Cursive IS hand writing. I think you are confusing it with italic.

I think American schools should probably teach something. It seems fairly evident that they are not even doing that at present.

Microsoft to focus on the other things that matter too, such as stability and power user enhancements.

Hell has finally frozen over?

Am I going to have to start finding ways to make my OS do what I ask instead of what some marketer thinks people like me want it to do?

That won't be an option if MS gets is way!

I just really wish that the world could just pick one distro and go with it.

And you wish the only car on the market was a Frod F150?

If you thought that, you are probably American, and therefore badly educated.

In most of the world, an engineer designs engines - and/or their control systems. (Whether petrol, steam, or electric - or even hydrogen).

Been a while since I've flown a budget airline. On the normal flights I've taken, there's always a few people (usually older people) with paper boarding passes.

I completely agree.

Too much safety. Too much regulation.

Not enough creativity. Not enough dealing with the imperfect.

We really need to amp up freedom.

And how many /.ers have iPhones? :P

If nothing else they should not be allowed to call themselves a bank, including not a "trust" bank. Stick with crypto exchange or hascode pawnshop or whatever but not bank.

"The cake is a lie."

dissolve Hyundai and 130,000 people lose their jobs because a criminal managed to break into a database?

No. Because the company collected the data in the first place. "In a database" is a place where criminals are likely to devote enormous resources to stealing it, and which they are unlikely to be able to protect adequately. On top of which, exactly 0 customers want their details to be stored.

That's insane! Sign me up and ship me out.

Until the penalties for data loss exceed the value OF the firms (not just car companies)

FTFY

Can't hit 88 MPH at startup. :P

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, or another one of the big software development companies could easily fork ffmpeg itself, fix the open CVEs, provide their own (likely incompatible) features, and become the new standard - leaving the original developers out in the cold. Google did this with Blink (forked from WebKit, which itself was forked from KHTML). They took a fork of a KDE backed project, put it into what is now the #1 browser in the world, allowed Microsoft, Opera, and others to then use it in their own browsers — and now Google owns the entire narrative and development direction for the engine (in parallel to, and controlled to a lesser extent by Apple which maintains WebKit). The original KHTML developers really couldn’t keep up, and stopped maintaining KHTML back in 2016 (with full deprecation in 2023).

That is the risk for the original developers here. You’re right in that there isn’t really anything out there that can do what ffmpeg does — but if the developers don’t keep up on CVEs then organizations are going to look for new maintainers — and a year or two from now everyone will be using the Google/Microsoft/Apple/Facebook renamed version of ffmpeg instead.

That’s the shitty truth of how these things work. We’ve seen these same actors do it before.

Yaz