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Comment Re: scares me too much ill never do that (Score 1) 64

NewScum wants to bring them back, because forced treatments are better than people suffering in the streets.

He wants to bring them back because he can profit from directing investment to his cronies. If he cared about people suffering in the streets he'd have directed some investment wisely and gotten them off of the streets. Or, you know, backed an empty unit tax that would make housing affordable again.

Comment Re:wrong motherboards (Score 2) 40

They should be selling motherboards with 8 or 16 RAM slots so that you can consolidate existing RAM from multiple 'obsolete' boxes.

That's not trivial, especially when most people want uATX or smaller.

Also nobody wants to support a bunch of people using old RAM and then filing RMA requests about it.

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 40

I saw no benefit in purchasing new components to chase the never ending need to stay "current".

I upgrade to the current generation when it becomes the prior generation, i.e. when the new generation comes out. I built a 5900X system with 64GB of RAM just before the prices spiked. In fact I bought 32GB and then just after it arrived I was like nah, I should have more at this price, and the price had already gone up by about 10% since my first order. Therefore I purchased at the very start of the spike. Last I looked, the same RAM I had bought had gone up 200%.

Comment Re: scares me too much ill never do that (Score 1) 64

I'm in favor in theory, but in practice I don't trust my federal government, my state government, or the people of my country, or the people of my state, or the people of my county to make responsible decisions which respect freedom. I used to kind of trust the people of my state in the aggregate, but then they voted not to end slavery in this state because it would impact fire management.

Comment Re:Microsoft part right, part wrong (Score 1) 103

Yes you'd need malware to dump contents of the RAM in order to extract the passwords, but this is a vector none the less.

It's a bigger problem than that because it's in the browser, which is often how attacks enter the system. If someone finds a hole in Edge which allows them to inspect only Edge's memory, then they can use it to get your passwords out of it. This is an enormously likely scenario.

Comment Space heaters make sense, DCs don't (Score 1) 126

The idea of having someone put one of your servers in their home and using it to produce heat makes sense. The requirements are low and if one server goes down it doesn't affect your cloud much.

The idea of having someone have a bunch of your servers at their home makes none. They don't have a SLA for power and it's difficult and expensive to get carrier-grade networking at their address.

Comment Re:I'd love to trash Edge, but... (Score 1) 103

Put the tinfoil hat down and step away...

Microsoft has engaged in unlawful activity time and again, it takes a special kind of idiot to believe they won't do it again.

Microsoft is a defense contractor and has been for decades, it takes a special kind of stupid to believe they won't willfully aid the same kind of evil they've been contributing to for decades.

You can choose not to be stupid about Microsoft. All it takes is a willingness to consider everything we know about them. Or, you know, anything we know about them.

Comment Re:I'd love to trash Edge, but... (Score 1) 103

Ram dump get, for example, sent to Microslop for analysis of crashes (and storing of your passwords if you are one of the 6 users that use edge.)

There's an absolute shitload of Edge users out there... at work. Some people, not naming any names here, are only allowed to use Edge as a password manager despite also having Chrome on their systems, and of course not having access to a password manager which is actually reasonably secure like Firefox. The "logic" behind this is that the employer has a deal (which surely won't be altered!) with Microsoft to not use their data. Yes, a pinky swear, that's the basis of the decision to hand passwords to Microsoft and not store them somewhere secure.

But this is consistent with the plan to use Microsoft software in the first place, when Windows is the worst spyware ever conceived, and Microsoft has had multiple breakins into Azure where they have no idea what was even done because they have no logs. No one with even the slightest clue would suggest continuing to use their software if they were concerned with security, which has been true since the earliest days of Windows, and is still true.

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