Absolutely! Public disclosure was always a courtesy. And bounties were set up to allow researchers a method of profiting on their discoveries without resorting to selling them on the black market, because as you pointed out, doing so is perfectly legal. In fact, researchers would likely make much more money doing that, so Microsoft should stop acting so entitled and make sure that they take good care of security researchers.

From the outside it's hard to know whether MS actually mistreated the researcher badly enough to justify their displeasure

The irony is that a lawsuit would bring that to light during discovery. Microsoft probably has little intention of following through with their threat of a lawsuit, but in the unlikely chance that they did, it could open them up to even more public scrutiny about how they address security issues. And if they did file a lawsuit, other security researchers could protest in solidarity by publicly disclosing their findings before notifying Microsoft. Microsoft: when you're in a huge hole, stop digging!

Because a strictly vegetarian diet can lead to deficiencies in minerals, such as iron, and vitamins such as B-12 and D. And it's not as easy to compensate as you may think. For instance, spinach is high in iron but the human body doesn't absorb iron from spinach nearly as well as it absorbs it from meat.

That isn't to say that vegetarianism isn't healthy - it's just that you need to put in a decent amount of extra work to avoid deficiencies and many people either don't realize it or don't follow through with it until they have issues.

Dell's laptops have really gone down the shitter in the past few years, but I've been extremely satisfied with their servers. Granted, I haven't used servers from any other company, but the couple of times I investigated alternatives I always came away with a strong preference for Dell.

No, systemd doesn't exist on the BSDs after all these years, and they don't plan to either

Nobody plans to get an STD, but after enough fucking around it becomes inevitable. FreeBSD and certain Linux distros are capable of running Desktop Environments without systemd due to extensive implementations of shims, which are essentially duct tape to provide the functionality that gets shifted to systemd over time. As systemd continues to extend its tentacles further into the Linux ecosystem, it requires far more duct tape to keep everything running. DEs may eventually reach a point where they contain so much duct tape that they become too hard to maintain. It may take many more years for that to happen, but it's certainly not impossible.

This is not as bad as I had originally thought. Apparently the Web Serial API only works with devices with a CDC-ACM (Communications Device Class - Abstract Control Model) interface and it's highly unlikely that most consumer keyboards or mice support that. However, there's also WebHID and WebUSB which may be able to interface directly with consumer keyboards or mice, but I don't believe any browser other than Chromium-based ones support that.

That's the latest incarnation of the American Dream, although you can avoid the morbid obesity part by taking weight loss drugs and spend the rest of your life looking like a player in NBA Jam's big head mode.

Yes, Trump has to let Melania bang one of Barron's rapper friends.

Take a look around - he already doesn't distinguish between property of the government and personal property. The east wing of the White House, the reflecting pool, $1.776 billion slush fund from taxpayer dollars: in his mind, everything exists for whatever purpose he wishes to use it. Anyone who can't see him for the fascist he is has their head so far up their ass that they can taste what they had for breakfast.

Didn't China demand access to the Windows source code? I can only imagine how hard they have their LLMs working to find flaws in that. Things are likely to get much more interesting.

The difference between Windows and Linux in this area is that Linux generally takes security flaws seriously, addresses them quickly, and leaves the fixes in place. With Microsoft, there's a common pattern to slow-roll the whole process: deny the flaw exists, then when it becomes undeniable, claim that it can't be exploited, then once a PoC is released, diminish the severity of the exploit. This process usually spans months and meanwhile Windows users are left with their pants around their ankles and puckered assholes.

It doesn't have to be this way. Vista cleaned up many of the worst architectural flaws in Windows and provided a much more secure foundation for Windows. All Microsoft has to do is prioritize security issues as soon as they're reported and they wouldn't consistently be reduced to a laughingstock in the industry. But I guess it wouldn't be Microsoft if they took security seriously.

The way faulty drivers work today is that the hardware partner is responsible for pushing an updated driver, or the end user is responsible for manually uninstalling the problematic driver. "This creates a gap where devices may remain on a low-quality driver for an extended period,"

According to most manufacturers, the highest-quality driver is always the latest one. However, enshittification tells us that the latest things are often lower quality. And while that's not always the case, enshittification conditions people to feel that way and then act accordingly.

I've been running Linux for nearly thirty years and have had a couple of crashes. I ran macOS for fourteen years and had one crash. I can't count the number of Windows crashes I've had over that same time period. So either Windows driver developers are terrible compared to those of Mac and Linux, or Mac and Linux are more tolerant of faulty drivers. Either way, the overall user experience with regards to driver faults has been far better outside of Windows.

Yup, the current regime certainly has the circuses portion down but they seem to be lacking bread.

I don't see how it is relevant to the actual court case here

Many court cases brought on by billionaires aren't initiated with the intention of winning the case. They're platforms that allow the parties to gather as much dirt on the other as they can during the discovery phase and then air out all of their opponent's dirty laundry during the testimony portion of trial. In addition to that, they get to drain financial resources from their opponent, distract from their day-to-day leadership responsibilities, and just generally make their opponent's life miserable. Whether it's owners of private corporations going after each other or government officials filing frivolous lawsuits against their ideological opponents, it's all just an expedition of mudslinging and misery being adjudicated with our tax dollars.