"It was a failure of technology" copout for incompetence and negligence.

Agreed.. it was very human incompetence that allowed a long rifle to get within 150 yards of that podium, poor tech probably compounded the problem but they didn't secure the area.

Isn't this how V'ger is born?

Musk has been incredibly reckless with his "Full Self-Driving" rollout for Tesla, now he's taking the concerns people have about that and trying to misdirect it to the AI chatbots that currently *aren't* killing people.

I never understood the inability to come up with a true random number generator. Tune your old school TV to channel 3. It's static. Background radiation from the big bang. Use THAT. (?)

That threw me for second [decades]. It's been decades for me too - gave up on Microsoft roughly in 2000 w/ the games they were playing. It's been two decades and my business system(s) run more reliably and it's been a whole lot cheaper not paying Microsoft "licensing". They are a multi-billion dollar joke of a company.

I gave up on tape decades ago. Too many problems. It's slow AF compared to a live backup for restoring. That's if you CAN restore. Worst case scenario is you'll have to restore w/ a different tape drive -- and I've seen this fail right there. The original drive became out of alignment, but could still read/write it's own tapes. Nothing else would read them. I consider this tech useless now because of this.

I backup like this:
Linux server ---> rsync offsite
rsync offsite --- differential rsync of this live set
(ie: no direct access to differential backup set)

I do the same thing onsite, but will assume entire network is compromised and will rely on offsite for a good set of data

This is just not a good idea on so many different levels.

Why yes. YES IT DOES.

to IBM failing to migrate their own email service to new servers?

I think they already tried removing the Start menu right before they removed the "Start" button and made it the Windows logo. The aborted and never released Windows 9

Finally - can we talk about John Deere...

Who planted the tree? Sue them too.

Anything But Microsoft - fuck them.
And what if I have a piece of software, maybe I wrote it, that won't work with something different. It's not your PC Microsoft. Fuck off.

This is the exact reason why I like my Mac and love my Linux. My computer. My choice.