Well its simply... Microsoft Learn actually doesn't help with the exam. At beggining of 2022, i was given several "free certificates" vouchers and a follow up course on microsoft learn, the course had these gamification thing that actually make it worse because at the end of each unit there was a mini exam that you could just retake anytime you want as much as you want, thats the thing after taking each unit i was failing all the time the tests, no matter what the mini test didn't ask questions that you saw on that unit but past questions and that became pretty confusing. Anyway decided to move on the exam and like the unit it was a real tougher, i couldn't pass the exam, even after finishing the doc on Miocrosoft Learn, pretty much all the content available doesn't appear on the examn it requires real practical examples so on my second attempt i did what i think everyone does... practice examns available on the internet and it got easy this way you just have to memorize the solutions, the questions were always the same and i could just power throught a lot of these free certs just with the "cheat exams"... So given access to Microsoft Learn didn't help at all... it doesn't have any real value to the examn having them near since most of questions aren't even there, its like that professor that allowed to use only materials that were related but suddnely use only the "optional lectures" in the exam.

If they were a public trade company it will be the equivalent to Steve jobs stepping down in Apple for the pepsi guy everyone taught he will be better... Personally it's a bad move, i get what he wants... to fire people without the social repercussion, like firing Luke as a Manager of floatplane, its a good move in terms that luke isn't manager material, floatplane development has been stagnating for a while, they want to be next youtube but is clear their current twicht inspiration... and fire dennis because channel super fun has being entire focus on Linus getting pranked, the list can continue... their content has been on a downshift and it feels like they need to focus on what brings their money.

It's a vulnerability yes... is it high? no, requires local admin privilege, its like having root access and being allowed to run commands at next ssh login when the next user, which is completly possible but you already have root, so it's pointless. Probably i would suggest adding a "non exportable option" inside the database (there are configs inside the encrypted DB), that way it mitigates the problem and if someone really, really needs the exportable option it can be opt-in with the trade off of increasing the risk.

As a developer, AWS is far more easier to get up and running and far less likely to shoot yourself on the foot... Azure and GCP are so painfully difficult to learn, even with complete docs their services are weird, wonder why many people keep using those services if its completly weird.

This is going to be solved more easy than people thing... they are going to include a dongle that converts USB-C to Lighting and for "environmental issues" they would sell you apart this dongle and not include it inside the box but you can get one for free if you go to your Apple Retailer and proof you buy a phone after the legislation was approved, if you buy it before you are not entitled for it.

JavaScript/ECMAXX^XX was originally a toy language to get things done quick, to automate the basic task (startup configuration, log cleaning, hw setup) just like perl and python was, the problem is that we started to move the "kids" to this language because they were easy to understand, almost near pseudo-code like and slow enough to deter anyone using it for something that requires a vast superior memory management strategy and strong types. The problem: The kids grew up and they want to keep using what they were taught, computing power increased faster in the last 20 years than it were in the 20 years before (from 70's-90's computers increased performance by 10%-15% (mhz), by 2k's-2010's they increased the power to 300%-400% (ghz) and memory capability up to freaking 64 gb and more (who the fck needs that many ram memory besides youtubers like LTT for "editing cat videos on the fly over the network with infrastructure faster than what's needed for HFT transactions"), suddenly the toy language can be used for far more than it was intended and the first push came from the "Ruby" guys with ROR, they allowed subpar developers to get things done quick, this movement allow python developers to also validates their position and suddenly nooglers started pushing python for everything (even space exploration) then as web development became more mainstream the JS guys that were relegated to CSS and HTML suddenly wanted to join the backend and start over engineering the frontend with unneeded tools that run fast because we have more computing power than before so they can "transpile" their creations from something half working to somethings that works every time someone tries to click two times the same button or wants to back and forward or scroll up and down too fast (making his routing algorithm useless). We provoked this chaos and there is no coming back, next developers should start learning from C and other old languages, not from python or js, so the new developers can start appreciating good architecture rather than fast typing.

The problem is not the money... is how they are going to detect a new home? that requires precise location (geofencing) per device per account, what happens with mobile users, wisp networks, shared ip cafes (still a thing outside first world countries). How many meters/feet square i have to move before they start considering it "a new home", this is going to be interesting how it develops, a real tech challenge that may be difficult to address on global scale, PPV providers usually tie service per account so it way be more viable to shred the tiers/subscription-levels and start charging per user.