Windows 9x would crash after 49.7 days.

Windows Vista had a bug where the network stack would crash after 497 days, but if you didn’t care about networking the rest of the OS would continue to run.

I have to say that is pretty dumb. I will agree the scenario isn’t completely implausible, but if someone who doesn’t know what they are doing is allowed to do something like that, they’re going to screw up other stuff too.

Most people have their favorite old version of Winamp that they run.

I used Winamp for a very long time myself, but ended up giving it up when I gave up Windows. (yes, I know you can run it under Wine, but I also have Qmmp now)

It may not be completely crazy, depending on context. With something like a web app, if data is being sanitized in the client-side Javascript, someone malicious could absolutely comment that out (or otherwise bypass it).

With that said, many consultant-types are either pretty clueless, or seem to feel like they need to come up with something no matter how ridiculous to justify the large sums of money they charged.

I don’t know the exact model of the cassette player, but the silver plastic and the rounded bits of the design to me are very late 90’s to early 2000’s.

My guess is this stuff has only been out there a few years from the general condition.

Jira Cloud isn’t just the on-prem version of Jira where you’re forced to use and pay for Atlassian’s hosting, it’s actually a different and much shittier version of the old on-prem Jira. Same goes for other Atlassian products such as Confluence.

It’s no surprise to me that Atlassian is in trouble, as there’s little reason I can see to use their products anymore, and they are just coasting on inertia at this point. Whereas 10 years ago, while it was still fun to knock their stuff, I had to admit they were actually pretty decent.

ECC memory and server hardware in general is surprisingly cheap if you’re fine buying used gear that’s a few years old. Once that stuff gets old enough that it’s being cycled out of data centers en masse, it hits the used market and the supply often exceeds the limited demand for that kind of stuff.

With that said, I don’t know if that’s true at the moment.

Bit rot is real, I’ve seen it first hand in plenty of cases. While I tend to blame the storage device, for infrequently accessed files that have been copied multiple times across different drives, I can’t rule out RAM or some other source of the corruption.

Programs that use more memory could be slightly more susceptible to this sort of thing because if a bit gets randomly flipped somewhere in a computer’s memory, the bit flip more likely to happen in an application that has a larger ram footprint as opposed to an application with a small ram footprint.

I’m still surprised the percentage is this high.

I avoid Amazon as much as possible, though on occasion I’ve more or less had no other reasonable choice. But that’s happened something like 4 times in the last 10 years or so.

The big problem with boycotting Amazon is that while it’s easy enough to avoid buying from their online store as much as possible, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is pretty much unavoidable if you’re using the modern internet.

My high school, among other interesting design decisions, didn’t have any lockers in the academic areas. So you had a locker that was way over by the gyms, or out by the shop classes, or if you were lucky in the cafeteria (because then you could at least stash your lunch in it).

The administration also seemed to be completely mystified as to why everyone carried around huge backpacks.

Leaded gasoline has to be worse.

Demolition Man.