Are We Too Dependent on Microsoft?

Deckweiss , 5 hours ago

Short answer: yes

Long answer: yeeeeeeeeees

30p87 , 5 hours ago

Detailed answer: Yankee Echo Sierra

Repetitive answer:

<span style="color:#323232;">yes
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vipaal , 3 hours ago

Answering the question with a counter question

<span style="color:#323232;">Why do we ask a question whilst already knowing its answer?
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tla , 3 hours ago

Clicks (bait).

GolfNovemberUniform , 3 hours ago

I like this one

ipacialsection , 3 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

It’s nice that major news outlets are saying what we nerds have been screaming for the past two decades. Microsoft only shares a small portion of the blame for the recent outage (they could have built their OS better so software vendors don’t feel the need to use kernel modules, but the rest is on CrowdStrike) but we are too depenent on them.

Shdwdrgn , 2 hours ago

Not to change the subject, but your italicized “are” made me realize that Lemmy uses a different font for italic content (see the letter A). There’s another message down below deleted by creator which has the same style. I know, it’s a weird thing to notice, but there was a blog I saw this week mentioning that scammers are using websites with a (I think?) Cyrillic ‘a’ that looks just like the italic one here to fool people into thinking they’re visiting a legitimate site, so that little discrepancy stood out to me today. At least now I know I’m paying attention! 😆

nexussapphire , 2 hours ago

My household is a Microsoft free environment. There is no place for the royal we in this conversation.

Shdwdrgn , 2 hours ago

I can almost say the say thing, but I actually have a small Windows laptop dedicated to some software used for reprogramming the computer in my truck. I’ve never tried to run it under wine, so I might not need the laptop, but I very rarely use it anyway. Everything else in the house, from our android phones and tablets, to the entertainment system running from a raspberry pi, up to our laptops, desktops, and my stack of servers all run linux exclusively. Funny how they all run smoothly for years at a time.

nexussapphire , 1 hour ago

Honestly, if your programming your ECU or something. I wouldn’t risk potentially bricking your car. It is a tool after all, something like how I prefer mikita over Milwaukee but I’ll use it to get the job done if needed.

Shdwdrgn , 38 minutes ago

Yeah I think at the time it was a known issue that this software wouldn’t run properly in wine and I just never tried again in the last 14 years. I’m not worried about bricking the ECU, I actually have a spare sitting on the shelf, and even if it did get bad enough that I couldn’t fix it, I could probably take it to the dealer and have them re-flash it for me. Funny thing is, after going the rounds with their service guy trying to get the programming corrected from changing my gear ratio (I ended up giving them a VIN of another vehicle that came with those gears), they weren’t able to change the programming to my own VIN but the truck still ran. No worries, because my software CAN change the VIN, so once I got that squared away it’s been perfectly happy with all the new programming. I have to admit, there’s a satisfaction in telling the dealer THIS is how you fix the problem, and when you’re done with it I’ll fix the rest of the stuff you can’t do.

imnapr , 4 hours ago

Yea.

Granixo , 3 hours ago

The only answer: y e s

abogical , 2 hours ago

I don’t like the implied false dichotomy between opening up the kernel and better security. You can definitely have both. Otherwise it’s a good report.

palarith , 18 minutes ago

Imho. We are too laissez faire about our dependence on computers.

Currently doing disaster planning for compliance. What I really want to put in the docs is “If power or internet goes down we are just fucked. No planning needed. “