Tim Seaward

@DanNeidle I think the words "own goal" work here

I'm still really angry about all the pre-Budget leaking. Hugely damaging to the UK. The exit tax rumours in particular. The uncertainty didn't end with the Budget - I expect an ongoing impact on business confidence and domestic/foreign investment. Indefensible.

@tomtweettime @DanNeidle They do tax the money on the way into the pension in Australia.

@DanNeidle We need some form of radical change though surely? Australia seems to manage relatively well on their health service, and means tests benefits while offsetting that by not taxing pensions, no IHT etc.

State pension should be means tested. As a trade off, anyone who doesn't qualify for it should be able to access their private pension tax free... That's how it is in Australia (well, actually all pensions are tax free there, and they have no IHT either). Thoughts @DanNeidle?

@Carnage4Life @neilquinn @stratechery MacOS has all but removed kernel level drivers since the M series processors. If you want to run in the kernel now you have to boot to an insecure mode, which no one does.

@moving_charlie You are double counting, you can’t count a deflation of the notional and the repayment part of the mortgage, it’s one or the other.

Owning v Renting: "My mortgage would cost less than my rent." Often the case. But to work out the true cost of buying with a mortgage you need to do the following sums: Mortgage Repayment + Mortgage Interest + Maintenance Costs + Inflation + Stamp Duty. Mortgage Repayment = Actual purchase price - deposit. Mortgage Interest = Total amount paid to lender - amount borrowed. Maintenance Costs = Everything your landlord has to pay for plus any improvements, decor or upgrades Inflation = Even at 2% per annum, that's how much your home is devaluing by every year. So, over 25 years thats a 50% devaluation against your initial purchase price, in real terms. Stamp Duty = Purchase Tax where applicable (doesn't affect most First Time buyers currently, but will hit more in April 2025 when the threshold lowers again). All of this has to be deducted from any nominal increase in price before you have actually made any kind of financial return on your 'investment'. Renting includes NONE of these costs and gives you flexibility and options, but currently has the risk of being asked to leave against your wishes. Choose wisely - it's different for everyone!

@ITStudiosi @MartinDotNet I said they don’t use kext anymore, you said can I read? I didn’t say they aren’t spy ware or can’t crash your system

To those suggesting that if you're on Linux, you're immune to what happened with the outage yesterday... A similar issue happened with the same company on Debian machines in April with a Linux kernel update. The only difference? Linux admins/users are a different breed.

@ITStudiosi @MartinDotNet crowdstrike.com/blog/crowdstri…

@ITStudiosi @MartinDotNet macOS 10.15 or later enables developers to extend the capabilities of macOS by installing and managing system extensions that run in user space rather than at the kernel level. By running in user space, system extensions increase the stability and security of macOS.

@m4rkchapman @allenholub I guess Apple took the "sue me then" approach to the anti-trust argument. But also with less MacOS penetration in the market its a harder anti-trust argument to make for MacOS.

@TimSeaw @allenholub Good to know, and doesn’t undermine my counter argument. The fact they did use the kernel until the M1 (given MS tried the similar API move) means it wasn’t a Windows fault, which was Allen’s point.

No amount of testing will guarantee perfection in a program. The real problem here is that Microsoft effectively allowed CrowdStrike to hack into the core of their operating system in the name of security. Maybe, they should pay less attention to AI nonsense and more attention to making their own operating system secure without giving it over to a third-party.

@m4rkchapman @allenholub Actually Mac shut the walled garden on them running in the kernel around the time of the M1 roll out. Crowdstrike runs in user space with APIs on MacOS these days.

@allenholub Disagree on Microsoft, Allen. Mac and Linux versions of Cloudstrike have similar privileged access (the Linux one basically did the same thing a few months ago but as fewer users wasn’t noticed) and MS tried to get AV devs away from kernel mode, and got threaten with antitrust.

@0xF2 @SwiftOnSecurity I believe the Mac one isn’t in the kernel anyway.

@SwiftOnSecurity Hearing rumors that the definitions file was updated, exposing a null pointer in the Windows parser for those files — whereas the Mac and Linux parsers did not have that flaw. QA fail remains unexplained… this only explains why the difference between the platforms.

@ics_blitz @shuv1337 I truly find it weird that a product with such reach is just rolled out to everyone all at once, surely a phased approach for a product with such reach is the norm. It certainly is with OS patches etc. this seems to be a process issue totally disregarding the bug

@shuv1337 what exactly are you hoping to achieve with this statement, other than sounding like a QA genius who doesn't make mistakes and pointing out the glaringly obvious?

Seeing the torches and pitchforks coming out targeting CrowdStrike is wild. Was it an oopsie? Absolutely. Nobody is immune to them and anybody who says otherwise is a clown. CrowdStrike will bounce back, it's a far superior product and an awesome team of folks over there. Being an asshole to them or the product isn't helping anything.

@bcantrill @ahl @RajaXg Don’t forget NPUs now!

A listener writes: "could you do an Oxide and Friends that explains the difference between CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs?" Why, yes we can! Tomorrow @ahl and I will be joined by the singular @RajaXg to guide us through this wild world. Join us, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?eve…

@davidfowl Congrats!

Holding my newborn son and watching Wimbledon.

@navtejbassi @Victoria_Spratt @Hamptons1869 Or a net gain for f 250k homes for people to buy to live in is the other way of looking at it.

@Victoria_Spratt Here’s some data from @Hamptons1869 Since 2017 1,192,790 BTL properties were sold & just 935,850 were bought. Net loss of 256,940 rental homes. Might not seem significant as a % loss of dwellings but when you account for population growth of nearly 2 million. It’s significant

I don’t think there is concrete evidence that landlords are selling up in huge numbers - but if anyone has it, I’d love to see it. Please do send.

@BenWhoLikesBeer @davidfowl We would also pay for a full blown vs on MacOS what we don’t want is to have to run parallels etc to get VS. I haven’t tried devkit for vscode but will try it out.

@BenWhoLikesBeer @davidfowl There is different levels of “paying” though as well. Azure has the best .net story and we pay there, but we want to use MacOS on the dev side.

It’s evident that there’s still a lot of work on our side and education around our tooling story for .NET. Doesn’t matter how free and open the runtime is, people point at the tools (even when they are free to use). The stigma is so strong that any sniff of “I have to pay” drives people away (even when you don’t have to pay). On top of that, people want the “most native” tooling experience that a language ecosystem provides. This is why people want cross platform visual studio. Rider and VS Code are excellent options but not as feature rich as VS. The incumbent .NET developers will always recommend the tools they grew up on, Windows and Visual Studio. Even if the tooling in another ecosystem is less rich, it might be what developers in the ecosystem expect. We spend lots of time making sure .NET works well on the command line but it’s not enough…

@achirinos @ICooper @davidfowl @isaac_abraham @maniacallemon @shanselman @GergelyOrosz Doesn’t it require a VS license? It’s just getting to windows and old sql licensing levels of mess for a startup I don’t want to deal with it. I want to make my code and pay to run it in the cloud. The c# and azure story was a great one. I don’t want windows to dev

@TimSeaw @ICooper @davidfowl @isaac_abraham @maniacallemon @shanselman @GergelyOrosz I’m on a Mac! Have you try C# Dev Kit? #VSCode

Cc @davidfowl @shanselman unfortunately also happening with F# as well as C# 😯🥺 It'll take years for some people to lose the negative association of MSFT within dev. How can we fix this? 😳