Isn’t there a recycle bin?

Apple has something similar. One has to delete out of the hidden deleted items area — unless they want to wait a full month!

Does this mean a Windows PC associated with a Microsoft account will scan images accessible on mapped file shares?

In that case, our test infrastructure belongs in the Louvre…

10 years for the buyer or the manufacturer?

So it’s back to as before in 10 years?

The second to last sentence I copied over talks about after 10yrs, basically saying they have to provide the knowhow to 3rd party tool makers and repair technicians, and that this settlement makes that more certain. (as I read it)

Would be darkly hilarious if Santoshi lost his wallet long ago…

I’ve certainly lost a lot of the small scripts and utilities I wrote long ago. Can’t remember any usernames, much less passwords, from 20 years ago…

This was my thought.

I mined Bitcoin super early in the project on a spare computer. It sat for at least a week before I went back to it and discovered that it was unresponsive. Formatted the drive and tried some other nerd thing.

Seems like the IRS would have an enormous vested interest in tracking him down too…

The writeup is written very well. Kudos!

However, I really wonder if this scales to real applications…

I’ve seen too many people get initially mesmerized by “event driven” programming only to find the system eventually becomes a steaming mess that nobody can comprehend or debug. Or it manages to work but has serious performance issues (in an exclusively “push” design)…

Maybe in a single process, single threaded environment, it is more difficult to screw up?

Surprised “MultiPass” didn’t get in there

Damn. Just the new C++ syntax for this stuff makes it seem like a foreign language.

It’s no longer the C++ from 20 years ago.

Raising exceptions in a destructor sounds even more fun than a “return” statement inside a Python “finally” block of a method.

The footgun store will never go out of business!!!

Yeah, works great but may cause cancer…