The answer that the status service websites will tell you: we automatically detect outages by performing http requests and checking responses for errors

the actual answer: some overworked developer gets woken up at 3am via pagerduty and manually set the status website to an outage state

I doubt Sony is making much, if anything, on psvr2. It’s a really high value device for the price.you can pay a lot more and get less.

So it’s hard to see a world where this happens. What’s the end result here? Sony loses game sales, and valve gets a free extra bump.

Honestly, I’m surprised the other two-thirds aren’t too. What do they have to benefit from being parasites on society.

Azure products ask you for your identity and signin a lot. Honestly, I’m asked to log in again at least once every 24 hours. That’s assuming I don’t traverse some sort of service wall where I’m now in a different system after clicking a link.

I do cloud engineering for a living, and I would probably fall for at least some phishing things around Azure, specifically because azure identity management is so obtuse and constantly asking for things.

It’s absolutely on the system that Microsoft designed , and the practices they encourage, and the mitagations that apparently don’t exist.

no.

No. But not because of AI. There’s currently hundreds of thousands of out of work people surrounding tech. You’re competing with them for every job.

Even then, most of engineering isn’t in the nuts and bolts of putting it together. It’s in the endless discussions and decisions that lead to the nuts and bolts.

I feel like this is a very modern problem with the community. I’ve been in open source for a long time, I’ve been employed by some of these companies to write open source things.

Most open source stuff was created by someone who was employed to write that open source thing. There are exceptions, of course, but most things came about because of a need, and that need is often related to work. Companies used to be a lot better with allowing open sourcing of components.

Then, there are all the community contributions that come from commercial reasons. If someone working at a company fixes a bug they encounter, that’s someone being paid to write open source software.

I do not understand the reaction people are having to this now. The open source ecosystem was built on this.

Every pledge is to avoid regulation.

Oh well I’m sure the eu will regulate something twenty years after the damage has been done.

At the very least I don’t feel like I need more out of Firefox than it has today. If it all goes to shit, then a free Firefox Ala chromium would do fine.

There’s some off-base comments here that ignore why the industry is being hit particularly hard. Note that when it comes to companies like Microsoft, you’re right it’s pure greed. They don’t need to shed those jobs, but that will make shareholders money, so bye-bye livelihood. Fuck Microsoft in particular on this round of layoffs, money for a 65 billion purchase but nothing else, pricks.

But for most of the job losses, it really comes down to high interest rates. High interest rates disincentivizes investing. And the past decade or so has been highly investment based.

A lot of the traditional big publishers like EA and Activision went entirely in-house, so any studio outside of those big ones needed to find funding somewhere. They turned to investment companies.

This works whilst investing is cheap, but when it’s hard to come by, suddenly you have to make payroll and can’t. This is why Embracer has failed, for example.

I’ve been around open source for 20+ years and can tell you right now that it don’t work that way. An issue tracker and a wiki is not a community.

Most older open source communities were built on irl connections and irc, with some mailing lists thrown in. Hell, we even funded conferences just around the software, not to sell a product but just because it’s good for everyone to be talking to each other.

The issue tracker tracks the status of things, the wiki is generally user focused. It’s not where development happens or thinks get built.

before we run out of room on the planet for more solar panels

I’m responding to this, there’s potential uses outside of “we ran out of room on earth”

It can make sense also, for example, in parts of the world that aren’t a good fit for solar power.

It can make sense also, for example, in parts of the world that aren’t a good fit for solar power. I’d argue for more nuclear before space solar, but it’s not like there’s zero sense in it.

wild how people literally can’t read more than one sentence before replying.

calm down, no one’s defending the monarchy.

The Crown is an entity that’s part of the UK parliament and thus state, a lot of legal proceedings based on hundreds of years are law just go in there because that’s what happens.

It’s part of a law that has to deal with vacant goods, goods unclaimed. they have to go somewhere.

This guy didn’t own 100% of his stuff, he either gave it away or sold it a long time ago, the people who owned the other half dissolved their company without selling or giving the ip back. so it’ goes to the same place that everything in this situation does, it’s handled by the governmental legal entity that figures out what to do with them. and yes they do sometimes just say “they don’t own it” if they don’t care to sell it

it’s called Bona Vacantia if you want to go look it up instead of huffing and puffing over it

ah yes, to exploit the peoples who cultivated mars and enslave people from earth

Whilst this is really just a cute story, if the guy really wanted to get it re released, there are plenty of avenues. Basically, he has to ask them to either sell or dispose of their claim to the ip. They aren’t involved in licensing or anything like that. they either sell or dispose of claims.

They probably don’t even know they have a claim. If they did they likely would have sold it long ago.

Seems weird to complain about one over engineered useless thing only to be saying we should be doing another ;)

What’s a commercial space station going to do? Maybe if there was a bunch of solar panels to maintain and build out in space, but otherwise, it’s just a boring ultra wealthy hotel.

You probably want a comparison to something other than fusion, which is and seemingly will forever be 20 years away.

It can make sense also, for example, in parts of the world that aren’t a good fit for solar power. I’d argue for more nuclear before space solar, but it’s not like there’s zero sense in it.

From what I understand, it doesn’t work that way. Which is why they are appealing to the 9th circuit court. They’ve been doing this with little success for half a year or so and it’s unlikely they’ll succeed this time either.