I see.

It's not like the X server needs a lot of major changes, at this point. It certainly doesn't need new capabilities; it *has* all the capabilities it needs. A bit of optimization, maybe? But honestly, XFree86 ran just fine on 1990s hardware, so unless you're constructing a Russian nesting doll of multi-layered virtualization or some similarly wacky pathological case, you're not going to have user-noticeable perf problems in 2025 that are best solved by changing the X server. There are some changes I would like to see in the desktop environment that I use; but none of them would require any changes to the X server itself. Apart from any security issues that come up, most of the changes it actually needs, are related to changes in other things that it has to work with: newer video cards, newer compilers that are stricter about what they will compile, newer security systems that e.g. require the software (as well as the user) to have permission to do various things, and so on.

If he's trying to make Wayland-inspired changes to the X server to compete with Wayland, he's an idiot. *Wayland* needs changes, or better yet a complete from-the-ground-up rethink, to meaningfully compete with X11. Changing the X server to do what Wayland does to compete with Wayland, would be actively counterproductive.

Wait, so let me see if I can get this straight: because Wayland is an inherently pointless project championed principally by the same people who have been systematically removing all useful features from Gnome since just before the release of version 1.0, this guy decided, based on that, that the main X11 implementation that almost everyone uses, that has absolutely nothing to do with Wayland, needs to be forked again, because... because WHY?

Where is the logical connection between those two entirely unrelated ideas? I agree that Wayland is not now and probably never will be a viable substitute for X11. That premise, is fine. What I don't understand, is how that leads to the conclusion that the X server needs to be forked yet again. Frankly, I'm still not even entirely sure I understand why XFree86 needed to be forked the first two times, but at least those times there was a stated reason for forking. It didn't make any sense to me (as far as I know, there's no particular reason for other software running on the system to _need_ to be license-compatible with the X server), but at least there was a reason given. This time... what was the reason again? Because Wayland is bad? What does Wayland have to do with anything? If Hurd is still useless after all this time, will you fork the Linux kernel, as well? What?

I don't know if the forward blind zones are getting worse; those seem pretty similar to me. But I know absolutely for certain that the blind zones behind the vehicle are much, much larger and worse than they were 25 or 30 years ago. It's the difference between "maybe if a subcompact car matches my speed precisely and gets into exactly the wrong spot behind me in the next lane over, I won't be able to see it in my mirror" in the nineties, versus "Oh, there was an eighteen-wheeler passing another eighteen-wheeler back there, and an SUV was weaving around trying to get past them? How was I supposed to know, when it was all behind me?" The rear windows on a lot of cars these days, look like a portal on a ship's lower decks. It's absurd.

I'm extremely sympathetic. People should not be so insensitive as to mistake her for a bot, how dare they. What, just because she's doing a bot's job, and doing it badly? That's profiling. She deserves better. Even a bot deserves better treatment than that.

What? No, no, I would never. I have no idea what sarcasm even is, how would I possibly engage in it? Don't be ridiculous.

Eh. I'm pretty sure you have to already be pretty severely reality-challenged to even seriously *consider* taking medical advice, or any kind of critical life advice, from a chatbot. I mean, if you are on the fence about whether to order olives on the pizza or not, and you let Magic 8-ball decide, that's one thing. The decision is expected to have relatively minimal consequences, so it probably isn't a very big deal one way or the other. Letting Magic 8-ball, or ChatGPT, or anything along those lines, decide whether you should or should not take psycho-active meds, is entirely another level of YOLO. Either you're thinking "This may go horribly wrong but so what who cares", which is grossly irresponsible (what are you, nine years old?), or else you've genuinely got yourself convinced that life is so meaningless that decisions like that don't matter, which is, if anything, worse. Either way, I don't think Magic 8-ball, or ChatGPT, or that Kirkegaard text you read, or whatever, is at the root of the problem. Turn your brain on, think stuff through, and take responsibility for your actions, and you'll be completely safe from these kinds of ridiculous influences.

"I was born here." -- Henry Cho (who was raised in the US South by Korean parents), on why he became a comedian rather than a doctor or lawyer or whatnot.

Eh, and I suppose you think most of those 36% will get real engineering jobs when they graduate?

Because that is really, really not the direction things seem to be going in China at the moment. Most of them are going to be lucky to get a 996 job on a factory floor.

More to the point, cargo-ship fires are an inherently self-limiting phenomenon, because the economic costs involved (and the manner in which those costs are born) generally motivates people to work to avoid them. I'm not saying they don't have any environmental impact at all, but it's always going to be a relatively limited impact, compared to the amount of economic activity.

Do container ships full of EVs have on average a larger impact per-vehicle than ones full of ICEs and the associated tankers full of petroleum? I honestly have no idea, but I'm certain it doesn't matter, because the cargo-ship fires are not the bulk of the impact that cars and such have on the environment in any case. The construction of the *roads* that the cars drive on, has a larger impact on the environment, than cargo ship fires from transporting the vehicles overseas, and the construction of the roads is a small fraction of the total impact the vehicles have.

No, what I *want* is pre-chatGPT Google. It was at least two orders of magnitude better than any search engine that exists today.

Well, what I *really* want is LCARS, but that's a pipe dream.

Eh, I still consider Vista to be the second-best Microsoft OS, just behind Seven. Not sure what is in third place, maybe Win2K? Or XP, but only if it has the service packs because it was lousy without them.

I want the sound the 20MB hard drive on my old ITT XTRA (an 8086 PC clone) made when the system booted up and started to load DOS.

That stuff's not even the most pressing problem with YouTube's content censorship. The larger issue is that content that directly crosses the CCP's party line, keeps getting flagged in all kinds of objectively counterfactual ways. Nobody with more than a couple hundred subscribers can talk about the history or culture of Tibet, for example, without running afoul of this.

Eh. The people who actually like Google's horrible AI-generated garbage, were already using Google anyway. No change there.

Whereas, I have entirely *stopped* using Google's main site, and my usage of Wikipedia has increased, because I'm now using it (plus the browser's in-page search feature) for quick lookup of things that, six months ago, I could more quickly find on Google, but now I can't. Other things I find using ddg or startpage, and still others I now have to resort to older, pre-internet methods, like manually punching a bunch of individually-looked-up numbers into spreadsheets in order to calculate what I actually want to know, like it's 1992, because nobody who still indexes most of the internet, can figure out how to do decent relevancy ranking.

I do still use some of Google's other sites, e.g., Google Maps. Though who knows how long that will continue to be useful, given the direction the company is heading.

Well, like I said, appearance isn't the most important thing; in the movies, Herbie doesn't even always have his standard paint job. Sometimes he's (visually) just a plain VW bug. It's what he does, that's important.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that most houses these days don't have peeling lead paint, like basically all of them did in the seventies.