Nothing beats NetBSD on MicroVAX.

If they drop the i386 userland support, it will be a calamity.

The Slashdot editor who posted this story obviously is confused about which CPUs are "Pentiums" and which are not.

90% of consumers will... consume AI slop and be happy. The rest will find other pastimes.

Internet businesses that have something real behind them will obviously thrive. Influencers and other parasites will die.

Artists will be hard hit indeed, but hey, that's the price of progress.

Even better, they could transfer themselves into robots and transcend the flaws and limitations imposed by their soft mushy bodies.

I am not saying I want the web to go back to what it was, but the web functioned fine (and honestly better in some ways) back before it was commercialized. It will also never become uncommercialized, either. But the odds of no one seeing the ads are also roughly nothing.

It depends on what you're searching for. If they want a technical manual or something, then yeah, people are looking for the very thing. If what they are looking for is an explanation of something they don't understand, or even more terrifying an opinion, then they can't evaluate the quality of the result.

I think that's the wrong question. The correct question is: why does the *vendor* want you to have smart glasses without AR?

The answer is to capture in more detail than ever before your attention and consciousness. The devices will likely be able to tell what you are looking at, and be able to correlate it to things like buying behavior and, possibly in conjunction with a health tracker, your physiological responses. They might even include eye tracking.

It's very common for sensors to be on ISA, but that's really about it any more. It was common for a long time for mouse and keyboard, but I don't think even they are there now. If you put the sensors on some other bus, and there are several options, you could reasonably ditch ISA.

Hmm, wow, apropos of nothing except running sensors to see whether I was still using ISA, I seem to have a bunch of temp sensors in my system now. Besides the mainboard (which uses a nct6798, which it says is on ISA) there's the two real and one emulated that are exposed on the processor, 2 on my NVMe storage, and one on each of the wifi and wired NICs.

What's happening at Microsoft today is a direct result of what happened at Microsoft in the past. Their entire history is relevant, not only because it is part of how they got to where they are now, but also because every action you take affects every potential action you can take in the future. These mass firings are attempts to change their corporate culture, but they're too deeply steeped in equal parts incompetence and market manipulation to do business any other way.

You seem to have a hard-on for capitalism, don't feel bad, it's a common sub kink. You love being dominated by dollars. But think for a second about the benefits of educating someone in a way that increases their employability. I personally would argue that any degree does that because a degree is often just used to prove to employers that you have the patience to get one, but the specific definition of a degree that makes you more employable isn't important to this argument right now.

If that someone is employed, then instead of paying for social services for them, they will be paying their own bills. Isn't that something you would like to see promoted? Further, people who are educated and successful most commonly have educated and successful parents. Don't you want people's kids to grow up to be successful so that they can pay their own way? Isn't that something that would be worth investing in? You know, the future?

Unless you're a doom cultist, in which case nobody should give two twinkly shits about your opinion since you're not planning to be here in the future, you should be able to recognize the value of empowering others who then go on to empower others. Then you get to live in an empowered society. Isn't that what you want?

Whoosh. I would use an exclamation point, but since this is dark humor territory, I will simply leave you to figure out what I meant on your own and without emphasis.

I'm not against that, but the telcos are, and they have enough money to prevent it from happening.

I only care about his stance on chicken.

Your idea is that a bunch of ignorant chucklefucks should dictate behavior to a better educated minority simply because there are more of them. It's argumentum ad populam and it's bullshit every time.