This is excellent news for all experienced tech people, our time to become tech shamans has come!
We will be the only ones who actually still understand the whole mess and how things work.
Unfortunately it will be increasingly difficult for juniors to ever get a chance to work and learn, which means they will almost not become senior, which pushes experienced people even higher.
Hail the Omnissiah and evoke the rite of the power cycle!

So you think it is just a massive coincidence that States in the US are suddenly enforcing the exact same think-about-the-children as the entire EU, all at the same time?
And they all attack OperatingSystems as well, all the way to F/OSS like Linux?

Just micro$oft doing typical micro$oft things. The clippy that keeps on giving!

It was never about age verification at all, so they do not care that the actual age checks fail.

The infrastructure, the global legal frameworks and policies are in place, that is all that mattered to them.

If proton can runs games, it can absolutely run your tax software. Just add to Steam and launch with proton - this should work for pretty much all windos software, really. You could do it all manually but linking it in Steam is just easier.

Anyone had any doubt that this is EXACTLY what would happen once micro$oft got its claws into GitHub?
That is what they have been doing since at least the 90s.

Sublime Text is also a great option Im very happy with - and I agree that N++ shines specifically on Windos, it was designed and written for that desktop / UI philosophy while Sublime comes much more from mac traditions.

You should be more tolerant and inclusive about this, or else!

Why is this whole topic always presented as a foregone conclusion? Suddenly there is this alleged age verification (actual invasion of privacy) in bills and laws all over the Western world and there was never really any discussion about it, instead headlines are focused on minutiae.
And there is barely any pushback or actual discussion. This is very creepy to see.

That is a bit low, the youngens are really slacking off... or nobody really cares about socialmedia anymore anyway, it is nothing but a propaganda pipeline straight into your conscious and subconscious nowadays.

It has never been this cheap and easy to flood an entire society with your erosive filth.

Sadly it is going MUCH further than that...

> Got the community? Now bully and harass where ever you can online for recognition and a fake, forced and compelled sense of acceptance, preferably by absolutely everyone, to normalize what should only ever have been a 0.001% fringe extremism

> Latch on to some tribalism of other, larger, more tribal communities
> Bully even more people together.

> If the bullying goes well enough, branch out into calling any opposing opinions to literally be GENOCIDE, and force legal and political action to ban this unbelievable genocide because it is so, you know, so very gEnOcIdAl.. case in point, the GeNoCiDe against the deaf-community.

Purge! Purge! Purge!! Exterminatus!!!

Finding out this is apparently a-thing has been truly bewildering... the internet gives too much of a platform to too many of the absolutely most insane and extreme people out there.

Do you think you have it worse than someone in Iran, RuSSia, China or NorthKorea?

We used to dream of a cool future amongst the stars and with hoverboards, now all we actually get are lame agentic LLMs doing something half-random and asking for full permissions over everything everywhere because surely what could go wrong?