Linux doesn’t charge hundreds of dollars per license to fund the development, rake in billions in profit, and then funnel that money into stock dividends instead of a proper quality assurance team.

It isn’t the details or severity of the break that matters.

It’s that the quality control process is SUPPOSED to catch that, and whatever sorry excuse for a process they’re using now ALLOWED a break that was obvious, visible, and repeatable, inside a critical, core function of the operating system, to make it to the end users, something that should trigger as an immediate, flashing warning light. That means the entire quality control process at the very least is SEVERELY compromised and unreliable, and there could very easily be MUCH more severe vulnerabilities and bugs hiding underneath that AREN’T immediately visible. To anyone who has done any professional development for non-disposable code bases, this isn’t a whisper of a problem - it’s an air horn.

How’s that attempt to get back onto consumers’ good side again going for you, AMD?

Putting it on the dispenser is too much work. Just put it on top and spin a few squares off with your finger in the roll when you need it.

It’s pretty easy to not get caught surveiling customers.

All you have to do is… Not surveil customers.

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If you think THAT’S stupid, wait until you see what they start THIS one over.

Only Scout believed in himself.

“See, it’s different from the Chinese social credit system. That one is based upon doing things that are good for society. This one is around doing things that are good for shareholders/capitalism. That makes this one okay.”

When I found out what it meant when other countries have sovereign wealth funds…

I have no idea how most people in America keep convincing themselves they’ve somehow got a good deal.

Can’t have a rainbow without LIGHT

Yeah… I also saw Man in the High Castle.

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Right back to the store then.

Fuck around and get a charge back.

Not if you do it on a data center construction site, make it look like a homicide, and stop the construction until the investigation completes.

Instead of buying and selling futures you have to get into the pasts market.

Sorry, they’ve already got a GOAT.

This hasn’t been true for a while. Unless you are constantly looking for only the most mainstream stuff, huge swathes of material is lost with every shutdown, especially now that the costs of servers and storage have quadrupled.

The idea of piracy being invincible is a myth from a different internet era along with old patterns like “platforms spring up and die constantly”.

Yeah, in the 2000s that was true - but the main platforms we have today have been around for 20 years and have a stranglehold on users. The internet logic of the aughts no longer holds.

The real threats are much less sci-fi and more good old fashioned resource theft and exploitative slavery.