sorry for the snark, but

big companies are often incompetent and inefficient in a lot of ways

iirc his VP want to summon jesus via armageddon

We can invest in public transit or even public bike/scooter rentals without allowing free reign for a private company to make profits

can we though?

oh fu

more users means, they should do much better than the ones with less users (assuming each user is worth the same/requires same infra).

at the worst case, a bigger org could just copy paste a smaller orgs system a couple times to get the exact same uptime, with same budget per user*. The benefit of bigger orgs is, that they can consolidate these separate system a big system that is more stable AND costs less. If this wasn’t true, we wouldn’t have big orgs in the first place**.

* yes, it is NOT the same budget for the users. You can’t JUST copy paste the system, you’d also need to think how you split it up. I know there are a million little things to nitpick here, but this can all be solved somewhat easily, and they wont change the overall argument.

** regulatory capture, lobbying, corruption and creating a monopoly could also be consider aspects of “consolidating into a bigger system”. This doesn’t mean why MS shouldn’t be able to be better, it just explains why they aren’t better.

except for solar and wind, i guess. also the thingy where you catch electrons directly from nuclear decay.

Here are the steps:

• The attacker creates a standard Git repository.
• They commit a single symbolic link pointing to a sensitive target.
• Using the PutContents API, they write data to the symlink. The system follows the link and overwrites the target file outside the repository.
• By overwriting .git/config (specifically the sshCommand), the attacker can force the system to execute arbitrary commands–

amazing.