Pihole, firefox with noscript and ublock origin, and I see very few ads.

When I implemented those some years ago when I was still on 8Mbit ADSL, I was astonished at how much faster web pages were able to load, albeit with a few empty frames where the ads were supposed to go.

Now that I've got Starlink it probably wouldn't be such a big difference, but I'm used to the ad-free* experience now.

*some websites serve the ads from their own domain and I still see some ads when visiting places like distrowatch.

That's the first thing that I thought of.

They've borrowed some of the concepts from OS400/IBM i.

Though probably not the sophistication of the dual-abstraction concept.

Stories from customers in Australia that cash wasn't a substitute, because it was the cash registers that weren't responding.

Now, pricing in Australia puts the total amount up front. Your burger is $4.50, the fries are $2.50, and the coke is $2. Your bill is $9. There's no "plus tax" bullshit to take the bill to $9.87.

So even if I had exactly $9 in notes and coin, I couldn't buy some food.

We had a major outage from one of the big providers in Australia recently (Optus). It was big - phone, internet and especially EFTPOS was down. And still the cashless proponents push their bullshit.

If I was the manager of an affected Maccas, I'd be telling people "Hey, our payment systems are down, but we'd still like you to enjoy our food, so you can pay us what you've got in cash, or nothing, it's up to you. We can't make make change so please don't hand us a $50 bill, but if you've got five or ten dollars in your wallet, that'd be great"

Not happy about this. Nikon make great lenses, but I've not been impressed with their digital cameras. I was a Nikon fanboi in the film days, but not so much in the digital realm.

Perhaps this is an effort to regain market share. RED's products are great, but I'm skeptical about the future under Nikon.

I liked the ball pass at the end.

Good ad.

Could have used a bit more free-fall ball passing. That shit's cool. The sort of thing that inspires kids.

No.

Neither are C programmers, what's your point?

Yes, because *nix and variants are supreme, never been cracked/hacked. No security vulnerabilities here, no sir.

sudo is a pain in the arse, and a band-aid solution to giving users sufficient authority to do their jobs.

Create a group with "execute" permissions applicable to one (or more) programs, then add or delete users from that group?

It's not that difficult.

As long as they post some bonds to cover damages and compensation to drivers who weren't able to receive emergency broadcasts. It's all fine in built-up areas, but AM has a much greater reach out in the boonies.

Pinky-to-mouth - a few billion dollars should cover it.

I guess the results speak for themselves.

That's a truly stupid statement.

You've been here for a long time, and I've never seen you produce a truly stupid statement until now.

*Truly* stupid.

It's been known to happen. We had a key mismatch once. The manager drove to a shopping centre and bought the Blu-ray.

Correct - the KDM file contains the decryption key for the movie file, it also contains the "opening" date & time, and the "closing" date & time, meaning the period of time that the cinema is licenced to screen the film. If a film turns out to be more successful than anticipated, and the cinema wants to keep screening it, they send a request to Deluxe for a new key. Ingest the key and life goes on.

Projectionists at cinemas don't get that kind of user privilege, i.e. you get access to the application software on the server (which is frequently embedded within the projector itself). You can ingest films from eternal HDD/SSD, or from internet, and you can also ingest the KDM file containing the decryption key, and you can program shows including ads, PSAs, trailers, and the feature, but you do NOT get access to anything like the date&time, OS or package updates.

It's part of the licencing arrangements with distributors. It's also consistent with the philosophy of only giving a user as much privilege as they need. 99% of time it works as intended, but then you get some clown who forgets to update a certificate. Back-dating a server isn't the solution for an expired certificate in any industry.

I've had to do in-place re-installs on W10 for a few customers.

Regardless of assurances, I always backup the entire user profile.

But IME the re-install either works as intended (with user data unaffected), or (rarely) not at all, i.e. it fails very early in the process with a vague error message "something went wrong", so instead of hunting down the error logs and trying to fix it, it's easier and faster to do a clean re-install - and I've already got the user data backed up.

I've *never* had a re-install that damaged user files.