I’m not in love with the idea of CarPlay/Android Auto sucking up all of our personal information, but removing the mere choice of using them doesn’t make me happy.
Car infotainment is traditionally crap when it’s new and systems which update seemingly get slower and generally worse over time. Casting your phone interface let’s you escape the first world problem of shitty UI/UX.
Windows might not be the ideal privacy solution, but it’s often not something that people can reasonably change.
It takes work to relearn an operating system. People’s work applications may not function outside of windows. Virtualization and emulation are not perfect.
I live in the US, and we've seen a rise in some particularly hostile legislation against certain groups of people like in the LGBTQ community. I can foresee precise tracking being used against these groups of people to determine if they've been in the vicinity of a medical provider's office, have traveled across state lines, congregate in certain social establishments, and even perhaps where they vote for representatives.
This information could be used as targeting information for harassment or further punitive legislation. Voting districts could be redrawn to split these populations into minority regions such that they don't have proportional share of representatives. Liquor licenses for "gay bars" could be revoked. Maybe we extend the liquor license revocations to bars which simply tolerate LQBTQ people getting a beer after work.
Maybe tomorrow we change the targeted groups to Muslims. Or maybe NRA members. With the foundations for this kind of surveillance in place, the opportunity for abuse will never go away.
I have to move in around 6 months for work. Really not looking forward to making the impossible decision between spending 3000/mo for rent or seeing if I'm even eligible for a 450k mortgage @7%+ on a 40 year old property. I know renting would be cheaper now, but the mortgage won't increase every single year.
I miss paying 1400/mo for a whole ass house in a nice area.
Microsoft has service contracts with the DOD which to my knowledge have not been compromised.
I think there are some completely valid reasons for businesses to use Microsoft cloud services:
Shift some of the burden of responsibility to a third party. Organizations love this shit
Microsoft has some of the best paid security analysts and engineers in the industry. Chances are they’d be able to detect and mitigate attacks attacks better than a small local team of not highly paid sysadmins.
Microsoft is large enough to get some assistance from 3 letter agencies. That’s almost never going to happen with smaller companies.
I agree. Consumer use cases of SSDs sees a tremendous benefit if only for accidental damage reasons, but for enterprise data center use I would not have expected the same overall rates of failure.
I'll drink the half-full glass: accessible gaming hardware is more widely available than it has ever been.
Big corporation Microsoft bad, but as the article points out, they have been one of the major players in the accessibility field with hardware and software accommodations to help meet some of the common needs of disabled gamers. Valve's platform allows for dynamic reprogramming of just about any key binding that I can think of to get around games that have their inputs hard coded in.
“This will be a time for all citizens of the USA to celebrate!” he continued. “This guy turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!”
Not seeing a complete screenshot or repost of whatever he said
Can't speak for @sebinspace, but StackOverflow tends to be aggressive if not outright hostile towards inexperienced users. I have a lot of nub questions because I'm awful at programming, but almost everything I come across from searches have a layer of smug disdain that I have to look past.
It's not a paid Helpdesk by any means, but there's no need to treat honest and respectful requests for help with attitudes and insults.
From how the bill reads, the system is already privatized and has been run by one single non-profit for the past 40 or so years. Now it can be operated by more than one organization, but I can't immediately find information on if the the non-profit organization requirement has been changed or not.
Gotta include the cancer-analogue to IT cable management with its procedural generation