The notion that this is about helping SpaceX kill off their competition is absurd.

This is Musk Derangement Syndrome. The Brandon administration is simply trying think of every way to go after Musk. He pissed them off. He dismantled the branch office of Pravda that the old Twitter was building for The Blob. He fired all of the CIA and FBI spooks on Twitter's payroll, who were busy censoring and shadowbanning anyone who was engaing in wrongspeech. But the worst of it: he has all but explicitly endorsed Trump. Just read his tweets. He's been fully red-pilled. Not a day goes by that he doesn't rag on all of the left's sacred cows: environmentalism, transgenderisms, the illegal alien invasion from all the South American shitholes, et. al.

This is why they're doing this. This is why they have a bunch of lawsuits going against Tesla, for a bunch of bullshit reasons. This is why every time the Brandon administration tries to puff up the US's fledging EV industry they always fluff only Detroit's automakers, and conspicuously ignoring the elephant in the room.

And this is why they're doing this, that's all.

What about OpenSSL, is it available from homebrew? Sounds like it's time to build OpenSSL from source, and link curl to it.

There seems to be an obvious solution to anyone who finds themselves in this boat and needing to use MacOS for some reason: build their own stock version of curl and use that. Did someone mention homebrew?

Giggidy!

Come on. Admit it. You were thinking the same thing as me.

It's not paper vs. screen, per se.

It's just that the screen also gives access to a wealth of information on the Intertubes.

Including many flashy web sites that will assure you that you do not need to waste years of your life studying a particular subject using a traditional textbook, with an organized, well-developed, logical curriculum that introduces and explains each progressively complicated topic, one chapter at a time, in a disciplined manner.

No, all you have to do is take a few quizzes, or solve a bunch of dumb coding puzzles, in order to become an instant Guru, in whatever topic you're pursuing.

Come over to Stackoverflow, and witness this phenomenon happen in real time. Watching all the refugees come rolling in, from various coding puzzle sites, pleading for help in just solving one more coding puzzle for them, before they finally become an instant uberhacker.

The push and hype for AI-based developing mostly comes from 2nd-rate developers who see AI as their great hope for finally mastering the craft and becoming rock star uberhackers. They also watch Star Trek too much, and are having multiple orgasms at the thought of saying "Computer: write me a node.js web server that implements a shopping cart", and have the code appear instantly before their eyes.

All the AI tools I've seen are little bit more than glorified predictive type-ahead tools. I can see how they can save quite a bit of time with rote typing, but that's pretty much it, nothing more beyond a glorified menu. But, guess what: you still have to use your brain to figure out which option to pick. An AI is not going to make the choice for you.

The remaining AI tools boil down to nothing more than producing a fill-in-the-blanks templates. The starting template is nothing special, and nothing that requires a lot of intelligence to write. But it does take the same amount of intelligence to figure out what goes into all the blank spots.

So, sorry, all of you who hope that AI will turn you into a supercoder. It's not going to happen, sorry. And the few of you who are worried about the Ai taking your job: there's nothing to worry about. It should not take a great thinker to conclude that before an AI can surpass a human brain in some measurable way, someone has to actually demonstrate that an AI surpasses a human brain, in some measurable way. Where's the evidence?

(Disclaimer, I also watch Star Trek too much, but I also watched Bill Shatner's SNL skit)

Perhaps it's just the tags that I'm subscribed to. But I haven't noticed a damn's worth of difference today. Stackoverflow is still the same dumpster fire it's been for the last couple of years.

(just checked -- nope, it's still an endless stream of wandering, confused souls, who keep getting confused between stackoverflow.com, and pleasedomyhomeworkforme.com, writemycodeforme.net, or pleasesolvemycodingpuzzleforme.org)

So, this is a web site that offers Party A the ability to log in, and upload a PDF file.

Then, this web site offers Party B the ability to log in, look at the PDF file, and upload Party B's own file, an image of whatever Party B claims its signature to be, and then it attaches it to the PDF file, in a designated place.

Then both Party A and B get a copy of a result, timestamped and digitally signed.

