Well I, for one, am glad someone is sticking up for Microsoft. On Slashdot, no less. And telling off the little guy. Linux still sucks as a desktop OS and always will.

But you go, defend the megabillion dollar abusive monopolist who held computer systems back for decades and punch down on the little guy. Speak truth to the powerless!

Oh, bullshit. It's there along with all the other buttons.

Hell, even in America it's rare to find a building when originally designed had an elevator with no 13 button. I remember my Dad pointing one out when I was a kid.

What self hosted solutions have you been looking at?

I've used TTRSS ever since Google Reader went away, however long ago that was. Works like a champ, and there are one or two Android clients that talk to it.

You just praised Adolf Hitler. Good job there. And Mussolini made the trains run on time, didn't he, you vile little racist!

We can't innovate what we don't have.We don't have any HSR.We were supposed to have highspeed rail already. We gave billions to California to build a line between San Francisco and LA. The Californians simply stole the money and did not build one mile of track.

In China they execute government officials who do this.

Nobody has been arrested for the California theft and nobody ever will be.

Good guy CPC.

Remember: America innovates,China duplicates and Europe regulates.

OK, explain why the Prsident of France called the US 15% tariffs a "dark day" for Europe.

It makes zero sense. Trump the stupidity president fucked AmeriKKKans over with an additional 15% tax which they will pay, not Europeans. So how's that a "dark day"? I don't get it. Usually when we AMeriKKKans score an own goal(which is often) Europeans respond with a chorus of laughter and mockery. Remember when Trump, during his first term, demanded NATO stop rippping us off by refusing to pay their fair share? Their response was to LAUGH IN HIS FACE! An the laughter was general throughout Europe or the next week or so. "We won't pay and you can't make us" was the attitude. So why aren't they laughing again now? Europe isn't paying these tariffs. Where did the laughter go? I don't get any of this, maybe someone can explain in small words, so all us stupidity Trump voters can understand. Maybe with a puppet show?

Do you realize you just made that up in your own mind?

And then wrote it down?

Or do you not realize that?

This is textbook Trump Derangement Syndrome.

You are arguing with yourself. And losing.

You did it again! You just invented something in your own brain! You're arguing against yourself - and losing.

Do you realize that you are having an argument with intrusive voices in your own brain? Or not?

I notice this all the time with TDS sufferers: they invent something and rage against it.

Epstein ran a child rape ring against Americans for Israel. If the truth ewere known, the existence of Isreal would be threatened. Isreal requires an external sponsor to exist. That sponsor is the USA, and if it weren't us, it would be Russia.

Israel has a right to exist!

Don't drive them into the hands of Putin, antisemite.

Besides according to the Left, MAPs are just a sexual orientation like gay. Oppressing them is fascism.

Trump took the EU to the woodshed. They had to drop all of their protectionist tariffs they have against AmeriKKKan goods(I thought protectionism was ad?) and in return America puts a 15% tariff on all of theirs. Moreover they had to write a check to us for hundreds of billions. The tariffs will bring in a shit-ton of money. We can use this to replace the income tax and repeal it entirely.

The usual TDS sufferers are screaming it's a tax on AmeriKKKans but it's not. When's the last time an American bought anything made in Europe? I mean one of us, not the CA/NY American passport holders who write the media articles describing what happened.

Hey, I've got an idea - make things in America and there are no tariffs. It's weird but worth a shot, it could work.

On the contrary, it will have a ton of good effects. All DoS attacks will stop. Fraud will crash and stay there. Email spammers will go away. When alt-right trolls get banned, they will STAY banned. Forever. Imagine an internet without them. A boot stomping on 4chan's face, forever.

This is going to fail bigtime. Nobody will move there for jobs. As a tech professional, I would rather eat glass than live in a flyover state. I have in-demand skills and I have zero desire to live in places that are small minded, lack immigrants, and lack interesting and rich culture. The tech sector is chock full of diverse immigrants and unique people who have no desire to live in a conformist mono-chromatic culture. Tech talents don't want to eat breakfast at the Waffle House.

Do you realize you had an intrusive thought, wrote it down and started railing against something that nobody said? This is literally Trump Derangement Syndrome. Please, see a therapist. CBT does wonders for people in your situation. Don't suffer needlessly. It doesn't have to be like this.

They're not in the home gym business. They're in the data harvesting and selling business.

Your data is worth more than the profit margin on their exercise equipment.

This is the world now, and you cheered it on all the way.

Even Google won't allow you to watch random Youtube videos any more without "sign in to prove you're not a robot". Google, the original evil privacy rapist.

We got a solid ten years out of them before they went evil, I guess that's pretty good. LLMs are where Google used to be in the year 2000, an improvement on search engines that blow the existing products away. Remember how awful search engines used to be? Then Google delivered actual good results. Then they took away the + and - operators and started censoring politically inconvenient content by removing it or demoting it to page 137 of results.

that would 100% be a firing offence.

Honestly, setting an AI you don’t control lose on your production database? Really? That’s just gross incompetence. This is code that a) wasn’t written or reviewed by a human, and b) code that wasn’t even tested on a development copy of the database.

Developers that do things like that are a liability. Unfortunately as “founder” he’ll likely just post something on LinkedIn about learning from his mistakes and “personal growth”, and that will be the end of it. Anyone else would have been shown the door to accelerate their “personal growth”.

Yaz