"Twitter isn't paying off for us the way we wanted, so let's do the same thing again but under a different name"

Its England, not New England. They'll be just fine.

"help the company return to its roots as a hardware-first company"

Have you not been paying attention to Apple at all the past several years?

Since they switched from Intel CPUs over to their own in-house silicon, they're dominating the landscape in performance-per-watt, battery-life, and even on raw compute. They have the fastest single-threaded CPU on the market right now, and its in a freaggin LAPTOP. And their unified memory architecture is destroying everything else in performance.

Their "return to hardware" was the M1 generation, and now they're at 5th generation with M5. How much more "hardware-first" do you want?

it comes and goes in waves. i've just assumed it was a specific troll/bot group during specific periods of agenda pushing vs the general consensus of the public.

Passive monitoring? Sure.
Active monitoring/blocking? Not in the least.
Latency is far too high.

that would require session tracking information on literally every single customer. and is also a direct violation of the basic ideals of "net neutrality". these are why it is handled at the edge rather than by the trunk routers.

oh, and also, the internet as a whole is a-symmetrical in routing. the only way this is practical is on the edge, or MAYBE one hop up from an edge router (assuming there is no dynamic load balancing going on that you cannot see)

While I agree in theory, this particular case is different.

Do you validate every single package inside of yum/dnf/apt/pkg or similar OS package repositories?

Because what happened in this case, the maintainer for a major package had their system compromised.

This could have easily been an attack against any package in any OS repo, open or closed source, using this method.

"So, you think critical infrastructure shouldn't be repaired!?"

And watch the bullshit lame ass excuses the fuckwit companies come up with.

(yes, I know its so they can sell you service contracts and parts and labor n what not, but i want to see them attempt to justify it)

"more than 340 million people live within 10 kilometers of data centers"

NOT ALL DATA CENTERS ARE FUCKING AI DATA CENTERS.

I'm getting sick n tired of all the bullshit metrics.

By the definition of "data center" that these people use in one stance (AI) to talk about heat, then they shift to a different definition to cover "people live X distance away) is for an entirely different class. Things like carrier hotels and co-locations. Ya'know, the shit that just delivers your fucking internet to your house and cross-connects to other ISPs / Carriers. THESE ARE DATA CENTERS! But they're not "gigawatt" data centers. Often they're not even "megawatt" data centers.

Maybe this partly stems from a recent Microsoft Store outage... that I shit you not... prevented NOTEPAD from functioning.

Yes, seriously.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwindowsforum.com%2Fthrea...

Yeah, dude. Its the fucking internet. "Gamers Hate" literally every type of change in the past decade. That's just how the vocal minority goes. Same shit happened with hardware ray tracing, because early demos were not the best. No diff today w/ this tech. It was an early tech preview, not a final product. It will be tweeked and refined, and then we'll forget all about all of this bullshit nonsense, and the tech will be common place... ya'know, just like DLSS (original). Yeah, that had massive hate too. Now DLSS just gets a shrug for the most part from the general community because its decent now. And this tech too shall improve to that point eventually.

The Linux distro with the most gamers? Android. By several orders of magnitude.

But ya'know what? I'ma be called out because its "not a real distro" while everyone bickers and fights about right/wrong, there are literally billions of installs and a huge chunk of those people gaming while not giving two fucks about what kernel runs under the hood.

Aarch64 has taken off in the data center too. ARM is king of mobile, competing hard at the top, and thanks to Apple is a solid competition at everything in between.

Now, why does it not take off elsewhere? Microsoft's ARM implementation kinda still royally sucks ass. Also, the hardware still kinda royally sucks ass.

Are these being improved upon? At least the latter, yes. ARM themselves are pushing for what they're calling "SystemReady", where ARM based systems use UEFI+ACPI for initialization. A huge part of the problem leading up to this point is requiring board-specific initialization code being provided by the OS, usually in the form of U-Boot. So this meant there was just as many copies of an OS as there was boards. "Oh, you're on a Pi? That's Ubuntu #1. You want a SolidRun Honeycomb? Ya, that's Ubuntu #2 now"

SystemReady solves this by making it just as easy as PCs, where there is a "BIOS" so to speak that does that early board initialization and then does a hand-off to the OS to handle the rest, much like how X86/AMD64 works. This has been the hold up, and is what is being heavily worked on and improved now.

I've been using FreeBSD on ARM64/Aarch64 for years now. Firefox has been there all along, working exactly as one would expect, no different than X86/AMD64 counterparts.

Why the hell did it take Chrome so long to catch up?

Buy cheap shit, get cheap shit.

If you need encryption keys and to have them portable and secure?

Two options: 1) yubikey. Use its built in features. or 2) Industrial storage. The latter uses SLC or MLC NAND Flash with nicer wear leveling provisions instead of shit-tier USB drives which may not have any wear leveling algorithm at all (let alone extra "hidden" space to help that algorithm out). QLC in the cheap USB shit is rated around 100 write cycles per cell. This can degrade exceedingly fast. I've been able to kill USB drives from major brands like Samsung and Sandisk in less than 1 full drive write cycle because it cycled a few of the early cells to quickly and killed them. Do you know how great storage works when you dont have a partition table or file system header anymore !?