Good, I'm glad she's leaving. She's pushed the EFF in a bad direction, and forced John Gilmore (one of the founders of the EFF out).

I think the replacement choice is obvious - bring Gilmore back as Executive Director.

If you can do everything you need to do in the language, then anything else is fluff.

C++ supports a wide variety of paradigms and practices. You don't need to learn all of them, just one. And if you stick to modern C++, it is a clean and easy language.

>... what he thinks of modern C++ where the learning curve for newbies is now getting close to vertical. Speaking as a C++ dev of 25 years I wouldn't go near the language now if I was starting out, the number of paradigms and syntactic complexity has become ridiculous. And yes, if you're going to work on code written by others you do need to know and understand all these paradigms.

C++ is the easiest to learn now in, like, ever.

It's a mistake you have to know all the ins and outs of the language. The minimal set you need to do interesting things is quite small and it is much more usable than ever. I haven't had a memory leak or other memory issue since I switched over to modern C++ 10+ years ago.

Well, I had one once, but I did it deliberately to see if my tools (ASAN) would detect it. It did.

I can't believe this is even a serious discussion.

Everyone who matters *knows* who the successor is already. Greg KH. He's already done the Linus job in his absence. No one who matters will challenge this.

There will be no "fight"; all the major subsystem developers know and respect him as Linus's "shadow".

The real, more interesting question is who is the natural successor to Greg KH?

One of the top developers obviously, but which? Andrew Morton? Ingo Molnár? Theodore Ts'o? There are quite a few possible candidates.

I use Firefox as my main browser.

I can't uninstall Chrome though, because so many sites break on Firefox (and like major sites too, like Gencon's website or really annoying things like hotel wifi login sites) I have to keep Chrome around to keep my computer usable.

I don't care about Pocket or these other useless things. All I want from Firefox is for them to figure out why their tech stack is incompatible with Chrome and fix it. Even if it's not standards compatible. Make a compatibility layer so I can uninstall Chrome spyware.

Are you okay with your phone being less water resistant then?

Yes, I don't bathe with it.

How about less battery as the phone must now be designed to be opened and internal volume sacrificed?

You didn't even read what you're replying to, moron. They. Don't. Care. If. It. Is. Thicker.

So you have the *same* battery in a slightly *bigger*, openable case.

Fuck's sake, you're a thicko.

This outcome from China was inevitable and has been their plan all along. Did Trump's tactics speed up the outcome? Maybe. But to blame him for what was China's obvious strategy all along seems a bit disingenuous.

That's your opinion. An alternative view would be that China knows that cutting off the supply totally and precipitately (even if just temporarily) is somewhat of a nuclear option which they would have been reluctant use if not for Trump's "tactics", since it may not work out to their advantage in the medium term. Using alternative sources and building refineries in different countries now becomes more attractive and may be state subsidised and facilitated as a national security matter, which will potentially undermine China's position in future.

So, interestingly, the biggest thing driving planned obsolescence right now as far as I can tell is MS pushing windows 10 out, and so many devices unable to meet the hardware requirements for Win 11

The article didn't mention if these machines would be set up with older Windows or with Linux, though I'm going to guess it will be the former.

I do developer support for an SDK, and thus I have a lot of customers in India, so I have some sense of one part of this: an incredibly strong "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude. I regularly have customers using a 10 or even 15 year outdated version of our SDK they're trying to work with - it worked well enough that they didn't need to update and so they didn't. Many of these folks are also using really outdated Windows. I'll admit it's been a while since I've seen someone actively using XP still, but I still often see win 7. We don't officially tell them "no we won't support you" but we will tell them "if your issue is fixed in a newer version, you need to upgrade, we can't backport fixes to ancient versions.", and over time, those ancient windows systems have been mostly replaced... I'd guess though that just like other OS versions, a huge number of folks will continue to use outdated / unsupported versions long past end of life...

Granted, this isn't just India - but I do think they have extra large motivation and that repair culture there (as mentioned in TFA) to keep older hardware limping along, and probably using out of support Windows.. I kind of shudder at the security implications... but I also kind of really admire the ingenuity and resourcefulness.

