Yeah, sorry, I'm not really complaining. And yes, I'm not a big fan of huge modern frameworks. gcc all the way, yeah !

;-) It's the 3rd iteration of this project. When I got it 15 years ago, I decided to do just that. Well, not really, I was tasked of writing a test program to see if it could replace part of the old one while the 'official replacement program' was being discussed, and since it worked fine I ended up rewriting the entire thing. The official program never got off the ground, but there is now talk of doing it for the 4th iteration... I want no part of it.
For the curious I work in scientific research

I'm more scared of it than anything, particularly since I've been asked to add something after 10 years !

It's a good thing to have an overproduction of food. It means that, with the proper distribution channels, everyone can eat; and if there's a bad year or two, like a volcano spewing ashes in the upper atmosphere like happens every 200 years or so, we won't all starve.
On the other hand having an overproduction means the prices fall down and farmers go broke. No easy way out...

There's a saying that goes "A complex software project that works started from a simple project that worked". For instance I have a 40k lines program that has been working non-stop for years without any memory leak or crash, and it started from a half-page of specs "to do a test" and then they kept asking me to add thing... Granted it now looks like a monstrous pile of kludges, but still...

I've been using KDE for 25 years and KDEwallet never bothered me and yet I've never used it. Maybe because Firefox doesn't interface with it ?

I'm not saying SElinux or Apparmor are useless, I'm saying they are too complex and too poorly documented and too steep of a learning curve for the average sysadmin, even more so for the average desktop user. If you receive a full week pro training to use them, good for you, but that doesn't work for most people.

SElinux and Apparmor are 2 of the worst and most obscure security systems I've ever seen. I have no idea what the main ideas behind either are and on what principles they work, and I've been on Linux for 25 years with all kinds of systems (embedded Pi, desktop, servers, etc...). I've never seen a proper introduction to either, the manpages are a block of lead on your head and they DO NOT work out of the box to the point where you just have to disable them if you want to keep on working. Apparmor pollutes the syslog with tons of garbage, and SElinux is the opposite, not a single message ever but things just stop working in obscure ways.

That would make you a sociopath, no ?
More seriously I think the regular wars we used (?) to have every generation or so were a good way to cull the psychopaths, sadists and violent thugs who would be first ones to enroll, and also the 1st ones to get killed (if they don't have the time to rape their way around to propagate their gene pool).

I still run an old XP in a VM with only a bittorrent client in it, nothing else. It runs in a headless Linux host. I remember I originally did it as a test to see how long it would take before it would be hacked. It's been running for 20 years !

AI uses a *LOT* of electricity, so when it bursts the prices will go down.

Big energy companies don't want cheap energy sources controlled by their customers: they mess up their transports and they lower the cost of electricity and hence their profits. So they should be nationalized and treated as non-profit, with the aim of the cheapest energy possible, not the highest profit.

I tried to look at how to program quantum computers, and there are now toolsets for that although you can only run them on simulations, but it's so complex and unintuitive (that's quantum mechanics for you, ha!) that it's just impossible to grok what you have to do in order to do even the most simple tasks. Much less a loop with a printf !!!

"Sono Porci Questi Romani: is the frequent phrase uttered by romans themselves...

What annoys me the most are people who decide to have a consistent but annoying way to write, for instance no use of uppercase, or no spaces after punctuation... I've seen some really weird ones. Those you quote are driven by laziness which is somewhat understandable, but here they put in some effort to annoy their readers !