That's how LiMux did it, and develop custom but open source software in-house to support local workflows.

But you will always have some fraction persistently complaining that it is not the Windows they are used to (being closely familiar from school, home, other jobs). And any issues arising can be blamed on not using Windows.
Then Microsoft comes along and gives you a very, very nice offer with the aim to shut down the initiative.

As cryptography demonstrates, checking is cheaper than working.

Also, only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Many people can build an app around an open source web engine that supports plugins and scripting. The rendering engine is the hard part and the bottleneck.

I wonder whether it might one day be possible to write one code base and have AI translate it to multiple programming languages.
Currently, each language has to reinvent the wheel and therefore you have incomplete feature sets.

Thinking of:
* encryption, hashing, cache
* scientific libraries, array handling, fast fourier transforms, image manipulation, MCMC
* video, audio, image codecs
* string handling, unicode, date & time
* HTTPS & database connectors
* ...

I think you are going the wrong direction - misspecification is the feature of LLMs people love the most ("vibe coding"): The LLM fills in the blanks by interpolating how others have solved this and the sharp bits that stackoverflow answers have pointed out.

[I am not condoning this, just conveying an observation.]

exactly. TFS says "People are used to giving consent for everything", but for everyone I know it is "People are used to reject consent for everything" - which is the default in the law, it is companies that want to move away from the default, not users. You can build stateful websites without cookies, you know ...

What's the killer app?

I think one that was floated is seeing in an easily comparable way the health information while browsing a supermarket isle? I'd be cool to give live context for from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... and the Wikipedia "Criticism" sections. Not sure I'd pay for it though.

Agreed, 404 Journalism Not Found - put it into context. Also, a properly managed land fill does not leak into the environment. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

There are two pieces of nutrition health advice that have stood the test of time:

1. don't eat too much.
2. have a varied diet.

One incarnation of the first one is to eat until 80% full. Or to chew slowly, so your stomach (which is slow to realise) can properly indicate fullness.
One incarnation of the second is the food pyramid, another easy to remember one is 5 fruits and vegetables of different color per day.

If you come across advice of the form "you need this one thing in your diet", it's rubbish (see point 2). Similarly, "the most healthy" - does not make sense. There are many ways to create a varied diet.

Also, food has cultural and social aspects.

Agreed, instead of "Smelling this one specific scent ..." this should be described as "smelling a scent ..." , although even that might be misleading.

It seems part of Meta's issue is that they only have "ban" or "no ban" in their toolbox. Wrongdoing complaints have to be thoroughly investigated, and they err on one side or the other. Why not create more options, like:

* tarpit ban: require logging in again after each action - people can still use their account somewhat, for attackers it becomes annoying, rate-limit how many followers can see new posts (first 10 after 1 hour, first 100 after 2 hours, etc).
* hidden ban: hide all activity of a user to non-friends, unless it receives one like from a friend, shadow-ban messaging to non-friends.
* ...

Not exactly the same, but it seems to align with the findings here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmartins1612.github.io%2F...
There appear to be high-dimensional latent correlations.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... is the anti-hero we need. I wish it was a government-run service -- bring your bricked device and you get a reembursement. Should be easy to check if it is was bricked by a brickerbot. Such a service should pay off easily compared to the cost of botnets.

To fight IoT botnets, Brickerbot used to take out such devices, make the issue visible and force the users to take action on security by replacing the device if they want the functionality. Not sure if there are any alternatives to effectively achieve IoT upgrades over time.

Julius Caesar had coherent writing.