Naa, police forces are there to keep the rich safe against the unwashed masses. All that "serve & protect" stuff is just the marketing narrative.

What else is new? These people are a threat, nothing else.

Microsoft? Yes. They are even more corrupt than, say, Intel, but they have better lawyers and are more careful in their bribery.

Ah, sorry. I confused threads and then mixed things together that do not belong together. I was thinking about the compromised MS cloud master key from last year. Obviously my statement is nonsense in the context here. My apologies.

Indeed. Thanks.

As to MS competitors, yes, many are not better. That does not make it OK for Microsoft to be crap. Especially when you think of the damage that, say, Azure going down for few weeks or any Internet-reachable Windows installation getting hacked and becoming non-functional would do. This is in the damage range that can depopulate countries and worse.

All the while you and them are starving...
Unless the have "old school" as a tested (!) BCM measure in place, it is _not_ going to work.

Sorry, no. We are in this position because dumb people like you actively denied the problem for 4 decades.

Yes, that process is definitely there. My take is that more and more people that do not understand the Unix philosophy are getting into Linux and that takes a big toll. Probably many are refugees from Windows that now apply their low-insight mindset in the Linux space. Systemd is one crass example, but all the crap distros like Debian patch into sshd is another. Pure stupidity, grossly bad engineering and prioritization of questionable convenience over security.

That said, Devuan works nicely. That there is a whole distro now with the single selling point of "no systemd" means there are still a lot of people in Linux that actually understand and can do good engineering. As to fragmentation: That is actually far less of an issue than generally claimed. Again, Unix philosophy. Sure, a specific organization should standardize on one distro, but that already fixes the issue.

That is nice and sensible, but what about your local supermarket that cannot order new food anymore after the next big attack on the insecure MS crap? All it takes is for one of the more competent bad actors to really want to do damage.

Do you know how much money MS has? And who all does not have an exit strategy for their crap?

Yes, product liability would mean MS is dead in 10 years and that would be a very good thing. But it is not going to happen.

Which was discussed often enough. There is no valid excuse for tposing on this topic and not knowing that.

Possibly. They were careful not to do any damage. If they had wanted, the world would burn. And Microsoft noticed nothing and has learned nothing. I guess the world needs to burn before better IT practices can be established.

As I said, you have no clue what 10C global warming means. You just demonstrated that nicely. It is not a simple temperature increase. It means much more _variable_ temperatures and much less stable weather. At this time there is no more excuse left to not know that.

Now, the models have long broken down at 10C increase, because too much goes to hell. So we do not know how bad that case will be. But 10C would probably come with 30C or even more variability. When the people in Dubai have 70C one day and -10C the next day, do you really think that will work for them?

Bullshit. You should be ashamed of yourself for pusing these lies.

Yep. But obviously those that fucked up now need to blame somebody else for their mistakes.