Agreed. We should take a holistic approach to solving problems.

It’s a lot of things. Not just guns. Switzerland has similar gun ownership rates, but different gun culture and mental health issues as well as a lower wealth divide and less suffering/impoverished people.

And a pickup of gains from sending just the delta of changed data for one of their passive update beacons.

A pre-registered checksum will ensure that the downloaded file is what it says it is before running. So yes, it is safe. Unless you’ve found a collision in the checksum algorithm apple is using, although the chances are better that you’ll squeeze water out of dry desert sand.

(Edit: To those thinking they’ll rely on just code signing for this, you’re likely way off base.)

Yeah. Just how it goes unfortunately. Consumer buy-in is vastly underrepresented in the technology world. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc have all leveraged customer and community laziness to push the boundaries without much blowback. If Elon’s tenure over twitter/xitter shows anything, it’s that.

There’s a lot of businesses, organizations, companies, Devlopers, and etc that use it as home base. Want to follow what x, y, and z indie dev is up to working on the sequel to your favorite game? Guess what, they didn’t want to roll a website and social media activitly works against cross posting compatibility so they’re just on Twitter. Want to follow an account that only sends something out when a internet service goes offline, and be notified about it? Better hope they thought out a open alternative because almost exclusively the companies I’ve worked with update these matters on their Twitter. I’ve even had their Twitter inform me of issues before their own status.company.com pages (frankly egregious but alas). The cesspool definitely exists, but as a tool/town hall Twitter had won. It’s a mere shadow of it’s former self in this regard nowadays since king elongate the fucked took over, but the after affects as well as the hole in the market remain.

Awwww 💜

Don’t worry. His entire set is the joke.

Cloudflare is amazing , until it’s not. Chances are you’ll fall within the 95% that have a great time, but if for some reason you draw the ire of sales, engineering, or a system bug you’re gonna have a bad time.

And being a gay male, I can say that in my varied experience the lack of the threat of pregnancy causes men to be less protective of their health when participating in sexual interactions. It’s really unfortunate how many men you meet that are totally against condoms and basic sexual protections.

Something something Hollywood accounting.

Is this the new embrace, extend, extinguish?

They love Linux*!

*the windows subsystem for Linux

True, I do apologize. As an industry guy who deals with nonsense like that all day I suppose it struck a nerve but there wasn’t any reason to respond as harshly as I did.

That’s. Fucking. Insane. Like, it’s a documented registry fix from Microsoft themselves. If you have a gpo pushing it, it’s not getting reset. Also you literally just disregarded the way 90% of software makes configuration changes to your system, the registry… Please tell me you don’t work in IT because if you do your coworkers and end users must hate their lives.

Or a proper gpo/registry modification as detailed: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart 🤷‍♂️

•	Run regedit to open Registry Editor.
•	Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU.
•	If the keys don’t exist, create them.
•	Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers and set its value to 1.

(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart)

Official support implies that they will do whatever necessary to take the device from an unworkable state to a workable one.

Is it even a matter of trusting you at that point? I feel it’d just be a great way to get your rocket painted as a target for the other warring party.

Thank goodness we can count on various humans pack rat archival behavior.