Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.

We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.

And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".

Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.

The user receives an instruction to copy a string of text, open a terminal window, paste it in, and press Enter.

I mean . . come on

"we're paralyzed by stupidity, bigotry and an overwhelming urge to prevent anyone from having a happy life without being miserable a minimum of 40 hours a week."

As I meant to write, presuming no one can have 'a happy life without being miserable a minimum of 40 hours a week' seems to me a claim that a 40 hour a week job leaves employees universally 'miserable'.

Did I misinterpret your assertion? Please elaborate.

That's one, and it's enough.

> It's impolite to ignore robots.txt, but it's not illegal.

Put something fake in your robots.txt and block the IP that accesses the fake URL.

AI people: "oh, that's where all the good stuff is!"

"I do still see a lot of thought terminating cliches though"

And your post is peppered with them.

Do try to engage in critical thinking. Not theory, real thought and discernment. Among other things, not every 40 hour a week job is misery, even if your entire life is.

If they don't care about Bob Smith then they'll lose all of the hobbyists and passionate creators. Far fewer will be familiar with using and developing for Windows, as well as the potential to lose projects that either make every day life easier with Windows, or address those fringe edge cases that only a few people care about but make possible because it's the most popular platform. But, I admit it's possible that doesn't matter to Microsoft or the people who have to work with Windows.

The more easily people can feel free to ditch Windows, the better.

And I don't mean that as a slight against Windows. I mean that there should be better competition in order to spur more comparisons and improvements. Even people who love Windows would benefit from better rivalry. The way it has made Microsoft want to improve gaming under Windows is a perfect example of why. They could be doing much better on many fronts, and likely there are ways Linux might improve as well.

Additionally, if it is easier to move more freely between operating systems, that makes it easier for people to choose what is best for them. Feeling stuck making do with something subpar is not good. Everyone can agree to that.

Everyone should want Linux to get better. And Windows. And all other OSes.

Spotify is a broadcaster. You think broadcaster = radio, but the medium doesn't matter.

And broadcasting is distribution today. And that's control. No different than AM radio, them FM radio. Today you have millions of potential channels, not the two dozen or so the radio gave you.

You want to listen to more than one artist? You have to find them. Broadcasting shows them to you. And if decides what to deliver. If does so by choosing from the perpetual flood of content presented to it.

And artists never got paid well by broadcasting. And, truly, none but the very very popular artists ever do very well. The market dilutes revenue so thoroughly it's pennies for the masses.

Fair? Ha. Life isn't fair.

You don't remember newspapers, huh? The quality of humanity's information has been variable for centuries. It's the discernment that is suffering recently. And that I'm includes the process of of seeking truth, rather then confirmation.

Forbid that anyone use a sensible and understandable acronym, let it offend those who own it...

Or, if you need more prompting, just stifle. I grokked that use of the acronym immediately. I won't ever confuse it with previous uses, because I possess more than two functional neurons.

RFKjr's administration have been using AI to generate justifications for policies that all are hitting exactly the same problems:

* AI is inventing studies that never existed
* AI is using quotes from real studies that aren't in the studies
* AI is generating summaries of studies that are the opposite of what the study itself actually concluded

and he's referencing these AI generated summaries in congressional hearings.

> Bruh. Apt already relies on Perl, which has no formal language specification. What nonsense is this?

You are right, which is why I don't think this is a huge deal.

Though perl5 compatibility back to c.2000 is pretty good.

Today's rust code most likely won't run in 2050 on modern compilers.

But perl4 code doesn't run well today either.

Yet nothing in trixie needs to run anything from buzz - so as long as everything works within a version or two it's hard to imagine anybody being negatively affected.