Yes that is a perfectly sane assumption. Assume that just because only one factor built something 50 years ago that that is still the case now. Yep. Makes perfect sense. Which company's strategy team do you work for? Asking for someone who likes shorting stock...

Yeah to be clear South Africa isn't the place that changed and in no way was I saying that South Africa isn't corrupt.

Sounds like you're just bad at hiring competent people

A slop-designed rocket engine might explode violently enough to give another big piece of metal a shot at becoming the fastest human-made object.

Aka parameter maxxers learn about over fitting.

Machine learning used to be the default term for computer assisted statistical model fitting. Pretty soon algorithms and data structures, math and farming will fall under the AI zealots umbrella as they seek relevance after LLMs fail to replace human thought.

You don't need IPv6. You can just NAT the NAT and put NAT on top of that in the form of CG-NAT. Who needs end-to-end connectivity anyway. /s

What happened to IPv6? We did. The "experts" who decided to not push it because we didn't understand it, mistake NAT for a firewall and thing an IP address is a security risk, and bitch and moan because they think they need to remember a complex hexadecimal address (which is rubbish).

You speak with the bias of a person who has experienced a life of multiple hobbies and multiple possibilities and dismiss very legitimate concerns. For people who are actually addicted to shit like social media things can get very nasty indeed.

Bonus points for the article being about Australia, yet another car dependent place with cities designed by morons who produce people in servitude to someone who can take them somewhere for their hobbies. The "go out and play in the park" that would easily apply in many places may very well just turn you into a private chauffeur. Hope you didn't have any other plans this summer.

Why switch at all? You're promoting an ideology to a technical problem / solution. What benefit does your approach bring?

Again you're simply clueless as to how things works. Not all spreadsheets are simple datasets. There's a reason they were used in the first place, and one of those is that IT people for all their genius in administrating absolutely suck at doing end user's actual work. Virtually all attempts to replace complex large spreadsheets with something "better" fails.

Saying something repeatedly doesn't make it true.

No other problems. Just performance issues. The cost of having a spreadsheet literally take 15-30min to calculate through it's cells is a minor price, one that can be paid during a lunchbreak. There's a reason Excel allows you to pause all calculation until you manually recalculate.

Congrats on demonstrating you didn't even attempt to understand the fundamental problem. The issue is not how to *store* data. That was never in question. You've mentioned databases, now come up with the 6-7 other applications you need to add to that database to replicate the functionality that you haven't bothered to understand.

Also exporting anything that sizable from a database to an excel sheet takes far longer than simply working in the excel sheet itself. Congrats, you broke the user's workflow, made it slower, didn't try and understand what was being done, and all for what? Because you think you know the answer without asking a question?

Let me make one thing clear, please don't ever work on anything without a project manager between you and your customer. Your complete lack of thought as to what is going on or what is trying to be achieved makes you the kind of IT person who gives the entire field a bad reputation. Do you work for Oracle by chance?

Next will be incredibly tight regulation on VPN access and use. Leading up to government-run vpns and a Chinese style great firewall.

This is a authoritarian power grab and once authoritarians start grabbing power they don't stop.

I don't think it's anything that can be stopped because voters are too distracted by the culture war bullshit.

The next step is to ban vpns. They will be more tightly regulated than guns.

Not that it matters because human civilization is collapsing but all this think of the children bullshit is just a power grab by authoritarians.

We can't do anything about it because we're too busy worrying about woke trans drag queens forcing us to say happy holidays while playing Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis.

Is almost universally not about the children. In this case it's about de-anonymizing the Internet to aid in mass surveillance.

I'm happy for you. But unless you want to donate that computer to someone who currently has an 8GB machine and is finding that it runs like a dog, aren't you doing any more than gaslighting people who aren't as well off as you?

No sorry, the Windows 10 EOL has barely made a scratch in the requirement for memory, a couple of 10s of million PCs are a drop in the bucket compared to PC shipments on a monthly basis (FYI Lenovo, not even the biggest PC company ship ~7million laptops per month by themselves), and quite critically there isn't that much shortage on desktop RAM, the biggest shortages are in actually high performance stuff which a few new 16GB laptop purchases don't affect.

Your solution is a non-solution. But have a mod point anyway because you bashed Microsoft. +5 Insightful.

"Europe" isn't getting in on the scam as much as they are getting in on the scamming. The public investment in these projects is virtually nil except for some back scratching for mates in high places, and investment in these smells like shell companies laundering money.