The buck stops at the top, as they say.

Don't outsource core business functions.

Likely they're cooking the books to make it look like their company is worth investing in. Probably just closed 100x more tasks.

Lots of wealthy people have investments in land, that's why there's a push to RTO, because the land value of town centres is dropping as footfall is lower. As that has had enough knock on effect that business owners are throwing clout around to RTO, it follows that if the land is uninsurable the same business owners will take notice.

Until the wealthy find their property is uninsurable, nothing will change.

Whilst greedy people can make money at the expense of others, or move the problem somewhere else in the globe, nothing is going to happen. It is terribly sad. Culturally we need to look at greed differently, it needs to become shamed so that money doesn't get you nice things.

Would have thought that NSA's SE Linux work would have had a bigger influence on their tech stack.

Honestly, I'm surprised that US Military both outsources and offshores IT support.

Were they doing anything that couldn't have been done with air gap on-prem Proxmox?

Why are they using Microsoft anyway, if security is a concern, something more SE Linux/Unix, would have been a better design decision for their cloud.

> 3. Convoluted and confusing patchwork of bad software.

This is part of the business model, if they squash bugs, and stop working on features, there's little reason to upgrade. They always polished Excel and let the other programs in office rot, this wasn't accidental it was deliberate so that users are forever encouraged to upgrade to get fixes.

Given this is the way customers are treated, why would anyone buy from them knowing that there's deliberate deprecation by design?

Since humans have to say a song is a cover etc, why shouldn't you say it is AI generation?

If the AI had been fed Katy Perry - Dark Horse as training material, what then?

More to the point, is always on battery (charge at home, use on train) do you ever get an update?

Would it be mixed due to mixed HW? Different components have different current usage.

Worse than Hotmail running sendmail on Unix. Never recovered from the move to iis.

If you job could be replaced by a shell script, then I guess the job had a limited run length anyway.

This stinks more of tariff retaliation as the lost jobs were mainly in the US... any reason for that? The US has made doing business with them harder in a global economy.

Seems like this was always the way it was going to play out, US business move out of foreign nations and foreign nations move out of the US. I don't see it going any other way when there's added tax on trade, the simple thing is to not trade as nobody will win.

> Yes but no

But one does not bite the hand that feeds

In theory, Google paid most of the Mozilla money, so in a way Google owns them all? :o)

Sounds like doubling up on tracking to me, just hype fuelled. Unless the "AI" can do the valid coupon hunting for me, it doesn't sound much better