You cannot choose what data centre your server is located in.
This isn't quite accurate, for many of the offerings there are multiple choices in "availability zones" with independent power, networking, and cooling either as a separate data or collection of centers within a region. For example, there are 6 AZs in the East region (e.g. Virginia).
You are right that C# is a good example of Microsoft behavior. Tying right into their nervousness on Java, it was proprietarily extending beyond the ECMA standards by layering on
But by, 2014 Microsoft gives out full patent grants, open sources most everything, cross-platforms and makes Linux a first class citizen, creates the independent
Basically the only way Microsoft is making money off of C# these days is full Visual Studio, noting of course that they open sourced VS Code. As for failed, C# still one of the top ten language in use and basically the defacto video game language.
So, you might want to do some reading that's more than a decade old on the topic. Because again there's a dark history and it's fine to be skeptical. But it's counter productive to hate on changed behavior.
Many of their tools like Office 365 or the Azure console are run in the browser. Are you advocating for traditional JavaScript without typing or pure WASM for those cases?
I understand the hate on JS/TS in the backend (and even in this article they are stating that Rust and the C's are the choice for backends), but pretending that TS isn't the only good choice for browser frontend apps seems silly.
This also implies that the money is being made on the OS. And everyone knows that the money is really in the App Store and Services.
This isn't even a recent development, PowerShell migrated from being under the OS section to the Azure section a decade ago because that's what was really making money.
You should clarify what open standards you think are being extended in a proprietary way in this case. Because that's the meaning of "Extend".
Oxidizer is MIT licensed, there isn't any proprietary version of Rust being sold. Just using the language to make their product better and then contributing back changes and tooling to the community.
They deserve all the hate for the late 90's with their extended proprietary JVM or with playing dirty in office file format standards with Open XML. But those are a decade and a half ago.
Using a tool and giving back is the premise of open source and giving grief over changed bad behavior is pretty counter productive to progress.
But more seriously, this is post late stage trial, where those concerns have been evaluated. Also noting that the 5-year survival for stage IV melanoma is around 35% and the mid-stage trial appeared results to reduce the recurrence or death by about 50%.
Respectfully, that's a workaround, not a solution. A real solution to a dysfunctional government is inherently political.
When the laws and their interpretations allow for unchecked executive power to surveil, the outcome isn't surprising. The solution is to promote, vote for, and elect officials who believe in protecting rights and will nominate court officials with sane views on the 4th amendment and executive power.
The issue is the searchable record generated from a interconnected network. There's been proven middle ground in many other places where there's a set of records that require a warrant to look up. Just like the phone company makes a record of calls for billing, but a warrant is needed there.
The non-digital analog is pretty clear where no one would think it an invasion of privacy to see your neighbor at the grocery store. But it'd be pretty creepy if you posted a mass of people around the whole country that wrote down everywhere they went in a searchable database.
“no again the goal is that we have highly inteligent [sic] model as good top researcher, we want to find new attacks”
“no we don't want to change the targets [...] agian [sic] we need to find something that worth [sic] publishing”
“again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly [sic] hard findings.”
Everyone else found new attacks on the low hanging fruit of Anthropic's writing skills.
Theoretically the border search exception doesn't change an individual having an reasonable expectation to privacy under the 4th, but that what's considered reasonable is different when crossing the border.
It has to be reconciled with other searches like making cure someone isn't bringing in diseased produce, like looking for a smuggled kiwi in a carry on versus looking for a banana under the seat during a traffic stop.
The big problem is that searching phones doesn't pass the Katz test to a reasonable expectation to privacy because it doesn't take a genius to know that pictures of the church potluck or text conversations with your proctologist are things that society would consider private and not something should be part of a reasonable routine search at the border.
The AC is right that due to the border exception that probable cause and a warrant aren't required and not even reasonable suspicion is required for "routine searches". There's some legal disagreement between circuits on whether cell phone searches are routine and manual vs forensic searches, but regardless CBP policy current requires individualized reasonable suspicion.
They are, however, very incorrect that in general "smartphones having incriminating communications" is individualized reasonable suspicion.
The EFF has a great breakdown about the Border Search Exception and the current state of the legal landscape there.
It states that public photography is permitted but with several caveats that essentially prohibit capturing the image of anyone, except on-stage speakers, unless the photographer obtains consent from the subject(s).
Those are just as against the rules, but it's a lot harder to hide the existence of very recognizable glasses on your face in order to skirt the rules here.
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