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WaryByDesign

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About WaryByDesign

Yeah, if I'm just gonna be down-voted to oblivion regardless of my participation in the comments, good luck with your 'meaningful discussion'

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    Nope. That was rolled back: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i... And, again, I'd very much like Microsoft to lose here, but, there are real issues here

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    > You must be German Oof , that's just offensive! Anyway, most German Linux 'mandates' were indeed regional, and (for good reasons!) failed to migrate 'upstream'. Whether the Frenc…

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    Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, If your mythical 30-person teams were achievable, a lot of major US 'cyber'security firms would be in major trouble. Pop-quiz, hotshot : what d…

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    > they were effectively "bought out" by Microsoft Yeah, let me dispute that. They were, at least on three occasions, forced to roll back due to "citizen sent me X and can't open it…

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    I'm not aware of Microsoft's economic footprint in the Munich region, but I doubt it's significant. The complaints that lead to the several-reversions-to-Windows at the time, as I …

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    I'm... not so sure? The French government has, widely seen, 6M employees. Given retail pricing of EUR200/seat/year (and they definitely have a better arrangement), that's 1.2B, and…

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    It's... an admirable goal, but it pretty much remains to be seen if "France"[1] follows through. Previous attempts to "ditch Windows" have not ended that well. Munich in 2003, the …

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    I have truly no idea what this is all about. OAuth login issues aside (which have been a thing on-and-off for a while now, and I hope they fix soon), Claude's performance and respo…

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    Other than that the graphs look good, I don't have much to say about the code (not a Python person), but I think the approach is great, mostly because I like using custom-generated…

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    > the way he went about it — the accusatory tone, the refusal to compromise or even acknowledge that others might simply have honest differing opinions ...is entirely familiar and …

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    Sure, any wannabe-but-not-entirely-educated World Leader would love to own Greenland. And why not? It's strategically located, rich in natural resources, and... Until, well, you ac…