They turned Windows into an IoT device. It’s your refrigerator with a TCP/IP stack and a touch screen bolted on the front. How many watts does the fridge use? Oh, I don’t know, but look, it has a digital calendar! How long does it take to cool items down? Who cares! You can use it to set reminders! When will I need to replace the gasket? What? I don’t know. But it can scan barcodes and send it all to the cloud. Isn’t that neat?! Cool, cool, but why does my fridge need to do that?

https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/

Off by one error

The administration didn’t threaten to take down the IA or investigate it or anything like that, so it’s not similar at all.

It’s conspiratorial to think the FBI is doing this to censor or hide something. archive.is is primarily used to get around paywalls. The most likely explanation is news sites complained to the FBI that their copyrights are being violated (which is true), so the FBI is investigating. They’ve had a problem with falling revenue for a decade or more at this point as everything went online and people expected to get instant access for free in contrast to print media.

Debian Science

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This post foreshadowed today’s AWS outage.

It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)

Cloudflare: What am I? Chopped liver?

It’s got some code duplication. Who can code gulf golf this?

Is this a copypasta or AI generated? It’s several orders of magnitude better written than basically every Lemmy comment I’ve ever seen.

I’m similarly skeptical it’s a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing

I see your satirical IPv6 meme and raise you the highest quality IPv6 evangelism you’ll ever see.