It does have a few minor use cases if for example you want to do something in a large window while keeping an eye on another one underneath, but yeah, generally its more annoying that useful. Windows did it for a long time too, think it was 8 that finally binned it but not 100% on that.

It was probably installed long before he rocked up. The fact that people running a weapons facility think its appropriate to use ANY kind of web based collaboration system or even have the facility connected to the internet AT ALL says a lot about the kind of mouth breathing morons they've put in place to run the IT systems there.

Interesting thought experiment there - if a piece of sheet paper was somehow deorbited at orbital velocity would it burn up in instant or would it just drift down?

Now now. People died. Quite gruesomely at that. For what turned out to be someone's stupidity, true. But still.

... does sound kinda useful?

Who said it's a con? I'm fine with building nuclear. And with coming up with sequestering. Let's go.

I'm just against emoting, preening, and political exploitation.

It's designed to be more like the web was when it was just getting started. It's a lightweight, application-layer internet protocol launched in June 2019 by "Solderpunk" and designed as a minimalist alternative to the modern World Wide Web while drawing inspiration from the text-based simplicity of the pre-web Gopher protocol. It uses a custom markup language called Gemtext for hypertext documents with basic links, supports mandatory TLS encryption for secure connections, and operates on a client-server model with a single request-response structure to keep things straightforward and extensible-resistant. The aim is to revive the early web's ethos of easy, ad-free browsing and organic discovery without JavaScript, trackers, or multimedia bloat. It won't force you to run client-side code. Gemini fosters "Geminispace," a decentralized network of public capsules (sites) accessible via specialized clients, promoting privacy, low-bandwidth efficiency, and sharing.

There are some cool sites and the Lagrange Gemni Browser is pretty nice.

Ol Huang is just mad he cannot find any Chinese girls that want him to sign her tits. Then again, it's gonna take a much smaller signature and much less ink when he does!

The problem with that approach is that it heavily disincentivizes research into these areas because it adds additional costs to something that is already very expensive to develop. A better approach is to require that the abandoned systems have any hardware or software source code opened so that maintenance is possible. If a company is abandoning something they shouldn't care if anything related to it becomes free and open. If it were worth anything they could have sold it.

no doubt. Which is why I only have subcontractors, not permanent employees and almost all of them are in Ukraine. Also as I said, should something like that be attempted, I would shut down parts of businesses and get rid of the people who attempt it, I wouldn't run a business where I had to deal with this.

I've heard that the cause was a string of news stories several decades ago about rare but potentially fatal allergic reactions in children that caused parents to remove children from exposure to potential allergens. You can probably already spot the irony in this because the reaction by the parents to try to protect their kids actually made them more susceptible to the problem in the first place.

It's a bit like how the news can run a story about shampoo shortages and within a week the stores will have empty shelves in the shampoo aisle. Not because there was any actual shortage, but because people all thought there was one and rushed out to stock up on shampoo, even if they didn't need any.

More generally, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"wage slave" is a pretty old term. Yeah, some people overegg things to get sympathy but its hardly a new use of the word.

... will still believe that Cloud is somehow magical and immune from outages despite plenty of examples to the contrary, particularly from Azure in the last few years.

Like a lot of words in english, slave can have different nuanced meanings in different contexts. Its not reserved just for people enslaved or their ancestors so please don't pretend otherwise unless you think for example master-slave tty's are example of kernel cruelty.

Foundation is my life coach. HHGTTG is my bucket list.