Microsoft seems to be doing these kinds of migrations lately.

I think their old ways of poorly documenting things even internally came back to bite them. I've seen some things written by people who were at one time Microsoft devs working on Windows 7, 8, and 10, who said that a lot of removed functionality came because trying to figure out what the old code was supposed to be doing was nigh impossible, and figuring it out sometimes just didn't fit the schedules or budgets. If a feature didn't seem to be widely used as a percentage of the userbase, then it often got dropped.

Maybe some rewrites are being taken too far, but anyone who has dealt with code that goes back potentially more than 30 years is almost certainly going to find some really bad and/or confusing implementations.

NIST SP 800-63 has formalized this. Specifically, look up Section 3.1.1.2 in SP 800-63B-4, released just this year. Minimum length 15, max length at least 64, but no other requirements, including complexity or regular rotation. Unicode is supposed to be accepted, normalized against a standard process (that one I don't remember, but it's documented), with one code point counting as one character. Filtering for known bad passwords or patterns is strongly encouraged.

I pushed through an implementation at our company last year, explaining why, showing the NIST draft. A bunch of people protested because it was different, but the CIO told them to live with it because their entire argument was "but we've done it this way for 30 years!" Some critical vendors complained when we started pushing them to comply (or at least implement SAML), but we only have a couple of vendors not complying now, and they should be compliant soon. Users are largely happy with the change, and they complain a lot less when we see suspicious activity and force a rotation.

You could stop actively supporting and voting for rapists that would help. Because Trump fucks kids after all and you love Trump.

You could also stop punching yourself in the nuts. That's going to be real hard to do because you've been doing it your whole life but if you try real hard and maybe take a classic Community College you can figure it out.

And remember if you see an llm remind at the Trump fucks kids!

I don't think anyone involved here is on the side of capitalism. This is a billionaire money fight and billionaires have pretty much had it with capitalism and consumers. That's why they want control of the media. They want control of the information you consume.

A foolish way to die, but that exposed end of the concrete barrier is unforgivable.

Slashdot is one of the very few sites that I choose to allow ads. That's about to change.

So mount new radars on the most distant wind turbines. Then they'll get an even earlier warning on the incoming Belgian drones.

and they implicate Trump. I think that much is obvious at this point.

The Windows 10 partition on my laptop doesn't "work" anymore like the Linux partition does (and Windows 11 won't work at all). If I ever do boot into Windows on that machine again, I'm going to have to airgap it (no, I'm not going to jump through their increasingly silly hoops to "extend" support).

I guess the average Joe would just keep running that unpatched OS as usual indefinitely, since ignorance is bliss.

It's just racism. The practice got it start here because after minimum wage took effect there needed to be a way to pay black people less than minimum wage. That's why the United States developed tipping and other countries didn't.

Anytime you see a quaint little American custom that you can't figure out why it's still around the answer is usually there was some nasty little bit of racism that we've forgotten because of the civil Rights amendments and a shitload of lawsuits.

In this case though this is just taking what's left of tipping which these days is a mechanism where companies can advertise one price and offer another. Sort of like how sometimes something evolves in an animal and then gets put to another use.

I'm not sure the status of Australia's consumer protections though. In America with how corrupt things are now as long as it's large corporations doing this shit I'm sure they can get away with it however Australia might not allow what is very obviously just a trick to advertise One price and offer another. Bait and switch like that is generally frowned upon.

In the US, McDonalds and similar are deemed restaurants. I am sure there is a lot there is lot of elasticity in fast-food restaurants that market themselves on price. For restaurants that are even a little up-market, the elasticity is probably much lower.

I thought the first movie was essentially Pocahontas with blue people. I haven't seen the others.

You can solve all these problems you want and Microsoft will use nasty little Monopoly tactics to prevent Linux from getting anywhere.

If you want Linux on the desktop then you have to vote for Democrat politicians or your local political equivalent. Basically you need to vote for somebody who will do trust busting. You also do probably need to pay attention to primary elections. There aren't as many of the really corrupt corporate Democrats as they're used to be however there are still some and if you change your voting behavior you can bet your ass the lobbyists will notice and adapt.

The reason you can't get anywhere with Linux on the desktop is because you are trying to solve a political problem with technology and that doesn't really work.

Something you probably do not want to think about.

Let's say you are a mentally unbalanced person with easy access to guns 70 or 80 years ago.

If you were black and you went on a shooting rampage nobody cared because nobody cared what the black folks did to other black folks and we didn't let them near white folks.

If you are white and you wanted to go on a shooting rampage well, you had plenty of black folks you could shoot up and again nobody cared.

My point is the violence was there people just didn't give a shit. If you actually read the history of racial violence in America it is terrifying stuff. We do everything we can to pretend it didn't happen.

So by the '70s racial violence was frowned upon and you were likely to get in trouble for it and by the '80s you were definitely going to get caught and thrown in prison. Hell there's a couple who showed up at a black birthday party waving their guns around and threatening people and they're doing 10 years in federal for that.

So what you're seeing is there is no longer a socially acceptable outlet for mentally ill people who want to commit violence and kill people.

It's kind of like how fentanyl became a crisis but crack cocaine wasn't a problem. Fentanyl was a problem because good American white men were taking it and overdosing. But nobody gave a shit about black people just lock him up in prison if you catch one of them. And let the CIA sell them the crack you lock them up for.

And of course pointing any of this out triggers the fuck out of people because we're not supposed to confront or think about all the racial violence that exists in this country today let alone the stuff that existed before.

Not the ones doing the shooting anyway. There have been studies and school shootings are generally not done by the bullied ones.

What it looks like so far is you have a mentally unstable child who has been showing clear signs of mental instability and parents who have been leaving guns lying around because why the hell not we've got a second amendment right?

The parents of that school shooter in Michigan are going to do 10 years in prison for negligence. That seems to be the solution right now. I'm not sure it'll work since again talking about studies there are clear studies that long prison terms don't actually deter crime.

Education and awareness would be the solution but that's off the table because you can't have the slightest discussion about gun control without it being used to elect incompetent politicians who wreck the economy in favor of billionaires.

Basically gun control like abortion has become just a polarizer designed to create a handful of single issue voters. So serious discussions are impossible.