Interestingly, I would regard never learning how to write PHP over 21 years as one of my greatest successes.

So AI ingests the text books to learn about the subject so it can...create text books?

Some is from London at least, because I ended up behind one of the training cars a while ago.

I'm sceptical, but I'm not on the "never" path. It was going through one of the most annoying parts of my drive - for those that know the area, just outside of St Pancras heading up to Pentonville Road. At that point you have a lane split, comically bad driving, buses overlapping the lane, psychotic cyclists ignoring lanes and red lights and pedestrians on a tiny sliver in the middle of the three lanes continually trying to kill themselves in ever more novel and entirely unexpected ways.

If they tested it there and they still want to launch - huh. I'll be very interested to see it.

Why not PDF - releasing archive documents in an editable format isn't the way forward either. Obviously in this case it's more of a statement than a technical choice, but...yep, archiveable read-only is the way forward for things like this. They shouldn't have been editable to start with.

International trade wars are one thing, but reverting to Microsoft Works format is going too far.

I'm reading a lot of "it's simple, just get a...". If you read the article, it says they're "associated with an early Mac computer". That almost certainly means these a GCR formatted disks, and need a drive that can do variable speed rotation.

It's not impossible obviously, but it's likely the best way to do this is with a vintage Mac itself. Which then implies hooking up a mass storage device of some kind to that Mac so that it can be transferred to something more modern. So not super rare and impossible, but definitely fiddly.

Hmm - that site mixes operating systems with SSL usage on the same graph. But the other thing is - it's stats about public facing internet accessible sites. The majority of Red Hat clients are RHEL are internal or data centre, non-public. I'm struggling to get a link that works, but the 2025 estimate is around around 43% market share, and I'm honestly surprised it's that low.

Sadly probably not much. Individuals yes, corporations no. It's the new "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" - literally.

What they've already done - close it. See also Red Hat.

Updates aren't necessarily bug fixes - I had a lot of functionality upgrades on my cars from them as well. And also, you're fooling yourself if you think the other cars don't need bug fixes - it's just that they don't get them until the service. This is the "we never needed updates with cartridges" fallacy - yes we did, we just never got them. I can name 8 bit games for the Spectrum which flat out didn't work, and there were plenty of ROM or even EPROM revisions shipped on older computers before downloadable patches became the norm.

There's now a LeapMotor car in my family too. That LeapMoter also had a slick OTA update without any hassles whatsoever. They're not quite there though - registering the car with their app requires dealer action on order numbers or something, and that's still not sorted out. The OTA stuff though - couldn't fault it at all.a

That's really not a good look. We're saying that until the 2025 leadership, an institution for information professionals didn't have information about its own professional organisation.

I don't know any of the background here, but well done to the 2025 crowd who dug in, found it and acted according to reality.

"The Humanoid Boogie" by the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band", 1968. Plus ca change.

I can think of no faster way to kill the word 'Vibe' than to associated it with annoying corporate nonsense. Go for it Meta! I'm counting on you.

Sorry to be blunt, but are you an idiot? People have been talking about it since at least the mid 80s, there are government policies on it in the 90s, and the whole 'EV revolution' arguably started to go into full swing about 13 years ago.

It's mostly WINE though isn't it? Well, Proton but still. That has the 64bit-32bit thunking layer required. Native Linux builds would need to be 64 bit true, but that's where I was going with the "10-20%" bit.

I run 32bit Windows games on ARM via Rosetta/MacPortingToolkit. So long as the game itself is tricked into believing it's in a 32bit universe, it's happy.