They’re a Chinese company, $8.9B revenue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip.com_Group

This is it. I used to work for a consultancy that specialised in Oracle products. Turns out if you want an ERP or HCM, running Oracle EBS with a DB backend on Oracle…running on Oracle Linux…on Oracle Linux KVM hypervisors (where CPU pinning is a recognised and allowed tactic - unlike Oracle on other hypervisors)…it turns out, might be competitively priced.

It’s a total lock in. Also, I get the impression that it’s almost always up to what the Finance team is used to/familiar with. They decide the finance app - then everything else follows as above due to the financials…which they are in charge of.

I know a guy who migrated workloads off PostgreSQL Enterprise back to Oracle as the performance and availability just wasn’t good enough. I don’t know enough about DBs to query that much, but he did it.

Yes, Elijah Wood is in Back to the Future II! He’s one of the kids trying to play the old school arcade machine.

Oh, and Cuba Gooding Jr is in Coming To America (he’s getting a haircut).

Have they actually said why? That post doesn’t cover it.

Isn’t the easy way to work around this by building 2x25MW data centres next to each (down the road, a mile away, next county, whatever) and just ensure they operate as 1 with high speed dark fibre?

It mentions this GDID is sent in telemetry. So this guy kept using a hosted proxy, meaning his egress IP was always changing accessing different services, but everytime his Windows 11 machine was sending back telemetry (which included his GDID) they were logging the IP address he was appearing from (the proxy) - so they were able to track and identify him.

No vaccine is mandatory in the UK. You have the right to decline (or your guardian can on your behalf).

I think they’ve been running around in Milton Keynes, UK for a few years now.

If you host your own DB of users and passwords you are a target. Offloading it to as many wide-spread oauth providers as possible is a smart move.

The thing is, he will not care nor probably even see that post.

It is not in the narcissist’s playbook to review replies.

He will continue to fire and forget messages on social platforms because 1) he gets attention 2) it doesn’t mean anything.

Genuinely, I believe that if you were a US ally and slandered him on social media he may make a passing comment, but he would slander you like it was originally his idea later about something completely different and the US would carry on doing what it was doing.

The US sees itself as S tier, and at maximum fellow NATO allies as B tier maybe.

Unless they kick the US out, invoke sanctions, attack, etc. he and they just don’t care. Social media is a tool to rile up people who can’t think objectively, not a place to discuss or retaliate.

I dislike this timeline too.

Lemmy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)

piss assholes off

piss off assholes

;-)

Well, I guess there was 1 PC for the whole family. Analogue modems would scream as they talked over wires. A lot. If you picked up a phone in the house, you would hear the scream of not just the modem, but the person using the internet to put it down.

A lot of people had their own homepages hosted on Geocities or Angelfire - which were like free-form expressions of your facebook profile. Utterly abusing HTML and GIFs.

And to communicate with your friends, you used IRC, MSN Messenger, ICQ or AIM. All of them, as some friends wouldn’t be on one or the other.

You searched for information using Alta Vista, Web Crawler, Yahoo!, Lycos or Ask Jeeves.

Your email address usually ended in @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com (and regional variations, like .de or .co.uk, etc.), BUT, you also had an email address from your ISP (so aol.com, freeserve.co.uk, free.fr, etc.) were really common.

Listening to music was different. You would search for MP3s (people would ‘rip’ songs from CDs into MP3 format and upload them) using free services like Napster (the OG), then WinMX, Limewire, eDonkey. and you would listen to them using an audio player like WInAmp (on the family PC). MP3 players (like the iPod or Zune) were just starting out I think, so you tended to get MP3s and then burn them to a CD so you could listen to them in your car, or in your portable CD player, or even your HiFi.

Streaming video wasn’t really a thing, as modems are too slow, but, you could download movies (it just took FOREVER) and they would almost always be the worst cam quality you could imagine and compressed as much as possible.

Using Linux/Unix was really a huge pain as most of the modems were actually Winmodems so none of the manufacturers would provide binaries or modules for anything other than Windows, so they were almost always reverse engineered - and it was just a pain.

I could probably ramble on for longer, but this feels like a good place to stop and say “get off my lawn”.

Probably a reference to there being more than just HTTP. There was protocols like Gopher and tech like Usenet which were kinda precursors to HTTP and the WWW for information sharing/reading/communicating.

Separate has A Rat in it.

Thought I was having a moment.

Coin Side NCES

Coins ID Ences

Internal thought occurred: You really are a grammar Nazi.

Is it? Seems fine to me, I’ve been using it as my default search engine for almost a decade.

You can use: noai.duckduckgo.com

The UK has RRP as an equivalent, but they address the problem differently really. MRP is stop price gauging I think, whereas RRP is there to incentivise retailers to offer discounts to lure more customers.

We also have co-op’s that run supermarkets and banks, but they compete against private companies.

I think Europe is fairly social in its services (healthcare, pensions, etc.).

Yeah, the username is submitted when a successful answer is put in. I’ll leave it like this for a couple of days, see if it gets a bit more engagement if that’s Ok.