And it requires seven thousand people to run a web site that does all this?

I'm going with the opposite take: he does want to buy Twitter.

But he simply wants to force Twitter's current management to pay whatever he can get out of them.

Twitter is on the record, as in "SEC filings", that only about 5% of their user base are bots.

Musk believes that the number is much, much higher. But if that actually comes out in the open, gkeep in mind that the 5% number is in their 10k filings. If the real number is 5.1 or 5.2%, who cares. But if we're talking 10%? 25%? As Musk alleges? This is securities fraud we're talking here. And if Twitter management knew about it, and still lied about in their 10K filings? Hoo-boy...

I've got a hunch that Twitter's current management will be willing to do anything to block this from coming out in public, and that's what Musk is counting on.

EOM

Never heard of it, but this app is described as "a way for couples to stay in touch and engaged, with messaging features and quizzes designed to let them share how they're feeling, what they're up to and milestones they're anticipating".

What

the

fuck?????????????

If you and your sweetie-pie need some kind of a fucking app to "stay in touch", share how you're "feeling" and what you're "up to", then your relationship is doomed. I'm pretty sure there's a way to do all of that without some app.

Nobody seriously expected him to admit "yes, the CentOS-stream was a first-class clusterfark, and we don't know what to do to fix it". Just keep consoling yourself that their post-clusterfark revenues are "darn good by any other standard", just keep saying that and you'll be all right.

I suppose a small number of small-scale CentOS shops wll ante up for an RHEL subscription. But the vast majority will either take a gamble on Rocky (probably a small minority), or migrate to Ubuntu (an overwhelming majority). The bigger the CentOS shop, the more likely that they'll end up going to Ubuntu. I don't have an exact count but we had thousands of VMs running CentOS for dozens of applications. We're not going to break our IT budget, and cough up a small fortune for a shitload of RHEL licenses (insert appropriate "Blazing Saddles" clip here). No, we're rebuilding our VMs to be based on Ubuntu, one chunk at a time and we're on track to be 100% on Ubuntu before CentOS 7 goes EOL.

I have no reason to believe that we're atypical. This is what Red Hat's brilliant strategy has accomplished: a massive loss of mind-share. Fewer people that are coming up through Linux-based organizations will have exposure to Red Hat's stack, and more people will have exposure to Ubuntu's. Great job, IBM.

Of course, that's the only possible outcome in Communist China.

Otherwise, off their senior executives go to Xinjiang labor camps, assembling Iphones for the rest of their lives.

I think something else is going on. Musk is many things, but one thing he's not, is stupid.

This is pure speculation on my part. It is known that he managed to pull some teeth out of TWTR and Co., and got some raw data in order to, supposedly, validate TWTR's claim that only 5% of their account are spam accounts. I've got a hunch that he managed to get the data analyzed and he believes that the raw data shows that the real number is notably higher, but he's not divulging that, or the data that he believes proves that, and publicly he's just claiming that TWTR's data is incomplete.

Keep in mind that TWTR dropped that 5% number into their SEC filings. They are on the record. This is the public information they disclosed in their filings. This is what investors -- and advertisers -- supposedly can rely on, to make their investment or advertising decisions. If this is not true -- hoo boy. They say their "experts" concluded, based on their raw data, that the number is 5%. If they're not, lawsuits galore. Both SEC, and all the advertisers. I keep coming back to how Musk was publicly asking, for the last couple of months -- what are the advertisers really getting, for their ad dollars? I don't think it was random musings

So, what Musk decided to really do is keep, for now, his evidence quiet, but attempt to publicly back out of the deal citing claims that are as vague as TWTR's. He is inviting TWTR to sue him. As soon as they do that he files a countersuit, alleging securities fraud and material misrepresentation. Than he quietly communicates his evidence for that to TWTR. At this point it becomes very, very much in TWTR's interest to settle. Either he'll get them to concede to let Musk "alter the deal, and pray that he doesn't alter it further"; or they'll pay /him/ to walk away with a nice chunk of change for his trouble.

I am not 150 years old, and I use a laser printer.