IRC is still very strong among developers and nerds. Hopefully this will lead to an upswing for IRC. Sadly the most likely scenario is that another modern replacement (like matrix) will win.

When I read the headline I thought that maybe they have gone back to how KDE 3.5 was. That would be truly livable. KDE 3.5 had more features than any "lean" desktop we see nowadays, like XFCE, but still used less resources. At that time a fully booted Linux running KDE 3.5 used about 55Mb of RAM. Personally I never grew fond of any DE since KDE 3.5 and I begun using simple window managers.

Russia is having a dictator because they have allowed Putin to become a dictator and allowed him to do the law changes that gave him all this power. Also, if the people would not have responded to the invasion of of Crimea with total euphoria we would not have this situation we now have. It gave Putin courage to begin this war. Except for some brave who with great risks and costs do protest, the majority of the Russians are guilty too. A recent poll (which might be faked) claims that the popularity of Putin went up as he went to war with Ukraine.

Only by making sanctions on the whole country we might achieve a difference.

That was the most stupid comment I ever saw. You must be stupid to believe that restrictions are dropped just because they make more money on a war! What money can be made out of restrictions? I mean, the rich ones make more money if there is no lock-down and people shop around. Fauci never said that people do not need to vaccinate anymore, and vaccination is the only thing that brings in some income to the rich ones owning shares in Big Pharmacy. You have to understand that restrictions were not made because they make money out of them, they were made to save life. And also vaccines do save life even though they also make some people more rich.

You seems to miss the point in my post. My point is that we should have begun with this decades ago and now as we have taken baby steps we are still decades away from having it.

The biggest culprit is C. Any operating system where a major part is written in C (or even C++) is bound to have serious security holes. Anyone following the lists of vulnerabilities will notice this.

Do not misunderstand me, I am not saying that an OS written in a more secure language would be without security holes. We saw recently a serious problem with log4j which is not written in C. All I am saying is that in additional to those security holes you have in any language, with C you have additionally the huge class of bugs caused by manual memory management and in most cases the serious security holes we see stem from this.Linux as an operating system is a huge project with kernel, libraries and userland with millions after millions lines of code written in C. Just the kernel is approximately 30 million lines of code.

I am upset that it is not until now we begin to have some alternatives to C. Why have we allowed this old dinosaur of language to live this long. If we could make a language like Rust now (which has the same performance as C but memory safe), why could we not have done that some decades ago. Now we have just taken baby steps with a language that does not have a formal specification and additionally we have a huge amount of code that would need to be rewritten (which would take many decades to replace). We are many decades too late to fix this and for each day the task just grows as more code is added to the projects.

This got me to miss old RealTimeBattle (http://realtimebattle.sourceforge.net/). It was a game where you control a tank by a sending and reading text through STDIN and STDOUT. Thus any programming language could be used for creating the AI for the tank. Robocode is a very similar game, but it does not a have a text interface, so you are forced to use Java or .net. Personally I wish someone made a similar game to RealTimeBattle or Robocode but with a network socket that you can communicate through with clear text. A bit like you make IRC bots in any language.

It is not more light I need, it is an eInk screen I want. Who wants to burn out the eyes with even more blue light? I will not consider any pad until it got an eInk screen.

It is about quality. Few care to buy bad quality Western comics when you can read translated Japanese manga for free online. I am someone who has been reading Western comics and then lost interest in comics until I discovered manga. While there are crappy manga too (cliché, or bad story or bad art), in general it is easier to find manga with much higher quality and you can see that enormous amount of effort that went into them. In the past we had some good comics in West (Tintin, Gaston Lagaffe, Asterix, The Phantom, and even some Donald Duck to mention some of the more well known) there is plenty of for free manga that are at the same level.

I agree with you, Reddit is not the place where you have open and authentic discussions. I have been trying several reddit communities they all got the same problem: people down vote instead of discussing things. The correct way would be to upvote comments you like and discuss the comments you do not like and avoid down voting as much as possible. The only time down voting should be used is if something is without doubt completely false, dangerous or offtopic.

Take for example knitting: there are many knitting styles all producing identical result and when looking at a ready work nobody could tell what knitting style was used. If you happen to write about "wrong" knitting style people will begin to down vote your comment despite the post is friendly and exactly what the original poster wanted. People have the mentality that if it is not exactly like they do then they downvote instead of discussing the strength of different way to do the same thing. You see how your comment bounces up and down while both sides fights with voting. Often the "good" side (those that can see that a comment is helpful) win by a slight margin, but not always.

I have decided to quit using Reddit.

Nope, not unless you pay both a salary and the costumes. Why would I spend my hard owned money on entertaining rich people?

I think it does a great job in "emulating" (I know Wine stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") Windows for those purposes I use it. It is certainly a useful program and it gets just better with each release.

I have used it for sending stuff to legacy graph calculators, for timegraphing my mechanical watches and many other things. For those special corner cases where you might not find *NIX program Wine is great. I am not a gamer so I am not able to say much about how well it works with them, but I have tried AoE I, AoE II (the legacy AoC version) and Operation Flashpoint and all of them are working great too.

While this was intended as a joke, it is interesting to think about the consequences this would have. The whole earth would wobble from the gravity of a such mountain. I wonder for how long time the earth would last before collapsing. And imagine the earthquakes...

I wish he would sue Trump for slandering and for fireing without any evidence of misconduct.

Suddenly I feel old. Why is the Digital logo there for this story? Are those who posted this story too young to know about Digital?