Everybody in my family had an aol.com email address around 2000. I honestly don't remember what mine was. Even my crush who was a singer/songwriter/actress that did some of the Sims 3 voices had an aol.com address (I had a very long email conversation with her in 1998, before she married a lawyer from Marin and had kids)

... and Larry Ellison still owns his own Hawaiian island... you gotta problem with that?

I _like_ the email address I created when I was eight? What's wrong with sending out resumes with my SofaKingGood@gmail.com address on them?

The Public Markets have rules and laws that incentivize very destructive and predatory behaviors. Corporations behave like psychopaths to hit quarterly numbers for 'fiduciary duty' laws.

Private assets don't have these so they can build real companies with an eye on the future.

But private companies don't have nearly as much access to capital because all the investment money goes into retirement because of stupid tax laws which goes into psychopathic public companies.

And then Blackrock / State Street / Vanguard collude to tell these companies how to behave socially and politically, often against the interests of everyone else in society.

Of course this could be done poorly but the idea has merit. Congress is most likely to screw it up, but who knows, maybe they won't.

That's peak optimism for 2026.

This is a weird situation.

If the license is changed it's no longer AGPL, it's a unique license.

If the license has restrictions then the copyright is violated by not adhering to the license.

The above makes it sound like both parties want to have it both ways.

I would just give the Russians proper attribution but the European governments hate Russia so much that they couldn't possibly do that. This is a problem with having governments run open source projects.

In the en it's probably going to be like Russian gas which they sanction except for not freezing to death in the winter, when they just look the other way and stay alive to hate the Russians another day.

The whole damn thing stems from some royal cousins hating each other in the 1830's. America was designed to "eff that noise" but every stupid American politician wants to act like a European so Americans get dragged into their stupid wars and other zero-sum games.

Open Source software is supposed to be a non-zero-sum game and the licenses are supposed to create the conditions for that. Maybe FSF should consider a v4 to improve the situation. Anybody seen Eben Moglen lately? Last I heard some whackadoodles at FSF were mad at him. Maybe a post-FSF license is needed.

"Play nice, children."

I suspect modern cosmological physics is pushing the intellectual limits of the human mind. All the great minds working on it and after all this time still no working theory of what actually happened after the start never mind what caused the big bang in the first place. Perhaps we ll have to wait for AI to advance the field much further.

You can tax my digital streaming when you pry it from my cold, dead encrypted data stream!

Those kids will never figure out how to use VPNs!

Einstein said, "God does not play dice with the universe." But in reality, not only does God play dice with the universe, but he lost Earth to the devil in craps game centuries ago! Never gamble with home of your chosen people, sky guy!

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The secret of getting rich is simple: set deals up so that when they fail, someone else eats your losses, but when they succeed, you keep all the profits. That's certainly how Trump made his money, he didn't pay for all his bankruptcies out of his own pocket!

In short, Java was invented for a reason, and while it has become a victim of legacy cruft as well, the underlying concept of truly portable apps, with a minimum of fuss to jump from platform to platform, still ought to be the preferable path. The problem is that that true platform neutrality/ambiguity pretty much kills Microsoft in all but a few niches, like gaming, but only because hardware vendors put less effort into drivers for other operating systems.

Yes, Office is still king, although I think that crown is beginning to slip, and it may end up being Excel, with its large list of features, that may last the longest. But it isn't 1990, or even 2000 anymore. Developers have multiple ways of developing portable applications, and while MS may (for the nth time) update or swap out its toolchains, the real question is will developers really care?

"A Spoonful of Plastic in our Brains" is the name of my Pink Floyd cover band!

Are you saying there is no such thing a "useful hallucinations"???

Yeah, and even native stuff is super bloated now.

I noticed an instance of Brave with all of the features turned off sitting at a new tab page was using 230MB.

I remember doing OK with a version of Firefox that supported xhtml and JavaScript 2 that ran on a machine with 16MB of RAM total.

And the current browsing experience isn't somehow instantaneous on a CPU with 16x the cores running at 10x the clock. The user response time is about the same.

I think that browser itself ran in 4-8MB. Probably with the Flash plugin loaded too.

FWIW that old machine would take about 15 minutes to encode a 3 minute mp3 file and my current machines does it in about six seconds. So the hardware gains are real.

Maybe ML will actually be able to find some optimizations that are too cumbersome for humans to manage.