Arghblarg

Leave the US, now, if you can. Otherwise, find someone outside to publish your code I guess.

What a nightmare.

I have trouble being too angry at this, since millionaires and billionaires sit on multiple corporate boards at the same time, and no one seems to complain about that.

AI for pattern recognition (statistical stuff) IMHO is fine, it’s different than expecting original thought, reasoning or understanding, which the new ‘AI’ does not do, despite the constant hype.

Good god, it’s Microsoft Songsmith all over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research_Songsmith

My Momma don' told me
da-dun-a-du-dun
Pharaoh's at it agaaaain
da-dun-a-du-dun
Calling' all of us young men
da-dun-a-du-dun
To cut rocks and drag themmmmm ...

Ooooh, I got them Egyptian Blues,
and my back still aches soo baddddd... (back still aches soo bad) ...
Don't know if I can take another year
Of draggin' rocks in the sand!

Oh wait, never mind.

Data analytics firm doesn’t like … data on itself being analyzed. huh.

Beat me to it. Anand Giridharadas has spoken on the general scam of billionaires white-washing their legacies like this… their philanthropy seldom approaches, much less exceeds, the harm they did in getting so rich in the first place.

Still love my Acer Aspire v151, core i5. 11" is a great size, just big enough for a standard keyboard. I wish they would have updated models like that. A Ryzen 9 version would kick ass.

C# development was spearheaded by Anders Hjelsberg, one of the brains behind Borland Delphi/Object Pascal.

It may become the duty of every software engineer at this time to offer their services to those who need security, to make custom solutions for those who require it.

Cypherpunks, arise!

As someone once said, to paraphrase, “He has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.”

What powers does the United States Marshal Service actually have? And does anyone there have the will to uphold whatever oaths they swore to fulfil their duty?

After all that has occurred already, so many lines drawn, then crossed, without consequence… I am skeptical.

EDIT: more than skeptical – A whistleblower says Trump Sent the US Marshals to try to “Intimidate” Her so they’ve apparently decided already what side they’re on. The USA as a democractic republic is already lost.

Bedeviled NXP/ARM SDK stdlib. Hate it, we need \n\r there. Why!!! What a PITA.

… but allegedly based on stolen source printouts from the college dumpster, and written using stolen time on their timeshare mainframes.

Just be sure to check support before buying any newish laptop. I really like my ASUS Duo Pro 2024, but ASUS adamantly refuses to lift a finger for proper Linux support for special features. Even the audio chipset which is standard somehow doesn’t work with default kernels due to something they’ve done. Dual screen can be made to work with some scripting-fu, but the keyboard’s multimedia keys just don’t work at all.

Vote with your wallets and be noisy to those brands who don’t support Linux well. Let them know if lack of Linux support was why you didn’t buy.

Yup, DVD players suffered from the bad caps a lot back then as well, it was always one or two specific electrolytics in the power supply.

First let’s cut the biggest energy wasters – crypto mining and ‘AI’.

Well I would seriously consider paying money to a team that keeps it there, if Chromium actually removes the code. I hope others will consider it as well. We need to fight this, even if it means paying some money to a foundation to do so.

There’s the futile hope I suppose that antitrust cases going on against Alphabet might force Google to divest Chrome from its advertising arm, so that there’s no pressure to make this whole thing worse. Hah, in my dreams.

I really hope some team has been following the changes in Chrome/Chromium by Google to remove Manifest v2, and has been keeping a patchset that will undo the damage? Time to make a hard fork and get some funding to try to keep it going?