"This isn't okay. This isn't creating an inclusive environment. This isn't okay with the current political situation especially in the US. A maintainer speaking those words can't be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn. Learn what those words mean for a lot of marginalized people. Learn about what horrors it evokes in their minds."

What a horrifyingly toxic, aggressive, and destructive way of thinking. Woke and the airheaded shitheads who cheer for it should never have been allowed into the kernel community.

Good fucking riddance.

Nice move of the city-state-sized Chinese sweatshop named Singapore; they're trying to increase work productivity even more! The fami-Lee will be content!

Ah, the bi-yearly DST switch and imagines fall-out.

The moment when a particularly infantile and idiotic segment of society pops up again, like clockwork [sic], to whine and wail over how DST is Evil and how it makes half of people depressed and the other half non-productive.

Get a life, losers.

Not sure whether I'm more amazed over Bill gates having a blog, or about people actually reading it. Oh, and then actually publishing about it!

I'm still flabbergasted at how people actually /use/ that stuff.

Its GUI is absurdly ugly and inelegant. Its functionality is a joke. It was designed to be an even bigger death trap for information than MS Office has been for so many years. It should be avoided by the plague. And actually, it is, but for a cluster of weird people leaving in the marginal corner of the world called the USA.

This is why cloud service should have a cost-based shutdown option.

It's easily /the/ most obvious piece of functionality that should have been put in place on the second day of coding things like AWS and Azure. And yet it is missing. The reason is obvious: the companies owning those cloud services make money by denying people this option. Specifically individuals using the environments for development, or perhaps just learning, and who obviously do not have the means to legally fight such companies.

And it's really not that difficult; making resources unavailable from internet,or stopping or outright deprovisioning them when usage leading to cost above some limit is detected.

Define "active".

But iMessage /isn't/ the gold standard.

It's not even a standard (in the sense that many people use it.)

It's mostly a US-only-fad, thus very limited. In the actual world hardly anyone is present or can be reached on this old, proprietary system, so hardly anyone uses it.

Of course not.

It's a fairy-tale fake improvement; it does not actually, really improve anything.
But it does mean languages would neat to be rewritten, or barring that, coders now have to live with the insanity of two fundamentally approaches. For nothing. That xkcd comic about standards, anyone? :/

Nobody really cares about Go. Typescript and Pythons are children's languages. But I am somewhat disappointed about Rust.

At least, sudo. Su still has uses, but sudo is outright harmful. That is, on multi-user machines, what is was meant for. On single user systems, where its seems nowadays seems all but inevitable, it does not even have a proper function.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmichaeleriksson.wordpr...

"Unintended".

"Arc wants to be the web's operating system. So it built a bunch of tools that make it easier to control apps and content, turned tabs and bookmarks into something more like an app launcher, and built a few platform-wide apps of its own."

Dear lord, that sounds like Microsoft. Or Google. Awful. Let it never happen.

"Right now, Arc is only available for the Mac"

Now I'm certain it's a bad joke.

It's also commercial. It should die a horrible death. An application like a browser should /never/ be commercial.

Not commercial
Decentralised
Ease-of-use of centralised system
Not implementing censorship (hypocritically called "moderation" these days), neither by the operator of the system nor by the government
Only the user can delete their own messages, or whole existence
One-click "block" option
Up-and-down votes, as well as mood emoticons
One click "report to authorities" option (as the authorities, properly informed about actually possibly outlawed speech, must be the only one acting and deciding on legal issues)

are those even?

Both "Hangouts" and "iMessage" are completely alien. Are they some proprietary chat applications that no-one uses?