Still, nothing to do with Windows 11 requirements.

But the Xbox One is basically a laptop PC made in 2013. Nothing to do with Windows 11 requirements.

Which is why, as many people pointed out at the time the root servers were opened up to all these new gTLDs, that this is just a license for the successful registrars running each gTLD to print money at the expense of everyone with a brand they have to protect. In most cases, they were absolutely right on the money; .biz being the classic example, almost immediately becoming a wretched hive of online scum and villainy most mail server operators equally rapidly blocked outright. (I am curious though; does anyone actually try and host a legit .biz domain these days? I don't think I've ever come across one.)

I'll give you, there are some pretty cool options for host/domain names under .web, especially with an arachnid theme or things like "web.web.web", that might become useful and popular for some groups, but apart from those - which Verisign, being Verisign, will no doubt have a special procurement process for to maximise their investment - the rest will almost certainly be parked/redirected brandname protection, a vast number of of scammer sites, and a handful of vanity projects that 99.99% of people probably won't even know about, and probably wouldn't care about if they did.

None of which changes the fundamental point that we seldom care about URLs any more. We click on links in apps, webpages, emails, etc., ideally having done some kind of due diligence to make sure the link is hopefully OK, or just cut and paste from the browser bar to put it into something we are writing. Functionally, "bankofamerica.com" is no different from "bankofamerica.web", or any other gTLD/ccTLD they might care to suffix it with, and it wouldn't make any difference to their service if all the other TLDs went away, unless they wanted to do some kind of content localisation based on a ccTLD rather than some other approach to achieve that.

Sam Altman is also a psychotic sociopath. He's probably pitching "Project Skynet" to Trump and Pete Hegseth right now - "Look how effective our tools clearly are! You could be using them against China, Iran, Cuba ..." [checks notes] "Um, Greenland, Canada, Democrats (especially Obama & Biden!), E. Jean Carroll, the BBC... And for the low, low price of..." [pinky finger] "one trillion dollars, we can be up and running by, let's say... 2029?"

That would be a neat trick.

Hence my prior comment about OSS developers elsewhere on /., hahahah.

I can't even open finance.yahoo.com anymore in Firefox.

I just don't get it. There's nothing special about my machine.

I guess I'll just go back to using my broker's website.

Quality code wasn't the problem in my case. I've been gainfully employed based on that aspect.

They are just jerks.

I've had the same experience with Linux enthusiasts.

Open Source projects attract a certain kind of personality. That's part of the reason I don't contribute anymore.

More of this?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's bad, but Microsoft has a awfully large number of lines of code to run through Mythos or whatever (whether they need that many is a whole other discussion). A more useful metric on overall code quality would be how many bugs are being found per 10k lines of code compared to their peers (including FLOSS); e.g. if Microsoft ran 10m SLOC through Mythos to get those 570 bugs, and a smaller project ran 1m SLOC and got 57 bugs, then you could reasonably argue that their code quality is about on a par with the smaller project. It's still Apples to Oranges though, because some coding solutions are going to be much more challenging to code, and therefore more likely to contain bugs.

On the upside, we're probably going to get several months of this while everyone with access to Mythos et al runs their existing code through it and integrates into their release processes for new code, and the end result will be things being much harder for all the bad actors in the world. Even if you don't use the improved code yourself, that's hopefully going to have a significant impact on the number and size of all the botnets out there, and that's a net benefit to everyone apart from the bad actors.

It wasn't terrible, but it was the enterprises who banned Google Desktop Search that killed the product because it was considered "spyware."

But, then, they still allow Microsoft Search, which eventually got the same "spyware" features as Google Desktop Search.

Remember when enterprises banned Google Desktop Search?
But, then, still allowed Microsoft Search, with the exact same remote privacy concerns that Google had?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Okay, thanks. I have a several original Model Ms of various types and a couple of Unicomp models, too.

I always wanted a Model F, especially that one with the crazy number of function keys used on the color versions of the IBM SNA 3270-family mainframe terminals of the 1980s and 1990s.

I didn't know IBM made Model F keyboards with a mouse stick.

All I have are various IBM Modem M keyboards with a mouse stick and another without a keypad.

I sure would like to add a Model F keyboard to my IBM keyboard collection.