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tacticus··on OneDrive just deleted all of my files
it's a dark pattern. Basically update after update has pushed "protect your computer back up now" and the default option turns on one drive with "on demand" mode for downloaded files.

basically one drive is the only place it's stored until you try to access it then turning off backup will then delete all the local files.

tacticus··on OneDrive just deleted all of my files
1 is a well known issue with onedrive.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3863319/...

> onedrive is that bad

guess what. Onedrive is that bad. this is far from the first situation i've seen with this pattern.

the microslop devs are doing great work pushing people off windows.

tacticus··on How uv got so fast
npm isn't the issue there it's the ts\js community and their desire to use a library for everything. in communities that do not consider dependencies to be a risk you will find this showing up in time.

The node supply chain attacks are also not unique to node community. you see them happening on crates.io and many other places. In fact the build time scripts that cause issues on node modules are probably worse off with the flexibility of crate build scripts and that they're going to be harder to work around than in npm.

tacticus··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
blanket 30% profit margin is great right?
tacticus··on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
> However, if you are towing or carrying heavy loads, they are a bad choice.

given the testing that has been done on this it's the aerodynamics that matter more than the weight.

> I suspect most F-150 drivers barely ever do these sorts of things

I would suspect that most of these oversized "angry boy" utes only ever see a non sealed surface when they're driving to park on footpaths.

tacticus··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
> “As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s [networks], you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”
tacticus··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
> Their average customer is probably demanding it

The average australian customer managed to get angry enough that the ACCC is working to force a slop free variant and a refund for everyone dark patterned into upgrading.

tacticus··on People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
every single government use of it is being looked at with that view courtesy of the recent attacks on bodies like the ICC
tacticus··on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
> The fact that they can abuse even their enterprise customers and still retain them is what blows my mind.

The large org dependency on 365 and microsoft is a serious info-security and national security risk. 0 interest in improving because they know they won't ever see competition

tacticus··on What if you don't need MCP at all?
> Add a "description" field to your rest API that describes how to call it.

Isn't that swagger\grpc etc?

tacticus··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
the other companies want higher profit margins.
tacticus··on Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source
significant whitespace is just problematic in all spaces.
tacticus··on "You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful
> > Looking to make it to the front page of HackerNews?

> Nailed it.

Worked for the confluent marketing fluff as well.

tacticus··on Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud
> I think from an efficiency standpoint it makes sense to contract out to bigger players. Economies of scale are huge in software and IT since once it's written copying and running code is basically free.

I mean sure if it wasn't for the fact that those bigger players are going to be looking at this as a way to print money.

tacticus··on Boring is what we wanted
so slower compared to the 14th gens.

Though it sounds like it won't be a 400W desktop part at least.

tacticus··on Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
> But in this case both are bad. If it was a false negative students might need therapy for a more tragic reason.

Given the probability of police officers in the USA taking any action as hostile and then ending up shooting him a false positive here is the same as swatting someone.

The system here sent the police off to kill someone.

tacticus··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
there are datacentres not made of razorblades and hate?
tacticus··on Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier
30ms is the absolute best case. Throw some spring in there and you're very quickly at 10s. rub some spring-soap and it's near enough to 60s
tacticus··on Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
Lambda shifting to this model would be such a nice future. though even the lambda variants that can run containers have some painful issues.
tacticus··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
i mean it's only every other week we see orgs like TCS handing out admin
tacticus··on Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
> The 787’s problems were mostly in its supply chain

Which was a decision of boeing to outsource to their suppliers the design and development of those components. this combined with boeing doing some interesting pricing decisions lead to suppliers being rather screwed on the project.

> The actual plane experienced fairly normal growing pains for a clean-sheet design

Other than the design by vibes that boeing leading to spec issues.

tacticus··on Rail travel is booming in America
long trains are great for reducing cost and reducing total profit by delivering slower less frequent services :\
tacticus··on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?
Anti olympic posters got police raids. Plasticine action on your tshirt got arrests.
tacticus··on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
This would ensure you couldn't tie an Identity to an activity\user on a service which is of course why it's not where they're going
tacticus··on UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse
Yeah the assault one is interesting cause they didn't end up charging them with it at all... perhaps reading the police statements without corroborating evidence is problematic.
tacticus··on Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager
Just don't use that on windows with how they have broken most real hardware tokens with their bluetooth nonsense.
tacticus··on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
I guess that explains why the current intel GPUs are actually good value and somewhat not terrible.
tacticus··on Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
> several pillars are missing from their “Zero Trust” marketing materials.

TBH several pillars are missing from their entire security posture.

tacticus··on FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices
Yeah cause they're not going to have to compete with real bandwidth availability.

given the new shiny one (that hasn't launched) is topping out at 1Tb of downlink (with half of it going to backhaul) and the current units are 80 Gb/s

tacticus··on Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'
> Probably 1000 pages, of typed notes about how Windows XP works.

Probably more than microsoft themselves maintained.

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