This acquisition seems like it will massively reduce competition in the sector of video games journalism and as such I encourage everyone to report it to the Competition and Markets Authority, which you can do here: https://contact-the-cma.service.gov.uk/

While I concede that there may be some concerns that are valid for some people, this whole "stay away from this, that and the other" makes it seem like the FSF is starting to become a tin foil hat brigade that wants everyone to go off and live in a cabin in the woods growing their own food and never interacting with anybody because it might be dangerous.

The folder permissions thing helps limit the impact of ransomware because don't forget, it's only running as the user who opened it, so it only has as many permissions as they do. Sure, it could maybe use some exploit to get local administrator access on the desktop it's running on, but who gives a shit if a desktop gets encrypted? Just reimage it and move on. It's the files on the servers that need to be protected.

I do think it's an absolute crime though that anti-virus vendors sell anti-ransomware as an entirely separate (and expensive) product and don't include this functionality in their main programs. Sophos Intercept-X, I'm looking at you here.

Is there a list anywhere of specifically which versions of Adobe software are affected by this?

Yep, this is one of the errors I am seeing also.

I managed to get past the C99 error by compiling compile.c manually and then bodging -std=c99 everywhere in the Makefile, but now I'm getting a bunch of errors about macro DATIME.

So yeah I'm guessing this thing needs a lot of work before people can actually run it on a current system.

I downloaded this to my Linux box and tried to run "make", but it complained about needing to be in C99 mode. Is this release only compatible with the original hardware and OS it was written on or something? I thought from the README it was supposed to be a port that works on modern computers/OSes?

Do we really need yet another C64 emulator? It would be more interesting to see emulator folks working on something a bit rarer which doesn't already have an emulator, like an IBM 5100 or something.

Except it won't - they'll just claim it was faked or staged in some way. The mentality of these sort of people is that they will automatically and unquestioningly reject anything that does not fit their world view.

Over here in the UK one of the cinema chains (Cineworld) has a thing called an Unlimited Card. For £14.99 a month you can see as many movies as you like (with a couple of restrictions). Given that single adult ticket prices are now over £8 for 2D films it's pretty easy to see that this is a no-brainer if you want to see more than a couple of movies a month. Having one also tends to expand your options of what movies you see in the cinema - for example, back when I was paying full price for movie tickets, I'd only have gone to see triple-A blockbusters every once in a while, but now I go to the cinema most weekends and usually see two or three movies including some that aren't on the A-list.

The restrictions aren't particularly onerous: you can't book online or by telephone, you have to show up at the cinema with your card (it has a photo on it, so it's not transferable); once you've got a ticket for one movie you can't get another movie ticket until after the first movie ends; and there is a small surcharge for 3D movies (currently £1.50, and you need to bring your own 3D glasses, or you can purchase some for a further 80p). I was initially a bit concerned about not being able to book in advance but I've had the card for almost 2 years now and the only time I ever had any trouble getting in to the showing I wanted was Harry Potter 7 part 2 (I was able to get in to a later showing).