Their company did not fail because of a ransomware hack.

Their company failed from not having adequate off-site backup of their data.

The cloud does absolutely nothing to protect you from needing a real disaster recovery plan, and any business that doesn't have one deserves what they plan for (or don't plan for).

Also: a backup that isn't tested is not a backup to bet your business on. Back up your shit, test your backups, and make sure there is a copy of your tested backup somewhere that a ransomware dipshit can't get to it, like LTO tapes in a closet in your office.

It sure is a good thing that your phone is very configurable for who and what can send you notifications, at any given range of time during the day isn't it?

Now you can get your 2FA token / codes, and still not get spammed by useless shit all day long. And this has been available for years, as "do not disturb" mode.

That's what I'm wondering.

How is this any different from using FTP to download malware, and then execute it?

Nothing in a DNS client is going to execute what is stored in a TXT record by itself. Nothing in any DNS client is going to unzip / un-base64 it, mark it executable, and run it without someone being there to do that, or some script being written to do it that is being executed with the requisite permissions, so this is no different than any other file transfer medium other than being obfuscated in a novel way.

Don't download shit you don't trust, and let it run willy-nilly on your systems. Same as it ever was.

When you are focusing on something, ignore your fucking phone.

Use do-not-disturb mode. Make sure anyone that you would like to not be shunted to voicemail or otherwise ignored is a "favorite" or "VIP" in your phone so their calls and messages still get through for important stuff.

Don't be a slave to your damn phone - it's a tool for your use, and anyone that is spamming you with useless shit should be ignored, and if they continue to spam you with unwanted shit, turn their notifications off.

This really isn't hard, and is no different than any other notification or distraction that has happened to anyone in the last 30 years.

Yes, because all of those things are something the KDE project has control over.

What a dumb fucking comment.

Actually Boeing would say "Yes, this aircraft is 24 years old, and has been in regular service over those 24 years. Have you been doing the engine maintenance as required for those 24 years? Do you have the inspection report from the last service? Maybe we should start there instead of blamecasting..."

Also known as not being incredibly stupid and jumping to conclusions that don't hold water against any kind of critical think whatsoever.

You are also a fucking idiot.

Yes, I'm sure it's Boeing's problem that an aircraft they sold 24 years ago had an engine fire. I'm sure that engine hasn't been pulled from the nacelle and serviced, overhauled, rebuilt several times through the quarter-century this aircraft has been flying.

Also, can we really blame Boeing if the aircraft in question has been in service for over 20 years? Seems like a Delta fuck-up, or as you suggest, the manufacturer of the engine (GE Aviation?)

It's almost like it's easier to do national infrastructure projects when you have 1/40th of the land area, and zero massive mountain ranges to contend with.

This is what I didn't understand about TFS saying that doing this would somehow make it easier for California to get hydropower from the Pacific Northwest, when California has been getting hydropower via Path 65 since the mid-1960s.

What the fuck are they even talking about?

He says, while college students are actively being arrested and imprisoned for having the temerity to exercise that free speech in the form of protest and journalism...

Open your god damn eyes please.

Yes, because I'm sure the Russian security apparatus is really gonna go arrest Big Bad Vlad for breaking his own repressive rules.

Anyone else getting a giggle that "Scale AI" failed so badly at scaling their workforce?

So we should just never build anything unless it's perfect and can survive conditions that YOU describe that may never actually happen where these things get sited to build.

When is the last time Germany had a major earthquake?

And even if what you say happened, oh no we've got some large chunks of metal and fiberglass to pick up off the ground in a localized area. That's oh-so-complex in comparison to extracting gigatons of carbon from the global atmosphere, isn't it?

What a fucking dumbass argument against wind energy.

Yes, because landscape views are never ruined by haze and smog created from continued burning of fossil fuels, or by the large plumes of effluent rising out of the smoke stacks of a coal power plant.

If this is the best argument you've got, you officially have absolutely nothing.