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Almost every system you interact with in the world has some critical thing in its innards running windows.
by adastra22 2y ago
Almost every system you interact with in the world has some critical thing in its innards running windows.
- lapink 2y agoMost stuff is fine in France.
- slenk 2y agoNot according to Air France. https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/air-france-flights-and-french-tv-disrupted-in-major-microsoft-bug/669898 https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/air-france-flights-and-...
- dboreham 2y agoNo Crowdstrike salespeople in France?
- rvnx 2y agoWe are using OpenOffice as firewall https://www.numerama.com/politique/12508-albanel-le-ministere-de-la-culture-a-comme-pare-feu-open-office-maj.html https://www.numerama.com/politique/12508-albanel-le-minister...
- jordanb 2y agoI like the idea that technology is so unreliable in star trek because the computers are all centuries of software accretion with Windows way down the stack somewhere.
- adastra22 2y agoThe late great Vernor Vinge explored this in A Fire Upon The Deep. One of the characters is/was in a former life a programmer-archeologist. The idea being that so many thousands of years in the future every relevant program has already been written, so his job was to comb the archives for the right mix of codes and integrate them, rather than right something new.
- Freak_NL 2y ago“So we've got this CNC controller written in Rust from 2036, and, ah, here is a GUI for something like that written in late 90's Visual Basic 6… Just combine those and…” “So uhm, you do know what you are doing, right?” “Sir! I am a programmer-acheologist! Oh this is fascinating… Hold on, I must unearth and preserve this beauty of a BAT-file before we can go any further.”