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Comment Re:Fucking idiots (Score 4, Interesting) 146

CEOs generally don't work those kinds of hours. They might be on the company clock, but a lot of it is what your regular cubicle occupant would consider slacking.

God knows I've spent enough time exempting them from web filters so they can watch streaming sports events or get to their favorite gambling sites.

Comment Re:I know they'll be consistent (Score -1) 96

The Israeli war aim since day 1 has been the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza followed by annexation. This isn't a secret. Ethnic cleansing is a form of genocide. In Europe people like you go to prison for genocide denial. They have specific laws. Never again, they said. Yet here you are. How is this not modded down to -1? I bet I get modded down though.

Comment Re:Propoganda -LOL (Score 1) 169

Kimmel lied, what he said would have been taken by any reasonable listener as saying the assassin was a MAGA adherent.

Fox was exactly no different, but same congress people that now making a fuss over Kimmel were doing everything they could get them off the air.

yes the first like is a letter to the former trump admin from again many of those same congress persons to try to silence people.

You sir are just an TDS idiot, not worth discourse with in the future. If slashdot had a kill file I'd add you!

Comment Re:Sounds more like credit and not cash. (Score 1) 22

Crypto currency - now as centralized as any bank or credit service, less private than cash, and certainly no better your traditional payment processors, secure (HAHAHA RFLOL), not subjection to sanctions/seizure/etc yeah nope, and now here goes the non-revokeability...

Its like the industry treats breaking promises as an Olympic sport.

Comment Re:My surprised face (Score 2) 52

Exactly - cheap no-name stuff is cheaply made surprise surprise.

I think the difference here is the fire-risk. You buy a badly made lead-acid, or nicad battery, mostly they just under perform. Defective lithium batteries catch fire. The devices around some of the some of things around them that don't have any current control or consider thermal design can also make otherwise save lithium battery a hazard.

People just want to teat these things like the battery chemistry they grew up using and they aint

Comment Re:Propoganda -LOL (Score 0) 169

Comment Re: Propoganda -LOL (Score -1, Flamebait) 169

Nobody knows how to even quantify the number of lives lost, harm due to increased mental illness, and many other impacts of listen to the official advice either.

Meanwhile the officials literally tried to silence anyone who tried.

I am not crying any rivers about government boot lickers like you losing elections either.

Speech did not kill anyone of those people. Making a choice to listing to some quack on facebook did, and yes the price of freedom has always been and will always been that some people will take that freedom and chose to ignore good advice like "aim away from face" in favor of "just use your teeth its quicker"

That is just humans.

Comment Propoganda -LOL (Score 1, Insightful) 169

We got caught crying Fascism because some national level celebrity with mega corp backing got pulled from the public airwaves for a few nights, when the news came out we'd be tampering with organic conversations in the digital town square on youtube and elsewhere while gaslighting everyone about it.

Gotta get some counter propaganda out there QUICK!

Comment Re:THEN STOP USING IT! (Score 1) 44

I am not defending or condemning anyone here, but as a practical matter if you are not IT industry I am not sure that Open Systems/Platforms are appreciably better in terms of leaving you to deal with unplanned migrations.

it isn't as if FOSS projects don't lose momentum and just sorta fizzle. It isn't like they don't bogged down with management and political problems that cause them to stall or fracture, it isn't like these projects not tied to big clients writing checks don't decide to abandon features that might be critical for your use case.

Maybe you don't have to fear someone is going to suddenly jackup license costs and leave you with a drop dead migration date, but you can still be left with something that is unmaintained, and otherwise not remaining a good fit for the rest of your IT plant.

Q. what if you'd recently decided to build your storage infrastructure around Open SUSE with bcachefs?

Can you continue yes, but if you do, you'd better have experienced Linux systems people on staff that can at least build an out of tree kernel module and prepare the require boot files/archives, etc. If you only had point-click people and some vendor that did a one shot install for you, it might get expense now too.

Long term support-ability / control over software assets certainly can be a benefit of choosing FOSS but if that benefit is *real* depends a lot on your particular situation and what / how big the thing in question actually is. It is easy to say "hey the license is free I can just use it as long as I want and if it needs some old platform I can just put it on VM and isolate it!" - How often is that really true. if it is some old server that only builds against some ancient version of OpenSSL that does not support anything newer than TLS1.0, how viable is that really. Realistically you are going to have to find someone with enough skills in whatever language the implementation is to port the thing to a contemporary version of OpenSSL or GNUTLS, or give up your privacy/security, or force users into some strange cumbersome VDI scheme etc...

Comment Re: The crackpipe of subscription licenses (Score 3, Informative) 44

100x this, Anyone who says Proxmox is a VMWare replacement has not actually be responsible for a VMWare deployment in the Enterprise space.

I am not saying Proxmox is bad either, or that VMWare and the server architecture it implies vs running lighter weight containers on top of 'less' fault tolerant VMs orchestrated with k8s and similar isnt a more cost effective design strategy just that can't rip and replace VMWare with Proxmox without ground up redesign of your entire enterprise architecture and DR strategy.

If you are in the world of replicating storage to hot sites, fully software defined network topology, and doing VMmotion across data-centers, and structured where different IT organizations within the organization have ownership of virtual infrastructure nothing else beside maybe Zen really offers the feature set you need. I am also not saying you could not build it with pick your favorite DevOps platform but if you did it would probably make the TCO on VMware look cheap even now.

For the Small to Medium Business space, yeah there are lots of more open solutions they can probably migrate to with out much more outlay than a one-time cost of hiring some consultants to migrate everything and retrain their IT staff, or maybe just paying their IT staff some overtime to spend a few weekends getting up to speed and then migrating infrastructure.

Anyone that thinks the Fortune 500 community can just migrate off of VMWare in less a decade-long time scale is just profoundly ignorant of what all VMWare's enterprise tier offerings actually do.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 52

Why because you like paying $15 for matinee ticket?

You like watching the Nth remake of whatever because productions costs are so high big studios are generally afraid to try things that are different?

The wonderful thing about all forms of 'fiction' where AI is concerned is that it does not have to be "correct" it is after all already fictitious. If AI can write a more entertaining book, or make a better movie, how come we should not want that?

Google indicates SAG has like 170K members world-wide. Obviously the vfx, editing, writers, directors- will pile on to those numbers but compared to the other industries this technologies are poised to disrupt, we are not talking about that many jobs here.

Frankly this could be really good for democratization of film as well. Holly Weird does not need to enjoy an out-sized cultural influence because early 20th century film need a lot light, and that required either very expensive to run very hot artificial light miserable to work under or long daylight hours with predictably fair weather - so southern CA was the spot..

I say bring on the AI Films!

Comment Re: Costs (Score 1) 92

This is what TBTF is all about. Big might be efficent but it is also brittle.

In a more ideal market place, supplies would have more clients, and each client would be a small enough part of their overall book of business, having one stop orders for a while would not put them out of business.

We used to have hundreds of small automakers, just in the US, now we probably don't have triple digits the world over.

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