Be careful what you wish for, an executive order against "subversive research" would not be totally unexpected given how things are going right now. But I don't know that it would throw the people you want in jail...

Well, when you have all your code generated by an AI code generator, reviewed by an AI code analyzer, and approved by an AI manager then what exactly do you expect?

The requirements are the things that people can think of ahead of time, and they always contain glaring problems. It is inevitable that someone will have a "shower epiphany" at some point and share it with their colleagues. When these discussions happen in person then there's a discussion about how important it is, whether it rises to the level of an ECR, NCR, or other documentation mechanism, and what to do about it next. I have seen myself that when this happens in Teams chats that _usually_ someone from PMO intervenes immediately and says that we don't have the budget to address the issue and don't you dare spend any more time on it.

Yeah, I think it would be far more likely that they would offer publishers a slightly reduced fee. "Instead of charging you 30%, we'll charge 25% if you make it work on Linux".

And for the ones who have families, moving the family is the wife's job ... and she can move or quit ;)

Thanks, I think that was the first "real" laptop we had in the house - before that it was a "luggable" ;). I'll have to ask my dad if he remembers the model number.

That laptop looks really familiar, but I can't quite place it. You mind sharing the model?

The ACP has collected funds and did not connect a single customer.

"Sure". If you replace a previous program called the "Emergency Broadband Program" and define all the connections of that program as not being "new connections". Then when you're done with that also play statistical jujitsu to "correct" for all the connections that should be expected over the time period. After that you can totally say that you connected nobody with a straight face. </sarcasm>

The soundtrack for the old LucasArts game Outlaws was _amazing_ ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... ). I was so impressed by the way that they did that as a mixed mode CD that I filed it away as a "cool trick" that I remember to this day.

You may remember that they do retire longterm kernels earlier than they would like to due to limited resources.

These days they actually transfer things over to a different team run by the Civil Infrastructure Program and they supply back-ported fixes for the "Super" LTS kernels. So, sure K-H only has so much support for LTS (and he would like to support them longer) - but there's also SLTS kernels if you want something to last for 10 years.

You are mistaken, there used to be consequences for price gouging and they have learned those consequent no longer exist. They are going to intentionally run as efficiently as possible and jack up prices whenever the system (intentionally) breaks down.

Normally if you do this the code for the config package is in a shared repository, just like how people share their Ansible scripts in an organization. Debian config packages (high level of dpkg-divert) don't need the file installed from the other package in order to divert them, so there is no increase in dependency complexity. (You can install a config package that diverts the ssh config file even if ssh is not installed, when ssh gets installed later its config file will be automatically diverted.)

The only place I have found it to make a difference between DEB and RPM is that RPM does not support "diverting" files. This is really important in some contexts, since it allows a new package in the system to replace the config files of another package without breaking that package. For example, let's say you are operating a controlled environment where you want specific SSH settings for all your systems. You can install openssh-server and use Ansible to edit the config files on everything (blech), you can rebuild the openssh-server package to have your config file (which you will need to change every time the package gets updated), _or_ you can create your own package that adds a diversion for the ssh config file. With a diversion you don't have to muck around with the ssh package or maintain a bunch of Ansible crap for all of your systems. You also have the added benefit of being able to detect local changes to the config files with "debsums" (either if you have made edits or if you have allowed people sudo).

A very specific movie called Sneakers.

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