"Tell us: Who were your accomplices?"
"Never! I'm no rat!"

I would consider this to be a MAJOR issue!
Not encoding data before sending it? Is this the 1990s?
This is how you get all kinds of problems.
Didn't they learn from Bobby Tables?
https://xkcd.com/327/

Ah, I see. I read that wrong!

How about the other part of the article:
This change has been shown to regress some workloads significantly.
One reports regressions in various spec benchmarks, with up to 600% slowdown.

I have been running Wayland + Xorg for a few years now without issues.
With the release of KDE Plasma 6.1, I have now uninstalled Xorg.
I am now Wayland only.

I agree ...and I am Canadian.
This just proves to me that the government does not understand the internet.
Companies like Facebook and Google have been helping Canadian news companies by driving traffic to the news sites. They don't even charge news orgs for the service!
But then someone comes along and says, "hey, Google and Facebook have lots of money. We want some of that. You should keep referring people to us AND pay us for the privilege!"
Government is SHOCKED when G/F say "No thanks, news isn't our core business and that is just crazy".
News companies are at risk of losing over half of their traffic as a result.
Good thing the government is protecting Canadian business.

So, according to this handy calculator, running your AC (air conditioning, not you, Anonymous Coward) for 3 hours at this rate would cost you $26.
Yikes!

This leaves me with so many questions.
Do you understand the concept of multiple code branches?
A rolling release doesn't necessarily have to be the latest and greatest.
I don't see why you would equate the two.

What are these security concerns you mention and how do they differ from a traditional release cycle?
Do you not want to receive bug fixes in a timely fashion?

What is it about this that makes devs lazy and incompetent?
Should I not be more concerned about devs that use buggy and outdated library versions?

I am a Gentoo user. I have been using their rolling release for decades.
I don't understand what the concern is here.

Good day gentlemen. Sadly, nothing from Zero Wing.

I agree completely.
Talent: I believe that programming is largely a way of thinking. Either you have it or you don't.
Sure, anyone can learn to code. Few will be able to easily break down the task to its components and the creativity to design a solution.

Hard work: being a good programmer takes a lot of work. Hard work gets done when you have a passion for what you do.
I enjoy programming. After work, I am often researching and playing around with new ways of doing things.
I have worked with programmers with degrees who couldn't code their way out of a while loop. Someone told them this was the future
I don't think they will enjoy their career in tech support.

In contrast, I am not an artist. I never moved beyond drawing stick figures.
I have no talent, no interest and my brain doesn't think that way.
I'm glad I had some art classes in school even if just to find out that it wasn't for me.
I'm glad no one told me my future depended on being able to draw.

So... I am all for exposing kids to some basic programming.
I would like them to be able to answer these questions:

• Do I get this stuff?
• Do I like this stuff?
• Would I like to know more?

Exactly this. I think I should start marketing my super fast marking AI made from 300 lines of javascript!
I will add "AI Developer" to my resume tomorrow!

Ah yes, I've experienced the dreaded "IndentationError: unexpected indent on line 144" error.
Worst 30 seconds of my day.

Yes, Google+ is going away. Here comes Currents. But...
I got an email saying all my Google+ data will carry forward to Currents.

After careful analysis of the video, it is clear to me that the UFO is a Federation starship.
You can easily see the saucer section and the warp nacelles behind it.
Granted, this is an extremely rare sighting but it is not unprecedented as proven in the 1986 documentary Startrek The Voyage Home.