Console vendors, particularly Nintendo absolutely hate it when someone tries to thinker with their products. There was a Darknet Diaries podcast from August 1 named ‘Team Xecuter’ that gives some insight into this. Funnily enough, not every country is encouraging this behavior from Nintendo like the U.S. is. France is pretty lenient on console modders, for example.
I moved from Québec to Germany a number of years ago, and there is a cemetery like the one in the article in a forest close to where I live. It started its activity back in 2005. It’s hard to believe that a country with so much green space like Canada - let alone the whole of North America - only now has a single one.
The summary bot didn’t pick this part up: ''Gaba also told Kahlon that the program of study was changed with Sharma’s consent and provided him with a student enrollment contract signed by Sharma and her father on Aug. 19, 2022.
But Sharma says she had never seen this document before the college shared it with Kahlon.
And her father, whose signature appears to be on the document, died in 2015…‘’
If this is true either somebody in Granville’s administration forged two signatures to get out of paying back 10k or the Student Shivani Sharma forged her father’s signature. Is it more likely that a shady private college did a shady thing or that an international student betting her life savings and her family’s future on getting a Canadian visa used her dead father’s signature knowingly.
I can explain a major reason why public services and administration are begrudgingly moving to FOSS or OSS at all. They need to apply security standards like ISO 27001 and when they start going through what the documentation requires they realize that most OSS let alone FOSS make it very hard to have any say in the development of the software.
How do you make sure that the security flaws are patched promptly? Do you open a ticket on GitHub and simply hope it gets picked up by the devs? I can tell you from experience that some OSS devs will tell you to make your own merge request if it’s so important to you. GDPR makes having vulnerable public facing services very unattractive. What about support for the product when you need something fixed or have an issue with running the software?
You can definitely get a license for an OSS, or get a legal agreement for support from the OSS devs for money. I can guarantee you that when managers in public services look at either patching together and managing a bunch of separate OSS or using Microsofts integrated infrastructure, they see the advantages right away.
That is the sad truth… It’s resource intensive and a regulatory problem to create and manage a whole infrastructure. It’s much easier to use integrated and centralized solutions.