I’d not be surprised if these attacks were linked to the recent lawsuits IA had to go through concerning copyright and such…

And energy dense too!
It also requires a literal village to run and maintain.
And that’s the problem, I don’t want to see a nuclear power plant managed by fucking Amazon or Google.

If I remember correctly, it scans system files and replaces broken/corrupted ones. It can work on some issues, but it’s not a fix all thing.

Also try SFC /scannow

For reference, Apple currently has roughly 70 billion USD as cash on hands. 2.5 million USD is 0.0035% of their cash reserves.

If you have a yearly salary of 50k USD, that would be equivalent to losing 1.78 USD.

I am bad at math, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Another case that demonstrates they’ll always comply with the law in the end. You just need to make sure your laws and your legislation are rock solid.

“We should do something about this” - COPXX

What I mean is that these kinds of people usually look at the financial cost per year for a given solution that’s already in place and always look for something cheaper (usually only on paper).

Usually they look at the cost of a licence without giving a single thought about, let’s say, the processing power that’ll be needed for the new thing, the expertise to set it up and run it, and all the migration work that will be needed to make the switch.

Also, when these things happen, most of the time you have to fire/hire/train people to adapt, which means you lose some of your internal knowledge and experience. That’s something that can’t be really quantified and can really hurt an IT system.

In the end, with all the cumulative costs, it’s often far more expensive to switch solutions, and not financially speaking, but that doesn’t necessarily appear on the bottom line they will see from their desks.

The worst thing in that is the amount of money and human time it must take just to migrate everything. People only looking at the bottom line is the bane of IT…

Germany and ping ponging between proprietary and free software every 2 years, name a better duo

That first response was awful, like fuck you man, maybe I should read the doc but maybe your software should be better designed if it handles my data like that. Jesus Christ…

Isn’t that standard practice nowadays? You push an outrageous thing to test the reactions, then you pull back and then you push something similar but toned down to be more acceptable. A while later you incrementally move towards your initial plan.

You just pay random people on the internet to do it, it’s fairly easy if you know where/what to ask for.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it were paid by the companies currently battling them over copyright. Bunch of greedy bastards.

RedHat and Hashicorp under IBM. Hmm, that doesn’t bode well for the future.

That’s pretty much my point, 99% of computers sold are sold with Windows on it and the leftover percent is 99% Apple and maybe 1% Linux.
And that’s mostly because no one did anything when Microsoft licensed their crap to big OEM.

If any given computer sold was Linux (or any other free OS to be fair) by default and Windows as a paid option, it would change the market massively I believe. It would take time obviously but I’m convinced it would work in the long run.

The choice is hard to make when Microsoft’s garbage has been shoved down your throat for decades, it’s the default pretty much everywhere and the only viable alternative, for 99% of the population, is Apple.

Governments have been way too lenient and passive towards Microsoft for far too long

I suppose that depending on the location you might not want to have stray bullets landing at random, also depending on the size and the speed of the drone it might be hard to target.

I kind of agree with the idea but it’s absolutely not enforceable in any practical way. What we need is more awareness and parental control, but other than that, I’m not sure what else could be done that wouldn’t screw everyone over. (Like identity and age control, which would be an absolute nightmare)

It’s only free speech when it’s speech he likes. That’s about it.