We already have a "good as physical" streaming service. It's a local RAID array of movies ripped from the physical media you bought. I rip every single DVD I buy (I avoid Bluray like the plague it is) to my NFS server, and watch it from any computer in my house.

Active Directory is a big blob containing LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, DHCP, and a few other services. To the best of my knowledge, Linux has everything Active Directory has, but does it better.

I find Reddit's tech channels to be surprisingly good, so it does have value. I don't know if the value coincides with its share price, though.

I was thinking about all the tech companies I didn't invest in because I had some personal grudge against them. Most of those companies became highly priced, and I regretted not investing in them early. I was tempted to not miss out on yet another one, but I resisted the urge. Only time will tell whether it was a good decision.

I can easily see the possibility a large dip being followed by an even larger increase later, but I have no real investment skills or talent. Even if I bought now, there is a real possibility that the share price will rise above its current levels. But I refer you back to my investment skills.

I agree with you, and my comment wasn't directed at you. I've seen so many people think that LLM's have some kind of intelligence (and therefore sentience) that I am actively fighting the use of anything that might suggest these programs are anything other than pattern matching algorithms.

LLM's don't hallucinate. They malfunction.

"Government, You've been suing us for decades(!). If you drop your cases against us, we'll lower our rates by 0.04% for three years before jacking the prices back up."

"Okay, it's a deal!" the government replied.

I like to think that Microsoft failed because people learned their ass-raping lessons from the desktop, and didn't want to repeat them on their mobile devices. But then I realized that's probably giving their customers too much credit for intelligence.

I'm going to refine my statement a bit. It's not that the SCOTUS itself ruled age verification to be unconstitutional, but that it refused to hear an appeal after a lower court ruled age verification to be unconstitutional. That does change the legal environment, so this is likely going to the SCOTUS again.

It's a proprietary company with the largest market share. There's the crystal ball technology. RMS foresaw it 40 years ago, before VMWare was even a fantasy, and formed the Free Software Foundation as a result.

RMS foresaw this happening 39 years ago, and established the Free Software Foundation to try countering it. Even though VMWare happens on a regular basis, people still insist on accepting proprietary software for business-critical functions, and then act surprised when the inevitable happens.

This crap already went to the US Supreme Court in the 90's and was ruled unconstitutional. These Texas legislators need to be impeached and removed from office for gross negligence. We shouldn't have to endure these assaults on our liberty over and over again.

A license tells recipients what their obligations are. It has no bearing whatsoever on what the copyright owner must do.

Appe's behavior is not excusable just because everyone else is just as bad. All that means is that we need more antitrust enforcement, not less.

The PinePhone is a fine little portable Linux computer. I hope that someday it will be able to make phone calls and take decent pictures. It has (had?) a catastrophic design flaw, though, being the lack of a feature to restore it to factory defaults. I lost my encryption code, and I was unable to continue using the default image. I could install a different OS image on an SD card, but the default installation was irretrievable.

I don't know about the FairPhone, so I won't comment on it.

We use Postgres for years with resounding success on some fairly large datasets, and it works great. I have many complex queries on multiple tables that each contain over 121M rows, and most of those queries run in a small handful of milliseconds. I have a few of those queries that take several minutes to run, but they are monthly or yearly reports. The day-to-day transactional queries are very fast.

I also rewrote the operational software for a small, multimillion dollar local company (they outgrew their old MS-DOS software) neary 20 years ago, and used Postgres for the backend (Qt for the front-end). Aside from the benefits of a real database allowing more than one person to manage the company's data, it was faster than the single-person system my software replaced.

I could go on, but this F1 team's database needs are trivially small for Postgres.