That statement was AI Slop, there is no reason to put any weight behind it whatsoever.

N/T

Everyone knows that you use Archive.org to bypass a paywall.

The Hegnet and Orangenet

Probably in here somewhere: "run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud"

EU techie: "We did it, we replaced Google!"

Boss: "Good job! Are there any other US dependencies?"

EU techie: "Um, yes, it runs on top of Bing."

Boss: "Microsoft!?"

EU techie: "Yip. We couldn't get our home-grown one to work right."

Boss: "Uhgg, well, don't tell anyone and you can have a Citroen."

Russian citizens have no incentive to push innovation, the war's potential prizes give ordinary Russians no notable advantage, yet Ukraine is fighting for its survival: it's adapt or die.

California joined Canada. The orange thing is now all yours!

Which will come first?:

1. Practical flying cars
2. Practical fusion energy
3. Robot that do can dishes
4. Useful quantum computer

...the Higgs BSOD

They aren't doing that.

The certificate is expiring. When it expires, it will no longer be able to talk to the server to validate the license.

In order to fix it, they need to issue a new certificate, which requires updating the software - which they no longer update.

The problem is rooted in the time-boxing of encryption certificates.

A lot of armchair strategizing here seems to be based on the theory "he won't dare to do that back!"

Hey, you just solved the Hormuz Conundrum, congratulations! Both sides get a better deal than Obama's deal, so can now brag and move on with life.

Maybe the mathies will enter our field and force the industry to factor out all the repetitious bloat found in current stacks. All that repetitious verbose shit just cannot be the pinnacle of software development, I'll bet my Vulcan wanker on it (a transplant). It might require new programming languages, but so be it! Or burning the damned DOM?

Kind of like going from Perl to Java?

Politicians already encroached on that.