Honestly I thought they shut that thing down years ago. I stopped using it when it was completely taken over by bots and became impossible to find good paying jobs, but for a while I made some nice beer money on the side from it.
Futures generations will look back at these times and how "simple" and "awesome" they were. You're part of something bigger and you have a front row seat.
The auctions are in the Futures and Options trading. Beans, gasoline, everything is in there.
They've had 13 years to get a certified replacement.
This was my very first thought reading the article also, there's zero reason to continue using physical floppies on devices that require them when more reliable systems are available.
A (slightly- confused] excerpt:
FTFY
AI, or what passes for AI these days (ie. not AI), can not be regulated. The cat is out of the bag. This isn't like nuclear regulation where it can be physically controlled (and even that doesn't work; eg. North Korea). You're not going to stop some mad scientist in the basement from creating something harmful.
Instead of regulation what needs to be worked on is technologies to defend against AI threats.
Windows 2000 was the best ever made. It is the last true version of Windows NT. NT kept getting better with every release. Each was faster, smaller, more stable. It was going places, the legacy of OS/2.
Then they merged all the Windows 95/ME crap to make XP. Windows never recovered from that blunder.
Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.
The absolute best? There is only one choice:
GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone.
There are cheaper phone alternatives like LineageOS on supported Androids but it doesn't have the functionality of Graphene.
CalyxOS is similar to but not as good as Graphene but maybe worth a try. Also Pixel-only.
Thus spake the master programmer:
"Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
be maintained."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.
It's clear more countries should've had a song to explain the situation.
Please give us demonstrable results, not marketing wank. Then we might believe you. All you have to do is simply show actual provable results. It's easy because scammers can't do it. Just do it...
Solar roadways, anyone?
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
