... Slashdot could benefit from hiring at least one English major.

I think the post of Slashdot editor is more important, and would require at least a (modern) Major General

> I'm not sure there are any benefits to Facebook.

If course Facebook benefits humanity. Well, part of humanity. Mark Zuckerberg is part of humanity, right? Right?

This is your future under mass surveillance; do you like it?

And remember, this was a mistake. There *will* be cases of malicious "errors" in the system (bribe, blackmail, revenge, etc.)

> Linux, meanwhile, reached 4.39%,

This really must be the Year of Linux on the Desktop!

> And they will find some excuse to justify it.

Think of the children!

> This isn't incompetency mistaken for malice. This has to be intentional.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by corporate greed.

I always thought Canada is the USA done right.

Magic 8-ball says: Outlook not so good.

> BitKeeper also did everything Git could back in the day.

BitKeeper could do things Git couldn't even dream about (because Git didn't exist).

Every masterpiece (BitKeeper) has its cheap copy (Git). :) :)

It should have been called Microsoft Attack Surface

This is not the kind of news I want to read about Florida Man.

Is this the AI model that Chrome silently downloads and installs on your computer?

> There is a an abundant species of large mammals in the ape family that can be trained to do this kind of work as well.

Not so abundant. Both the gorillas and the orangutans are endangered or critically endangered. Besides, the orangutan prefers not to talk, "lest he be compelled to labour".

Somebody set up us the bomb.
We got signal.
What!