"The header means you can interact without the source yet retain ABI correctness and not be buggy."

Yup. And if there is a bug then you get to report it and hope the powers that be will deign to fix it.

And if you want to study the source and implement it on another operating system, tough luck.

So, to repeat, it is indeed better than nothing but not exactly super duper.

Header files only? So we're still at the level of pass this variable and magic happens.

It's better than nothing but it's not exactly super-duper either.

The digital world is a cat-and-mouse game, and you don't want to be the mouse.

I'm sure a small part of the estimated 5 million pound ransom would have gotten them a decent backup system. Even a "hot spare".

I recommend http://www.goldendict.org/

Word lookups both local and online dictionaries and thesauruses.

It's an indispensable aid for writing.

"I've long stopped considering electronic music to be music because a computer is not an instrument."

I play a digital piano. It's always perfectly in tune and it's got a nicer tone and sound than most upright pianos since it's based on a Steinway Grand sampleset.

It looks like an ordinary piano but "under the hood" it's chips and circuit boards.

So is what I play on it (Frank Sinatra tunes, movie themes, "popular music" from the 1940's, etc.) not actually music?

A friend of mine who's a renovation contractor told me that the worst thing that ever happened to residential renovations was the "fix-it" tv programs.

When he quotes someone on doing a job and says it'll take two weeks the prospective customer thinks he's trying to rip him off because he just saw a similar job in (supposedly) three days on tv.

DOS edit is built into qbasic and it's not a stand-alone program.

You can get to it by typing "edit" at the dos command line, or by typing "qbasic /edit" at the dos command line. They both do the same thing.

Who needs that pesky security anyway?

At the least it should be an option for the end user/installer to choose or not.

(And the linked article is about Chatgpt and not Ubuntu, by the way.)

"an unnamed telephone company"

Well, that's helpful.

Since this hack is the result of negligence on the part of this unnamed company (as the patch was provided by the vendor months before), it would be useful to know who it is for the purpose of knowing who not to trust with your business.

Not that there's likely to be much accountability in any case since folks living in any particular area won't have many competing service providers to choose from, but not providing the name removes even the chance of a customer being able to takes steps to mitigate his own risk.

"In Vegas they purposely make people walk though the casinos to get to the famous buffet restaurants"

In grocery stores they put the milk and dairy at the back of the store for the same reason.

If government policy is the only reason an investment is profitable and no economic reason for it exists outside of that policy, then that investment is in trouble when the policy changes.

I thought that was self-evident?

It's interesting that there is a law that say Tick Tock must be divested by a certain date.

And without changing that law in any way, Trump just says we won't enforce it until a date further in the future than what the law actually says.

So the current situation is that Tick Tock is in violation of the law (and has been for the past several months). If I were in their position I would be considering going for some kind of an estoppel order to permanently void the law since it's being (not) enforced on a simply arbitrary basis by an individual's whims of the moment. Does that sound like a law worthy of respect by anyone at all?

"If it sounds good it is good." - Duke Ellington

Among other things, I write 1940's style hardboiled detective stories, usually where the detective is involved in a fairy tale - hunting the big bad wolf, rescuing sleeping beauty, etc.

I'd hate to see what sort of person I'd be matched with based on some of the stuff I search for. :)

They don't know that you can run an ai on your own computer? No external access or computing resources required.

https://github.com/ggml-org/ll...

There are many others as well, but llama.cpp seems to be the most widespread/best known of the local ai driver programs.