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...
To be fair your link does say "designed to bypass internet filtering mechanisms or content restrictions", so it sounds like SSH, work VPNs, banking etc. don't count because they aren't designed to get around the porn filters.
It still seems pointless because most of the VPN services are based outside the US for legal reasons anyway.
They could, but probably the only real reason why they maintained access to the ISS is because they get paid for it, and because they wanted to keep their independent capability alive. Aside from those reasons, they probably aren't all that interested in going there.
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.
Whatever happened to IPv6 ?
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.
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).
My god, kids will be bored! What will we do? They'll have to learn to entertain themselves and god knows what kind of mischief that will lead to.
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.
If 18 months to switch is too ambitious, you are doing things wrong.
Why switch at all? You're promoting an ideology to a technical problem / solution. What benefit does your approach bring?
If you are relying on 20 million+ lines of spreadsheets, you are doing things wrong.
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.
20 million cell spreadsheets are NOT common for financial departments, or businesses in general.
Saying something repeatedly doesn't make it true.
That many cells being used in a spreadsheet can, and will, cause performance issues, as well as a slew of other problems, with Excel.
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.
Everything that a spreadsheet holds (in terms of raw data) can be stored in a database from which you can easily export just the data you want to play with in Excel (or other spreadsheet software).
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?
My 32GB of G.Skill DDR4-2132 installed in my MSI Z170A Titanium motherboard rocking an Intel Core i7 6700K and Samsung 970 NVMe 1TB SSD has been serving me nicely for years and will continue to do so.
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.
I am a little surprised to see Europe getting in on the scam though.
"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.
No, just one of the people who reflect that all people can do crime when you hear a black person shot someone.
In 2025 it's hard to consider Africa more corrupt than the USA.
This comment is not written by AI.
Uh-hu, that's precisely what an AI would write in a comment.
Websites were already getting ridiculously verbose (like recipe websites having a long story before the actual recipe) because Google favored pages like that. If you wanted your page to show up in the search results, it had to be nonsensically verbose.
Not sure what you're talking about. https://www.justtherecipe.com/
That said on the odd occasion (like very occasionally) the verbose part is actually quite useful, it helps to know why ingredients were selected rather than the specific ones since it does give you some indication of what aromatics may be substituted or how to adjust a recipe to your liking.
But really https://www.justtherecipe.com/ bookmark this.
Give me results from 2001.
Oh man I'm so sorry you just had to find out what happened in September 11. Spoiler alert, America is about to go to war again.
These stats are collected by checking the OS through the browser.
Quite a few browsers out there spoof the OS to Windows for compatibility reasons.
That alone is causing the Linux numbers to be massively under represented.
I know of no Linux distro or browser currently doing that by default, and I doubt millions of people manually set it so. One the flip side I know the site historically counts all sorts of weird bullshit, like a massive drop in MacOS users that explicably was nearly 100% "Unknown" (much to the disappointment of Slashdot), or that time we all celebrated the massive drop in Windows 11, only for it to reverse course the month after (much to the disappointment of Slashdot).
Do yourself a favour, for your own mental health, stop wishful thinking there's some hidden stat that secretly supports what you hope the world is.
If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.
