And they did that over a longer time. Reminds me as how Boeing does not know how to design planes anymore because they have no experienced plane designers.

The content delivery network people with 16 years of experience in this game or the AI liars that peddle a basically fraudulent product based on a massive piracy campaign?

Hmm. Difficult!

Dark can also mean unknown, like in Darkest Africa.

You do not, but you do need to know who is listening. The transcription software will send transcripts to all *INVITED* meeting participants. It's important to know the difference between who is on the screen and who is included in a meeting.

No need to go full sterile and robotic. Just use a bit of care.

I'm thinking, planning to run Windows 10 forever is pretty silly. Imagine saying the same thing today, but about Windows 98. Eventually, it'll be like that. You can plan to avoid bad stuff and try to keep it running, but you'll need to look at alternatives someday. With support expiring in a few short months, ASAP seems like a smart choice, at least to have a plan of where to go next.

Also, there's more to it than just security. Imagine how many things don't work on Windows 98 today. I suspect it'll be worse for Windows 10 in 2030, cause programs these days tend to be picky about that stuff, especially if they access other services. As an example from the iOS world, iPhone 7's and lower can no longer use WhatsApp.

Those are all files. Let's say we're talking about desktop usage, cause that's where I use rclone. In that situation, you can certainly store your photos, calendar, email, etc.. in the folder that gets encrypted and sync'd to your storage provider. For email, I'd recommend using something like maildir rather than something like mbox (IE: one file per email, versus one file containing all emails in a folder), as that will make it all work more smoothly with such a setup, but it's not rocket surgery.

In the post you made below, you also mentioned, "or your emails in transit, or your web browsing history." What does encrypted cloud storage have to do with emails in transit? You can certainly encrypt all emails, and you can use an encrypted connection to reach your email server - none of that has anything to do with the case at hand though.

And your web browsing history? What is your plan here? Do you WANT have that backed up to the cloud and shared to other devices?!? FWIW, you *CAN* still do that - they're just files. I think you're hinting at encryption at rest here, but that's just a WAG. If you want that, encrypt your drive and you're done.

I got that figure from disk usage info, not from backups as I don't have iCloud backups turned on. So I'm not sure if it's supported or not.

Thanks for the alternate article! The additional info in it:

And the adapter you linked is $30. Searching for similar stuff shows it's one of the cheapest ones on Amazon.

So... that more-or-less confirms that he's not simply hooking them up to the POTS. But it also leaves open how it's being implemented... which is what any self respecting slashdot reader should be interested in. I'm amazed how far this story has spread with so few details and so little variation in the reporting. Like, where is this guy's github page, or anything more about this?

FYI, support ends in a few months - October 14, 2025.

If you buy the extended support updates for Windows 10, those will be available for a maximum of three years (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates), so it'll still be unsupported well before the 2030 vision.

If you want to keep using that hardware and don't want to or can't use Windows 11, start looking at alternatives ASAP.

Break out the subvocal mics / laryngophones / etc.. LOL LOL

Ì did not "go there", I described what I think will happen if we do nothing and just let the current system evolve naturally. Plenty of ideas for other systems, from a full blown planned economy, to the current system with a UBI, different ways to levy taxes to pay for that, and so on. And like you, I am pessimistic about it happening. But not because people cannot fathom another system, or even that people wouldn't be able to agree on a system. The problem is that one way or the other, the "haves" are going to have to give something up, and not just the super rich, but the upper middle class as well. That makes it very unlikely to happen.

It was the carbon fiber that was the problem. It gets microfractures from the stress and it has to be x-rayed to determine whether the shell is still safe or not. No one had used carbon fiber before.

At least he had the good sense to include himself among the victims.

As I said above, generally studies have to be replicated to be believed.

Any scientific organization should know that you can't believe the results of studies that haven't been replicated by someone else. That's one of the golden rules.