And just lke with the war on drugs, countries will realize it’s a lost cause. And will then instead try to coopt the system to spread their own desinformation. If you can’t win, exploit it…

Welcome to our wonderful post-factual age.

An immutable OS is fixed and mounted non-writable. Every update you get, every program you install is handled on top of it via containers or filesystem overlays so the underlying OS is untouched. Basically the same concept you know from smartphones or other devices with a “reset to factory settings” function. No matter how hard you screw up your system, you can always reset to the base OS, either by granulary deactivating things installed on top, or by a reset to the working base OS.

Cuddling up to the hard right might look like a strategical move but it never works. Normalising them only shifts the discussion further to the right. And let’s face it… in this post-factual time where all that matters is the narratives, giving them a platform will only help to brain-wash more people into believing right-wing fake-solutions to actual problems.

No… the Crowdstrike debacle primarily shows the dangers of today’s corporate culture in software development.

Ship as fast as possible, fix issues later if necessary…

Yes, time consuming. But it’s still working hardware, not a now useless, now unrepairable paper weight…

Which is the definiton of “bricked” although people nowadays start to use the term inflationary.

Good thing is the kind of people making decisions based on buzzword-bongo filled PR campaigns like Crowdstrike’s are already forcing their IT to use Windows anyway.

But they don’t. I mean call for him to step back, not having a plan (which they probably also don’t have).

This is a massive campaign of media bullshitting (like in this case where you can try to find that statement from Obama, when in reality the best you will get is that someone said someone else told them that Obama had said this in private…). I guess a shitshow incarnate as Trump would just fit today’s media operation of enragement farming and doom scrolling much better and who would ever look further than to their next bottom line.

Yeah, why would you try to actually solve a problem instead of just applying a band-aid that the next administration can rip of again (by incresing the size of the court again)?

“More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believers of Tax Cuts, Deregulation and Corruption”

Fixed that headline…

Yes, there is.

Should XY be tagged as NSFW is not asking about if the tag should exist on certain topics (that’s indeed something you can ignore with your own settings) but about if people should be forced to flag stuff as NSFW. And I refuse to tag stuff as NSFW just because I can imagine someone, somehow, in some rare context wanting that tag. Because by then it lost all meaning and we should do an “Yes this is safe for 4 years olds”-tag instead.