noooooo!!! meemaw went and saw the movie without me!

not at all. are you expected to remember it? would it even be possible to memorize for most? not even close to the same thing, passwords have very low entropy which causes all their problems

i imagine MS just hard coded a random license key into the build image and it expired. the issue doesn’t say exactly tho

i am thinking this issue description is implying that EVERYONE using the windows build image was broken. MS probably had a hard coded license in the build image which expired. idk, could be reading it wrong

don’t give me hope like that

typical Azure. duct tape and bubble gum holding everything together

i think that’s when you copy and paste text

you could probably arrange to watch it with nice people in public. or just wait until it hits streaming in a couple months?

there’s literally zero technical reason that a user couldn’t reset a private key the same as a password. after all, you just pointed out they are almost the same.

edit: if you’d like to see an example create SSH keys for your GitHub account and then reset them

private keys, etc

passwords were maybe the dumbest idea ever invented

Larry Ellison just gave a big talk on this tech coming to America soon. fuckin billionaires

yeah i cracked up watching it with my pops

hey now let’s be fair here, people hate C++ too

free (dis) association

seems like not that long ago i would’ve thought that the idea of a PC without any disc drive was insane. i had to help a neighbor kid the other week when forced bitlocker bricked his gaming PC, sure enough it didn’t have any disc drive!

that can’t be real… oh no. wtaf!

if this comes with tetris attack I’m buying

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a monopoly patent was literally a government invention. an actual monopoly does require the government. what you are talking about is called a “natural monopoly” in the literature. that would be a situation where there’s only one seller for something like say water in a desert town. in that case you can have price gouging and such.

now, the important bit is the LEGAL ability to prevent competition. if there is a natural monopoly on water, and the seller decided to start charging obscene amounts for water, those extreme profits would normally induce other sellers to enter the market. except when they are legally prohibited, we can expect that a natural monopoly will not last if what we call “monopoly rents” are extracted.

so you see, a true monopoly requires legal force, eg the state.