Munkisquisher

joined 1 year ago
[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Greed, it lowers the advertised price, but once you spec it decently you've added a grand in extras

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 points 3 months ago

He hopes to woo advertisers back by beaming ads directly into your most treasured memories

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, by looking in the DB or the data that's federated as it comes through

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do they bill you $40,000 for that diagnosis? Could be a new source of revenue for discount airlines

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago

I work in an environment where the workstations aren't on the Internet there's a separate network, there's still a need for antivirus and we were hit with bsod yesterday

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 22 points 4 months ago (4 children)

A remote server that you pay some serious money to that pushes a garbage driver that prevents yours from booting

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 33 points 4 months ago

Oh yes I make those failures myself, testing and staging and limited release schedules save my human failures from breaking the world

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dammit, hit us at 5pm on Friday in NZ

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And people need to travel to remote machines to do this in person

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 18 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Yeah saw that several steel mills have been bricked by this, that's months and millions to restart

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 53 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Won't take that long, security researchers are already decompiling the update to see if it was malicious or incompetence.

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago

That's how it works in NZ, you can request anything, but the govt can also charge you the costs of collating that data beyond a certain point

view more: ‹ prev next ›