UN funding FOSS projects sounds good in theory. But as you noted, UN is a huge bureaucracy. If a committee is deciding what projects should be funded, you are not likely to get good results. If however the funding decisions could be tied to github stars or something equivalent, you might get better results.

I just went to Cryptpad website, and it took a while to load. I even got the "loading" message that stayed there for a while. In the end the page loaded, but looked quite dated. I tried to load the word processor and got this message:

"Uncaught TypeError: ohc is not a function"

This thing isn't quite there yet.

But, did you know Hunter Biden's laptop had porn on it?

There are plenty of Chinese EVs that are price competitive with gas cars. And EVs are much much cheaper to operate.

To separate fools from their money. People have been bilking investors for decades. Decades. On foolish Hydrogen transportation projects. Only to rediscover laws of Physics. A recent example is Nikola Motor Company and their attempt to swindle investors. Trevor Milton, the founder was convicted and facing a long prison sentence, until pardoned by Trump for being an upstanding guy.

But, what about Hillary's emails? That alone cancels out everything wrong Trump is doing and will do for the rest of his term! /s

If Larry McVoy had not been such a hard ass about BitKeeper, many of us may still be using CVS, Subversion or shudder Visual Source Safe.

Stallman wrote an open letter, thanking him. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fphilosophy...

> Congress is broken.

It would be less broken if Republicans were not in the majority. Dems with all their faults have never lined up behind one mad king like the Republicans here have.

I used Linux on the Desktop in the early 2000s. I am considering going back. The forced reboots and other heavy handedness from Microsoft is really pissing me off. More and more software these days is web based. So, software compatibility is less of an issue. And for the occasional need, I do have a Windows server that I can RDP into. The only thing that gives me pause is the ability to RDP into my desktop from remote locations. Linux and Mac have RDP server and similar solutions, but the last time I tried, they all were far far inferior to the standard Windows RDP server with multi-monitor support.

I am not sure why nobody has been able to create a real Windows RDP alternative for Linux or Mac for decades.

If I were a potential VMware customer, I am not, this wouldn't sit well with me. Suing your customers is always a bad idea. With their recent actions Broadcom is practically holding their customers hostage at this point. I would be very surprised if they still have a sizable size of the market left in a few years.

I run a small shop and have been using proxmox in production for years. Not a single problem. Perhaps proxmox doesn't have what the big shops need. But maybe one day.

Anything inconvenient for the powers be is "criminal" now. They kept harping on free speech before they came into power, but now want to hard shut down of anybody that is critical of them. We're slowly turning into Russia now. They have laws on the books that send you to prison for 13 years if you criticize the govt.

But he is right on this one. I write software every day. I think the amount of software I write has gone up by about 3x since I started using AI tools like Cursor. And it is better quality too. It is better documented and has more tests. AI is really really good at taking care of the mundane. My AI skeptic coworkers try hard to find issues with my code during PR review, but struggle with it.

We will not all lose our jobs. The ones who have good grounding in software principles and can direct AI to accelerate development will be valued. Junior devs are in trouble though. And so are the senior devs who have their head stuck in the sand about AI. In the world of automobiles, if you insisted on using horses, you would be putting yourself at a disadvantage. This is no different.

63 is quite young. Had the best medical care available to him. And he was not overweight. Did the stress of running a very large company get to him?

This is Slashdot. News for nerds. Here you could at least pretend to care about science, facts and supporting evidence before spouting conspiracy theories. You are not even making absolute minimum effort to support your claims.

This pisses me off. It is a self-inflicted wound among many others. We were able to recover from Trump's first term. The damage wasn't as severe. But he is hell bent on doing a lot of destruction this time around. And I don't fault the Europeans, Canadians and others to take their business elsewhere. It will be a long time before we recover from Trump's second term, if ever.

People are asking, but nobody in power is interested in answering any of these questions. This gang learned that you can blatantly lie and fool people and not have to answer to anybody. They claimed that immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Ohio. That was a massive lie before the election. Did anybody apologize for it?

For these people, there are no consequences for lying. Only benefits. So, they keep doing it. Did you hear that Ukraine started the war with Russia? We all had it wrong all along. And Putin is the good guy. And the west is the baddies. Also Canada is evil and must suffer the consequences.

We are in for 4 long years!