r00ty

Pretty sure mine was 16399753. But, not logged in for probably 15 or more years, so could be wrong.

No idea whatsoever about the password :P

I think in 99% of use cases, upgrading isn’t a problem. Most of the time new SQL versions are backward compatible. I’ve never personally had a problem upgrading a database for a product that expects an older version.

They do have compatibility modes too, but those only go back so far too.

But, I think companies with their production databases for perhaps older complex systems are likely very weary of upgrading their working database. This is most likely where this situation comes from. Imagine being the person responsible for IT, that upgraded the DB server and database to the latest version. Everything seemed to be working fine. Then accounts run their year-end process, it falls over and now there are months of data in the newer version that won’t work properly. It’d be an absolute pain to get things working again.

Much safer to leave that SQL 2005 server doing what it does best. :P

It already exists. Although it’s not AI, and mostly works best when using channel logos to work out the ad breaks.

There are, and I think the only real difference has been the community support. The community was behind the original pi and the guides, images and support show that, and it continues to this day.

If this becomes “enshittified” then communities will grow around the alternatives, it’s likely there will be an overall winner (or winners per class) and we’ll move on. The device itself wasn’t ever the whole story.

The S24 (all versions) didn’t.

Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite. Would you like a toasted teacake?

Kinda on brand though somehow.

You’re right, that sounds better than the average HR rep.

The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user’s web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user’s permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, installing a toolbar, and serving advertisements

Looks to me like they taught Microsoft well in this area.

Yeah. But they’ll likely make Azure Recall running on their own AI hardware. You’ll have to opt out (on every windows update) of their ad driven free model that uses your data to target ads, and sell your overall profile on.

Well the malware authors of yore could have gotten away with it, so long as they attached their malware to an even slightly useful program, added an EULA that was 40 pages long and on one of those pages mentioned the malware and had no way to use the software without agreement.

Yes, I don’t agree with the no way to mitigate statement.

I suspect on windows the only real defence is something like.

• Check if the network has suspicious multiple routes setup from the DHCP
• If so, either use the IP/Mask/Gateway with manual IP config (to not receive the CIDR routes) or steer clear of an at best questionable network entirely.
• Maybe use the windows firewall to block all traffic outbound EXCEPT from the firewall program (with perhaps exceptions for local networks as per below linux example). For whatever reason the windows firewall doesn’t seem to have a way to specify an interface. But you can specify a program.

I did look for some way to control Window’s handling of DHCP options. But it seems there isn’t anything obvious to limit this otherwise. I do not know if the windows firewall has this kind of fine-grained control with its own fire

For linux, I used to have my own blackout firewall rules. That only allowed the specific LAN range (for mobile use you could include all RFC1918 ranges) and the specific VPN IP out of the internet facing interface. Only the VPN interface could otherwise access the internet.

Pretty sure I read this book a few years ago. It was called Jennifer government.

Release the hounds. I mean lawyers.

I want to see the first DMCA takedown for a comment “pirating” another user’s comment.

I’ve not found many instances where performance in terms of frames per second is worse. If anything on linux it’s more stable with less dropouts.

But, for whatever reason there’s definitely more latency (NVidia 3080 here) when playing for example CS:GO (not tried since CS2 though) on Linux compared to Windows. Not sure where it is being added (possibly the compositor?) but it is definitely noticeable. If I move from playing on Linux to windows I’ll overshoot when aiming for example.

Make one :P

Then I suspect you’ll find the answer is money. The ones for women simply just make more money.

This is, I think his train of thought. He thinks Twitter is a utility that people need. Meanwhile, many of us never had an account and moves like this will just move people away. Before twitter there was other social media, and before social media we also got on fine.

There are literal alternatives to this service, I cannot believe people are still using it now. But surely this kills it?

Nah. Netflix used to be a reasonable price and a very decent alternative to the rip off prices of cable and satellite TV.

Then of course every other media company wanted to charge the same price each time splitting off shows that used to be on Netflix.

It’s reached the point that it would cost the same ripoff prices to get all the services needed for most people to watch what they’d like to watch.

This is just too much to pay per household per month for entertainment.

Bring back one service that provides all the TV (not even movies) for less than 30usd/25 gbp and I’m there. But I’m not subscribing to them all. It’s ridiculous.

Jeez, don’t report on it. Now there’s going to be an even bigger crackdown on them.