In 2011, a 75-year-old woman took all 2.9 million Armenians offline when she sliced through that cable with a spade near the Georgian village of Ksani. The woman, who was scavenging for copper at the time, was arrested but reportedly let go soon after because of her advanced age. She later told reporters: “I have no idea what the internet is.”

lol, what a great story

How do you keep a currently dead website you did not previously archive?

Why does there have to be money in it when they’re sunsetting the service?

I think it’s still a net-positive.

After that author’s post (from 2020) Microsoft acknowledged and apologized the bad way they went about it. (IIRC anyway.)

It’s certainly a shitty situation for the author, with the PM opportunity at Microsoft not working out (reason unknown/not visible to us). The author can’t invest as MS can into their project. The author could continue, but obviously, it’s less “useful” now as a product, with a “better” alternative.

Having it be a Microsoft-maintained project gave and gives it a lot more impact and significance, both functionality-wise and public-/enterprise-wise. Having an official package manager like this is a very good thing.

And the author on the post you linked says as much in their post. They’re not upset about anything else other than the communication in regards to the hiring process he was not that interested in anyway. That’s not really “stealing”. Just superseding. With an aside shitty-communication.

Can you source your claim, that Azure hypervisor uses CrowdStrike? Because a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars that that issue was unrelated to the CrowdStrike update.

[…] cited as “a backend cluster management workflow [that] deployed a configuration change causing backend access to be blocked between a subset of Azure Storage clusters and compute resources in the Central US region.”

A spokesperson for Microsoft told Ars in a statement Friday that the CrowdStrike update was not related to its July 18 Azure outage. “That issue has fully recovered,” the statement read.

Microsoft services were, in a seemingly terrible coincidence, also down overnight Thursday into Friday. […]

A spokesperson for Microsoft told Ars in a statement Friday that the CrowdStrike update was not related to its July 18 Azure outage. “That issue has fully recovered,” the statement read.

from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/major-outages-at-crowdstrike-microsoft-leave-the-world-with-bsods-and-confusion/

They were not “using it”. And there’s no “stragglers still”.

No no.

Have you tried turning it off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on again?

They could drop all the tracking though and only serve the public redirects. A much simpler product that would retain web links.

Notepad++, local files

They’re also very open and transparent. Work, guidelines, workflows, etc.

It’s a shining example of an alternative kind of company, and it’s insightful and a great resource of information.

For Windows, what made you decide on Chocolatey rather than winget/Windows Package Manager?

Holy mother of misinterpretation and misrepresentation. Did you not read their comment, did you not understand their comment, or did you choose to ignore and misrepresent it?

because the pedestrian had been jaywalking

can’t have something unexpected non-standard in city traffic after all, that’s not allowed!

Over the last 3–4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing. The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it’s only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail.

damn

when you had to

Everyone HAD to do it. ✂️

Putin, Trump, and Musk. They’re doing the same thing. Lying without restraint, freely, at every opportunity.

"The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: If we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

Maybe we can translate that claim to what may have happened?

“The European Commission asked X to conform to regulation protecting its citizens or face fines.”

How about adding a check mark to the money icon? I think that fits better.

Name 💵✅ or Name 💵✔️

As if to say “has money”, or “spent money”.

dan ce

Hello. This is the EU grammar police. Please fix your typo. Thank you for your cooperation.

I certainly didn’t expect an acceptance speech…

Lol, they added a “Location” to the winners (winner characters)

I guess it’s more about the characters than only AI-generated images.

In a CNN article titled, “The first Miss AI has been crowned — and she’s a Moroccan lifestyle influencer,” fashion journalist Jacqui Palumbo writes, "Meet Kenza Layli, a Moroccan lifestyle influencer who hopes to bring ‘diversity and inclusivity’ to the AI creator landscape.

That’s the real problem, isn’t it? Not the original character contest, with a clear setting. But others promoting the characters as if they were real people.