How much use of public infrastructure is your business entitled to? Because without it, it could not function.

"Every small business is a corporation."

That is a lie. Not every small business is an LLC, let alone a more structured corporation. For instance, the RV shop where I was underpaid and got a settlement against them for unpaid wages and retaliatory firing is a sole proprietorship.

Why do you tell so many obvious lies?

This is nonsense. Cattle displaced bison in the USA, and they produce less methane per pound of meat.

But why would you say that? Have you reviewed the sources? If not, you're just making things up to believe. Your religious beliefs about Apple are not relevant.

"I like to think the ones I worked with were good"

If you have 1 bad cop and 10 more that let them get away with it, what you've got is 11 bad cops.

What's an OS? A kernel and a set of utilities that ship with it, right? The kernel is only one piece of it, like the engine is to a car. You have a set of components in it that enable software to run.

For not calling them flying cars. 90% of eVTOL concepts are not flying cars, yet "journalists" insist on calling them that.

People are choosing unsustainably and will not do otherwise unless forced.

Sustainability is the most important thing.

Gas vehicle tech has not quite plateaued, but the cost of improvements is quite high and protectionism has kept them viable until now even without making improvements we know how to make. EVs are improving more quickly than they credibly could at this point so there aren't really sufficient returns to make it worth it.

Other countries have safety inspections like we mostly don't in the USA.

I can only speculate, but:
-I had heard that the IBM PC effort wasn't exactly fully supported by the wider IBM, so they had to make do and potentially might have had to be willfully overly optimistic to rationalize their plan to have so much of the system defined by freely implementable standards
-They might have hubris that BIOS was 'hard', at least the business leadership I could easily imagine thinking that, and no one is going to second guess them.
-They might have assumed copyright would have protected the interfaces, rather than technical difficulty.

When I tried gentoo the first time, it worked. Last time I tried it, I used only innocuous USE flags and the build broke fairly early on, in stage2 of gcc IIRC. There's also no good reason to run it any more now that all PCs for ages have been amd64, it's not like the old days where we still had K6s.

Found the noob who can't find the DontZap option, which by the way is now the default.

Also found the noob who leaves himself logged into console sessions. They're the same noob!

#skillissue #fixedbyskill

But it wasn't that they were careful not to do damage, they were careful, but the damage was yet to be seen.

I think it's hard to say, as no one can point to a party that would have likely otherwise caught it, except some guy that noticed that ssh session establishment was 'a bit off'. In fact, if his random usage of xz had been a couple weeks later, he probably wouldn't have investigated because the attackers had released a "fix" for the performance impact. This was from all appearances pure luck that this guy happened to have the noticeable xz impact and cared enough to dig in, and did so immediately rather than maybe waiting a couple of weeks and it would have been "fixed". A two week window between the relatively obvious and the fixed version that from what we can tell, *almost* passed without anyone getting suspicious, except for that one guy.

Many eyes worked this time, but *barely*.

There were people. They left to go do Wayland. 15 years later it still doesn't work well or even do badly all the things they said it would do. So yeah, it's a people problem. And those people are in charge of Wayland.