https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19061/britains-doomsday-subs-run-windows-xp/
(Though, of course, that’s alledgedly simplifying a lot to make it more click-bait-y: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-trident-doesnt-run-windows-xp/ )
Nice April 1st. I mean that’d be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL’d versions at that, eh?
rustles papers
Oh.
It’s essentially an ad sigh
In my experience (Germany, during the naughties) it was almost the opposite… All these folk that had been told “Go into CS, they make loads of money!”, while having near zero actual inclination for tech, were quite happy to let others write the code and then contribute mostly fluff (it’s not like they were enthusiastic about the reports either) otherwise… I’ve been filtering them out during interviews all the time and I guess they must be the enthusiastic users of LLMs for coding nowadays :-P
Mastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it “its own thing”. But I’ll stop arguing as it’s clearly pointless.
Mastodon didn’t invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth…
“Its social network”? Ewwww…
That’s what tou get for not asking permission to touch first. Always squat, extend a hand, and let them sniff and approve first! Consent matters =_=
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country did it, even making it a point during the Trial ;-)
SSH certs signed by your own central CA (Most people aren’t aware of it, but OpenSSH can use CA certs), I usually set things up for ansible that way, but, of course, it works just fine for actual users, too (Why no ansible, though? It’s an extremely lightweight option that simply reduces common mistakes).
Nope, don’t need crap like that in my messaging app. I’m honestly still pissed they went away from working over to SMS to using their own (regularly failing) servers and then being very actively hostile to any forks and plain reproducable builds. Signal remains the most easy-to-convince-people option, but there’s still a lot that looks mighty suspicious (and pointless features is one of those classic ways to hide deliberate backdoors/vulns).
2035? I’d have argued most of these things are already here or at least trivially close…
no privacy - Corporate overlords have been declaring us “post-privacy” for a looooong-ass time, and Governments and their enforcers have been chomping at the bit for at least as long, because they want in on the game
robot cops - Palantir Gotham plus semi-autonomous drones; It’s a question of degree, not of when.
robots displacing workers - Has literally been happening for more than half a century; The current LLM bullshit is going to give it another push, obviously.
robot rights - Well, are LLM companies just violating copyright or are LLMs simply ordinary artists that learn by looking at other folks art, just like their human forebears? (It doesn’t matter what you think, it matters what we as society ultimately make of that and I wouldn’t be optimistic)
criminals with hundreds of drones - They’ve been running humongous botnets for decades; If they see a business case for doing something drone-wise in meatspace they’ll absofuckinglutely do so today rather than tomorrow, and maybe they already are and we’re just not aware because it’s still flying under the radar.
If you aren’t expecting some variation of full-on Cyberpunk right now I honestly don’t know what you’re waiting for…
Somehow I expect a “GUI+Mouse is clearly better and thus your suggestions are worthless” response :-P
I wish people realized that there are vastly different possible approaches to different tasks and that one can be a lot less disappointed/stressed/angry by accepting one may have to learn a different paradigm once one has chosen to (semi-)commit to a new piece of tech…
Frankly: You come across less as “I am missing these features in many Linux file managers” and more like “I tried the default filemanager of my Linux distro and am angry the UX isn’t identical to that of Windows”. That’s not going to garner you much sympathy. Of the things you listed, I’d only consider a “preview” pane (that I’d rather not have, because of the security implications of having a separate potentially vulnerable parser that may receive less dev attention when issues are found) and maybe a “recent panel” (Not sure what one needs that for, I’d rather my system not track my actions so blatantly easy to find) actual features, and, yeah, quite a few Linux file managers can do something like those, obviously.
chuckle Oh noes!
Thanks for the clarification.
Well, I’d expect Meta to drag their feet as much as they can, tbh. So: Years and as many “regrettable” technical hiccups and UX inconveniences as they can get away with without having to pay too stiff a fine. Same as always.
I am aware of adverserial interoperability, but, frankly, it’s one of those ideas that make me chuckle benevolently. I don’t see much practical merit in it. As for Facebook getting big that way in the first place: I strongly disagree. They got big by being early, good enough to capture the zeitgeist, and then being as anticompetitve as they could. Just like Microsoft before them, for example.
Who ever promised that? Just because both use Axolotl/Double Ratchet? hat is far from enough. Not to mention that neither Meta nor Signal Messaging have any economic incentive to do it…
It must be good crap (technical term) ;-)
I agree, but then I’m one of those really hardcore libre-software-only nutcases ;-)
EDIT: Though, to be fair, the Trident Missiles they carry are US-made, too, so…