My point was more that politicized interventions in universities tend to fail miserably, because they ignore the economics of the sector and create perverse incenstives instead.

The FS itself is likely not being removed because it is one with implementations outside of MacOS (For instance my camera can be hooked to an HFS drive) But HFS Encrypted was always a take-your-life-into-your-own-hands thing. If you got a sector corruption, thats an unrecoverable loss of the whole FS. Whereas unencrypted, it just took a rebuiold of the FAT and you could at least recover the majority. It *highly* unlikely anything other than MacOS supported the encryption.

While its a PITA to lose that support, theres really not a lot to lose by doing so, whilst losing unencrpyted HFS breaks a lot of third party device integrations.

Yes but no.

They could have left support for old drivers. They're dropping support for the encrypted drivers they used to support.

For your comparison, the thing about encrypted overlays on file systems is that the encrypted overlay works independently. People will move simply by virtue of using a natively-encrypted file system is easier and more convenient than an overlay system. But nothing precludes the use of an overlay if people want to do it themselves.

In this case there is no more support. It's a migration at gunpoint: "migrate or lose your data".

For lots of users it's a whole lot of nothing. Lots of people have already moved over years ago. For old archives and legacy systems, it's brutal. Re-encrypt the old archives, re-encrypt the old systems, or lose them.

Our AI which is nothing like a brain or neural network, but we're going to tell you they are even though no one knows how a brain functions. I begin to think these guys are drinking the kool-aid.

So if someone posts your image to an Instagram account without your permission Meta suddenly owns your likeness and the ability to derive images from it ?
What if you are in media and your image is your income ? Does Meta get to remake the images of "Models" for ads on their platform ?
Will you find your own image in some ad ?

Its insanely tone deaf too. Almost everyone I know (I hang in a circle with a lot of professional photographers and artists) either have, or are planning to, removed their instagram accounts.

Meta grossly misunderstands the level of sheer animosity the photography and arts community , the people that built it, has towards a technology that has laid waste to the economy of the creative industries and put so many photographers and artists out of work.

I still like RTMark's idea from back in the day about this stuff.

If the courts insist that corporations are people, then the court should be willing to sentence a corporation to death when it kills people.

My little conspiracy theory on all this is Microsoft central put the order in that everyone has to use vibecoding from now on to write their code, and the ID engineers pushed back because theres no way even the high end Fable type models would be able to handle game engine kernel code. Fuckin thing cant even understand threading properly (At least in my experience) and so HQ decided they where "Unproductive" and fired them.

Management are in for a rude shock when it comes time to ask Claude to write the next IdTech engine and it shits the bed.

We need better ones who do their jobs instead of wasting their time being political activist

Well if I ever meet one I'm sure I'll pass that message on. But the vast majority of scientists are profoundly uninterested in activism. Which is a bummer. I work in climate science and most of those guys really OUGHT get political but its just not how the field rolls.

Oh man theres a comical tyrany of perverse incentives when it comes to government interventions in universities.

We had this turbo-conservative govt here in australia, John Howard, awful dude, but his govt tried to smash the humanities by adjusting how the uni fees work (We pay fees, but they become tax loans that start being paid off once income hits average wage. Its a fucked system, but there are more-fucked systems so, que cera. I *guess*).

Anyhow the plan was , was to massively increase the fees paid to do a humanities degree while slashing the fees for science degrees. The problem was, they lowered the fees so much that the universities couldn't afford to put on the more important science degrees, so universities started dropping sciences and focusing on the now highly profitable humanities degrees. It didnt effect much what students chose, because 17yos are rarely good at reasoning about money and future incomes, and anyway, statistically humanities graduates get higher incomes (science wages suck, trust me. Especially if you work in a field the govt actively wants to shut down like climate change, like I do.). So engineering, metalurgy, chemistry , *especially* physics which was always an expensive course to run, all those degrees started closing down and the "degree in surfing"* humanities degrees that the govt bitched about thrived.

So the govts idiotic attempt at market manipulation just made the whole thing even more skewed against their desired goal;- Stopping students from questioning their world.

*although ironically the "degree in surfing" the govt used as its example was refering to a unit in the sports medicine degree that dealt with injuries in water sports. It actually didn't do great because of those funding cuts to science.

I believe microsoft stopped enforcing those FAT patents a while back and actually donated them to the OIN mutual defence patent pool (Its a pool of patents designed to protect linux.)

The offending code was apparently a single file with some enums in it, that was a published part of the old AT&T C ccode that had long since passed into public domain. SCO never had a single line of code that it could point to and claim it owned.

Especially since the actual unix code SCO did have the rights to *actually* belonged to Novel and Novel where NOT happy with SCO running off and breaking its licensing agreement with Novel by launching unauthorized lawsuits.

The fact Zuckerberg wasnt chased away from facebook by angry investors with pitchforks over blowing $80 Bil on fantasy bullshit is pretty clear proof that the market isnt just irrational but actively insane.

The halls of power are patrolled by lunatics.

If GoDaddy is concerned, good. They are the worst of the registrars and probably half the reason we have sketchy stuff on the internet.

I wonder if I could use on of my old Kindle displays ? Not that I have or am going to have a steam machine but the concept is really cool. I use my old Gal.Tab3 with their desktop emu now to handle messenger and email when I am gaming.