They got bought out, and the new owners do less of their own selling and more pass-through for shadier vendors as I understand it.

You’re talking about phones and Internet, but to extend your thought a bit, checks don’t work at the scale we run financial transactions anymore, they are scanned and recorded, then data about them is used for settlement, and they have been doing this for decades. But your point stands about phones and the Internet.

I mean they’re there, you just can’t see them

As the first boom turned to bust, fuckedcompany.com was a snarky look behind the curtain of the dumb we all built.

Sadly most places aren’t doing anything worth writing home about, but if this family actually cares then you’re very right and they need to learn exactly how the new ingredient will work in their kitchen.

In my experience bromated flour makes dough that I don’t like at all, so I’ll be glad when that’s gone.

I recall that it was cathouses in Columbia

It’s not entirely outsourced by any means. There is a lot of it. The article is discussing one department that was outsourced, many others are not.

Regarding running their own Linux distro, that probably would be neither cheap or really helpful (which of their vendors would support that vs. some other distro in practice?) but yes, there is a sizeable IT footprint required for such a large place.

If I you’re using the 24.04 version you’re not using gnome, you’re using COSMIC. It is much smoother than the gnome-based DE was.

Sleeping with celebrities is celebs trying to calmly talk you to sleep. Empire and Revolutions are great podcasts. You can learn and then re-listen the next day if you want to learn more.

Would I lie to you is amazing, and the stories start to become a safety blanket. The unbelievable truth is great too.

Some compliance measures (PCI DSS 4, HIPAA) mandate encryption in transit and none penalize it, so making any of that easier and less error-prone seems like a step in the right direction.

Yeah, this is complete bullshit. Every bathroom in every home in Brazil has a spray nozzle, at least, to rinse off one’s dirty bum.