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Unfortunately I don't know, I only heard about the support duration from one of our systems IT guys. Even if it isn't more expensive (or even if it's cheaper) companies will prefer the longer license because IT staff migrating these machines costs a lot of money (and sometimes the migration isn't without problems which costs even more) so they try to minimize the frequeny of migrations as much as possible.

I feel like we'll get weekly updates just from countries reaching the threshold.

Win 10 LTS is a 10 year license, Win 11 LTS 5 years. There's your answer.

iwas von wegen Deutschland hätte mehr Druck machen sollen damit die Ukrainer direkt aufgeben oder sowas in die Richtung wenn man's unbedingt versuchen will

At least it's not a termination again but I suppose we'll see a lot more of these going forward, being a VTuber isn't exactly the easiest job plus it can be considerably restrictive on the talent's private life.

Nothing to do but to wish her the best for whatever she has planned for after Hololive.

Not on the phone but I had to threaten the Bitdefender E-Mail rep with a lawsuit in order to get my money back.

A few months into my 2 year subscription I changed my e-mail associated with my Bitdefender account. Thereafter all mail I got from them went to that new email, as it should. A short while after that I switched over to Linux and my "need" for an AntiVirus evaporated entirely between Linux' workflow not really requiring one anyway and me learning how little AntiVirus Software offers over the default Windows Defender. Queue forward to the end of that 2 year subscription (whose auto-renewal I had disabled before leaving Windows exactly to prevent what happened anyway but alas I have no proof of that anymore) I notice a really weird charge while reviewing my credit card statement. A charge that by all accounts should not have been there and one I was not made aware of beforehand. Guess what, those fucks sent only the mail about the upcoming renewal to the old email account which I had no reason whatsoever to suspect would still receive mail from them. Curiously the mail about them cancelling the renewed charge after I went off on them was sent to the new email again...

Initially the customer service said "oh well can't do anything here's a 50€ discount" until I lost my cool and threatened to sue them for theft because by all reasonable standards I could not have expected them to inform me on my old email about this upcoming charge.

On that note my stance was reaffirmed: Between and AntiVirus and an actual Virus I'd pick the latter, at least those are upfront about their motives and intentions instead of pretending to provide you with a service.

I think you have the wrong idea about what I was referencing. I'm not talking about Cloudflare Tunnels but their Encrypted Client Hello. While Cloudflare could intercept the inital ClientHello the rest of the HTTP traffic still is encrypted between Client and Server not between Client and Cloudflare. In that sense they have not turned into more of a MitM than they (or any other DNS Nameserver) were already anyway. So unless governments decide to completely dismantle the trust chain the internet works on they won't be forced to fuck with ECH for anti-piracy either.

But ultimately anything going over a public DNS Server is susceptible to being compromised. We simply trust that the providers don't.

I desperately want more of this but alas it's better to end things on a high note than drag them on endlessly. At least for now there will be side stories to read so it's not over quite yet but that's also just me huffing copium, I'll miss the weekly Pre-Pubs and the discussions about them.

I'm not opposed to turning this into an ani.social equivalent for light novels if the community thinks that would be useful or is a good idea.

I'm sure this is definitely going to go how the regulator thinks it will go. What with Cloudflare being one of the driving factors behind e2e encrypting more and more of the HTTP stack, making it ever harder for ISPs and other 3rd parties to see inside the HTTP traffic.

ugh yes? I didn't say women should be stuck with the household chores and if a full time position can sustain a family then 2 part time jobs can do the same. I thought that much was a given

At the risk of sounding controversial here's a rant tangentially related to that little sentence strip.

In order to not go extinct (long term) we need (on average and nowadays) somewhere between 2 and 3 children per woman across the entire world. Historically that was pretty "easy" (nothing about raising a child is easy) to achieve because:

• lack of birth control
• women not working

Now while the influence of the former is pretty clear on the birthrate how does the latter impact it? I mean all things considered the women were working before then already, just at home instead of at a workplace. Yesn't. When women entered the workforce something very crucial happened that I do not see talked about very often but that has very far reaching implications. The workforce almost doubled in a very short amount of time. Initially this didn't result in much of anything so for most families of the early emancipation the result of women entering the workforce was a massive extra income. Reminder: back then a single income was enough to feed a family (and it was not really hard to do so comfortably). However here's the problem that I rarely see talked about: the increase in available labor caused wages to stagnate while inflation started eating away at the "real" worth of those wages. So over time the situation went from:

• one adult working, one adult taking care of the home => able to sustain a family

to:

• one adult working full time, one adult working part time + taking care of the home (usually the woman) => able to sustain a family

  Note: see how the workload for women has already increased here, despite various equality movements' efforts the initial result was/is a higher workload for women?

to:

• two adults working full time with usually the woman doing all or almost all of the household chores => able to sustain a family

  Note: in an "ideal" work household chores should be split evenly but alas we don't live in fantasy land but reality and such is the situation of things

Notice how the overall workload in this household went from 2 full time jobs (1 work, 1 household) to 3 (2 work, 1 household)? Note: there is a debate to be had about the workload in a household, personally I would estimate it even above a full time job if you want the household well kept but the point doesn't materially change with household work weighing more

Imo the resulting added stress and discomfort is largely to blame for the falling birth rates in the west. Not any form of "culture" or "rat utopia" situation. Rather people are simply too overworked to have a family.

Which brings me back to the quoted sentence. This piece of garbage text is a symptom of the entire problem. Instead of making sure that one salary is enough to feed a family (again), whoever that one person in the relationship may be, they just keep piling up the work. Women not being able to reconcile work and family is not the problem, them having to do both in the first place is.