It's wild to me that it's allowed and accepted to overtake on the right on US highways.
It's generally not allowed, but that doesn't stop people just like the speed limit doesn't stop them.
Readit NewsUvix commented on Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk research.google/blog/hard... · Posted by u/aleyan
They could peacefully protest
Protest only works if there’s someone to listen. The Republicans in Congress don’t care what their constituents want.
Things aren't perfect in a lot of countries, but what is happening in the US right now is absolutely unique. Things are careening out of control, and the political system seems completely incapable of getting a handle on it.
Most people I speak to in Canada, Europe and Central America seem perplexed why Americans they know do not seem more alarmed.
It’s not that we’re not alarmed, it’s that voters are unable to do anything about it for the next several months (if even then).
I think he might be right
The massive amount of legacy .NET and older software still running in many enterprises isn’t a problem, but a huge business opportunity.
My prediction is that Microsoft will push hard their “Azure Virtual Desktop” product: remote, virtualized Windows instances hosted on their own servers to these enterprises.
In this model, the operating system running on the client devices will becomes largely irrelevant.
But in that case, Microsoft still has to support and maintain the Windows OS running within the Azure Virtual Desktop. If they're doing that, why not support it on the end user compute as well, and get that sweet sweet recurring Windows license revenue from businesses?
Uvix commented on What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do honeycomb.io/blog/you-had... · Posted by u/mooreds
DevOps was (and is) merely an excuse for companies to replace Developers with cheaper Ops resources, and yet expecting better services and better products from them.
My personal experience says that the best way is that Ops team shouldn not be repurposed as Developers, rather put the experienced Developers into Production Support (incident management, that's intense Ops, working in shifts and weekends, etc.). And rotate them whenever needed. Over a period of time, you'll invariably see less defects and issues percolating down from the Devs, and then after both sides are stable and working well together with less friction and open tickets, then some more tech savvy Ops members can be rotated into Development teams as rookie devs to help reduce costs a bit (as there'll invariably be some natural attrition among the Devs and Ops, so this gives an alternative career path to the Ops team (who are usually less paid, and more stressed), and pushes the Devs not to become complacent). Such an approach is doable and productive.
We tried this, but we just got more defects, because the Devs lost what little Ops knowledge they had. Where previously Ops would have to involve Devs, now that Production Support has some Dev knowledge, suddenly they get the blame for everything. Devs no longer have interest in things like "reading log files"; they just ship any problems over to Production Support.
Thank you for expressing my thoughts as well. The article seems to be full of contradictory “advice”.
Use a dependency cooldown, okay … but don’t commit your lockfile so you are always running the latest transitive deps? That’s nuts.
Depends on the package manager. With some you'll get the oldest transitive deps that meet all dependency requirements, not the newest.
Uvix commented on PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch theregister.com/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/smurda
That's a KVM role. The idea in the 21th century it's to spawn a personal VM per user. Network boundaries would be defined in hypervisor devel, (VLANs, network share accesses and so on), you would need nearly no GPO's but different WMI setups with options prebaked.
The old NT based ACL's/GPO's and such are obsolete as I said when a cheap Linux KVM server can do tons of stuff by itself and firewalls (even professional ones) are dirt cheap. The old world died long ago.
You shouldn't be backing up profiles, accounts or settings from an AD domain. We should already have instant VM booting (from the network) with everything snapshotted to a working state since long ago.
Network boundaries are insufficient. A file share might need to be read-write for some users and read-only for others. Database access is even more granular.
Different users will have licenses to different software. Maintaining individualized VM images isn't sustainable.
Uvix commented on PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch theregister.com/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/smurda
AD/Group Policies should have been killed long ago with remote RDP/VNC and VM's with 3D support. Once you can rollback your settings trivially with disk images, AD/GP's are dead since cheap firewalls and virtual network segmentations are everywhere.
How does remote RDP/VNC kill AD and Group Policy? You still need AD to provide centralized authentication/authorization. And you still need Group Policy to configure the VMs according to the corporate standards - disk images may work for the initial rollout but not for applying future changes.
> “This change removes the “Act on your behalf” note in the consent page if the app is requesting only read permissions against the user account itself.”
I think this blog demonstrates the problem. To a lot of people this is perfectly straightforward. Others might think, “but my GitHub account is where I keep all my private repos.”
When listing access controls, I think most nouns need to very carefully map back to a clear definition, ideally full of examples and bulleted lists of “what this is” and “what this isn’t”
You mean, like in the next two sentences? First "what this isn't":
> "If the app is requesting any kind of repository, organization, or enterprise permission (read or write) then the note still appears."
And then "what this is":
> "This allows applications to sign in users and get their profile information and email addresses (if requested) without undue alarm."