Until there's a zero-day in OpenSSH, and your hosts are compromised without any authentication being required.

Sure, so you chose convenience over security.

Maybe that's a reasonable choice in your environment. In many, it isn't.

If you allow ssh from the same sources you allow http and https, you're either running an internal-only web-based app for your sysadmins (e.g. monitoring web front-end), our you're "holding it wrong".

People buy specific (expensive) hardware to run MacOS, yet aren't prepared to buy (at much more reasonable prices) hardware that is supported on Linux by the vendor (from Dell, HP, System76 etc. etc.) and expect everything to work perfectly out-the-box (without using the scary command-line to install the latest Nvidia drviers).

Windows doesn't "just work", you're just used to its failings.

I haven't used Windows myself for many years (Mac OS at work at present due to one required internal app not being available for Linux at the time I had to choose, Linux on all computers at home, including for kids and wife, and Android on a tablet), but family often have problems with Windows, such as "My printer stopped working", where Windows Update has been the culprit (installing a "Windows-optimised driver" which doesn't work at all). Yet, this doesn't happen on my linux machines (with the same printer model), where all hardware works out-the-box.

So, please, give at least one example that isn't due to "the hardware I have doesn't have a linux driver because the vendor couldn't be bothered, nor do they provide sufficient information to allow developers/contributors to write a driver" (the only common problem these days, but avoidable by choosing better hardware).

" That's precisely why AWS has had such a hard time charging by anything less than the hour - because their cloud infrastructure is older, and more antiquated than Microsoft's - "

EC2 launches new hardware quite regularly, and apparently uses the same hardware internally. So I don't understand what is "antiquated". Can you elaborate?

"Amazon have struggled to charge by the minute or second precisely because they're so reliant on VMs that take longer than that to spin up in the first place."

EC2 launched per-second billing almost 3 years ago:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a...

You don't seem to know what you're talking about, or you're a few years out-of-date.

Agreed (see my other posts), but why is this a reason to say:

This is what I was responding to here ...

"Amazon can't at the same time make a Google device and another device according to the agreement. "

I think it's more that 3rd-parties can't offer both AndroidTV- and FireTV -based devices.

E.g. if you are Hisense and offer AndroidTV on one model of TV, you can't offer FireTV on a different model of TV.

Ah well, guess I will just buy dumb TVs and a $35 Fire stick, oh wait, I have one of those already.

"Amazon's Fire-tv/tablet/etc forks of Android are fighting hard with Apple / iOS for the title of most obsessively walled-garden ecosystem."

How did you arrive at this conclusion?

You can side-load Google Play on Kindle Fire tablets (and then install anything you like) and you can side-load APKs on Fire TVs (I haven't tried Google Play, but I installed Kodi this way).

This doesn't differ much from any other AOSP (not licensed for Google Play) version of Android.

The verge published a similar piece about 18h ago: https://www.theverge.com/2020/...

Original source: https://twitter.com/KYWeise/st...

"Presh Talwalker of Mind Your Decisions says the above riddle was used as an Amazon interview question."

Amazon interviewers are advised against asking ridlles as part of an interview, and I haven't been on an imterview loop where I have seen a riddle used.

Was the interviewer an ex-Googler?

The final evaluation claimed that AWS didn't adequately satisfy all of the requirements, however the prior evaluation (before Trump started saying that he would punish Bezos) showed that AWS far exceeded the requirements.

Also, changes to the requirements after Trump's statements against Amazon/Bezos could effectively increase the cost to the government by not allowing any sharing of infrastructure (e.g. not even power/cooling/DCs) between existing classified AWS regions and the JEDI region(s).

See the original protest submission: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters....

There's quite a bit of evidence there that Amazon seems to have a solid case.

I think a reasonable balance of improved security and convenience would be to allow default password iff the device cannot assign/accept a default gateway/route when the current password matches the default password (and have first-time setup prompt/require changing of the password).

Sure, this would allow lateral movement in a subnet that already has compromised devices, but if all devices did this, compromising one would be less likely.

> Ironically, the Washington Post...is owned by Amazon.

No, The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, not Amazon.

Been to Venice recently?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...