Well, now it will at least be free of authoritarian US regimes. Also wondering why this is /. material

I guess itâ(TM)s time for the world to start collecting the debt and sever the ties then, no? The US regime can then mind their own business. They are welcome back when/if they change their mind. No hard feelings.

So does anybody know the market share of linux desktop at the work place? If my experience of this is representative, it should be much higher than 4%, at least in engineering.

Although this is no longer the case for many distros. You have debs, rpms, snaps and flatpaks and they come from many different sources, some with dubious traceability to source.

I suspect this is just the most boring April fools ever concocted.

I disagree. The "snaps" are the problem, because unlike the apt-get flow, "snaps" are uncurated. They also auto update by default, and in fact it's very hard not to have them auto update. This means a vendor can easily push malicious content at a later time without most users (and canonical) noticing, even so called "power users". Even Apple lets users control if and when to update. "snaps" as they are implemented now are not an acceptable distribution solution IMO.

mod parent down. You should absolutely be allowed to say "something stupid" privately among friends.

I assume this is just a trolling attempt, but I'll bite anyway.

In what way do you think it is poorly designed?
I find *nix systems far more efficient when doing development work (which I do as I'm on Slashdot). In general windows seems to have speed issues with accessing large numbers of small files which makes compiling big progects super slow in many cases.
Remote access and deployment is another strength with *nix IMO. Windows has limited capabilities in this area.

Sorry, it's not really a serious tool for serious work. Some people try to use it as such, but it's apparently not tested for such use by the manufacturer. IIRC there was some math bug lingering undetected for years corrupting many an analysis. Very hard to debug. Although with the addition of Python, everything could be done in Python, just using excel as a familiar front end.

Why couldn't we just have a lightweight Teams app that was native?

Not too fond of the webapproach to it all due to the massive bloat it results in. On the other hand, it is the first app that takes the hit when memory runs out building large FPGAs on the system. Gives time to kill some other memory hogs before the whole machine bombs. :)

+1 Nothing pushed to the .deb repo for a long time. Is it saaaafe?

The example provided in the article is terrible Python. Isn't this supposed to be a "language" model?

Using this to learn to do stuff in a language is way worse than stackoverflow. There at least you can read the critical comments about a particular solution.

Elon... The hype is real. The danger is not.

This won't work because you will still information leaked when the bits are toggling vs. not toggling. The reason for that is that the logic (CMOS gates in particular) generates power spikes when a a bit toggles. That needs to be addressed.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmos#Power:_switching_and_leakage

Yes, but rarely do programs succeed in using it correctly and frame skipping is common. Vsync on a 60 Hz display requires the material to be an exact multiple of 60 Hz if skipping is to be avoided. On older computers this was the norm!