won’t they make more money if they don’t piss everyone off.

Why? Who’s asking for this stuff, is there somebody out there who is really pleased with this news or is Microsoft really just that out of touch.

I don’t want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks, but Microsoft are pushing me towards it.

Are you trying to suggest that I would be better to just deny the cookies? I don’t know what you’re trying to say by linking to that article.

Device fingerprinting as a technique it’s pretty easy to defeat. There are plenty of privacy focused browsers that will also include device fingerprinting protection. In fact pretty much any browser that doesn’t store cookies will also do this device fingerprinting protection as well.

You could just build it as two hemispheres and then have a slit in the middle align to the orbital plane. You could have a few corridors every now and then as they wouldn’t really block out much light.

Although that wouldn’t really be a problem since in order to get enough material to actually build it you would need to dismantle most of the planets in the system including Earth. Which does rather present a difficulty and I suspect would be a major political blocker.

O’Neill cylinders are the only real reliable megastructure that would actually function.

Though it would need to be way bigger than the ship depicted in The Expanse or the gyroscopic forces would be too strong for anybody to be able to operate.

It doesn’t even look like anything, it’s just a random rectangles.

Presumably because no one is actually prepared to pay to read the sun. It’s not like it contains any actual news anyway.

Just use a browser that doesn’t save cookies. Then accept all.

No it’s not largely because of Google mocking around with it.

Just install Linux stop trying to make Android desktop a thing. It’s not going to be a thing and no one really wants it to be a thing anyway. Move on.

If I were shareholder I would want answers as to what the actual hell Cook is doing right with Apple. Every decision just seems to be intentionally designed to lose money.

From all the messing around with core products, to the bizarre decisions that led to the updated vision pro, a device no one is interested in, been upgraded to the latest version of the device no one is interested in, now with tungsten. Nevertheless I’m sure the iPhone sock is going to be a rip roaring success.

They could replace him with a goldfish swimming around a tank to make decisions, and it would lead to more coherent outcomes.

It’s a lot better than the practise of posting basically every news story because it tangentially involves a computer.

I mean the US actually does all of those things.

The US space program was literally started by Nazi scientists

Usually operation names are a bit cleverer than that so I’m guessing he came up with those names himself.

Also is a member of the international community I can safely assure you that no one is worried about trump’s “business” skills.

But it’s also a handheld console so that doesn’t really track.

An entry level gaming PC doesn’t have to have a battery and it doesn’t have to have a screen which are big expenses. You can’t just take the price of the steam deck and multiply it because so much time has passed between the releases of the two products and they’re not equivalent anyway. It’s an apples to oranges comparison.