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You can run software on bare metal without an OS. The downside is you have to write everything. That means drivers, networking code, the process abstraction (if you need it), etc.

One thing to remember is an operating system is just another computer program.

You would end up blocking every network then. Almost no one wants malware on their machine or network. Unfortunately, people get hacked and network operators cannot always determine which machines are hacked (hackers are not known for letting people know that they have taken over a machine).

Security is hard and there are no easy solutions. People often do not know they have been hacked or even know if a computer on their network has been hacked. Also, it is often not easy to determine if traffic is legitimate, illegal, malicious, or abusive.

Wire-fraud is a United States legal concept. It's probably not applicable to Germany (although Germany might have its own laws which cover this issue).

I wish these companies luck. That being said, I would not recommend working all of the time to almost all people. Here is why:

1. According to Rapid Development or Code Complete (I can't remember which book said this), for most people, working more than 40 hours a week does not increase productivity in the long term. Basically, you can spend more time at work but you will not get more done. There are a few people who this is not true for but those people are rare and they usually are extremely driven because there is something about the project is really really interesting to them.

2. I strongly suspect most humans are just not built to work all of the time. It's not that there is something wrong with them, they just can't deliver more than about 40 hours a week of work. This isn't because they aren't committed, don't care, are lazy, etc. They just can't do it. I think this has to be accepted.

3. I have tried for decades to make the live at work lifestyle work and I have failed. I have repeatedly burnt out. It has taken me decades to realize that it is not a question of what you want to do, it is a question of what you can actually do and what is sustainable. Basically, you or your boss may want you to work 60 hours a week for months on end but that is probably impossible and it's better to accept reality than to keep on trying to do something which does not work.

Note that when I hear employers demanding crunch time, it tells me the leaders do not understand how people work because they don't understand that 99% of their employees probably cannot given them any more than they are already giving. This means crunch time does not improve productivity, but it does make everyone on the team more miserable because they are spending too much time at work and they are wondering why they can't seem to force themselves to get more done.

I am not sure what your point is. If Boeing went bankrupt, someone could buy them and the company would continue running. Also, Boeing is not the most important defense contractor in the US. They don’t make the F35 and they don’t make the new B21 Raider. The world is not going to end if Boeing disappears.

Tariffs, imports, and exports are controlled by the Federal,Government of the United States of America. The states have no power in these areas.

The easiest thing is stop installing the apps and stop looking at the feeds.

You are right that this is not an io_uring issue.

  I think you under estimate the value of anti-virus.  Anti virus software is a good second line of defense.  It’s not perfect but it will stop a lot of known malware.  This has value.

That is not my experience. Every US company I have worked in spent a lot of time training employees to follow the relevant laws. I have even been on teams which had to do work to comply with the European GDPR. The message I have always received is follow the law and don’t break it.

Real life people use AI. A good example of this is the lawyers who submit court filings with AI generated legal citations. The get caught because the citations are fake (the case cited does not exist).

Probably because there are services (AKA web services, software listening on a network port, etc.) out there which accept arbitrary Parquet files. This seems like a safe assumption given lots of organizations use micro-services or cloud venders use the same software on the same machine to process requests from different customers. This is a bad bug and if you use the affected code, you should update immediately.

I suspect that an MCP is just a rebranded API. We have also seen these sorts of extensibility mechanisms before. Browser extensions, Object Linking and Embedding, Dynamic Data Exchange, and Visual Studio Code extensions are all examples of having a standard API which allows lots of different things to plug into it.

My last iPhone’s battery lasted about 5.5 years before it needed to be replaced. Replacing it cost about $90 + tax at the Apple store. The bottom line is Apple products do last and if you need a new battery, you can get one.

I suspect the moral of the story is devops and operations staff need to keep all payments, secret rotations, certificate expirations, etc. on a calendar so no one forgets to pay the bills. I hope the employee who forgot to pay the bill learns from this.

Netflix is very profitable. Its net income for 2022 was $4.4 billion; for 2023 it was $5.4 billion; and in 2024 it was $8.7 billion. For more information, go to https://ir.netflix.net/financials/quarterly-earnings/default... . The 2024 Q4 earning announcement has a spread sheet with Netflix's financial results for the last 3 years.

If you want to pay for it, go for it. I suspect a lot of content on the Internet will never be missed if it was deleted.

A Computer Science degree does not teach you to be a good software engineer. In fact, you don't even need a degree to be a good software engineer. For 99% of the software engineering jobs, employers are not looking people who know the theory of computation, algorithmic complexity, operating systems, compilers, or even how a database works. What they want is the following:

0. A strong desire to solve the user's problem and the organization's problem.

1. Knowledge of a major programming language like JavaScript, Java, Python, C/C++, C#, etc.

2. Knowledge of how to use an SQL database or maybe a no SQL database.

3. Knowledge of how to debug the build process and write scripts in Bash, PowerShell, etc.

4. Knowledge of at least 1 major framework.

5. Knowledge of Linux, MacOS, or Windows.

6. An ability to read documentation and learn.

7. An ability to debug large programs and fix bugs without introducing more bugs.

8. A desire to think critically and choose the appropriate technology for the problem (very hard, takes a lot of experience).

9. An ability to write clear code which others will understand.

10. The ability to write, argue, and persuade others.

11. A good person who works well with others, puts the product before himself, and is honest.

Almost all of these things are not taught to computer science majors. At best, a person will learn 1 to 2 languages and maybe Linux. Expecting computer science programs to produce good software engineers is crazy because software engineering and computer science are two different things.

