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   BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 21:25:05 JST BrianKrebs

   Yeah, because they've done such a bang-up job with Windows. I'm sure this will be fine.

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/20/microsoft-three-mile-island-nuclear-constellation/

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 21:25:05 JST 翠星石

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     @briankrebs >The site of the worst nuclear accident in US history.
     >Literally nothing happened at 3 mile island - even though the reactor was being run extremely negligently with errors going ignored, with critical valves going unmaintained and therefore failing, the fuel just partly melted within the containment building (expensive to clean up, but that's it).
     >Nobody died and so little radiation was released that even going with an LNT death measurement (radiation has a non-linear curve, with less chance of cancer with a slightly higher than background doses), it rounds to 0 deaths.
     It will indeed will be fine to restart that reactor, but who knows what kind of proprietary degeneracy microsoft will be able to get up to with that much electrical power at their disposal?