To be honest I'm not sure there is a really good solution to this. It's very difficult to implement a backup system where you can rebuild a corporate network and devices quickly and without significant data loss. Getting as close as possible is expensive too.

I find that Anubis is a lot, lot less of a pain in the arse than Cloudflare's captchas. Usually I said right through Anubis in a second or two. Cloudflare usually requires at least a click, and often a stupid game.

Two reasons it's allowed.

1. The iPhone sells well.

2. Android lets you replace most of the OS, including core parts like Google Play Services.

There is definitely a case for requiring better interoperability where people do things like replace Play Services and then find that their banking app won't open because there is no way to tell it that the device is secure, but it's mostly enough to ward off Microsoft style anti-trust issues.

Sucks for people with accessibility issues though. Moving the mouse in a straight line, say because they have a joystick or their eye tracking software interpolates, is going to get them blocked or forced to do a long captcha challenge that isn't very accessible either.

The games industry is dealing with a saturation problem. There are so many games, especially from indie developers, because the tools have lowered the barriers to entry so much.

Most of those games barely get noticed because there are dozens more being released every day.

It will happen to TV and movies too. I've already seen AI generated TV shows gaining traction on TikTok. People pooh-pooh it as slop, and it is, but like indie games that rely on a lot of off-the-shelf assets what matters is that people watch/play them.

Eh, HDD failure and ransomware are not the same things. If you have two HDDs in a mirror configuration, and one of them dies, you lose nothing. If you get ransomware, both are encrypted.

If one machine suffers an SSD failure, you lose one machine and inconvenience one user. If your network is hit with ransomware, potentially it spreads to every machine and through file servers, affects all users.

Obviously you should have a 321 backup system, but management tends to resist anything too robust. And even with that, there are the competing needs of getting machines back up and running, forensics to figure out what happened and stop the same thing happening again, and the insurance company audit to see if they feel like paying out or not.

6 weeks of shutdown for a manufacturing company is not something that is easily survivable. Customers will be looking for alternative suppliers, and many won't switch back. Contracts may have delay and non-fulfilment clauses. Few places are going to have 6 weeks of stock to cover such an event.

What seems unforgivable is that it took 6 weeks to fix.

Aren't the ISPs motivated to fix their shit anyway? If their customers become part of a botnet, there is a good chance that their network will get blacklisted.

Microsoft is panicking because Linux market share is increasing rapidly. Now that you can play a lot of games on Linux, AI bypasses the toxic community, and a lot of major media outlets are promoting switching to Linux as a way to de-shittify your computer, they need to take action or lose their dominant position.

Worse case scenario would be that people start buying computers with Linux pre-installed in large numbers, and their bread-and-butter OEM Windows licence revenue starts to decline. AI taking all the RAM and SSDs isn't helping sales of new computers either.

So I think they are at least somewhat sincere about making Windows less of a pain in the arse. Microsoft tends to go in cycles. Enshittify, fix it, enshittify, fix it... Windows 7 was decent, 8 was a disaster, 10 was decent, 11 is a disaster... Hopefully they fix 11, and we don't have to switch to 12.

If all goes as it should we'll all simply be working less in 10 years time.

That seems phenomenally unlikely. Absolutely vast changes were made to the world of work since the 1970s with the inexorable rise of computing and productivity gains have been vast. And yet the 40 hour work week has remained.

To be honest, I already am.

cool. You are not even slightly the majority in this.

I'm sorry to hear that. It's a common story, unfortunately. People complain that Gen Z "don't want to work", but it's more accurate to say that they don't have opportunities to work, and when they do get a McJob they have zero loyalty because it's not like working hard there will allow them to progress some sort of career.

There are a few places trying catapults and planes, but they can't carry a lot of weight.

The Soviet Buran spaceplane is probably the model to follow. Unlike NASA's Space Shuttle, it didn't have its own main engines. It only has orbital manoeuvring thrusters, and possible some jet engines for use in the atmosphere when returning to Earth. Instead the whole thing was lifted by a rocket and boosters.

Well, now we can recover the boosters, so you can see where this is going. The rocket was needed for steering, but the boosters can do that now, so maybe it could just be a disposable frame that straps a bunch of boosters to the spaceplane.

That's the plan. You can't run AI locally, you must pay them to run it in the cloud, on the RAM you can't afford to buy yourself.

I can't really see many companies looking at this hybrid design and deciding it makes economic sense though. You have all the downsides of a fossil fuel engine, all the weight and maintenance and consumables. The electric part is mediocre.

Maybe it makes sense in countries with really shitty infrastructure where supplying electricity is hard or expensive, but in Europe every time sometimes under-estimates battery electric progress, time always proves them wrong.

Gen Z were lied to so frequently that if you tell them something is good for them now, they will probably do the opposite. Only slightly joking.