From the summary - "...support for induction, support for C23 / Fortran 2023 / C++23, grater user control of storage resources and memory spaces, and other improvements. "
Actually they announced there is "Greater user control of storage resources and memory spaces".
I'm not sure that using a grater would be a good way of controlling those things.
The name "Boaty McBoatface" wasn't intended for this sub at all.
In case people forgot, the ship which was named "RRS Sir David Attenborough" was named that after a public vote to select its name - and Boaty McBoatface won by a very large margin. The people running things totally disregarded the public choice though and went with a name that actually got 5th place in the vote.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-...
They named this little sub "Boaty McBoatface" instead as a cheap cop-out.
An interesting idea. Cross-signing sort of achieves this.
How would certificate revocation work with multiple signers? If one signer said the certificate was revoked, but the other said it wasn't, which would you trust?
.. and at 2,950 kilograms, someone doesn't know how much a 2023 Rolls-Royce Spectre weighs.
Your assumption is wrong. Gender can be known and it is still fine to use "their" as a pronoun.
From A Comedy Of Errors, Shakespeare, first published in 1623 - Act 4 Scene 3:
There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend,
So feel free to claim that I'm encouraging "pronoun dog whistle games". I don't care. You are wrong, and your foghorn of false indignation is far louder.
English lacks a specific common-gender third-person singular pronoun and there are examples of "their", "they", "them" and "themselves" being used as singular third-person pronouns going back hundreds of years. It is certainly not incorrect.
"A government spokesperson said: "We have always been clear that we support technological innovation and private and secure communications technologies, including end-to-end encryption, but this cannot come at a cost to public safety.""
and he wasn't instantly struck dead by a bolt of lightning?
Because supporting end-to-end encryption is exactly the opposite of what they do. They have repeatedly tried to pass laws to force tech companies to backdoor their systems and let them snoop on what are supposedly end-to-end encrypted communications.
This comment will likely get downvoted by Linux enthusiasts, but yes, there should be.
That's if you ever want Linux to become a serious contender or the dominant desktop operating system for most people - if you aren't interested in that happening, then just continue as you are now.
The fundamental philosophy of Linux is it's openness - it's almost anarchy de jure. Anyone can do almost anything they want with it, bar a few restrictions about not making the source code available etc... which I think almost any
More than 30 years have passed since it's creation, and what we see today is the direct result of that incredibly open nature - massive fragmentation. There are constant shifts, disputes, distributions being forked to create new ones etc... I've no idea how many Linux distributions are out there, this page (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinuxopsys.com%2Ftopics%2Flinux-distribution-list) suggests 600+.
Even if we only count the "major" distributions that non-enthusiasts might have heard of, there are still many. Each one being worked on tirelessly by huge numbers of dedicated people, almost all of them convinced that their distribution is the best one. I see them already in the comments above, banging the drum for which package manager they consider best etc...
That's fantastic if your goal is an incredibly diverse ecosystem, but from a perspective of developing software that will run on "Linux" (meaning
I've seen comments previously from game developers for example, who'd love to make a Linux version of their game available, but just can't afford the time and effort needed to make it work and support it across even a handful of major distributions. Go take a look at the download page for a really popular package such as VLC for example - right now I think it has one or maybe two Windows versions available, and at least nine for different Linux distributions.
Your average person who uses a computer doesn't want choice. Most of them don't even know what an operating system IS. They just want to be able to download something and install it and it will work, without having to know anything complicated like what desktop environment they are running, what package they need etc... The chance of them downloading source code and compiling something is *absolutely zero*.
As things stand now, with all those tireless, dedicated and talented people dividing their efforts between countless different distributions, renderers, package managers etc... instead of all the people interested in (for example) developing a package manager working on just one, I see only one way Linux will ever become the dominant desktop operating system - and it's one that will make many of you recoil in horror:
Microsoft Linux.
Don't think their switch from regarding Linux as a deadly competitor to being their darling is an actual change of heart by them. The rest of this post is speculation and I could be wrong, but it seems like just another repeat of their "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy. They have already taken a major step in this direction with the release of Azure Linux.
If they ever decide to abandon the Windows codebase and instead make and distribute their own desktop version of Linux for end users, the era of desktop Linux will finally arrive. Unfortunately since this is Microsoft we are talking about, they will likely force people to sign in to it with a Microsoft 365 account, and probably operate it as subscription product, you only get automatic updates etc... if you have a subscription.
Yes, they will be required to make the source code available, and sufficiently technical people will be able to work around the need for a subscription and use it (or something derived from it) without one, but that's about 0.000000000001% of the people who will use it. The rest will think the subscription is essential and buy one.
They wouldn't ever be able to fully "extinguish" other Linux distributions of course due to open source, but they *could* easily become the de-facto if not de-jure controller of Linux. If they make a distribution and 90% + of the computers in the world end up running it, any other Linux distribution that wants to get any kind of significant market share will have to make their distribution "Microsoft compatible" so that whatever is designed to run on theirs will run on yours too. Game developers will write their games to run on it, and if a game someone buys doesn't run on your distribution without problems, that will be considered the fault of the people who create that distribution. And *bam*, Microsoft now have control of the direction things go in.
What Google said:
AI should not be considered an inventor.
What Google meant:
We are currently behind our competitors in the field of AI, and their systems would be better than ours at inventing. Allowing AI to be considered an inventor would benefit our competitors more than us, and this means it's bad. If the situation were reversed and our AI would currently be better at this than those of our competitors, we would take the opposite viewpoint immediately.
"TikTok-style photo and video feed of products for shoppers to share with other users"
"TikTok-style photo and video feed of products for paid corporate shills to share with people to manipulate them into buying"
Fixed that for you.
Are those prices in the story here accurate? $3.70 to $6.30 per fibre km ? I tried to click through to the story but it's paywalled.
If they are accurate, that seems incredibly cheap, $6 per km? Surely even the cost in terms of paying people to lay the stuff will be far higher, vastly so if you have to dig trenches or something.
Report commissioned by cloud security company concludes that people are in need of more security!
Who would have thought they would find that outcome?! I'm sure that if it means they make more money then that's just a coincidence and not them trying to spread FUD for their own benefit.
"The case has been going back and fourth ever since."
The word is forth, not fourth. It's wrong in the original article too...
Now where have I heard this before...
Oh yeah, half way down the front page of SlashDot:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F...
I was mildly interested until that last sentence in the summary - "That's part of what Read is trying to address with its products."
I've never heard of Read, but given the study is by them, and that they want to sell a product to address the issues the study highlights, I'd say it's about as trustworthy as [insert whatever you personally find incredibly untrustworthy here].
Move along.
"Just think of a computer as hardware you can program." -- Nigel de la Tierre
