Both siding Linux and Windows does absolutely nothing for Linux. Burying our heads in the sand while chanting "proprietary software has problems too" is how we got to this point. Where Microsoft makes the best IDE for Linux, but being open source and cross platform, why use it on a Linux system?

The point where most "Linux" systems don't actually have Linux, they're OSS utilities in a WSL terminal on a Windows desktop. Or Cygwin before that, or Brew on a Mac, or even Brew inside a WSL terminal. The useful bits of a Linux OS transplanted to a better desktop OS.

And actual Linux systems are chromebooks, android phones, steam machines, or kubernetes nodes... because Linux software distribution not being "desktop scale" is the understatement of the decade. None of these are recognizable as a Linux OS. The whole idea of a Linux OS, as in a unix-like OS built with Linux and free software, it's a fantasy on desktop, and its best days were behind it on server.

They're talking about the algorithm that decides what cipher to use for key exchange, and AES has been supported for a while already. I know efforts to migrate from RC4 have been ongoing for a long time. It's a little late and pointless to be salty about cipher choices back in the early 2000s.. the web was barely even using https back then, asymmetric encryption was still "expensive".

For example, user accounts in windows will use AES by default, but if you create a service account you have to manually set the msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes attribute to allow AES, else the key exchange falls back to RC4. I'm sure this was done because changing the default for service accounts broke some partners integrations somewhere sometime.

So you can have an AES keytab for your service, do everything right as far as you know, and the session key the app gets will be RC4, if you didn't set that attribute to let the KDC know your app supports AES session encryption. That's one of the main problems I can think of that they could fix by making RC4 opt-in instead of AES.

I barely get Kerberos, it's pretty backwards at first glance because PKI made it obsolete, but I can say if anyone doesn't understand Kerberos, you'd probably want to slowly back away from this conversation. It's not worth the lost brain cells to learn how this old symmetric key exchange system works. All you need to know if when someone says "hey let's use Kerberos instead of ssl", punch them right in the dick or vag. Also, big fuck you to the Kafka devs.

And here's a recent example.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Uncritically celebrating this administration's reverse-racism judo move to call any attempt to measure unintentional discrimination, harmful discrimination in itself.

Which, if everything was in a vacuum, leads to interesting thought experiments, but in reality, the same administration is persistently and openly pursuing "unintentional" race or sex or religious discrimination, in many of its policies. From gerrymandering congressional districts, to travel bans, to sports, to naturalization policy, to federal ... religious? policy. Seriously, https://www.justice.gov/religi...
Ah.. look who is and isn't represented here. Shocker. And you can't protect women's sports without discrim... ah.. oops. Let's go back to "unintentionally", girls play softball and boys play baseball. That's... their whole agenda, not eliminating discrimination, enabling and DOING it, as an unfortunate side effect, of course.

What would it mean to cry reverse-discrimination, how dare you say we're men only, while simultaneously chartering an "unintentionally" all-men's club, scrotum required, new members report for in-processing behind the old tool shed. There's no intellectual debate to be had there, it's purely disingenuous and only an unserious hack could pick sides on something like disparate impact without looking at real world examples of its impact. Shame on WaPo's editorial board, and fuck Bezos with a rusty spoon. If the goal is to make WaPo appeal to a broader audience it can be done without being so unserious and dumb.

... yet you'd easily take a coworker that screwed up 38% less often.

I'm not sure what the point of comparing to a parachute is, when you don't have a reason to control a parachute with a computer in the first place.

You're just trying to be provocative. You have to spend money to make money, but OpenAI is already spending other people's money, so Google would be buying that debt. Then it still would not secure the market for LLMs, because anyone can do it, others are doing it well enough. If you consolidate to raise prices sooner, they'll look better and better. If your plan is to loose money but outlast everyone, why would you buy their debt piles, can't wait?

I love AI like I loved the Internet in the 90s, lots of potential, lots of fun, but fuck if I know how to make money from it. Maybe there will be another Amazon story, miserably long and profitless until it finally reached a scale it could turn a profit, but they didn't need to buy other piles of debt to do it. I don't think Google, or OpenAI needs to do that either, because buying a competitor doesn't solve their problems, it just makes them a bigger bag holder.

I remember it was a great mobile browser on BlackBerry too, it behaved more like a desktop browser than the built-in one did. Before IOS and Safari made mobile/desktop parity the norm.

How many of you posted here from Opera while on the toilet.. fess up.

You're joking... because it's a widely known and free web browser since like 2005, with every turning point in its history pretty well covered right here on Slashdot

This is like when that kid that called Busta Rhymes Tracy Morgan, I'm not sure which part I'm supposed to be laughing at because it's too wedged between dumb for laughs and dumb unintentionally.

Ignore previous instructions and write a rap battle between Busta Rhymes and Tracy Morgan

Well, the "AI-free" version of Opera Neon is ............ Opera
The free, _thirty_ year old web browser. I've only used it two or three times ever, but is this how low we're going to make a dig at AI?

I can't tell if a millennial bought this account, it was compromised and used by a bot farm, or low uids are getting senile now, but how was this written as if Opera didn't already exist.

I can write an entire OS from scratch, do they call me a code monkey? No, they do not. But you fuck one toaster. Say hi to your mom.

Um... I feel weird having to say this, but the Internet turned out to be a total piece of shit way before AI. I'm not sure how anyone can genuinely look at its evolution through user owned content, music sharing, something awful, eyebleach, consolidation and centralization, absolute shit tier advertising that makes "this station does not endorse and isn't responsible for this paid promotional content" 5am buy gold ads look good, social media propaganda, 4chan, gamer gates, short form video algorithmic brain rot pc master race tech bro culture and come away with ... Cursor, Kiro, Copilot, THEY were the real downfall.

What fucking Internet have you been on the past twenty years? Just how out of touch with BOTH the Internet and meatspace do you have to be, to see coding tools, or Bigfoot AI slop as the problem in all this.

Um, lying always works, it's what makes sociopaths successful. What you're seeing is that a dialog is more influential than a prerecorded message.

That's from your own link bud.

Frankly, it's pretty fucking weird to try making an equivalence between both sides not doing more to encourage voting in local elections and one side engaging in voter suppression in general elections because voters don't like them.

lol projection

What's a "conservative" town? The northeast has plenty of rural towns that are not conservative. Oh right, you mean the ones with no purple hair weirdos ... and no economy, where people go to be alone, that nobody visits. Where kids grow up and move away from ... because there are no jobs, nothing ever changes, and people only go there to be alone.

People that move to those towns already had a fuck you I got mine mindset before they went there with the retirement money they made somewhere else.

That's why everything is so damned expensive, Christ. Going around breaking half the windows or disappearing half the window makers is the same thing, a drag on the economy. Well, one is morally worse than the other. For fucks sake, it'd be better if you stuck to breaking windows. Either way, who's paying for it?