The whole windows 10 end of life due to hardware requirements is indeed going to drive a lot of waste of perfectly serviceable hardware - honestly, I kind of hope it finds its way to the bodgers / makers / hackers rather than landfills.. but I do kind of wish there was more Linux uptake to lessen the number of unpatched/unpatchable vulnerable machines out there.

The tournament was for a few thousand dollars, if you think that Elon only getting $750 instead of a thousand makes any sort of difference for someone remembering something three decades later, I have a bridge to sell you.

The fact of the matter is that even if it was a small tournament, coming in second place is coming in second place, and it was the first professional Quake tournament, so to call Elon lying about it after finding proof he wasn't lying about it just shows that Jobst has negative integrity.

I don't like lots of people, I suppose, but I don't just invent lies about them.

If you want to call yourself some sort of reporter as Jobst does, you can't undercover conclusive evidence someone wasn't lying and then still say they're lying if you have any integrity at all.

Jobst ran a video accusing Elon of lying about being a good quake player here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And in the video it turns out that Jobst did, in fact, find conclusive evidence that Elon did in fact come in second place in the first professional Quake tournament. Which is all Elon ever claimed. But Jobst still claims, somehow, that Elon is lying because it was A) a small tournament, and B) Elon had a fast internet connection from working at a startup. So what? The claim checked out. The fact that Jobst still calls it more or less a lie tells you everything you need to know about Jobst's intellectual honesty.

>This is clear evidence that the problem is not that people are no longer interested in having a night out watching a film but that Hollywood is having real trouble making films that are popular.

Yeah. Since the pandemic I have seen: Dune, Dune 2, and the Super Mario Movie (for some reason). That's it.

And what I've noticed is that when I'm out of theaters and not getting theater promo reels, I'm a lot less aware even of what movies are out there, so I don't go to them either.

From what movie trailers I have seen none of them interest me, and when I walk past posters for movies at the mall none of them catch my interest either.

I watched literally every Marvel movie except one before Endgame, and have seen exactly zero Marvel movies since then, since they all seem to have gone into the toilet in terms of writing quality.

I think it's mainly a matter of Hollywood not making good movies.

IF (and that if statement is doing some really heavy lifting here) I could trust Meta, I'd gladly pay for an official "no ads, not tracking" experience.. however, that if has an and to it...

The and being "AND they provide a default 'no algorithm, just show me my friends feed' experience"

Yes I know you can use
https://www.facebook.com/?filt...

To kind of get that but like ... make it work.

The issues with FB are not just about the ads but about their constant need to "get you to engage" it leads to the algorithm pushing the most outrage it can to build engagement.

I use Facebook because I have a lot of meat-space people I want to keep in contact with - a bunch of friends who I might not be intimately involved in their day to day lives but with whom I share a connection and like to kind of "keep an ear out" when they have something important in their life..

I never felt connected to a community on twitter (before it was Xhitter) and or on BlueSky etc.. that is great as a "digital town square" where you go to interact with a more public sphere..

But the way I like to use Facebook is to have a nice private bubble of people I actually want to interact with.

Social bubbles CAN be bad but so long as it's an 'objective reality/truth permeable membrane' (as in so long as your bubble is insulating you from horrible people but not from objective reality/truth) then I think social bubbles can be good and even necessary - to keep one from constantly "drinking from the fire-hose"

So yeah, IF I could trust Meta, IF they'd honor the actual do not track and no ads, not boosted or sponsored content, and IF I could get an experience that isn't algorithmically directed toward outrage and "engagement" I'd gladly pay for it.

If it wasn't such a PITA, I'd probably look into using a VPN to come in via a European country and get a paid account under those rules - cuz you know they're not gonna offer it here in the US where we have absolute shite data protection laws

I once wrote a Tic Tac Toe AI that was unbeatable.

Wherever you moved, it would simply make the same move on top of you, replacing your X with an O.

I think the solarpunk and cheap web folks are onto something

https://potato.cheap/