Ah, no. But MS stepped up its efforts to lie to you. Quite successfully, I see.

You are aware, that all major governments (including the Swiss one, where I personally know people) have access to Windows sources, right?

And that is the real problem. All the crap Microsoft and and the US administration pulled was just the trigger that made it impossible to keep ignoring the problem. And not that the problem is not ignored anymore, things are happening.

On a related note, I still do not understand how Microsoft could have been so abysmally stupid as to block ICJ o365 business accounts. That triggered the whole thing and made it abysmally clear that their stuff cannot be relied on.

To be fair, he is really good at breaking and messing up things. Seems almost like a super-power.

Exactly. On Linux you can automatize system administration very well with FOSS. Yes, you have to use different tools, but, for example, SSH-ing into a box with certificate-based authentication when it is up is trivial. Scripting that way is trivial. Even a doing a full installation (on top of a minimal one) this way is trivial. Doing updates this way is trivial. All with the security mind-set that UNIX was designed with from the start.

Now, if you want the same admin interface on Linux as you had on Windows, of course you are paying for that. But you are doing it wrong. There is a reason you need a lot fewer sysadmins on UNIX (and Linux) than on Windows and that reason is that once the sysadmin has automatized everything, very little breaks. Quite unlike Windows.

Of course, the other part of this is that UNIX sysadmins are quite a bit more expensive than Windows ones, because the expectations are a lot higher. But you still come out ahead by a lot.

It is fast enough. The thing that counts is that Brave has very good ad-blocking and that is far more important.

People that can still do things without AI and people that can do things AI cannot do. Just that there are not so many of those around.

Which tells us that "they said" is not a reliable source of information. Obviously, the stupid-greedy will not be able to understand that, but still.

Which just means the wall was NOT sufficient in height. Seriously.

What else is new? There is a reason real currency and real banks are secured on a massively better level than crapto. But the stupid never learn.

It does. My guess is somebody with more money than a good person can have has paid for it.

Not limited to the US though. See Japan with Fukushima and the ignorance of the designers how high tsunamis could get, despite historical markers being available. Be incompetent and sooner or later you have a catastrophe on your hands.

Some cloudflare 502 error pages, yes. Reload fixes it, so probably just a load-balancer not properly excluding a slashdot backend instance that is down or unreliable.

Indeed. I am glad I have lost interest in TV shows a long time ago. And the bits of YT I watch all get reliably ad-purged by the Vivaldi browser (other approaches exist, obviously). I have tried a bit of ad-infested YT and other online-media (new installation on a different system), and I can say I would rather go entirely without than subjecting myself to that crap.

What is your point? You seem to be rambling incoherently.