ve never seen a software distribution mechanism as careless and sloppy as NPM. Bazillions of dependencies and no signing of packages. [ ... ]

Rust's cargo packaging system is almost exactly the same way. And the last time I looked, Go's packaging was very similar. And package signing won't help if the maintainer's key/cert has been exfiltrated and cracked.

This is what you get when you embrace DLL Hell -- the idea that you should pin your program to a single specific revision of a library, rather than, y'know, doing the engineering work to ensure that, as an app author, you're relying only on documented behavior; and, as a library author, to be responsible for creating backward compatibility for old apps linking to old entry points. Sticking to that principle lets you update shared system libraries with the latest enhancements and bug fixes, while remaining relatively sure none of the old clients will break.

"Sometimes you have to break backward compatibility." Agreed, but the interval between those breaks should be measured in years, not days.

the old oil is data there is a ton of stupid data in them their hills

Previous comments have been drawing analogies to Black Mirror, but this "idea" goes back much further...

...This is an episode of Max Headroom (US version).

Specifically, S02E02: "Deities." A company claims to be able to bring past loved ones back to "life" as an AI, for a modest recurring fee. But Bryce (the creator of Max Headroom) opines they can't possibly have the compute power to do it, as it requires a large mainframe just to run Max's highly flawed, glitching bust.

Wouldn't surprise me if the "visionaries" behind this saw that episode, and saw an opportunity to fleece gullible rubes.

soon it will be done

frankly I think it would be a good thing

regards

John Jones

Thankfully, he was mostly wrong...

Um, when was the last time you stayed at a hotel?

There's a microprocessor in every doorknob.

I'm self-hosting Vaultwarden on my LAN, a Bitwarden-compatible backend written in Rust. I have it running inside a jail on TrueNAS Core (which, alas, is now end-of-life). It hosts its own Web interface, but also is compatible with Bitwarden's Android app and browser plugins.

So far, it's worked out pretty well for me.

...Because no one uses Edge.

Clearly you have never worked in a large corporate environment that has shackled itself to the entire Micros~1 ecosystem -- Office, Outlook, Exchange, OneDrive, Teams, Engage, SharePoint... The whole ball of earwax.

try this

https://speed.measurementlab.net/

I thought that's what the front page was. It keeps wasting space with things I'm not interested in, or actively dislike.

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procurement what fun...

whats the fidelity tolerances ?

whats the containers and have they paid a license fee

feck it buy sony

NO - "The tax targeted revenue generated from Canadian users rather than corporate profits, making it particularly burdensome for technology companies"

if you dont have a ledger of Candaian users your pretty much a fail as a company oh wait the americans dont like to pay ANY tax so will lie cheat do whatever it takes..

they are literally taking the republicans for a ride... not that any of them will refuse a ride...

its been called auto predict or initelsense rule systems previously

get over yourselves its wildly variable... good and bad

yeah great but honestly bad input bad out

good input and good output

garbage...

history repeating itself go buy tulips... bitcoin

so these devices... Where are they made?

lunacy get your supply chains in order

I wonder if Bill Gates giving away his money has the same satisfaction as Linus Torvalds knowing he made the world a better place

History will show which one actually gets remembered as a good person and my bet is on Linus

Lesson I learnt... chasing money ends poorly.

JJ