Sounds like they just got a patent for a 90s-era PDA

A mixture of D, but I reckon VPN providers bundle an extension that obscures the UA. They probably clicked 'yes' to all installer questions whilst trying to get to the hub due to region locks.

Word has never been as good as wordperfect, word mixes styles and formatting in a terrible way.

Word 2000/Xp didn't even have interchangeable formats, it was terrible yet the marketing pushed it forward and bundled it with OEMs, else they would lose their licence. They effectively strangled the market, which is pretty effective marketing.

Have macro viruses ever been solved? Can't say personally.

Word, or any other MS Office product is a hard no from me, all marketing and no product. All fur coat and no knickers.

Good software or good marketing?

E.g. how is word an industry standard?

Linux is pretty good when it comes to open/save dialogs. Just drag the file from an existing file browser onto the save dialogs and it takes you there. So much better and been around since Amiga era

snap seems to fit well with shell paths. Debian could release more frequently but Ubuntu fits the release gap.

snap isn't completely bad, or sucks, it does a job, and could get you regular updates.

Meh, it's probably used by trackers too.

If it gets popular and that happens, it gets forked. Maybe redis vs valkey as an example.

Nothing new is needed here, there are models where the crowd answers the problem by forking. If it's not popular then perhaps there's good reason to see corporate funding as the crowd hasn't answered the calls to help maintain niche software.

If you're using something that you'd like to see remain free, maybe cough up something for it else there's a risk that something else will buy it.

This is one reason why free open source prevails, features tend to remain, they're not cut, there's no bottom line to focus on, no shareholders to placate.

This kind of thing has happened previously too, but it was via "outsourcing" in another contract that didn't work out, so they need the employees back, sometimes as consultants.

What's old is new again.

Didn't DOGE cancel those?

How gov ministers will WFH

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In general UK police have a higher standard, somewhere around medium. Other bits of Europe are much better, Norway have a higher bar for entry. US is one of the very worst.

https://worldpopulationreview....

Training doesn't equal standards, but is a reasonable indicator of results expectation.

Interesting idea. Could it be used against the police by a criminal to make it harder to arrest though, by threatening to sue?