Really? I lived in the cassette era and it was great. Sure, cheap cassettes and decks sounded pretty bad but chrome tapes in good decks were nice.

Did you not have any friends? Some of my best memories are sitting around with friends trying to work out the best mix of songs and the best way to fit them onto a cassette so they filled both sides with no little blank bits to wait out or skip over before changing sides.

This.

Chrome or metal tapes with dolby-c/s and HX-Pro are pretty good. Not quite CD quality but you definitely needed a half decent sound system to tell the difference.

I've still got my old deck with Dolby C and HX pro. I've probably got a few chrome tapes left somewhere. I even ponied up for a new metal tape recently to test out the quality of my deck. Sadly, all the rubber belts and rollers have corroded and I can't find suitable spares for all of them.

This, except it's both cost and moron MBAs demanding Agile - the worst anti pattern to ever pollute the software industry.

A religion which, like so many before it, is a complete and total lie that tries to pretend that if you're not practicing it you can't produce software.

And its bullshit wankery shows in the poor quality of software coming out of the dipshits who think Agile is good.

I've experienced this, and the retards who edited my questions and answers finally drove me away from that dumpster fire.

Some retard who doesn't understand fuck all about anything edits things so they're at best dubious, and at worst completely misleading. But the dumpster fire of a site still shows me as the author.

I've seen questions edited by retards so that the question matches the *wrong* answer the same retard posted.

I've seen my *correct and detailed* answers on highly specialised topics edited by retards to male them useless or wrong. And then the same retard marks their *wrong* answer as the accepted one.

Fuck that! Why would I even bother?

If I want to send Apple Intelligence a SIGABRT then damn it, I will!

I have some skin in this game. I have a higher degree in Engineering that I obtained honestly by knowing things. Out of the pure knowledge game now, and knowing things has given me an absolutely eye-watering earning capacity.

But I taught undergrads for a few years (back before this "AI" wank was even a twitch in its daddy's hand).

Invariably, the students who cheated regularly were the ones from rich parents that came out of expensive private high schools. They had been indoctrinated to the mantra that success comes from who you know, not what you know.

It's not surprising in the least that the same incompetent turds are finding new ways to cheat and justify cheating their way through life.

Likewise, although the "3dbenchy.stl" file does print a nice ball of plastic string.

In the process of that now. It is an eye-opener to how many "tech" companies are full of completely clueless morons.

Do you know that about 30% of sites refuse to let you change your email address at all. Of them, about half make it virtually impossible to cancel the account.

In those ranks includes companies who should know better - including two big Linux vendors.

Um, I have been able to do that almost daily for a large part of my career. It was possible before there were GUI tools for it. It's still possible over slow SSH links with no GUI available.

Any true professional will be able to do it with minimum fuss. It's an annoyance, but how exactly is it difficult?

It's only the ranks of amateur who seem unable to work a computer without Fisher Price colors and flashy interfaces. They're the same amateurs who whine "legacy" and blame the tools every time they fail because there's no way it's their limited ability causing the problems.

Sure, GitHub has its flaws. But it's difficult to call it "legacy" software. It's still currently active and receiving both maintenance and new features regularly.

That's horse shit.

You can ask windows for the recovery key and use that to mount the disk in any other computer. Source: I mount the Windows BL partition on the Linux dual boot just fine without using the TPM to unseal it.

The default that MS forces on people (most people don't know better) is to back up the recovery key to their MS account, so you can usually ask there too

Just because you refuse to understand the technology doesn't mean it's bad.

Really? You can conceive of a few simple scenarios where you'd want to be sure your data was safe?

How about the highly probable disk failure requiring RMA? If the disk is encrypted your data is safe to RMA. If not the you're SOL and you need to have the drive securely shredded and just buy a new one.

Really? Care to provide a cogent explanation as to why?

Voting rights should be inalienable - even when talking about crimes like election fraud. Consider the following:

Systematically removing the voting rights from felons gives the government an incredibly powerful tool to maintain power - invent ways to turn dissenters into felons without voting rights.

But vesting stock options are already a scam to keep you there and gamble about whether they will have to pay you. They also minimise things like payroll tax they the company pays.

They're handed out like candy instead of pay rises and performance bonuses. Half the time you wear the tax liability on today's price at grant time (and consequently your real take home pay is lower as a result). The fake income is counted toward lots of things like tax concessions, government benefits, etc, which means your out of pocket expenses can rise based on income you never earned this year.

If they dont increase in value you never make up that loss. If they increase in value then you wear capital gains tax on top of the income+benefits tax you already paid. At the end of the day, your take home pay for a bundle of stock options could easily be half or less what the equivalent cash amount would have netted you.

And adding insult to injury, if you quit or are laid off you lose the un-vested options but can't claim back the tax you got fucked out of.

Tl;dr: vesting stock options are a rort which only benefits the company. The employee doesn't usually see any real benefit from them unless the company is continuously wildly successful.

Proton, tuta, et-al solve this by indexing in the client.

I would hope they are encrypting the index and storing it server-side because it'd be a pretty annoying task to re-index my entire mailbox if I ever connected a second client to it.

There's a hugely important elephant in the room.

As far as the spooks are concerned, what you say is not nearly as interesting as who you regularly say it to.

I agree we should be securely encrypting even the most banal conversations so that encrypted communication doesn't paint a target on your back, but Encryption doesn't hide the who part.

They'll still be able to mine and build up their giant connectivity diagrams so they can decide who to target closer. Once that eye of Sauron is on you, good luck evading it.