And umami is the 5th!
Sitting with my kids and watching Mr Beast has taught me something.

Vi is a better word processor than a blocked Microsoft Word.

There's few and far between businesses that aren't dependent on another organisation to be productive, you need to drop right down to barter/cash-only workforces that can get to their worksite using their feet or a mode of transport that is self-fueled, and that own an off-grid home. That's not really feasible for the vast majority of us, so we need to calculate the risk of each dependency and mitigate those that are unacceptable. In reality, most of us have no alternative to most services other than which large organisation we buy from.

Oh I thought you were going to pull out the Trump phone, proudly displaying that it's made in America, while being a HTC clone underneath - and definitely not made in the USA.

All software developers should be using AI to test code security and release new versions that are not hackable by the current versions out there - and retest all code when a new version drops to release a new version. That should be automatable as well.

It's a big decision to ditch the easy way of just using MS for OS and productivity, even with the ever-increasing cost and complexity. There sure seems to be more and more that are taking the plunge though, and the more that do it the easier it gets for everyone else.

SaaS is helping as everyone moves to an OS agnostic delivery platform too.

Just had a thought and looked at software installations on PCs - exclude Microsoft, inventory and security agents, the biggest player is Adobe (which is fast becoming superseded by PDF capability in browsers), followed by Notepad++ for less than 1/10th of the organisation. Probing a bit further and it's obvious at least 90% of PCs need Windows only for local installs of Office and could otherwise run any OS if we were SaaS for productivity. Surely Microsoft is aware of this and thus the layoffs now to keep stock prices buoyant.

When I worked in state government the CIO approved a greenfields approach to our OS and productivity suite, which essentially locked us into patch Tuesdays and at least a monthly update to those systems. The flow on affect was that we could point to that policy and force all business owners of other software into a 'maintain it or lose it' culture, where at minimum their software was under active maintenance and updated at least annually, or it would be removed from the environment.

This seems a much better use of time - working out where students are having issues. Not only can teachers help students understand, their curriculum can be updated as well to reduce confusion for future students.

Some concepts are much harder to understand when you're looking at equations, but when a real-world model is manipulated in front of you it's much easier to grasp.

I didn't even read the comment I'm responding too!

More seriously though, if AI is pushing sloppy contributions and overwhelming repo owners, pushback will probably be AI agents that review the code and dump it to NULL.
Maybe it would be better for reviewers that find an issue to send in their prompt and toolchain details so owners can reproduce and fix as desired.

META LAWYERS: This would be mass copyright infringement, and we strongly recommend not performing this activity.
META MANAGER: pffft fuck that, just set the seeding ratio to 0.3 - that's low enough no-one will notice!

NARRATOR (Ron Howards' voice): Oh, they noticed alright.

"And that's what they call...Arrested Developers"

Let's see what CSB were asked to do:

I don't see anything about voluntarily entering obtained passcodes to further search any electronic devices, do you? Perhaps searching the phone was meant to be done after cloning it, to ensure data could not be destroyed and the chain of evidence was retained?

CSB stuffed up the investigation completely and is trying to dig themselves out of the hole they threw themselves into.

Sounds like it's time to reverse engineer a whole bunch of programs and release new source code?

Heck, just this week one of my favourite abandonware games (2014 release IIRC) has had two different releases - in C++ and Rust - from different "developers", plus a multi-player mod from yet another. Crazy times with more to come.

You should have a range of options that include % of international shares are in your portfolio - look for one with less exposure.

And a heap more expensive when Flock still owns the cameras, and now the university has to pay them retail pricing and more for what was ruined.
Just...no.

Australia is worse than the US in every way for public charging infrastructure, yet the new car market is now at quarters - 1/4 EV, 1/4 hybrid, 1/4 gas, 1/4 diesel. Expect the EV and hybrid portions to continue to grow, especially with cheap Chinese EVs pushing prices down across the board.