Quick! Somebody call Scott Bakula!

I started working with computers just a couple months after our local uni dumped punchcards for terminals. I considered myself lucky back then, and I'm still glad I never had to do it.

I do have a few programs saved on paper tape, however. ;-)

Speaking of acronyms, albeit terrestrial ones... when Seattle started work on a new trolley line in the city's South Lake Union area, they (very briefly) named it the South Lake Union Trolley.

I still can't figure out how they missed that.

Don't worry, there's been an executive order name change.

It's now the Donald J Trump and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

I expect SystemD was originally created because someone looked at Apple's LaunchD and decided they wanted a GPL-compatible alternative. But it certainly has metastiz... I mean, expanded a lot since then.

I agree, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of an iPhone jailbreaking community anymore. Which is too bad... jailbreak tweaks introduced a lot of the more innovative features which eventually found their way into iOS proper.

Must be because of DEI - it gave all the cows Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It's just a variation of the Goebbel's playbook, which the Trump administration loves to follow - "accuse the other side of the thing you yourself are guilty of".

- Try to rig the upcoming election while yelling loudly about how the other party consistenly cheats - and without evidence, of course.
- Make up stories about how crooked the Dems are, while actively grifting yourself.

Regardless, it's nice to see Congress occasionally showing signs of having a spine, finally. It'd be great if they'd also figure out that the revenge dismantlement of NCAR is also going to cost money and lives.

Huh. Now you've got me wondering whether the members of our department's PR team are holding down second jobs in your art department.

Haha I have to admit that, seeing the headline, my first thought was "of course, being Epic, they had to name this after the evil brother..."

Yup. Also, apparently as of OpenSSH 10.1 people who aren't using quantum-resistant key algorithms will be warned.

Problem is, the damage is done - he's shown the world how unreliable the US can be, and they're not gonna forget. People loved to complain about America, but up until now they could typically count on America being willing (even eager) to lead... even if it was in a heavy-handed or tone-deaf manner.

"Make America Great Again" has, ironically, accelerated the country's decline towards irrelevance in the eyes of the rest of the world.

... that water is wet.

Consensus... are you kidding? Trump thinks reality is set by fiat - HIS fiat.

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