I remember there was a small period in time in which we really believed they were a replacement.

Yea your have a secure net, if you don’t want a VPN for each site, you at least make them connect via a VPN in a head office.

Because shops don’t want to run hardware on site, so they outsource the hosting of management and monitoring to the cheapest contractor. Unsurprisingly they don’t spend on security.

That’s a given, but I think they are suggesting they added one for the us government.

Had a freezer fixed on warranty recently. What needed replacing? An electric heater. Yes the freezer has a heater in it!

(It’s for the anti frost feature.)

Sounds like the whole thing was just a way for them to extract training costs from roofers.

If I didn’t exist I would also fail at the job I had been given.

I saw this on a few sysadmin posts, from what I saw and what people described I have a theory that it was an unexpected interaction.

Those with the deletion had a expiration date for the donation licenses past the July '26 deadline. That shouldn’t have happened as far as I can tell from the notification email. We had some of these, but I think the difference was the presence of other licenses.

Those with only the 10 donations and none of the other free licenses, would have become unlicensed when they were removed. There is a cool off for deletions, but if the licence had the wrong expiration, then the deadline date might have been set from the original expiration. Due to the incorrect extension that date might then have been in the past. Leading to the wrong deletions.

I have no way to confirm any of that and ms are not going to admit it. I don’t think it was malicious, but is still a appalling show from Microsoft.

It converts it from being something someone said, into something you can point at and say “we have evidence of it happening.”

It was great when I first got it, but I ended but getting fatigued with it. New releases wanted time investment, but the rising costs meant I felt I should play more stuff. In the end everything I wanted to play required time and I felt that I was no longer getting value out of it. It would have cost less to not have it and just buy the game for some titles.

Pretty sure windows has supported installing drivers that include program installs since windows 7. Razor mice also do the same thing where it auto installs the control software.

I tried to make a second account recently, and it wanted me to scan a qr code with my phone that then wanted to send me a text message. At the same time they were saying “this won’t associate your phone with the account.” I don’t believe that.

When (if) they manage to add federation to it, then both sites could even work together.

You can use about:processes to do it all in browser before it freezes and yt is slow. Also shows you tab ram usage.

So that ad campaign that they ran saying no one but you can see your messages. That was a bit strange that they were pushing it, since no one appeared to be saying otherwise, might be a lie? I never would have guessed.

It might have also have incredible timing. The EU is all digital sovereignty, and suggesting opening up something as a solution might actually been seen as a positive.

Not sure if this is it, but this sounds similar to what I remember: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

I recall reading an ex oracle engineer say that the code base is basically spaghetti. Not only that, but you basically have to be lucky to get your pr in, as due to said spaghetti, there is a high chance that it will be broken by the pr merged before yours.

Yea for me too, it appears to be something we the title header following your scroll. It’s super smooth just until it tries to pin it to the top.

Reader mode works until I realised that they did explain the pictures, so just referenced text I didn’t see.

Who renews certificates these days? You automate that now, especially with 47 day certs coming.