Why are you wasting your time telling obvious, silly lies in a place where people who know what happened are all over?

You burn your own credibility for in exchange for people laughing at you.

I realize it is The Register, but who cares what Mr. Man thinks of your browser?

Mozilla, the org, is in a bad spot, and I don't expect it to make it over the long term.

The browser is the best of the lot for me. I want privacy, security, and customization.

Chrome is a bucket of ass on the first and the third. I do not intentionally run spyware, end of story.

Safari gets a gentleman's C on the first, mostly because the third sucks.

Once Firefox dies, I think I'll need to pick up my personal proxy development again, because that (together with a block on google IPs) will be the only way to handle ad/privacy/security issues.

In a dish.

Or take a lesson from urban street-parkers. Leave a sign, "Doors unlocked, nothing of value inside".

If people knew he was outsourcing support to the pig butcher outfits, it would impact the economic security of this scam.

(C'mon, it is a logical affiliate opportunity for him.)

Everywhere I've lived, cops are generally utterly disinterested in property crime unless the victim is connected, the loss is huge or the media gets interested.

Less than 10% are cleared in California now, and yes, they used to be better at it.

I'd say "demand better politicians who will demand better cops", but, hey, we're speedrunning the authoritarian shithole path (we are on to political assassinations as of today), so, uh, that ship has sailed.

I *dont* understand why universities would tolerate this sort of corporate bullying from Oracle, when alternative JVMs and DBMS are *right there*.

I can take a stab at this.

First, it is surprisingly difficult to verifiably eliminate a piece of software from a large environment. We went through this exact exercise a couple years back because we didn't want to pay Oraclegeld. The first 90% is easy. But then you're dealing with Java running on weird devices that are difficult, expensive, or both to replace. And employees who for strange reasons try to keep a copy. And vended applications where swapping the JVM voids your support contract. And all sorts of other weird situations.

And second, these are universities. Schools in general are not exactly famous for having an iron grip on their computing resources. Their IT capabilities in general are different than businesses because their focus is different. And structurally, there are frequently organizational silos and redundant departments with their own budgets for historical reasons, so I imagine even trying to inventory all the computers a school "owns" is can be a challenge in some places. (This is certainly true in the US, I'm guessing English schools are subject to similar pressures.)

So it doesn't surprise me at all if they just couldn't pull it together. Even with centralized administrative control of our machines, it was a multi-month and surprisingly costly effort for us.

The answer to your question is, Microsoft structures their offering strategically as part of the sales pitch.

There are lots of different plays, but the most obvious version is, Microsoft salesdroid will ask if you're using Slack and come back with, "tell you what, Teams will cost you nothing, we'll zero that." Now $manager can either pay for Slack too, or replace it for "zero cost".

That discount probably goes away next sales cycle, but in a 20k person company, saving that $5/head/month (or whatever it is) means someone hits their bonus target this year.

Tada!

Snack size?

This is Apple's implementation, not Passkeys per se.

I was confused by this when they announced it, because I couldn't think of any reason why you'd want cloud sync for device keys. And it turns out, you don't.

Apple uses "sync passkeys", not device-bound passkeys, and uses iCloud to distribute them to your other iThingies (but of course not other platforms).

I won't use them either, for the same reason. I refuse to sync authentication creds - I will not store them on something I don't control. And even if I were to do so, Linux would need to be included for it to be useful to me.

Anyway, yeah, it Apple didn't need to require cloud nonsense, but they chose to. I understand where they're coming from, I just don't like it and won't do it.

They are taking a complete 180 on a core aspect of their interview.

I predict is will have mo measurable impact on their engineering capability.

I also predict their HR will hail this as a great success.

McMegan is a clown. A wannabe Maureen Dowd without the turn of phrase or hint of self-awareness.

I'm totally fine with people like that trashing Bluesky. By all means, enjoy Musk's blog.

And Xitter is exactly that. Open forums don't look like this.

People who are enjoying a party don't sit around trying to convince themselves that some other party sucks more.

I have this mental picture a retirement home full of demented nerds flashing printed copies of Goatse at each other.

The thing that gets me is the consistency. It feels as if there's a union foreman somewhere who has been ensuring at least one is assigned to every story since the late 90s.

Dude, you've got to update your talking points. You sound like you've been watching Fox reruns on VHS in your trailer for the past 20 years.

Everyone should block any traffic to AS32934 at their border. I do, and the internet is so much better without it.

I gambled on bit of their stock after their big drop last year, but if their senior technical folks are bailing, time to get out.