I wrote the software for the 2 camera testers (one for integration of the CCDs, one for production) but... I don't remember ! I finished the soft 2 years ago. Anyway, it's B&W and probably 16 bits, but I'm not sure, I'd have to dig in the specs I have somewhere. The filter changer is some kind of crazy robot contraption because the filters are 2 meters in diameter, fragile as fuck and so expensive there's no duplicate. The camera CCD took years to assemble from individual CCDs.

Does this affect KDE running on X11 with Kubuntu in any way ? Last I tried Wayland didn't support VNC so that's a complete no-no for me. I don't care much about Gnome (besides liking that there's some competition), but KDE has always been nice on Ubuntu (except for the painful KDE4->KDE5 transition years [decades?] ago).

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How about this, then: It fills a niche, but it is full of bad decisions (and fragmentation), and survives mainly by its existing momentum. It's crap in the same sense that Unix is crap: the founder effect has made its flaws impossible to dislodge or rethink.

A popular solution to a problem is not necessarily a good solution to that problem.

There's nothing much to doubt. The evidence is always the same: "our web server logs show scrapers originating from IP addresses owned by someone who didn't pay us."

The Verge article is a little clearer. 100,000 threads pilfered over the past year with scraping! Oh no!

(See also: the actual legal filing. I have to admit the headings sound a little unstable.)

I both agree and disagree with you. It *is* simple to install. My wife, my 5yo and my 80yo parents (and others in the family) all use Kubuntu because I installed it for them (and provide support, sometimes remotely via ssh+VNC). But if you tell them what you just wrote, they'll abort at the 3rd word.

Just you wait—they're way more over-represented they are in subreddit moderators... and in the accelerationist movement.

"Actually" read them? Are there a lot of people running around purporting to have read TSR novels, or to have credentials that require doing so?

AI is doing exactly what he attempted doing, except that he was hounded until he took his own life. And now it's somehow all okay.

I just re-read my post and went WTF. It's easy to blame autocorrect, but I normally read back before posting...

How were they storm on the first place? Chicken are stored only locally afaik. So the computer would have to be already compromised, no?

There are no real downsides to saying the 2026 version is 26 and the 2126 version is 126. It's just [year - 2000]; you can even imagine this is release 026 rather than 26. Personally I'd worry more about what happens in the year 3000 when they have to release version 1000.

Moreover—these are just version numbers, imitative of dates, rather than actual date fields. It's not like someone is going to be charged for unpaid bills because their iOS version number was accidentally parsed as being in the past. Take your damn pills, grandma!

Except that those jobs pay like pure shit.

Seriously, why do we still interconnect with those criminals ? All their packets should go down the bit bucket.

In the movie Transcendence, humans develop a benevolent AI. What the 1st thing they want to do to it ? Kill it. I was like, what a bunch of dumb apes.