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I really like that Slashdot protects us from this visual vandalism. Do you think there's a hope that as other web sites advance they could adopt Slashdot's solution?

The irony here is that the true evil has been missed from the story. Microsoft was deliberately trying to fund Caldera to damage Linux. This settlement was an effective way to transfer money from one company to another, avoiding taxes, avoiding scrutiny and settling an outstanding potential future Microsoft liability.

Perhaps they should stop supplying Russia then.

However, if we commit the ultimate Slashdot sin and actually read the article, we find out they never claimed to have numbers. The closest they come is

“If we’re seeing a few cases being reported, we’re seeing a lot more cases not being reported,” said Thomas Corbin, lecturer at Deakin University in Australia, who has conducted research around the usage of AI-powered glasses and other smart devices in academic assessment.

which is pretty clearly and openly straight speculation. It is you who have the audacity to accuse CNN of using hard numbers and research, something they are clearly not guilty of.

I'll bow to your better memory. My main real memory is that

a) we could keep many small documents in useful formats that actual software and operations people could benefit from
b) we could auto generate documentation directly from systems data (e.g. dump the DNS)
c) we could combine those and instantly generate formal systems documentation which was up to date, complete and astoundingly, actually useful

Also we could use sed and similar tools for mass updates, corrections and so on. Something which effectively went away with the change to XML because things that, to that point, just worked, suddenly needed actual programming.

Understanding the way they mange to make their billing into a multidimensional exponential equation is just shocking. I assume that one day someone said "there's no way anyone can be more evil than Larry Ellision" and their finance guy, who happened to be a mathematician by trade, said something to the effect of "hold my beer" and came up with their charging policy.

Atlassian appears to completely lack understanding of what's actually valuable in their products. Confluence and Jira used to be markdown backed in important places, which would be perfect for the modern world. They deliberately and in brutal ways destroyed that against the wishes of their users. Think how much value that's destroyed from documents that could have easily fit into both AI and modern human tooling.

If you already got severe tendonitis and bursitis from typing, chances are you'll get laryngitis from talking.

That one I might give you. Outside uninvited consultants should *always* be a source of fear. Ones that think they know how to tell you to interact with our coworkers doubly so.

... thousands of Crypto-Bros were endlessly disappointed to learn this opportunity was missed to advertise some Meme-Coin.

Given that people can just ask their favorite LLM for any part of those standard documents and get a more or less verbatim copy, they probably realized their Paywall became useless anyway.

And in this particular one case, I for one welcome the blatant stealing the LLM training companies did, as such standards belong in the public domain anyway.

The whole thing is so much more complex and incomparable. Some of the best research in the US was done in private company research departments, like Xerox PARC or Bell labs. However, they had a whole bunch of government integration and not just with the DoD. They also had huge links with the US national laboratories which also used to do a whole load of important work. The US government used to understand the value and, for example, made sure that the people funding Bell labs could continue to do so.

Now we got to the time of the cretinous people who honestly believe "the five scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'". This means that instead of trying to ensure that their government is doing sensible things and ensuring that their country develops, they instead set out to destroy everything.

This is still not entirely gone. SpaceX is effectively funded by the US government and they understand that enough to limit Musk's ability to support and collaborate with Russia. Still, the corruption that having people like Musk involved is a huge problem.

AUR hosts few-lines-long "PKGBUILD" script files uploaded by just anyone (who may not have written any substantial software ever), and that is an entirely different scenario than open source projects of significant size where it is realistic to assume more than one pair of eyes has looked at each commit.

There are certainly also "open source devs" that irresponsibly include libraries from wherever, but that is a completely different topic unrelated to AUR. And unlike for closed source, in both scenarios users are technically and legally allowed to review the foreign code, and encouraged to do so.

If "150 pieces of debris" are a "slow form of space warfare", then what are the >10,000 pieces of stuff that Starlink put into Orbit (which happen to already be used in active wars)? And how would such debris deny specifically "the west" access?