Working so well that 9% of you are going away!
Trump can get away this this kind of doublespeak to his drones, but does this really work said to a tech company's employees? What actual purpose does tone deaf idiocy like that statement serve?

SpaceX only enjoys near monopoly because NASA can't find its ass with a specialized rover.

I have no issues with Rust. I find working in it personally is relatively easy, I am not sure why the assertion "human developers find Rust difficult to learn". Perhaps for developers with experience only with hand-holding managed languages it is. As a systems level language, it has the proper amount of added machinery to its output. Namely none. I am of the camp that thinks that there should not be a differentiation between systems and user languages, and that most "user" languages need to just go away. Go is an abomination. Not going to grace it with any further attention.

Python is acceptable in scripts if USED AS DIRECTED!! Python for full applications and even for most non-trivial UI's is almost universally a Bad Idea(tm). Python is as awful for its abysmal performance as it is for its terrifying supply-chain failings. A Python program intended for Real Work or as a complex UI has the following lifecycle:
1) Prototyping and "proof" of concept
2) Beta with disappointing performance
3) If "Real Work" appllication this is where a back end library with a real language is contemplated for the heavy lifting
4) Test deployment in monoculture environment (other devs and power users with exactly the same Python install)
5) Disastrous real world deployment as the myriad of awful version-to-version incompatibilities are seen
6) Rework
7) Rework employing more libs and compatibility shims
8) Rework
9) ...
50) Abandon for a real language

They were designed at a price point. You get what you pay for.

How does that follow? You are treating the idea of a user upgrading their own RAM like a service RPI is providing.

RPI paid to design the board, sold them, then spent more money to make an update to prevent users from modifying a developer board in certain ways? That makes zero sense, and can only serve to alienate the very clientele that are paying their bills.

All joking aside if....

And if you want to block Google's AI Overviews, there's over 100 extensions to choose from.

...there are literally a hundred extensions to block this, maybe instead you might think of making ONE to add it. And just leaving it out.

Ya think?

I've watched the "runs". This isn't playing Doom. This is the "fly" sitting in the middle of a single room with four opponents that shoot at it and lasting about six or seven seconds of game time.

This was by no means a fruit fly brain playing doom. It was an exercise in interfacing Doom to a fruit fly brain which gets squashed in Doom about as fast as it does in my kitchen.

What a colossal waste of time. Predictably, when you take 139,255 neurons and place them in a situation they are utterly unequipped to handle they fail to handle it. Good science boyz!

I'm not interested in what savings, I'm interesting in what software? What software does Oracle have that is worth actually giving them ANY amount of money for today?

Lexmark invented the weaponization of ink and Toner, but it was HP that took it to a fine art. Where you can buy a cartridge but not actually own the ink in it or the right to use it. I moved on to Brother some years ago and never looked back. I wrote an article about it seven years ago, and have never regretted dropping them. And the Brother MFC-J6945DW I moved to then, I still use it. Large format, fantastic quality, giant refillable cartridges. My price per page over and above the cost of paper is a rounding error.

You're right. Meet Excelcia, the Slashdot monitoring and control AI.

That's a funny way of explaining that they neglected to implement proper security measures and backup measures for decades.

The security measures I can forgive. Or, rather, I can extend them the benefit of the doubt. There are so many vectors and ins, I'm willing to issue a mulligan on that.

But the backup... what is the difference between a ransomware attack and a hard drive failure? Only the predicate intent. The result is identical.

So while I have room for tolerance for a security failure, I have no tolerance for the aftermath. Anyone can get hit by it, but being harmed by it for more than a day, that's on them. Anything more than a day's down time to re-image every hard drive and firmware back to known good, is just simply incompetence.

Tero said: How did this article even get published?

It's a great article. There are a lot of apps, use cases, and workflows that can be duplicated in Linux, but which aren't obvious or well advertised. An article like this encourages people to share those workflows they have had problems duplicating and then others who have duplicated them or found other solutions can share them. Great idea. The lowest quality (or one of) part of this article was your comment.

couchslug said: Maintaining the low quality of Slashdot is a mysterious choice by its owners whose replacement by AI would be an upgrade.

...and here we have a tie for the other lowest quality part of this article. Great name, by the way. Matches your attitude. If you want to make a complaint, then offer a solution with it. If you hate Slashdot in general so much, why are you here? We have all watched the site slowly suffer from not having any energy input into the system, but maybe dragging it down further isn't the answer. Can you even see the irony of bitterly complaining about the lack of effort the owners are putting in?

Both of you, add some energy to the system, or vote with your feet. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Depends what you mean by video editor.

For transcoding, de and re-muxing, filtering, cropping, resizing, de-interlace, and some splicing with the equivalent audio capabilities (basically for format bashing with enough splicing ability to piece together pieces of movies, for example, spread over multiple discs) you have avidemux.

You have other tools like MKVToolNix, Mediainfo and MakeMKV for direct Matroska editing, meta-data vewing, and DVD/Blu-Ray ripping respectively too.

For video authoring with splices, fades, effects, animations, titles, with good timeline support, you have openshot.

Bah,

Made a typo in the quoting but I'm sure you can figure it out.

Would you actually be cheering if he was using Linux and had gotten away with his ransomware spree?

I would be cheering regardless of the end-use of the computer if the method used to apprehend the suspect was not frighteningly draconian. Yes.

It's not a win for anybody.

Indeed, invasion of privacy is not a remedy for crime.

These are the same arguments that legislators and law enforcement are using the world over to erode privacy. To institute "age verification" (which is really just tracking by another name) and to brand everything you do. This is the pre-internet equivalent to tattooing a serial number on everyone and then recording that number at every checkpoint and building access in order to track people. Good thing no one ever did that.

Oh.... wait....

There are many American vs "Rest of the English Speaking World" spellings that don't matter. This one does, as they are two very different things with completely different etymologies and histories.

A check is an action you perform to investigate, and perhaps a mark you make to indicate an investigation or task is completed.
A cheque is a financial instrument used to transfer funds.

If the British can set aside their hatred of all things French long enough to use the correct loan word, then even Americans can get it right.