I would not call 3.2% growth for 2024 booming.

In other news, Italy is doing better than France, Italy being the one with the populist government. One has more recent immigrants than the other, and its not Italy; 11% of total population for Italy, 14% for France.

There are problems with a first world nation relying on third world immigrants to grow the economy. They will not integrate into the existing culture for a generation or two. They are not likely to have higher incomes, and provide higher taxes for a couple decades. And if they decide that the social safety net is good enough, they will never help reduce the debt. They will, unintentionally of course, increase the debt.

The UK is singled out for debt level because its suits the story writer's politics. The root cause is simple, and does not suit their politics, so they poke fun at the UK while ignoring everything else.

Wow, "with inclusion at the heart of its design". It is an inclusive ID as well.

E-Mail has never been secure. So their emails were found, authorities were concerned (probably) that the "news" story would compromise an investigation, and Proton followed the law.

As others have noted, the email racket serves itself. A message from my Proton account was blocked by Outlook dot com, too much spam the denial message read.

If you want to send a secure message, stay within a VPN or other encrypted email provider, like Proton to another Proton account, or try text -> encrypt -> zip. Of course, your email client and AV might decide to block the zip and encrypted attachment, since it cannot be scanned.

Correct, EU set the rules that helped EU citizens. US says "we like our people too", and sets its rules, benefiting it.

"In June 2025, Linus Torvalds announced bcachefs would be ejected from the kernel as a result of repeated violations of kernel development guidelines.

Wikipedia on bcachrefs

The Guardian, when it claimed to be part of the resistance, lost credibility. They have points to prove and choose the appropriate stories to publish.

Use a local account, no cloud to be found that way...

A quick look at NPM shows fast-glob has 8173 dependents, and 5 dependencies. A change to micromatch might break 8174 packages.

Or, do it right.

I wish I had a mod point.

The usage might not be what you think, that is replacing how to tell the computer to do what. The usage might be more like we are expected to use AI, pay a subscription for you to be told to do what.

What a huge sample size, " and in more than 100 responses". Wow, NBC really did their research; 100 chosen responses.

Last year the stories were about how Gen Z having a hard time finding work was due to their unrealistic demands about pay, working hours, perks, and so on.

White collar work, especially in IT, is on the way down. If the now extinct or going extinct jobs were jobs were fulfilled by reading SO and pasting crap together, or reading articles and creating summaries, yeah those are done, except for when particular experience is required. Sometimes knowledge of an industry is required to get the work correct.

How many bots are posting here?

Did someone forget to update a config and leave Prod pointed to their Dev test account?

True. For those that doubt, ask the average "tech" user about the file system on their daily device, be it a "smart" phone, tablet, PC, or whatever. Some junior developers are thrown off by.... partitioning and formatting.

So, yes, 400 mil. desktops were retired and replaced with a mobile device and apps, likely for a monthly cost

From the article, AI coding is considered by the executives a full replacement for creating code.

The old way, and in use by some today, was to create code by hand, similar to writing a story. Your mind created it. Then add autocomplete, which most of the time saved on typing, but sometimes interrupts the train of thought.

Now, instead of creating, you get to assemble AI generated snippets, with what amounts to productivity quotas.

The worst part for the Dev and QA teams will come later, when the AI generated code stumbles on a gap, that the automated tests did not fine, and no one has actually read all of the related code. It might be like patching a twenty year old application; start with a lot of reading.