Ilya Sutskever was one the main people at Open AI. The article says the company's name is "Safe Superintelligence" and also says its an AI startup.

The company will not tell us more until it has a product which is ready for the public.

I uses the business version of Office 365 for e-mail. It works well. I never have a problem with e-mails not being delivered or going into a SPAM folder. I am not saying your family did anything wrong. What I am saying is e-mail works well for some people.

I have never ever seen this. If your "friends" treat you badly because of your phone choice, they are not really your friends. Also, iMessage is not that great. It's nice but it is not amazing like some people make it out to be.

Agreed - If you want good products, you should support the people who create them. That means paying. If you want a privacy destroying enshitified product, keep using "free" products.

Safari blocks a lot of these trackers. For more information, please see https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/browse-the-web-privat... .

Also, you missed the point of my comment. The comment I replied to basically was saying Apple and Google are equivalent because Apple sells ads (they sell search listings in the App store search and may run an optional advertising service for apps). My point was they are not equivalent because Apple does not track people around the web like Google does. The other things is Apple has released a lot of privacy features which interfere with the advertising spying machine.

At best, Google pretends to improve privacy. Google's business is basically building a profile on each individual so they can serve the most relevant ads to that person. They make more money when they serve relevant ads (ads people will see, and maybe buy something based on the ad). Google has no interest or incentive to protect privacy because their business depends on invading privacy.

Thank you for the examples. It was interesting and I learned something.

OK, what products have gotten worse under Oracle? How do they compare to their competitors? Why don't people leave Oracle if it is so bad? Remember, people can and do move platforms all of the time. A good example is how the cloud took off despite the huge amount of work it takes to move things to the cloud.

My main point is saying one of the largest software companies in the world is "bad" or "makes things worse" says nothing. You need to give specific examples. Also, it's hard to believe that Oracle never gets anything right. Really? Everyone of their thousands of employees does bad work? All of their products are "bad" and have no good points? That does not pass the laugh test.

You had a bad experience with Oracle and I get that. They didn't treat you well. However, not everyone has a bad experience with them and a lot of companies make mistakes and treat customers poorly. The question is not did it happen, the question is how often does it happen and how does the organization handle it. If Oracle has millions of customers and you are the only one they harmed, they are probably doing great. If your experience is a rare occurrence (say it occurs to 1% or 0.5% of customers), then everyone should avoid Oracle because they don't know if or when they will be the next victim.

In the OP's case, I have several comments:

- Companies should always be able to explain why an account was closed. If the person violated a policy, the exact line or paragraph of the policy should be given to the customer along with a detailed explanation of how the customer violated the policy.

- Companies should always notify customers when they close an account or when a customer is violating the terms of service. These notices should clearly explain what the customer did and should explain how they violated a policy.

- Companies should expect their automated systems and employees to make mistakes. They should rectify mistakes when they are found.

I think Oracle treated dijit and the OP horribly. I think Oracle should do a root cause analysis to determine why they misbehaved, fix the problem, reinstate the account (assuming the OP is telling the truth), and publicly apologize. Internally, Oracle should learn from this and fix their processes and communications.

People probably continue to use Oracle products because Oracle makes a lot of good and useful products. Oracle is typically not criticized for its products, its criticized for its high prices and price increases.

My iPhone is over 5 years old and has not slowed down. When Apple did slow down phones, it was because the battery was aging and it could not produce enough power to power the CPU at full speed. Apple had two choices:

1) Reduce the CPU speed so the phone did not crash 2) Not reduce the CPU speed and let the phone crash when the battery could not produce enough power.

I think Apple made the right choice.

Apple is no where near as invasive as Google. Most sites on the Internet phone home to Google. Here are some examples:

https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/ https://news.google.com/swg/js/v1/swg.js - I found these on the Washington Post's web site.

https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v20/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaU... https://www.googletagmanager.com/static/service_worker/51n0/... - I found these on New Egg's home page.

https://cm.g.doubleclick.net/pixel?google_nid=a9&google_cm&e... - I found this going to Amazon's home page.

https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/releases/I0bG74fWAenNf3Z5n... https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/anchor?ar=1&k=6LetQiEU... https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v18/KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxK.... - I found all of these on democrats.org.

https://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;register_conversion=1;sr...? https://9323526.fls.doubleclick.net/activityi;src=9323526;ty...? https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/anchor?ar=1&k=6LdJ810b... - I found these on www.gop.com.

Basically, Google tracks peopple everywhere. They track what news you read, where you shop, and what political party you support. Apple does none of this. No one tracks people on the Internet like Google. Facebook doesn't. Amazon doesn't. X doesn't. Microsoft doesn't (the own Bing). Apple certainly doesn't.

If you ignore updates, you will get hacked. If you think a bad update is a problem, wait until you have to clean up a hack. It will cost more money and take more time than buying a new phone.

My advice is to buy phones from reputable manufacturers. I have had an iPhone for over 10 years and I have been very happy. The work well, last, and the performance is always good. My current goal is to keep my current phone 7 years. I will update it when Apple stops supplying updates.

It's still a security bug. Often, multiple bugs like this are chained together to create one very nasty exploit. I agree that this bug probably does not deserve a massive payout, but I think $3,000-5,000$ is appropriate.