I'd start with

- Space Invaders
- MUD (Essex University)
- Wolfenstein 3D

but I defer to more seasoned players

It's pretty obvious isn't it: don't have a "class" who have all the "money numbers".
(I say "money numbers" because that's all they are, numbers on computers, there to be changed. They're not some magical unearthly absolute. Humanity can change them as Humanity Sees Fit, overnight, if Humanity gets the idea and the power.)
So: reward useful work, not ownership. And all you have to do to get started, in the current world, the current system, is to put slowly increasing limits on how rich people can be versus the poorest (as you say) - things like that. Because if a person's only interest in doing useful new things is how much of the "money numbers" they can extract for themself - how many giant yachts they can buy while people in their "workforce" (insulting term, sorry) struggle to survive, then you're a filthy human and Humanity would be so much better off without you.
Sadly, those same people are in charge of political parties, press etc. So whatcha got, Tech World?

Wait - 3 years, to dig out 800,000 tons of rock, drag it up, and then store it down a mine...?

I would have just used the mine. :)

And when a near-future coding A.I. is trained on every bit of code and every tech spec out there, and some kid asks it to "find a way to disable the power grid in California," and it succeeds, because it is a million times more capable as a hacker than any human dev... what then? After that happens, you then think, "oh wait, I see what you mean now"? Bit late?

You say you think it's unlikely? Because, by some miracle, you personally know the true limits of LLMs in a couple of years - or because you like AI, so, you have to say all the bad things are unlikely?

Trump's also part of the much-more-powerful *Russian* crime syndicate...

Maybe the fault is Apple's assumption that once you'd put it on you'd never take it off again.

Thankyou very much for the link, re the charges, which I've just read.

It does seem that Manning sent him part of one particular password, and we don't know what he did with it - except to use the words at one point "no luck so far" - and (since no resultant intrusion is then mentioned) it would seem this particular password was not cracked, and that nothing happened as a result of any action of his.

So AFAICT no part of the access and release of information was aided in any way by any illegal activity of his.

I recall reading at the time that he was being accused of advising someone on password cracking. (Advising and failing, it seems.)

Now, this is *bad*. I can't tell from the charges whether he overtly offered help, and it sure looks like he didn't manage to provide help. But it's bad. Like, a few years in jail bad, maybe?

But it would be ridiculous to think that what's happened to him since then, ie years in Solitary in the UK's most high-security dungeon and a likely (brief) lifetime in a similar US cell, is because of this. (Compare vs what Manning did, or anyone really.) He is, however, the guy who embarrassed the hell out of the US and showed the world that the US can be as big a bunch of barbarians as any "evil dictatorship". And it would be massively helpful to any future US barbarism if journalists were wildly afraid of revealing any they encounter.

And this is why so much of the world, even among your "friends", hate America. Which is a great shame. Please stop being so barbaric, and stop trying to destroy journalists who expose it.

(My apologies if I misread / misunderstand what Assange did.)

Even your so-called allies, in very friendly countries, find this sort of thing utterly despicable, and despair of our own governments' inability to stand up to this evil.

It was down for me too, here in the south of England, all afternoon. First time, for me.

Perhaps it's people whose surnames start with "S".

Or people who've recently said Bad Things online about Apple.

The last 25 years, tech breakthrough after tech breakthrough promises incredibly exciting "restaurant recommendations". App after Service after Site after...

Who Cares. Think of something better?

I'm glad I kept my main (2008) PC on Windows 7, instead of "upgrading" to an unusable spyware-laden expiring alternative...

It does sound, from the description, as if they're trying to hide away this new functionality *unless* you deliberately open that tool-window. Which should solve your problem. I do hope so.

(I'm with you: my introduction to Paint.NET was that it was an app where none of the main drawing tools worked (line, box etc)! After much perseverance I discovered they *were* all actually happening, but on a hidden layer, ie you couldn't see them happening. Staggeringly bad UI/UX. Fine *if* you work out why...)

is such anti-competitive behaviour legal?!

I'll be attending the next Police Auction then.

...things are very often not so crystal clear. This is why persuasive lawyers get paid vast amounts of money. And if you are a solo-person inventor/patenter, you cannot afford to take part in such fights.

I've no idea whether this particular legislation is a good attempt or a bad one, but doing something to protect individual inventors from vastly expensive legal processes is a great thing.

(And equally, providing a way to quickly rub out a genuinely bad patent, e.g. when you have clearly found Prior Art later, is equally important.)

Perhaps an arbiter deciding whether a case is "crystal clear" is appropriate for solo patenters - or perhaps you can think of a better idea.