Great, now we get to have weeks of stories about the stupid things that people can get the government chatbot to say.

Even his handle is a Pokemon reference.

• "What's your response to (insert AI concern here)?"
• "It's not AI, it's SI. Fake news!"

Meaningful response to legitimate concerns avoided!

We can continue to recycle this comment every time WSL gets a new feature. It's so creative, insightful, and has that slight anti-Microsoft slant that curmudgeon grey beards love.

Here's to another whole decade of the same comment repeated!

Rancher Desktop and Podman Desktop are both FOSS, very convenient, support compose and Kubernetes, and are listed in the summary.

Being native and pre-installed does make it a touch easier for the most basic use case, but it's not like it was hard before.

This isn't quite accurate, for many of the offerings there are multiple choices in "availability zones" with independent power, networking, and cooling either as a separate data or collection of centers within a region. For example, there are 6 AZs in the East region (e.g. Virginia).

You are right that C# is a good example of Microsoft behavior. Tying right into their nervousness on Java, it was proprietarily extending beyond the ECMA standards by layering on .NET. Around 2004 the Mono project pops up to try to cross-platform it, works but poorly, and a in a pretty sketchy patent situation. By 2009 the FSF warning everyone off of it, fearing that extinguishing play.

But by, 2014 Microsoft gives out full patent grants, open sources most everything, cross-platforms and makes Linux a first class citizen, creates the independent .NET foundation. buys out the Mono project, MIT licenses Mono, and donates Mono to the WineFoundation.

Basically the only way Microsoft is making money off of C# these days is full Visual Studio, noting of course that they open sourced VS Code. As for failed, C# still one of the top ten language in use and basically the defacto video game language.

So, you might want to do some reading that's more than a decade old on the topic. Because again there's a dark history and it's fine to be skeptical. But it's counter productive to hate on changed behavior.

Many of their tools like Office 365 or the Azure console are run in the browser. Are you advocating for traditional JavaScript without typing or pure WASM for those cases?

I understand the hate on JS/TS in the backend (and even in this article they are stating that Rust and the C's are the choice for backends), but pretending that TS isn't the only good choice for browser frontend apps seems silly.

This also implies that the money is being made on the OS. And everyone knows that the money is really in the App Store and Services.

This isn't even a recent development, PowerShell migrated from being under the OS section to the Azure section a decade ago because that's what was really making money.

You should clarify what open standards you think are being extended in a proprietary way in this case. Because that's the meaning of "Extend".

Oxidizer is MIT licensed, there isn't any proprietary version of Rust being sold. Just using the language to make their product better and then contributing back changes and tooling to the community.

They deserve all the hate for the late 90's with their extended proprietary JVM or with playing dirty in office file format standards with Open XML. But those are a decade and a half ago.

Using a tool and giving back is the premise of open source and giving grief over changed bad behavior is pretty counter productive to progress.

Relevant XKCD.

But more seriously, this is post late stage trial, where those concerns have been evaluated. Also noting that the 5-year survival for stage IV melanoma is around 35% and the mid-stage trial appeared results to reduce the recurrence or death by about 50%.

Respectfully, that's a workaround, not a solution. A real solution to a dysfunctional government is inherently political.

When the laws and their interpretations allow for unchecked executive power to surveil, the outcome isn't surprising. The solution is to promote, vote for, and elect officials who believe in protecting rights and will nominate court officials with sane views on the 4th amendment and executive power.

The issue is the searchable record generated from a interconnected network. There's been proven middle ground in many other places where there's a set of records that require a warrant to look up. Just like the phone company makes a record of calls for billing, but a warrant is needed there.

The non-digital analog is pretty clear where no one would think it an invasion of privacy to see your neighbor at the grocery store. But it'd be pretty creepy if you posted a mass of people around the whole country that wrote down everywhere they went in a searchable database.

Everyone else found new attacks on the low hanging fruit of Anthropic's writing skills.

Legal definitions are different than layman definitions. And even then that's starting to get into the sovereign citizen level of philosophical chicanery.