Not making brainless wombats responsible for critical infrastructure should be standard practice, but clearly it isn't.

Perhaps critical infrastructure is inherently unsafe!

As the owner of a WinCE device, I always though it stood for "Windows - Crappy Edition".

The evidence is there for all to see.

As for ending support - I have not noticed any support in the last 15 years or so, so I am no more disappointed than I was on day two - when I discovered I could not install Linux on the device.

1) people are storing data now that needs to be protected past the time that "quantum" hits. So safe algorithms are needed even now.
2) large scale systems with lots of parties etc. take forever to effect change. You have to get everyone to agree that something needs to be done, then get them to agree on what to do, then get them to actually do it. Barring a worldwide disaster/alien attack/etc., this just won't happen in a matter of weeks, or months, or even years in some cases. It can take decades to get industries to move off of unsafe algorithms even when you can demonstrate an actual danger. If something's going to be a problem in 8 years in those industries, and you aren't actively trying to solve it now, you are not gonna fix it in time.

About 20 years ago, I had kidney stones - so bad that my local hospital referred me to a larger one, who, in turn referred me to an even larger one with an 8 month waiting list.

My mother used Google to find that Aloe Vera was good for kidney stones, She was going to go to the local pharmacy to get some, but a family friend overheard her and said "don't waste your time with that - go to the West Indian shop and get a leaf and prepare it yourself". She bought the leaf instead and then asked the friend how to prepare it: she did not know.

However, as a moderately scientific family, we scraped the gel out of the leaf, and boiled it to sterilise it, then blended it.

I took two spoons a day till the pain went, and one a day thereafter. When my hospital appointment came up, the x-ray showed no stones present.

Last year I got a gall stone - while waiting for treatment, I thought I would take Aloe Vera - probably wion't work, but worth a try. It worked.

However, I made an interesting finding using Google -if you take Vitamin D3, it makes you take on calcium - you need to also take K2 to make the calcium go to your bones and teeth instead of random places like kidneys and gall bladder (or muscles).

Free softy and open source are not one and the same. Letâ€(TM)s get rid of OSS, there still will be free software practitioners.

I've also seen MFA-protected accounts get taken over with no explanation from Microsoft as to how.

The answer is staring you in the face.

Hint: see if you notice the word "Microsoft" It means "Security is not here - look somewhere else" in a foreign language.

The analogy doesnâ€(TM)t really hold. IETF is there to promote cooperation between companies, so that their products can communicate. The interest of the companies is the same as the publicâ€(TM)s one in the field of activities of IETF.
Perhaps public research should be founded by taxes, and not be disguised private research…

You know, like the continuous flow version of a Stirling engine.

Its called an Ericsson engine.

Following your logic there would be NO zero-emissions fuels, including battery power.

The public don't want to hear scientific facts.

There is a reason why America has a right to bullshit people - its what the people want!

Feedforward could meaningfully be used to describe your experiences being supplied to future educators so they can know what is helpful to teach and how to teach it effectively, and/or what not to explain the way that you were taught it, because it was very unhelpful compared to watching Pornhub^w Youtube,

I remember reading about "feed forward" and "forward error correction" in the 1950's.

People who think the words feedforward and feedback can be interchanged without (possibly complete) loss of meaning should be regarded as illiterates.

With a 110v charger, it should be incompatible with most of the world!

My browser is full of memory leaks,

These people need to learn to write code before they implement any new features.

Sir, you lie.

There are other options:

OpenBSD is a perfectly viable alternative, and Devuan is not bad if you do want Linux.