“It crashed!”

“Yes but it did it all by itself!”

Speculators/inside traders betting on (more) favourable rule changes or a fat govt supply contract perhaps

Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.

Believes it, or is just spinning it that way?

You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.

Enough already.

It’s spam and probably malware. Just downvote, report, and move on

Regardless of your stance on the name change, doesn’t the executive order (and subsequent updating of the names register or whatever it’s called) make it official? In which case the maps are just being updated to reflect it.

Afaik they’re not changing it anywhere outside the US as (so far…) that’s the only place it’s been changed, so it’s not like they’re pushing that name in places where it’s not official.

It’s also not unheard of to have map details that vary depending on where you are, to align with the official stance of wherever the map is being viewed from. Ukraine, bits of the India/Pakistan border, IIRC some islands off Japan disputed by China, etc.

Not saying the name change isn’t stupid and not suggesting at all that the companies in question aren’t scum, but getting angry at the map maintainers for this change seems pointless. What did you expect them to do?

Am I missing something?

Avoid talking to them!

They might make sense, and we haven’t finished indoctrinating you!

That is brilliant, should I be worried? 🤣 (Just noticed I had a message, oops)

Does your ISP block ports? Many do, at least where I am. Some allow you to opt-out.

She makes some good points, but only focuses on Google’s monopoly being an issue. It is, but there’s no mention of privacy concerns, the oversaturation of ads, space being created for ads by deliberately worsening the UX, etc. The industry itself is a shitshow.

The issue isn’t so much that Google has a monopoly on the enormously invasive data that’s collected. The issue is that it is being collected.

As cool (heh) as this is, it saddens me knowing it’s just going to be used for data mining and ads

Bet you they will make them work in inhospitable conditions and forget they exist until they don’t meet an unrealistic performance target.

No wait, sorry. I was thinking of their human workers.

It’s just virtualised Deliverance

As I understand it these are basically an insurance policy. The promoter takes out a policy detailing the odds of a payout being required, and pay a premium based on the insurer’s risk assessment.

And of course the insurer wants to minimise the odds of paying out, and the promoter wants to minimise their premium - so the top prize is usually, as above, near-unwinnable.

Yup, this is on form for them. This isn’t the first product they’ve done it to and surely won’t be the last.

The moment the news broke we started migration planning, a short while later their new pricing came through and immediately justified the project spend. Tens of thousands of VMs migrated, a ton of labour, and even some hardware refreshes thrown in - and still cheaper than renewing, by a looong shot.

Shame, I liked VMware.

Ah yes, KeepAss

Was about 3pm here /cries in Australian

We regularly get screwed over during business hours by things being pushed out overnight in the US/UK

If you mean signed by your CA then this is me too, albeit with an intermediate CA in the middle (honestly pointless in my case, but old habits etc).

I don’t host anything externally and trusting the CA certs internally is easy as Ionly need to do it on a handful of devices. This + reverse proxy keeps things tidy and uncomplicated.

Yup, had to read it twice! Just about had a heart attack

Yup and that is the same issue with elections. Candidate A wants to ban private jets and burn tyres, candidate B wants to legalise child labour. A wins then claims they have a mandate to burn tyres

and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters

Leopards, face etc