"It was a failure of technology" copout for incompetence and negligence.

Agreed.. it was very human incompetence that allowed a long rifle to get within 150 yards of that podium, poor tech probably compounded the problem but they didn't secure the area.

Hi, I'm the lead dev so I can also answer:

1. Nothing specific to Linux/BSD. The hardest part of the codebase to work with is probably the movement/collision/AI code which is very hard to follow. It's hard to change because any change can break things in subtle ways.

2. Nope

3. Probably the networking code. Sopwith always had network code (it was written as a tech demo for an early LAN) but almost nobody ever got the chance to really use it. Seeing it finally working over TCP/IP was very satisfying.

4. I'm planning on adding a level editor which I think should really open up the game to expansion.

5. Fun and comical gameplay. Trying to avoid debris as everything around you is exploding in complete chaos is hilarious to me.

6. No plans for these at all, I'd personally be against adding them. I want to keep it as a great old game, not a lame modern one. I could talk at length about this kind of thing but that's the brief summary.

7. I've actually considered this, yes. The original HUD is very ambiguous and hard to read; effectively just some small lines with no labels. I've actually gone as far as to mock up some better graphics but there's no integration into the game yet.

8. Yes, support for custom levels was actually added recently and the latest release includes an example level. There is not yet a level editor, however, which is a big obstacle for modders. I also think that to make modding interesting the game will need expanding to support different gameplay types, new types of planes, enemies and items, etc. I have some ideas but a level editor should be the first priority.

9. I've personally lost interest in the modern game scene. There have been a couple of recent games I've enjoyed, Elite: Dangerous is one example. I suspect it's partly because I'm old now and don't have the time to follow this stuff. In general I tend to prefer playing (and modding) older games and have had fun recently introducing my daughter to them.

Calling it abandonware seems like a strange choice of phrase: it has been open source (GPL2) since the early 2000s, and SDL Sopwith (linked in the post) is based on that source. So it very much still is in active development.

Sure. The SDL port (I'm the maintainer) is still under development, and new features continue to be added. The original graphics and sound are deliberately preserved - the goal is to make it a great old game and not a lame new one. The project was admittedly dormant for a number of years and I've just recently come back to start working on it again.

The most significant development recently is the addition of support for custom levels. Until now there's only ever been a single level that can be played over and over. Other features added in previous versions include medals, swappable palettes (to emulate old displays), the in-browser version and TCP/IP networking.

Musk has been incredibly reckless with his "Full Self-Driving" rollout for Tesla, now he's taking the concerns people have about that and trying to misdirect it to the AI chatbots that currently *aren't* killing people.

to IBM failing to migrate their own email service to new servers?

Whoever tries to patent a vaccine should be shot. They will be ransoming millions of lives.

I have a strong feeling you're not going to agree with me but I'm going to give it a shot: this is politics.

If they were actually trying to convince Microsoft to open source their older operating systems, there are good, reasonable arguments available: "Why not open source the win9x/winME codebase since no businesses use it anymore? Look how the doom and quake source codes have flourished! Look at VS code! Why would you keep archivists on staff to prevent this stuff from getting lost when you could upload it to the internet and it would live forever?"

However, they're not trying to convince Microsoft of anything, they're trying to score political points. "Oh that operating system you're retiring? It sure would be a shame if you open sourced it and let the public maintain it."

So the dig they are talking about is near the end of the article FSF says "by the way microsoft are pieces of shit" - it's not a plea to Microsoft, it's them preaching to the choir.

With the amount of lawyers involved in this case I gotta imagine that will be one of the arguments they put forward.

Journalists: "Nobody wants to pay for real journalism anymore!" Also journalists:"We will vigorously defend our right to publish a news story without any verification that is also a hoax"

Get a cheap VPS (ssd vps on OVH are great) and install debian stretch. Then follow the ispmail guide: https://workaround.org/ispmail... I just got this set up after running a jessie server for the past few years, it is AMAZING. Spam blocking, virus blocking, DKIM, SPF, dmarc, etc etc etc

Please do elaborate on what from this report is technical in nature.

Guccifer 2.0, wikileaks, etc

"I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else, if it'll save it, save this plan. That's the whole point. We're going to protect our people if we can." -- Nixon, Statement to Haldeman, in tapes ordered released for the trial of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell

Fermentation gives off CO2, I think it would be damn near impossible to fuel the process using CO2