Those two statements are at odds with each other. As someone who has spent plenty of time authorising electrical excavations around far more sensitive things than a crappy fibre (the kind of things that could potentially go boom, or just silently kill everyone), when you *know* the job is dicey you put in additional controls around it.

Sometimes things just happen is a statement used on a normal day at a normal job site without any advanced knowledge. It's not a statement used for when you know the job is dicey. The correct statement for a knowingly risky job going south is: "sometimes the people doing the job are incompetent".

Equipment is incredibly resilient to such spikes. We're not going to fry entire processors here, in many cases the spike will simply be shunted in the power through a VAR or MOV designed precisely under the assumption that incoming power actually regularly does experience such spikes. Large enough spikes are likely to blow the fuse / trip circuit breakers, but your computer will be back up and running in a jiffy. You've over estimating the level of damage that would be done.

I'd be more worried about high voltage ones. LV lines all over the place are buried. But the HV ones aren't a risk either. The power systems are surprisingly resilient in multiple areas to deviations. I still remember when a procedural mistake resulted in our 33kV network at home going up to 47kV before the local substation caught fire. Nothing downstream even noticed. ... Well they noticed, protection systems turned off the power when the spike came in, but nothing was damaged. Power was put back on 15min later when it was re-fed from another ring-main.

It's not good enough. It's an obsolete part that was single sourced single component without a long term viable supply. That makes it unsuitable for use in infrastructure today. I may have been good enough 20 years ago, but the part would have been on the verge of being considered NRND back then (Not Recommended for New Design). In the world of traffic lights speed isn't the issue, security of supply and programmability is.

This isn't common science reporting practice. Common science reporting practice ignores how something is supposed to work and keeps you stupid. In this case the science reporting is giving you *ALL* the information available. The fact they look the same is coincidence.

The ambassador for RSD 2024 is Paramore. If you're older than dirt then they were not around when you're a little kid. Don't get confused with what the media is running stories about and what actually happens. There's nothing about this that is a bad sign for the industry, but plenty to show you a reading biased material that is giving you a view that isn't a reflection of reality. There are literally hundreds of record store day releases, many of which from new bands you've never heard of.

Heck one of the headliners is Olivia Rodrigo, and she's only just old enough to drink this year so you definitely don't know her form when she was a kid. Last year during RSD participating stores were overwhelmed by hordes of Swifties trying to get Taylor Swift's newest release. Was she around back when you were a kid? Are you actually just 15 years old?

Stop judging the industry by your biased view.

Who are you talking about? Microsoft, or the creators of Iperf3 who themselves don't recommend it for Windows for the same reason?

gweihir your ignorant anti-MS posts are getting tired. Stick to topics where you can at least get other people on your side, rather than topics where original creators of the software agree with MS's position on it. And be a bit more aware of your topic, literally half the posts here right now are talking about exactly the performance issues from TFS.

Which porn company? The world's third largest porn streaming site is based in the Czech Republic. The world's second largest porn streaming site is based in Cyprus. The world's largest porn streaming site has a proportional number of EU based users to it's North American home with similar levels of revenue and traffic North America as in the EU27. Stripchat is based in Italy.

Out of all of these only Pornhub is in a position to tell the EU to go suck something, but in doing so it would be interesting to see how they would justify this to Aylo's shareholders given it would halve the revenue of their largest subsidiary.

No, your dad worked at a university that didn't do its due diligence. There's nothing wrong with the superfund concept or the laws in this case. The university just seemed to be run by absolute suckers. The point isn't "who did the polluting", it is "who owns the pollution". If you bought the risk, it's yours, you can't come crying about it afterwards. Why do you think it was given away for $1. Actual land is worth more than that even if there's nothing else on it.

That's not a bad thing. The little guy should be supported through a social programs or some program that helps elevate them, not at the expense of the wider environment. You can live on super cheap if you want to, just go to India and shit on the sidewalk, throw your garbage in your backyard. No need for taxes or expenses when there's no services to pay for. No need to worry about PFAS when we let companies poison you in countless other ways.

Support your poor, don't support your companies.

