One thing that's infuriating me is that apparently it's now impossible to implement in modern GNU/Linux distros as Wayland does not allow applications (such as file managers) to position windows.

Yeah, really.

And by "not allow" I don't mean "they haven't gotten around to it", they've actually said they're opposed on principle in the mailing lists.

We are running so fast in the wrong direction with UI design it's not funny. GNOME wanted to try something new, and I respect that, but it's like they took everything we've learned about what makes a good UI in the last 40 years, and did the exact opposite. It's one thing to change where the scrollbars are, or decide whether to put menus at the top of the screen or not, or what buttons should look like, etc, but they don't even value concepts like consistency any more.

It's horrific.

It is. The fact that our dominant desktop operating systems are still using security models from last century is probably the #2 disaster of modern tech security, coming in just behind so much software with potential security implications still being written in languages like C and C++ at #1. And the understandable yet still deeply regrettable reason for both disasters is the same: momentum.

I normally connect to all online conference calls via their web UIs. At least then it takes both a screw-up in the communications system and a screw-up in a browser security sandbox that is independently developed to allow something like an RCE or data leakage vulnerability to be exploited.

People have called me crazy for not wanting to install native apps from the likes of Microsoft, Google and Zoom in the modern era of remote working, but every now and then, there's another story like this one that reminds me why I am extremely careful about what native software I install on anything these days.

What, specifically, do you mean by "personal Windows installations"?

Are you suggesting that any business of any size should only ever use Enterprise editions of Windows?

He's not doing it. He's not going to do it anyway. He won't do it whether CA sues him or not. The entire movie making industry is in Hollywood. That's where the talent goes. Companies start in other parts of the country and then either go bust or move.

It's even less likely to happen than Tesla will finish its move to Texas.

People aren't going to move out of California just to work for some RWNJ when most of the jobs in that field are in LA.

Linthicum continued: "Linux delivered what I can only describe as a true 'AI desktop' experience

Please, just kill me now.

I dearly want open computers, but not like this. Not like this.

Fuck the world, stop the world, I want to get off.

No, I read the details explicitly quoted at the start of the discussion and responded to them.

Are you saying that this episode has not in fact resulted in (a) unplanned software being installed on end devices that will (b) automatically read data that is stored on those devices without the proper approvals? Either of those things alone can easily become a compliance problem if you operate in a regulated environment, whether or not things ultimately go any further on this occasion.

It was obnoxious enough when Microsoft started pushing this kind of unwanted "feature" on home users, then small businesses and professionals on Pro editions. There are real legal and regulatory concerns over this kind of change that businesses have to take seriously. If they've screwed up so badly that even their large corporate customers have been hit by the same thing and there isn't even a good way to undo the damage at the moment, this could lead to meaningful lawsuits from their customers and/or interventions by regulators.

You're saying workers coops want to acquire more power? That trade unions want cameras on every street corner?

I appreciate that half the people here, probably because they're American, think "socialismimsm means anything I don't like that involves the government" but that's not what it means. And the people self identifying as socialists in government right now, from AOC to Bernie, are not, actually, in favor of cameras on every street corner.

Some political parties, especially in Eastern Europe, identifying as socialist formed governments that were dictatorships. Others, such as those in Western Europe, were and still are democratic, and fought hard for your rights to be unrelated to your wealth.

I know it's hard when you've been subjected to this kind of propaganda about socialists since you were capable of understanding English, but stop believing propaganda.

In the end the politicians don't give a fuck about what people want or being moral or anything like that. They have an agenda. They're acting the exact same way that conspiracy theorists have been claiming all politicians think like for decades, except it looks to me like now the conspiracy theorists have gotten into government they feel this is a way they have a right to act, rather than something they should be changing.

Add to that the rampant corruption in American politics that's always been there, but the public has largely ignored for a half century or more, and we're reaching what you might call a techno-corruption singularity.

And that's coming with consequences. In an extreme case, we've seen the murder of an insurance CEO because nobody has been keeping the insurance industry in check. The Democrats even had a chance to when passing the ACA, but instead gave them perverse incentives to negotiate higher prices with healthcare providers and likewise find excuses to decline expensive treatments. I'm not saying Brian Thompson was a saint, far from it, I'm saying Brian Thompson would never have been CEO had the ACA not had the 10% profit cap without simultaneously addressing the effective need for publicly traded corporations to increase profits year on year.

But we also see smaller attacks on the system like this one. And I don't see the situation getting any better. Not only will we need to stop electing politicians who don't care, but it's going to take 25 years or more of electing politicians who do, and who dismantle the giant pile of shit we're all in, before people start to have any trust in the system any more, trust enough to elect the type of people who can be trusted. Yes, they won't elect people who can fix the system until those people have already been elected. How's that for a Catch 22?

> However, your data completely ignores if the suspects are being compliant or not

Then

> due to the suspects being non-compliant/hostile/violent/dangerous

This expansion of non-compliance with violent/dangerous is what makes you a bootlicking fascist.

In a civilized democratic society, non-compliance with a police officer is not an excuse for summary execution. The only case in which it is legitimate for an officer to kill a person is to prevent a loss of life caused by that person's likely actions. No other reason.

Did the suspect say mean words and refuse to let you handcuff them? Pull up your fucking big boy pants you sniveling shit and find a way to resolve the issue peacefully, don't stick your hand on your gun like it's your fucking penis.

It wouldn't have even been a problem if they were transgender mice. What is the problem with studying transgenderism, especially in a safe, controlled, environment that doesn't cause harm to people?

Leaving aside that dementia is not a mental illness, I'm unaware of any caused by viruses that aren't a side effect.

For example Alzheimers can be caused indirectly by viruses, but its cause isn't a virus, it's likely neuroinflammation, which can be caused by all kinds of things including bacteria and certain types of plaque.

Worse, the latter is generally because the brain's own immune system is causing the inflammation fighting said virus when it is a virus, and so a vaccine would cause more problems rather than help.

Using vaccines here is just not a practical course of action and betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what dementia is. And mental illnesses? They're even less likely to have clear causes outside of genetics and exposure to various environmental factors not generally considered biological.

If mental illnesses were caused by viruses, sure. But the entire point of a vaccine is to stimulate your immune system into creating antibodies to fight specific viruses. I've pretty sure no mental illnesses have been found to have a viral cause (well, social media "viral" may be, but not biological...)

I think you vastly over-estimate how much MAGA cares. If the COVID vaccine had been conventional, they'd have been just as loud and angry and anti, but they wouldn't have put "UnPrOvEn tEcHnOlOgY" in their list of annoying arguments.