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Comment Re: Servers? (Score 1) 73

To be fair, most regular systems will not boot over the network.

Many desktops (targeted for corporations) will boot over the network, but I am not sure how many do so by default. Server class hardware deployed by in datacenters often has network boot enabled, and is used to install (and reinstall, and recover) the fleet.

Comment Re:What's with these disclosure cockups lately? (Score 1) 73

Are they caused by simpletons who are letting AI do their jobs without any oversight?

I would hope that AMI will offer a postmortem report that will explain how they broke the embargo. And they should have their membership in the super double secret handshake club reviewed and perhaps revoked if they can't show adequate changes in their processes to avoid the issue next time (and there will always be a next time).

Comment mod_php was considered the easiest approach (Score 5, Interesting) 27

The mod_php path was believed (in the security community) as the most likely viable exploit approach. php-fpm, which has been the recommendation for years, is believed to be much harder to exploit (no publicly documented exploit yet. yet. yet). That said, there are going to be a lot of sites who still use mod_php (if it work's, don't frack with it (and that presumes you have staff who could actually understand the details and make choices)).

Comment Re:Sounds better than a surprise layoff email (Score 4, Informative) 136

Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees voluntary retirement program

Well, sounds better than a surprise layoff email.

This is a "the cat is on the roof" email. The layoff email(s) will come later if the number of the employees that accept the offer is lower than what Microsoft decides is necessary.

Comment Re:My Surprise (Score 4, Informative) 54

Despite its flaws, vulnerabilities, and haters I think that PHP is a good or admirable language for web servers.

But in this day of node and Javascript, and with AI's penchant for Typescript and React, I'm surprised that PHP is still heavily used.

Wordpress uses PHP. And something close to 40% of the internet sites use Wordpress (so, PHP).

Comment Discovery+ was always the outlier (Score 1) 56

Discovery+ was always the outlier in the streaming market. It was never an especially popular service in terms of subscribers, but its content costs were low, and its subscribers fairly loyal (lower churn than some other services). In the various merger discussions, it was never even mentioned as whether or how it would be integrated into the eventual streaming combination.

Comment Re:Durable goods from commodity companies (Score 1) 57

Why was this downvoted?

I mean that as a legit question: I thought the coward accurately described Tesla's self-driving promise ... but I'm no Tesla expert, so what's wrong about his take?

AC posts start at score 0. The score may increase, or decrease, based on those voting with mod points, but AFAIT, if the net result is zero, the score still shows as zero, so it is not at all clear if that post was downvoted, or just any potential upvotes and downvotes cancelled themselves out.

It is (as it has always been) some people who will try to manipulate the scores to increase engagements. If there was any actual accountability in this forum, all the voters would be publicly visible, so that those that decided that [some user] was biased could choose that their votes be excluded from their view of a score, but that might impact page views (and profit), and we (well, the site admins) would not want that.

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