* Posts by cassandratoday

6 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2024

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

cassandratoday

Re: last dns outage I had

The problem is people who try to do things they're not qualified for. You don't need an MBA to be that kind of person, and getting an MBA won't turn you into that kind of person.

Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account

cassandratoday

SO Microsoft

This is why I have a Linux laptop from Tuxedo on order.

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

cassandratoday

The Recall DB is stored locally, so it's every bit as secure as your Windows PC.

I'm so reassured...

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

cassandratoday

All your drive are already beling

We have to assume the UK sent similar orders to all the major cloud storage companies, that the companies complied, and that all of our cloud drives have been fed into an AI. Best we we can do now is client-side encryption before storing any future files in the cloud.

Contrary to some, traceroute is very real – I should know, I helped make it work

cassandratoday

Labels as stacks

Ack! You've left me wanting to know more about labels as stacks. Talk about a cliffhanger!

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

cassandratoday

Retired C programmer and *nix admin

Why do we assume that the runtime memory-management layer for Rust, Java, et al. is itself free of memory management bugs?