I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

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AI is poo.

You're reading my mind. FWIW I've been loving Go the past few years.

Ob: "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung."

Britannica has been around for over two hundred years. I sold a LOT of sets i my day. Unfortunately, there are huge numbers of people who can't or don't read. In my old age, I find myself tutoring/coaching people on how to think and how to study. This last year, I have been coaching 4 people, WITH MULTIPLE DEGREES, who read only about 150 words-per-minute and can't remember what they read. (In my generation , boomer, the average reading speed was 200-250 wpm w/70% comprehension.) A report by abtaba (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abtaba.com%2Fblog%2F59-reading-statistics) says that 42% of college graduates never read a book after college. Judging from what I see in this forum, I suspect that a lot of them haunt /.

This is a waste of resources! If a person reading 250 wpm reads for an hour a day they could easily read a 100,000 word book each week. If they did that every week that would be over 50 books in a year. If only half those books were on a subject they were interested in, they would have acquired the knowledge/book requirement for a BA/BS degree about every two years. (Assuming they learned how to think somewhere along the way.)

However, letting AI set the standards for learning come with compliance, not thinking. Encyclopaedia Britannica is a proper name. (Notice how I spelled it EncyclopAEdia?) However much a writer tries to include the ligature "ash" (ae) in his text, Ignorant spell-checker, ignorant editors, and ignorant AI will insist on changing it to a simple "e".

Britannica jumped the gun: AI is not ready to improve on an encyclopedia designed to accumulate facts for reader's consumption.

Don't use the app, it tracks all your accounts. Instead use Reddit in a browser with uBlock Origin. Otherwise it is insufferable.

It is true that the rich got richer. The question is: "Did they get richer by creating more wealth for others and shaving a portion for themselves? or did they get richer by plundering the resources of other people?"

It is not like the very, very rich keep their money in a huge money vault like Scrooge McDuck. You can only do two things with money: Either spend it or invest it. If you spend it, you are creating jobs and making things better for the people who make those products and services you spend money on, whether it is the lower-paid worker who has a job or the higher paid executive and investor that puts the process together. If you invest it, you are providing the resources that enable others to produce goods and services, which provides jobs and income for other people to who can circulate the money through the economy by buying the goods and services they need or want. Being rich does not automatically make you guilty of exploitation, and stealing someone's wealth by government intervention of force should be reserved for those who are guilty of exploitation or theft.

So some smarty is going to say, "Well, what if the person DID keep it in a vault instead of spending it? What if he kept it under his mattress? What if he burned it? From an Economic point of view, those are simply bad investments....

BTW - The reason for the Win 8 train wreck was Microsoft only had a bazillion companies as customers and even more trained users on their product and mobile computing was "The Next Big Thing" so of course they put a UI optimized for handhelds on EVERYTHING!!! (I bet whoever pushed that idea through the committees for approval got a promotion and a big bonus!)

Let's be very clear: Boring (and just plain works) is good. If you change something without a very clear idea how it is going to accomplish more work, save money, or solve more tasks YOU ARE VERY WRONG AND STUPID!

The reason is human nature. Something has to be "New! Improved!" and programmers ALWAYS want to update their skills so it has to be coded in a new "current and relevant" programming language to keep their resume current, plus they need to keep working with an updated UI with a trendy "look and feel" for the same reason.

You can't increase your income by more than single digit percentages staying at the same job so the only way to really keep a programming career progressing is to change jobs every few years and every programmer worth their salt will keep switching jobs like that so obviously they will always push for updated things for their resume. (Unless they have great stock options...)

Like most software companies Microsoft is in love with changing the UI without any improvement in usability. (And in the case of Win 8 a huge loss in usability!) They literally have more than a billion users that know how to use some version of the Windows UI and they feel that it is a good idea to make happy customers have to learn a new UI. The weird thing is there isn't any reason for them to do this.

As the Open Shell project shows any version of Windows works fine with any previous version of the UI. Why don't they offer an number of UIs that you can easily switch back and forth between? And how can they possibly justify why they don't do this?
(I like to call the Win 8 and later UIs the "Let's hide controls and put as much wasted white space on the screen as possible" interface!)

The biggest reason that no one wants the newer OS versions is Microsoft wants to majorly up their game in surveillance marketing after watching Google, Facebook, and other online companies make huge money sucking up all of our personal info. They are endlessly talking to us about increasing security while at the same time trying to increase how much info the OS can suck up and send home to them. Those two goals are completely in conflict with each other. Telling any big internet connected company all your personal info is the exact opposite of any version of "security"!

So Microsoft, Want me to be interested in your newest OS? Don't try to force me to log into a "Microsoft account". An online account to use a local computer is just another security risk that offers me nothing. Stop trying to make the OS require (or even need) an internet connection. I am perfectly capable of personally accessing the Internet when I want to access the internet. Stop having the OS force me to do things on my computer. You don't know how I am using it and your forced changes aren't helping. AND STOP ROLLING UP SECURITY FIXES WITH "FEATURE UPDATES". We can decide if we want "features". Security updates should just fix security issues.

That is all.

A correctly laid out AI would be a great upgrade . . .
But any AI reporting back to Microsoft or any other organization is an obscenely hard "HELL NO!"

I DO NOT want to log into a Microsoft account to use the computer. They don't have any of my personal interests at heart. I want to log into a secure completely locally controlled account and that won't change.
And while they are at it: There is no reason to change features in the middle of a version. And there is no reason they need to force a billion+ people to use a new interface. OpenShell shows us they can easily allow people to choose which interface they want to use. So why can't Microsoft do that?

If you can't operate it without looking away from what's outside the windscreen it is dangerous.

"I'll only glance at it for a second." But if your honest with yourself looking at anything is 2 seconds. At 60 miles an hour you just traveled 176 feet.
Add the standard reaction time to get on the brakes (quoted in most studies as 1 second). You've now traveled 264 feet.

Anything that demands that you have to look away from the road is dangerous. Everyone knows that they have been surprised by something as they go down the road. "It's only a ridiculously small chance it could happen right now." And if you repeat an "incredibly small chance" over and over and over it becomes inevitable.
-> It Is Dangerous.