Caning is really extreme. I watch a documentary on it. Punished person would avoid going to toilet (#2) for days because of how painful it is. They would not eat anything to prevent #2.
It doesn't have to be consumer hardware to be economically viable. I can imagine something like this replacing or complementing tape storage at data centers. We already have hard drives filled with gas for dust-proofing. For archival storage it does not have to be fast (in terms of latency) it just needs to be reliable with high data density.
Hard drives where the size of a car decades ago, we could now have archival storage of the same physical size that can hold petabytes (just guessing, didn't do the actual math).
The question is how much are readers. If I have to take my data to my local strip mall to write my datacube, but this data cube can be read with a much cheaper reader that I can reasonably believe will be available in 40 years, I could see that as being viable.
They don't care, they would rather let you use pirated MS software than move to Linux. There is a repo on GH with powershell scripts for activating windows/office and they let it sit there. Just checked, repo has 165K stars.
This could be the same, they know devs mostly prefer to use cursor and/or claude than copilot.
Home users are icing on the cake. Suing them for privacy is a bad look (see the RIAA), and using Windows and Office at home reinforces using at work.
On the other hand, since they own GitHub they can (in theory) monitor the downloads, check for IPs belonging to businesses, and use it as evidence in piracy cases.
I like Peertube a lot, and I didn't realize until just now that they had a form of P2P distributed distribution which uses WebRTC. But it would be great to be able to do that with a static site, without deploying a whole framework. Just a simple JS wrapper which could sit on top of a <video> element would be amazing
Anyone knows why docker is dropping wasm workloads? I never heard of anyone using it, I thought it was because wasi hasn't reached "1.0" yet, so ecosystem is still small.
Wasm and wasi are very promising, as stated in the article, it's safe/isolated by default, it can target different hardware and almost any popular language (in theory) can be compiled to wasm. It sounds perfect on paper. It's quick to start (quicker than docker). Maybe it will be replacement/supplement for lambda-esque type of workloads.
You cant reliably store secrets in tpm and expect it to work after an os update. Windows is using workarounds during windows update to avoid breaking bitlocker.
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