If I really wanted to watch or read terminal sufferers of TDS, I'd watch BS-NOW or browse BlewSky... Maybe this outbreak of TDS on Slashdot is intentional, it's a last-ditch attempt to boost traffic.

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... please form an orderly line on the right.

Google is already been sued for this very thing..

Yes, that's exactly what I did,

I'll be very interested to find out whether the gimp snap has the same problem as the Firefox snap: it does not work in a VNC session. Like at all. There's a known workaround involving futzing some environment variables, but it is not a complete solution: although it gets the main Firefox window to come up, additional popups (like the Save As dialog) are still broken.

This was always a problem right from the beginning, since Ubuntu replaced its native Firefox package with a snap, 2-3 years ago. Initially I grinned and beared it, expecting the issue to be fixed soon. It is still not fixed, and nobody appears to be interested in fixing it. When I brought this up on the Ubuntu users list I got a very indignant response from a snap advocate, along the lines of "it's not a snap problem, it's a [some-obscure-library-related-to-desktop-integration] problem". