xz was a compression tool maintained by one guy in his spare time.

If you're wanting to include something as a core library in a major software release such as Fedora or Ubuntu, maybe remunerating the project admin and bringing essential software under an umbrella or foundation is the best course of action to ensure rogue actors don't hijack it.

*spoilers*

That was Soran on Veridian III.

I mean possibly you could bring him back from the Nexus, again.

Yeah, the standout for me is Microsoft implementing a Mesa shim for the OpenGL graphics stack on top of Direct3D for WSL-G. Meanwhile, Wine devs have been reverse engineering Direct3D to run on top of the Linux stack.

A lot of wasted effort when both parties could pool their resources to implement access to these APIs on top of Vulkan. With the many eyes theory, drivers from the major vendors might improve if there were a single implementation across Windows, Android and other assorted *nixes.

But MS need to keep their implementation proprietary, I hear them say? SteamOS exists, regardless. A middle management MBA
  ought to determine if it's worth the millions of dollars a year in developer salaries.

Oh, Americans will bet on gunfights too!

Even back in 1885 they were gambling on whether yellow-bellied Clint Eastwood would defeat Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen.

As an end user, probably nothing.

The article hints at an application appliance with Xen where you build just enough OS to run your program without needing a full OS like NetBSD or Linux. And people like tinkering outside the *nix paradigm - Genode, as it mentions and HURD import various drivers instead of re-inventing the wheel.

FYI it has already been downgraded back to 5.4.5 in Trixie, aka testing.

The version reports as '5.6.1+really5.4.5-1'.

That didn't work for Samsung's Android value-add.

Microsoft are now mandating that everyone go out and buy a new keyboard for an intrusive feature their government has already outlawed.

Well it's unclear why 'Linux' would ever become end of life'd if Google were to upstream any drivers and firmware to kernel.org

Let's assume they go a step further and isolate the ChromeOS-specific bits in a container.

I hear ChromeOS is build on top of a Gentoo derivative. Can't they have an unsupported* Konami code to unlock a minimal Gentoo/Portage environment to upgrade the core OS indefinitely? i.e. stuck on version X of the UI forever but if there's a security bug in the wifi or USB-C controller then it gets automagically patched.

I stopped using Linkedin in earnest even before the MS acquisition when it became less of a platform to network with former colleagues & potential business partners and more for recruitment agency staff to share memes - despite none of these data harvesting vultures ever having placed me in a job via that website.

Recruiters will be posting their travel videos now? They can go fuck themselves.

this is all about Apple's supply chain having the latest bleeding edge release build on a device prior to sale.

As a consumer you'd still have to sync all your apps from the cloud but at least it might save, say, a 200MB download fetching the latest OS updates.

In pondering what would be an appropriate sentence, how do you rehabilitate a 57 year old in 2049 back into civilization? His parents will be well into their 80s, he won't have any friends and at that age no one will hire him even at Starbucks. (sure ---- him but assuming he doesn't have millions stashed in a vault, he becomes a burden on social security)

I understand the anger - the scale of his theft is unfathomable but to me it speaks of a failure of regulation.

How does an American citizen relocate a business to Hong Kong and onto the Bahamas without anyone from Big Government auditing his shady financials? His star only rose in a post Panama Papers world - were US federal agencies napping?

But launching new hardware too. Ship an iPhone 16 globally without any version of iOS installed on the device that only activates on launch date. No leaks to the press and any rogue supply chain employee will just get a brick that won't power on.

Well, here in the southern hemisphere we are celebrating Good Friday eve, where we commemorate the death of the Julian Calendar.

Those who regard the Gregorian Calendar as a heresy won't celebrate until over a month from now.

The last thing we need is another schism. Trust the science!

For work, aside from Office (that would have an ARM64 port), the only 'native' x86 application on Windows 11 I run is 32 bit, unsupported and hasn't been updated for a decade. So as long as the binary translation is capable of emulating with the speed of a Pentium 4, that would suit fine.

Anything other than that uses a mixture of language specific dot net, Java or JS (Electron) VMs - which surely JIT ARM64 natively by now.

But depending on the era of the software, something released in the past 13 years (WIndows RT in 2011) is likely to have been developed with a reasonably modern version of Visual C++ that includes a 'compile for ARM' checkbox with compiler warnings to help you migrate. Not a trivial task by any means but if your vendor is still in business, ask 'em for a recompile!

Gaming, well that's potentially another story but who games on a low performance laptop anyhow? The bigger picture is if and when Qualcomm loses its exclusivity deal with MS and nvidia release a series of Win 11 laptops running Tegra Thor inside - then it really will be game on :)

Google should now get ahead of the curve and release Chrome on Windows 11 on RISC-V!

No such product from Microsoft yet exists, thankfully. :)