Arguably, it's the "news' which got us into this quagmire in the first place.

I can't possibly imagine why anyone would ascribe their "truth" from organizations which have consistently and intentionally lied to the American public. Hubris, I suppose.

I realize you're likely approaching retirement age based on your low slashdot ID (as am I), but the world has not only changed - it's made it apparent that the world we grew up in didn't even exist.

Perhaps you should look into the involvement of various intelligence agencies (CIA, Mossad) in the control and manipulation of various esteemed "institutions of truth" like the New York Times, as it relates to things which were obviously false. Or how many of our vanguard institutions were largely subverted by communist interests.

Babies in incubators, remember that one? How about WMDs in Iraq? Jayson Blair scandal is also notable - and let's not forget the complete fabrication which was Russiagate, paraded by media for months without so much as a verification of fact (which, if had they done it with honesty, would've made the whole thing fall apart). We could go way back, to how they (the NYT) suppressed news of the Soviets were in fact not starving their peasants in the 1920s and 1930s so that we would go to war, or we could dial it forward and the 2020s when the media provided years of cover for the "Chinese biolab" genesis of COVID-19 (which has since been acknowledged). We could also most certainly include the official Charlie Kirk narrative, which the media continues to parrot (when it's mentioned at all), and which has been scientifically confirmed as impossible by numerous forensic investigators (largely based on audio recording).

This is just the NYT, mind you - the broader media establishment is just as culpable. Establishment media has long shied away from truthful reporting, instead pushing sensationalism and ideological alignment.

Online news allows people who care about truth to get ahead of these narratives and see them for what they are, or at the very least consider alternative possibilities, before the lies catapult us into wars and ideological witch hunts.

I suppose you still think Oswald was the lone gunman, too, huh?

"Otherwise IPv6 is not in any meaningful way different, better or worse than IPv4."

Tell that to the tech who can't read hex or the guy trying to find a network range in logs using sed/grep on an 80x30 crash cart terminal in a DC, because something broke at 1am.

It is wholly unsuitable to straight up replace IPv4 for these reasons: it isn't a human-accessible protocol.

That's what I meant by "which IPv6?" SLAAC, RAs, DHCPv6, authoritative DNS AAAA with reverse are all basic table stakes to make it useful, which already grossly exceed what small IPv4 business networks have for v4, and there's still another dozen services required to get full interoperability with v4.

And you're forgetting that IPv6 was never intended to run dual stack with v4, that was a hackish afterthought which didn't work for half a damn for over a decade, because v6 wasn't backwards compatible. Needing to deploy v6 to "maintain a global network of peers" is only necessary if IPv6 exists; it serves only the purpose of sustaining itself.

If AMD and Intel were smart, they'd get together with IBM and figure out how to get out of that abusive relationship.

It would likely involve a skunkworks effort to "fix" open source Linux to be a useable desktop. Close it up a bit and then start ripping things out from the top to bottom, then release it as their own thing. LLMs make this much more tenable now than it would've in years past. No reason they couldn't keep the license the same, either.

In a world where "rewrite libreoffice to not be shit" is a tenable project for a small team and individuals are effectively reverse engineering and porting old Windows games to MacOS Apple Silicon in a weekend, I don't see why this couldn't be done. It just requires the intention, these companies have the money to do it.

There's one exceptional gem in the Celeron lineup: the 300A.

You could trivially overclock it about 33% with a FSB kick up from 66MHz to 100MHz, and the CPU had L2 cache (which as you probably recall, basically didn't exist otherwise on Celeron).

They were all just under binned chips, and that 33% was the baseline conservative overclock. It wasn't uncommon to push them past 500MHz with a good cooler. It was the era of peltiers and water blocks starting to take off.

Your mental modality is wired to Windows.

You can get tiling with a 3rd party app, Magnet. It works unobtrusively and I forget it's not native.

There are also Spaces, which is effectively a virtual desktop. It works pretty well. There are numerous tools which make it better (up to full tiling window manager with yabai).

Not sure why you'd complain about the 'out of the box' experience on a desktop OS anymore when there are so many third party options to make it better - particularly when your preference OS is horrible out of the gate on the things which really matter, like stability, memory use, management, and security.

That in no way relates to what I said.

"Windows sucks"
"Yeah but linux will work!"

That's a pretty poor argument, considering you can't buy the camera modules for that.

Yeah, but -which- ipv6 is implemented everywhere?

That's the problem. You deploy IPv4 and it works. You deploy IPv6 and... half the internet is black, and almost nothing works. And it's comparably difficult to use - and that makes it meaningfully worse, in both regards.

To get any of the good features of IPv6, the things that make it worth the time, you've got bolt on a half dozen different higher level (OSI) services.

That's probably the first legitimate reason I've seen for IPv6.

Probably the fact that it was designed to be a duct tape solution which was incomprehensible by anyone with an IQ under 120, additionally requiring a myriad of services to make it worth the time or effort to fully implement, further exacerbating its adoption and interoperability.

Guess it failed at that, then, too - because IPv8 has been proposed, and it's actually something approachable compared to the management and comprehensional shitstack that IPv6 is.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

They went back and addressed the issue from first principles instead of relying on a presumption which has not proven to be fully true, in turn resulting in a mismatch of capabilities and implementations across platforms which don't play nicely with each other (and subsequently, unfortunately, make it difficult to move forward with either v6 or transition to anything else).

Most American cars are "expensive" due to regulation requirements, in no small part - and auto manufacturers knowing they can pony onto those required things with added cost.

Like backup cameras, now legally required with all the CANBUS integrations for eg. obstacles. The camera adds thousands to the car price, and if it's damaged, that's thousands in repair. The same goes for expensive DOT-compliant headlamps ($3k-4k for the Ford and Land Rover ones that I've seen) which have to be reprogrammed (another $400 or so service charge). You can get a (technically superior in almost every way) EU Land Rover headlamp setup for half the price - imported, no less.

Those are just two examples, and there are likely many more, but the fact that you can't buy a "basic" car without all the bells and whistles (4 wheels, a motor, modern brakes, a transmission, and minimal wiring) is definitely a part of the problem. Say what you will about EVs, Tesla has done an amazing job integrating things without blowing their pricing up, providing good value for the first owner. (Not so great on resale, but that's another matter.)

You'd be well suited to give your agents prompts to be contrary, critical, and sarcastic. It adds some perspective - while also helping indicate the model's alignment on a specific topic.

It would be good for everyone if, after 2-4 years in the IT field as a developer, everyone were forced to take a 6-9-month paid sabbatical to work on their choice of one of: a working cattle or dairy ranch, a non-mechanized farm (orchards, avocados, greenhouse operation, etc.), or some other "foundational" industry where their work output has more direct baring on reality - forestry and land management, water treatment, infrastructure maintenance.

It would help put life in perspective, and likely result in more solutions which benefit everyone instead of just produce profit for the business elite. Not only would they get ideas on how to build things to benefit those industries, but they'd have a more well rounded experience: basically, the modern day equivalent of what the "liberal arts degree" and university was originally intended to do.

Almost everyone today, particularly in tech, is completely divorced from the reality we live in due to urban living. We were raised in cities and experienced the digital world from our relative infancy, even the "old" people who are still working in these fields (eg. GenX). In my experience, there's a very large capability and focus difference between those who grew up in these environments and those who were taught longer term thinking (seasons, not study units) by living and interacting with the organic world. Personally, it's more often that not that I'll meet an exceptional engineer and then find out later he grew up on a farm in Nebraska or harvesting maple syrup in Vermont or something.