Because it would be hugely expensive to put them back in 2 years, and thus 'wasteful'. And it would break the continuity of data. What a bunch of cunts this administration is. When all is said and done I seriously hope some of them will be found out to have colluded with foreign powers and hung for treason.

I always knew there would be a time when I wouldn't know the top famous singer... But a time when I wouldn't have any idea how to pronounce his name, no, I did not expect that. But back on topic, good; but now throw the entire Trump crime family in the slammer for insider traffic too. Why do *they* get a free pass ?!? Or rather a *very* lucrative pass.

Well, speaking for myself, I've always used Xilinx for my embedded OS related projects, but the choice was actually done by the hardware guys.

Do people actually double-boot ? I tried it in the early 2000 to try Linux out, but once you have your tools setup on one OS, you are reluctant to reboot and break all your workflow. Running the lesser OS in a VM is the way to go and has been for a long time.

Another thing that pisses me off is the language confusion. I have a system in english, google is configured in english and when I do a search in english all the top replies are in the language of the country I'm in.

Yeah, right.

My server got compromised last week by this, Slashdot is quite far behind.

There's two new exploits in the Copy Fail class that do privilege escalation everyone should be worried about on shared servers. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo) and Dirty Frag (https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag)

I am rather disappointed that Ubuntu sat on these LPEs for a month without releasing a fix.

If you cannot prove either A or (non A), then A doesn't exist. Or doesn't matter.

Podcasts have always pissed me off: I can read the same text in 1/3rd the time it takes to listen to the podcast. They are good only when driving. Caveat emptor: my wife listens to hers at 16x the speed but I can't do that.

Yes. And 3 days ago he fired the entire National Science Board...

How can you move the cursor in less than 10 minutes with a trackpoint ?!? I just noticed for the 1st time there's one on the keyboard I'm currently using and I tried it. And that's really the time it takes me to move the cursor anywhere.

Yup, been running like that for well over 20 years. Windows is shit and I'll retire long before I am forced to use Win11.

I don't understand why there's not more choice in laptop options. Keyboard with/without numpad, with/without Windows or Option or AltGr key, with/without Home/End/Insert/Del/PgUp/PgDown/Arrow key. Touchpad with/without bottom buttons, top buttons or nipple. I'm typing this on a 13 year old Dell 19" with a fantastic keyboard that still runs Kubuntu perfectly. I recently bought a used laptop for a family member and I had a hard time finding one with a usable keyboard.

Anecdote time: when working in the US a couple decades ago, we used to go eat lunch downtown and would take turns driving with colleagues filling our car. Once I rode with a secretary. She backed out of her parking spot brutally and without looking. It was scary. A colleague, trying to stay polite:

• Why don't you look before backing up?
• And how exactly do you expect me to do that?
• Well, you could turn your head, or look into your rearview mirror...
• Ha! they do that in the movies!

Needless to say I never set foot in her car again.

As it turns out, I and a lot of other people are willing to pay a fee to avoid seeing ads, so the shows do actually get funded anyway.

I hate ads with a passion, and miss the old days of the internet where people would get mad at you for advertising.