I can’t imagine any governments would look kindly upon internet access being guarded behind a single company’s product.

laughs in 2001

File-by-file integrity check against signed checksums upstream to trivially confirm validity of deployment.

But that’s probably not interesting.

LIDAR isn’t even that expensive.

Even my cheap chinese vacuum cleaner has it.

I bet it’s got ‘vacuum-grade’ granularity, and not ‘2 tons at 50mph approaching some trick-or-treaters’ kind of granularity required.

ready to admit

red flag

They’ll rush it anyway.

Sorry your private data got shared out. Bug’s fixed now but everyone knows about your bizarre top hat fetish.

everyday

every day

bloatness

bloat

experiences

experience

I used a linux desktop in 1995 or so. Never since. Even when I was working with the company building unix and linux - to be clear, building and selling AT&T Unix and a Linux distro - our standard kit was windows. It was less hassle as winamp, vanDyke and Mozilla ran better as-is.

I haven’t used a linux desktop in 30 years of linux. Maybe this year?

Downvotes because I’ve seen someone gifted?

I kinda wonder where he’s going now that VMware is being squeezed dry. He’ll pop out and get snapped up by someone else, but there aren’t many doing actual kernel dev for money anymore.

Ohai, let’s load our own individual copy of everything separately. Since - we hope - it’s all bult from pristine sources and unlikely to match versions, all that static code load isn’t shared with anything else.

It’s gonna load slower, take up buckets of space, and not care whether it’s some crusty old thing with sploits aplenty.

I miss when we had mentors to remind us not only How to be better, but also Why. My mentor was like if obi-wan was born in Dublin. His sarcasm cut deep if you could parse what he was saying.

Quick reminder: because flatpak hides your installation state from the system, part of flatpaks could be wildly out of date or toxic releases and your system will.not.care nor even show you anything about it.

Enterprise tools - or normal stuff that acts like them - that check remotely what you have installed and let you know you’re potentially out of date (like tenable but not junk) will not learn anything about flatpak content.

Good luck. Every good thing about enterprise packaging is thrown out the window. Flatpaks are toxic.

Why even join a new studio now if the owners randomly shutter them after - checks notes - the best financial quarter ever ?

Agree with the automakers that the tech isn’t ready.

It may be model-specific, and some may be better than others.

I drove a Lincoln MKS for a few months and it was a wonderful machine. A little big for the cars I like to drive (a beetle owner from way back) but everything was well-done. The sensing and reaction was exactly right.

Wait! I hear the cost of things goes up by a few percent each year. Budgets, pricing, costs, estimates, they all seem linked to this weird percentage increase. Is it s conspiracy?

Unbelievable geniuses don’t exist

“I haven’t seen one so it must not exist” ?

I’ve met one. He’s unbelievable. He’s a great guy, but sometimes a little hard to follow if you’re only taking part in one conversation at a time when he’s talking in two and listening to a third because he expects you to be on the ball in your own discussion when he jumps in to drop a tidbit or ask a question like a chess master playing 4 games in the park at once – in heated discussions about topics as diverse as economy, politics, technology, and the history of Coffee. He’s so nice and so unfathomably intelligent that when he’s working you just naturally want to see if he needs anything on the way back to his desk and otherwise leave him alone to craft miracles in the environment of his choosing.

Like, I’ve sat down and taken those tests from back in the day when measuring IQ was a thing. I did well. I’m proud of how well I did. This guy cannot be measured by any yardstick built by mortals.

Software developer here, who works for a tiny company of 2 employees and 2 owners.

We use CoPilot

Sorry to hear about your codebase being leaked.

Ansible.

I fucking hate YAML, and I hate Ansible ‘programming’ (see “HTML ‘programming’ language” for rage context).

Chatgpt - I’ll use the one in bing or the one in regular-skype - feeds me stuff I can copy/paste/review, and I can get on with my day having lost fewer brain cells to the rage of existing in a world with Ansible fanboys who seem to have forgotten there is NOTHING Ansible does now that we weren’t doing in 2003 … and that the state of the art is 2 generations PAST that glorified mess.

Having used puppet and chef and seen mgmtconfig, I can only applaud RedHat for going with the worst-of-two options and promoting it so hard it appeared viable.

I don’t mean to dunk on Michael. Just, James’ idea was way better and RH still went with Michael’s, and I one day need to know whether the person who had the final say got help.

… and a discrete mail app is a wonderful thing.

till

This is a farming implement or a cash drawer.

Did you mean " 'til " ?

allways loved

In all ways? Ewww.

Firefox is the spiritual successor of Netscape Navigator

False. SEAMONKEY is the actual successor of Mozilla, the software which is the actual successor of Netscape Navigator.

Everything that was useful in Netscape became the basis for Firefox.

False. Thunderbird is a thing and an important part of Seamonkey.

See also the documentary.

Ready on the (x)-to-doubt button.

Please, for the love of my sanity, make it shut up about backing up my whatsapp chat history. I said no. I mean no. Stop asking. There’s nothing in there I cherish. I don’t care that you have a problem backing up the nothing I chose to the nowhere i configured; just stop.