FOUR YEARS?
Only four years? I'd give him four years for each victim.
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You are right. I too have forked some projects and never did anything on my forks. I have forked them for "archival" and for "bookmark" purposes. Which is in fact wrong.
At least there should be a way for everyone to jump back from a fork to the original project, and if a project is a fork it should be clearly visible. A way to make users aware of the whole "fork tree".
It's never the tech that sells devices, it's the functions
Quite true but not completely true. It's the AVAILABILITY that sells devices.
If I'd like to have a product that's, for example, secure and long lived, and all I can buy is an insecure device that lasts 2 years, I'll end up buying what the market offers anyway, because I need one and I cannot have it the way I'd like it.
Then the sellers will boast that "EVERYONE IS BUYING AI PCs". Well of course, we have no choice.
I have been lucky. Working in a very small business environment I have used Vmware once, and after that only Proxmox (KVM). Since I'm a Linux expert, it has been quite an obvious choice. Now I have at least one less problem than a lot of other sysadmins: no Vmware to migrate away from.
Still I don't expect that a lot of people will migrate away from Vmware and to open source solutions: I think that while most will remain with Vmware, the ones that will migrate will choose Hyper-V.
The management layer above me exist to shield me from crap coming from above.
So basically the whole management pyramid is some sort of umbrella to protect the workers from the shit falling from upper management? Great, just fire the whole pyramid and let workers work.
(I'm a freelance, so I take the shit in my face anyway)
Too late. As for the atomic bomb, there is no way of undoing what has been done. AI image generation is something that people can do at home now. So even if the big players will try (and fail) to block porn, home users will make it. A LOT of it.
There will be laws, rules, the whole lot of useless regulation, and this will not stop deepfakes, in porn and in scam or voters manipulation, fake news, etc. But regulation will surely hinder legitimate users, as it always happens.
Speaking of something much more mundane, for example, some 30 years ago I made model racing cars with two stroke engines. They ran on alcohol, oil and nitro methane. We bought the three components and made our fuel at home for a low cost. Then laws came that made it impossible to buy this "industrial use" alcohol because someone abused it to make alcoholic drinks. The abusers still have a way to get alcohol, and we could not make our fuel at home. We had to buy it already made at 5 times the cost.
.local has been grabbed by someone at Apple (I believe) for their mdns / bonjour service, thus damaging a lot of people that used .local as their internal domain. Nowadays the resolver libraries tend to send out mdns broadcast requests for .local and don't as the dns server at all, making it unsuitable for use.
This is a good point: lots of open source (and commercial, too) virt solutions are based on KVM, so Veeam could gain a lot of compatibility with different solutions by supporting KVM. They could help build a KVM backend that supports starting VMs from Veeam repository without restoring the backup, for quick access to a backed up vm, and this could be used on every KVM based system.
On the other hand, Veeam is a commercial / closed software, and it can be quite hard to make it work properly with open solutions, both on a technical standpoint and on a commercial one.
In the end if Vmware fails and disappears then Veeam has only one big product left to support, that is Hyper-V.
Actually proxmox has a backup solution in itself and also a more advanced backup server. All for free (unless you want support). So Also in proxmox there is no "need" for a third party backup solution. Maybe Veeam can do better than PBS, but I'm using proxmox with its integrated backup and I don't need to buy a third party product.
The issue with Veeam, in my opinion, is that it's quite expensive, so it's something that has an appeal to users of expensive virtualization solutions. No one using a free or cheap virtualization solution will buy an expensive backup solution. Also, no one using a virtualization solution that has a good internal backup system will need an external one at an extra cost. This is why Veeam has always been the right solution for Vmware, because Vmware does NOT have a backup solution built in at all. If Vmware disappears, it has the power to drag Veeam with them into bankruptcy.
I'm not a BT engineer but I expect such cabinets to have no "real" power delivered to them, but instead simply a remote 48V or so from the phone exchange, at low power. I know that some FTTCAB boxes here in Italy have mains supply at usually no more than 1,5KW, because it's a bunch of routers and not an EV, so not much power is needed anyway.
Maybe some of these installations are connected to high amperage mains wiring and it's maybe possible to get 15KW out of them with little modifications, but probably a lot of these are actually not able to ramp up their power a lot. And 15KW is still slow for an EV charger.
In the end I suspect that this whole idea is quite useless. I mean, you could deploy chargers in more suitable positions (parking lots?) or where there is a high power mains line already installed.
What do these boxes have as an advantage? Maybe just the fact that their physical space has already been allocated to a cabinet and so not so much has to be done in terms of regulations and permits?
Computers did actually get faster and cheaper but the whole ecosystem grinded to a bloated halt. Software is poorly written, incredibly bloated, full of useless functions, made to help software and hardware sellers make more money and NOT made to help users do their jobs. Everything is a poorly written spyware full of DRM. Malfunctioning, slow, defective, made to be obsolete tomorrow morning. We are not going to experience another real revolution until the AI actually takes over and wipes us.
Interesting comments, both of these.
I suppose that in case of something that is not a real extinction level event, but something less, the collapse of modern society will kill everyone who is not already "primitive". Populations that are already primitive (people living in self sufficient small communities without modern technology and medicine and whatever) will most probably survive quite unscathed (unless the bomb hits them directly). Even in a fallout scenario they are best suited to actually suffer from it (cancer, etc) but not be wiped by it. In the end they will survive because they still have something to eat and drink, even if it's somehow contaminated. They will live 30 years instead of 80, but they will live on as a species, if not as individuals, just like the wildlife has done around Chernobyl even in the worst radioactive places.
You are an ecologist that actually uses his (or her) brain. Usually the "green" are just incompetent people that shout slogans or snobs that show everyone how rich they are with their Teslas, or businessmen happening to be selling those Teslas and other not so green but profit making items or ideas or whatever.
Anyway, the issue with Windows 11 is that while it's possible to install 11 on unsupported hardware, or it's possible to run Linux (as I do), it's not a good idea in a work environment. Linux is sadly not good for the common office worker (guess what? it lacks MS Office), and hacking around win11 is not a good idea because we all know that any update can break it. Imagine what will happen if one day a patch disables all of your organization desktop pcs at the same time. So to the landfill they will go, all of them.
Which are probably fine from an hardware point of view, but what about windows? I mean, windows will surely need a new hardware every 5 years (they have to suck your money, after all) and unless you are fine using Linux (as I am) then you will not get 10 years of "official" support.