Kimmel lied, what he said would have been taken by any reasonable listener as saying the assassin was a MAGA adherent.

Fox was exactly no different, but same congress people that now making a fuss over Kimmel were doing everything they could get them off the air.

yes the first like is a letter to the former trump admin from again many of those same congress persons to try to silence people.

You sir are just an TDS idiot, not worth discourse with in the future. If slashdot had a kill file I'd add you!

Maybe nothing bad can happen, It can only good happen. ... :-)

(If that makes your brain hurty, just take some Ah-ced-uv...)

Crypto currency - now as centralized as any bank or credit service, less private than cash, and certainly no better your traditional payment processors, secure (HAHAHA RFLOL), not subjection to sanctions/seizure/etc yeah nope, and now here goes the non-revokeability...

Its like the industry treats breaking promises as an Olympic sport.

It sounds like layoffs, not stealthy at all. I am not even sure 'exited' counts as much of euphemism.

Exactly - cheap no-name stuff is cheaply made surprise surprise.

I think the difference here is the fire-risk. You buy a badly made lead-acid, or nicad battery, mostly they just under perform. Defective lithium batteries catch fire. The devices around some of the some of things around them that don't have any current control or consider thermal design can also make otherwise save lithium battery a hazard.

People just want to teat these things like the battery chemistry they grew up using and they aint

http://cantwell.senate.gov/imo...

https://buddycarter.house.gov/...

https://abc3340.com/news/natio...

The list goes on. Sure its whataboutism, but the people including you are beclowned by it.

Nobody knows how to even quantify the number of lives lost, harm due to increased mental illness, and many other impacts of listen to the official advice either.

Meanwhile the officials literally tried to silence anyone who tried.

I am not crying any rivers about government boot lickers like you losing elections either.

Speech did not kill anyone of those people. Making a choice to listing to some quack on facebook did, and yes the price of freedom has always been and will always been that some people will take that freedom and chose to ignore good advice like "aim away from face" in favor of "just use your teeth its quicker"

That is just humans.

We got caught crying Fascism because some national level celebrity with mega corp backing got pulled from the public airwaves for a few nights, when the news came out we'd be tampering with organic conversations in the digital town square on youtube and elsewhere while gaslighting everyone about it.

Gotta get some counter propaganda out there QUICK!

I am not defending or condemning anyone here, but as a practical matter if you are not IT industry I am not sure that Open Systems/Platforms are appreciably better in terms of leaving you to deal with unplanned migrations.

it isn't as if FOSS projects don't lose momentum and just sorta fizzle. It isn't like they don't bogged down with management and political problems that cause them to stall or fracture, it isn't like these projects not tied to big clients writing checks don't decide to abandon features that might be critical for your use case.

Maybe you don't have to fear someone is going to suddenly jackup license costs and leave you with a drop dead migration date, but you can still be left with something that is unmaintained, and otherwise not remaining a good fit for the rest of your IT plant.

Q. what if you'd recently decided to build your storage infrastructure around Open SUSE with bcachefs?

Can you continue yes, but if you do, you'd better have experienced Linux systems people on staff that can at least build an out of tree kernel module and prepare the require boot files/archives, etc. If you only had point-click people and some vendor that did a one shot install for you, it might get expense now too.

Long term support-ability / control over software assets certainly can be a benefit of choosing FOSS but if that benefit is *real* depends a lot on your particular situation and what / how big the thing in question actually is. It is easy to say "hey the license is free I can just use it as long as I want and if it needs some old platform I can just put it on VM and isolate it!" - How often is that really true. if it is some old server that only builds against some ancient version of OpenSSL that does not support anything newer than TLS1.0, how viable is that really. Realistically you are going to have to find someone with enough skills in whatever language the implementation is to port the thing to a contemporary version of OpenSSL or GNUTLS, or give up your privacy/security, or force users into some strange cumbersome VDI scheme etc...

100x this, Anyone who says Proxmox is a VMWare replacement has not actually be responsible for a VMWare deployment in the Enterprise space.

I am not saying Proxmox is bad either, or that VMWare and the server architecture it implies vs running lighter weight containers on top of 'less' fault tolerant VMs orchestrated with k8s and similar isnt a more cost effective design strategy just that can't rip and replace VMWare with Proxmox without ground up redesign of your entire enterprise architecture and DR strategy.

If you are in the world of replicating storage to hot sites, fully software defined network topology, and doing VMmotion across data-centers, and structured where different IT organizations within the organization have ownership of virtual infrastructure nothing else beside maybe Zen really offers the feature set you need. I am also not saying you could not build it with pick your favorite DevOps platform but if you did it would probably make the TCO on VMware look cheap even now.

For the Small to Medium Business space, yeah there are lots of more open solutions they can probably migrate to with out much more outlay than a one-time cost of hiring some consultants to migrate everything and retrain their IT staff, or maybe just paying their IT staff some overtime to spend a few weekends getting up to speed and then migrating infrastructure.

Anyone that thinks the Fortune 500 community can just migrate off of VMWare in less a decade-long time scale is just profoundly ignorant of what all VMWare's enterprise tier offerings actually do.

Don't forget about coal -- sorry, "beautiful, clean coal" -- no matter how unnecessarily expensive to consumers...

Independent Report Finds that the Trump Administration’s Orders to Keep Coal-fired Power Plants Running Could Cost Consumers between $3-6 Billion a Year

And other sources, Google trump coal power cost

Maybe he'll recommend that people just stop testing the water so the results won't be bad ...

( Like this during COVID: Trump: ‘If We Stop Testing, We’d Have Fewer Cases’ )

So, the overly simplified choices seem to be:
(a) Definitely give MS even more access to, and possible control over, your data, for undetermined concrete benefit.
(b) Risk a possible security incident, that may happen anyway or never.

Depending on how one feels about having a Microsoft Account, could be a tough choice, especially w/o knowing what security updates will mitigate what issues, that you may not even encounter. Microsoft isn't doing this for free out the goodness in its heart (if it has one), or even potential good press/karma, so they're getting (or think they're getting) something they perceive as "value" out of this, other than money.

My understanding is that if you have Office and a logged-in MS account, Office is going to try to use One Drive unless you disable things, and keep re-disabling them after updates -- and they'll nag you about that. Who knows what else they'll nag you about.

Windows 10 still nags me to "upgrade" to Windows 11 even though (a) I've disable it in the registry and (b) the Windows PC health Check utility says my system can't be upgraded because the CPU is too old and there's no TPM. So annoying.

Last option:
(c) Switch to Linux. [X]

I have a remarkable amount of power, But apparently I act badly.

I know a lot of powerful people, some are not particularly good, most are actually decent. I know a loot of poor people, some are good, some are evil I'm not trying to act judgmentally, , but is judging people you have never met the mark of a good person that does good things?

Prejudice is not my metric.

You judge with out knowing. I wait until I meet a person. Explain how your prejudice is good, and my judgement based on personality and actions is bad.

Nice try, but a /. AI agent would just ignore TFA/S and pull something out of its electronic ass. :-)

[Then head off for blackjack and hookers - maybe forgetting the blackjack.]