Those numbers look scary but they are absolutely normal. It's not Women Who Code you should be angry at. It's modern corporate governance. Actually the C-suite remuneration seems to be on the low side given the size of the organisation. That said so is their revenue.

As for "top 10% of income" That's not a hard huddle to pass given the abject poverty in America. My sister is in the top 10% and she has a arts degree with a major in English - something that common Slashdot wisdom would say makes you only qualified to flip burgers. The top 10% is an easy barrier to pass. Fuck I'm just a worker, an employee, not even an executive and I'm in the top 1% and I'm far from the filthy rich Bentley drivers with chauffeurs that the occupy wallstreet crowd were rallying against.

Quite the opposite. I see it as a reason *to* use one account. I don't pine for the experience of every device being different, nothing synced, using networks or USB to get files from one device to another. I expect to shutdown my desktop, continue working on my laptop, and be able to see the results on my phone. It's 2024 not 2004.

Maybe the cloud isn't for you, but the feature set provided by synchronised experiences are real features that people go out and actively seek.

Why? That's a big statement to make. Justify what makes it worthy of a global boycott.

So ... break many current multimedia apps? Virtually everyone needs to purchase at least one thing from the Microsoft store. Windows doesn't include a native HEVC decoder which some 3rd party apps rely on. It's only 99c sure, but it's objectively a purchase worth making. That is a real "no-brainer". Again you say don't do something without telling us "why". Why should we not purchase from one specific store you you don't like. You're calling for a boycott again without justification.

So break device synchronisation between devices. Why again? What *benefit* do I gain when I weigh that against the loss of features?

My devices are my devices. They aren't job / work. They are personal / personal. There's more than one place to sit and relax at home. Maybe I'm working on something personal on my desktop and the weather gets nice outside, so I'll grab my laptop or tablet and continue in the hammock. While there I come across a recipe which I save as PDF for later (I have a huge cooking library these days), but I don't cook with my laptop (disgusting), which is why it's great that I have my cloud files available on my tablet. Not everyone fits yours twisted view of working on the toilet.

Funny, Microsoft thought of this too. Which is why a Microsoft login is rarely used for anything other than a backup when primary authentication and tokens fail and for a single setup. That is the fundamental point of Windows Hello. - Authentication without having to type your password in where it would need to be sent over network, or visible to someone looking over your shoulder. And it's also the reason why Windows will ask you to setup a separate Windows Hello authentication for you device immediately after logging in (or creating) a Microsoft account. All my devices login via pin, and my pin is just as complex as my normal password, and each pin is different. You're not smarter than a Microsoft engineer, even though you're on Slashdot so you most definitely think you are.

Every change looks like corruption in the eyes of people who don't like it.

If you don't have hardware decoding you don't have a modern phone CPU. The bigger issue here is that this isn't a feature for a new Android version, it's getting pushed out via the Play Store (which does push a lot of updates to system components), so you're not even "safe" knowing your old device won't get the new version. The issue is Android 12 came out 3 years ago meaning that your device may be 5-6 years old depending on how many system updates it received.

Your CPU may be powerful enough to decode in software, but that doesn't make it efficient to do so. I don't have an AV1 decoder on my phone. I guess the days of watching Youtube videos on long train rides are over. Netflix tried this too, but at least they made it optional (related to the selector of the video quality). It annihilated my battery life when Netflix did it.

They should have kept this as a feature for Android 15

On average everyone gets along. But the world isn't run on averages. It's run on a vocal minority, as Yitzhak Rabin found out the hard way after supporting the Oslo Accords. He was "leadership" and he was "better". Unfortunately he got assassinated by a citizen of his who disagreed with his policy.

Don't pretend that this problem lies only at the leadership level. People elected these leaders, Benjamin Netanyahu is not a dictator.

You'd be surprised. It just normally doesn't make the news, but there are plenty of companies which go through crisis like this which result in upper management working weekends to build plans to recover and successfully make it out the other side. Executives don't normally get to clock off at 5pm. Fuck em, they get paid enough, let them work for it.

The only unique thing here is that it made the news.