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Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:20PM (#50226886)
Usa has 37% higher theft rate than Australia.

And I'm sure Hyundai and kia stats would be much higher due to lack of immobiliser and visibility of how easy they are to steal on social media.

Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:15PM (#50226854)
From my experience nobody uses them, they just want a pretty ui to view job status and logs.
People fired on the spot can't point out risks that were told to management and ignored.

Scape goats work better when they can't defend themselves.

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Saturday October 24, 2026 @02:40AM (#50218808)
Or because america doesn't regulate immobilisers like most other countries and has a race to the bottom mba mindset to save a few pennies vs the public good.
Sounds about right, buying all those gatorade bottles to piss in adds up
Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:14PM (#49651868)
Used bicycle tube cut into rings make the best elastic bands, they don't degrade
Re:Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:39PM (#49529813)
But it doesn't have any fan blades in it!

Only an impeller with blades

Re:Matrox: Graphics for Professionals on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:45AM (#49519190)
The fixed frequency was a pain as text mode didn't work, i ended up installing a Hercules monitor which Linux would use in text mode until xf86 started
I can't understand the logic behind party A did something, and then blame party B for not undoing it.

Not everything is a simple ctrl-z, and the blame lays squarely on who implemented it.

Unfortunately too many Australians are swayed by scare campaigns and vote against their own interest.

The mining super profits tax, franking credits, and similar failed reforms benefited only the top 1% of 1% of Australians, yet people voted against them.

Hopefully the recent negative gearing and trust changes stick.

So really its all conjecture unless an actual project plan is written up with supply chain sources, and the plan is kept up to date with inventory of items scrapped vs placed in storage and capacity from current importers & manufacturers.
I guess that's the question - how fast can you build required plants during war time?

How do you get the very bespoke equipment from overseas if supply chains are being attacked?

Where do you get the designers and operational staff, bearing in mind the industry might have been closed for a while and all prior talent has retired or died?

What's the risk of above vs the government subsidising a plant to keep it operational and known good state?

I wouldn't be so sure about that - as an example, I know at least one Victorian refinery is being torn down and scrapped as seen by my own eyes.
right - but in the context of this thread, manganese is a vital ingredient to smelting iron - so Australia seems it is no longer self sufficient.
Meanwhile Australia's last remaining manganese plant shut down last night...
I've held this stance on agile for a long time - it coincided with mainstream adoption of ssds, windows with memory protection and google search - all of which sped delivery despite agile, not because of agile.
Re:A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:43AM (#48695505)
In a touch of irony this blog is throwing some null error
Most were enjoying not having to stop whatever they were doing at whatever time a show was broadcast to watch it live on air - time shifting recorded TV was a game changer.
Re:Donald Trump's Superficiality Is Bone-Deep on Thursday June 04, 2026 @04:02AM (#48395601)
Bone spur deep
2012 called and asked for their snark back.

Samsung software is fine now.

Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:41AM (#48092129)
Time will tell if outages and defect resolution sky rocket or if ai can deal with it
That's because windows locks the file name vs inode like Unix, so was really the only way to update any file in use like libraries.
Re:Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:18AM (#47347494)
Except you burn a tonne of cash on redundancy payouts
Re:Stop Using Grey Text on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:58AM (#47271415)
Found secretary of education Linda McMahons account
It's the same as all the Tesla subreddits, they ban and delete anything negative so casual readers don't get anything but a very biased and curated viewpoint.

They are propaganda from vested interests.

Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too on Sunday January 11, 2026 @09:43PM (#46583329)
Is your macbook air running 8 different corporate security products eating CPU?

I had a macbook for work previously and it was just as shit as windows due to all the junk running in the background.

Re:How Markdown Took over the World on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:40PM (#46562530)
Best thing about markdown is the barrier to entry of non technical folks, it stops them shitting over technical documentation and steers them to Confluence or sharepoint for their die on the vine slop.
Re:I use Samsung's Wi-Fi menu to seriously improve my connectivity on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:57PM (#46450091)
I find it hard to feel sorry for anyone stupid enough to buy a fridge with a screen
I mean it's better than having wind and background noise because the mics are by your ears...
I saw some buds where the charging case had a microphone which is a clever solution i hope more brands adopt.

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