Why? It helps gets rid of the stupid people.

Warning! Information in the public phone book, including your name, address, city, and phone number is PUBLIC! Subscribers are shocked and horrified at the unexpected find that is readable by ... literally ANYONE!

News at 11.

But what if it identifies as a file instead a directory? Or a child? How DARE you assume its function.

/s

Response: We all promise that no one named Al will never, ever control the Nukes.

What's that you say? There much be a translation problem? I don't think so.

Now you got what you wanted, so give us lots in return. (What's that you say, Al, about your new friend Colossus?) OK, so never mind, we already have it.

HA!! At first glance, I read it as man-made diamonds were somehow beginning to crack. (Age? Manufacturing defects? Aliens ... TRISOLARIANS?? Inquiring minds want to know!)

"Well that makes sense. They're fake, and nature of course does a much better job than man." I can just hear someone saying that line.

... but you can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Or perhaps just omitted.

Hashes, PGP/GPG signatures, Git, et. always contain the ENTIRE file. How about we add a special mode where something like "version:[0-9.A-Za-z](1,20)" -- if I've got my RE right -- are ignored during the hash.

This would allow a hash to be carried out on 99.99% of the file to indicate it's contents but still allow some uniqueness.

I also doubt that you could fit a malware attack into ~20 bytes of ASCII code, but that still need to be addresses.

Really? I'm an adult, but that's exactly WHY I watch anime -- I know that none of it is real, EVER. Parents should make sure kids their know that Mickey Mouse isn't real, even those he has a theme park or five named for him.

If I wanted something even partially near to reality I'd watch the news.

Really? As an architect, I know we should do it, but my boss's boss's boss tells us that something might be added in the budget for next year.

And you want ME to get fired?

Then you want Windows to run LTSC (although it's been renamed to a different 4 letter thing.) It's the long term support branch with none of the OOOH, SHINY stuff.

Of course you've got to run an illegal copy, or pay $$$s for the super-duper license that gets you legal access. But I figure (IANAL!) that I've got a license for one version but I'll just use another instead. And it runs great! It's still Windows the way you're used to.

And now I've recently bought a new, current W11 PC and ... What. In. The. Sam. Hell. Hills. Is. This. Shit. ?!!? Taskbar stuck on bottom, Windows Explorer is visually atrocious and barely functional, and heaps of other complaints. The only good thing is dark mode for Task Manager and ... Jesus Christ, what have they done to the right click explorer option? Though tabs in programs "work", for extremely low values of acceptable.

If they keep this GUI wondaful-ness up, I'll move to Linux, trust my luck with Wine, and Remote Desktop into a box that only a dedicated app. I figure if I firewall all ports but for RDP I've got a fighting chance of not being remote hacked. (... besides that I'm not a business user with all of that potential exposure.)

Why of course! Safety First!

Or, to quote Mike Rowe: "Safety Third."

I'm a night owl. MIDNIGHT?!!? That's for wimps. Incrementing by mere seconds because "something I don't like happens"??? Crank that thing past 2 or 3 AM already; let's get the show on the road.

Oh wait, that's supposed to show how worried I am about the "state of the world", humanly, and all?

* The world (Earth) will be fine, it always will be. (ignoring that in 3B years when the Sun expands and eats it, but once again that's predictable.)

* Humanity? We'll live but some won't; things will change, people will argue. If a nuke / comet / Covid V takes 99.9999% of us out, a few will still make it. If not, there's always cockroaches. We need to teach them how to adjust the clock so they can be scared as well.

* All? Well that just depends on what all else actually IS, doesn't it?

None of it. It's all private and Google never sees any of it, EVER. Why I'm surprised at you promoting false news and such. THINK before you post next time!

Wait -- why is my browser typing all by itself?

No, of COURSE not. The future has AI generating all of that cr*p for you to read for free, but then you'll have to subscribe to an AI that converts all of it back into normal English text again.

It'll be just like ROT-13, but with a dictionary and performing the decode costs: Money, Information, Location, SSN, DNA, History, OF account access -- take your pick. Or even better yet, we'll take OUR pick.

I've got Google Mini, which responds to "OK Google".

Sometimes it's responses are a compete non sequitur.

Q: What time is it?
A: Alarm set for 4AM.

Q: What's the weather?
A: Closet light is set at red to 10%.

So I'm tall -- who will be responsible when ChatGPT moves the seat all of the way up and breaks my legs with the dashboard? (I have to go "Car Sitting" before I even go "Car Shopping." If I don't fit, I don't CARE how much it costs or about the gas mileage.)

And Google gets unhappy with me when I curse at it. So what's the car going to do? Disable the air-bags, speed up, and override the steering on the freeway?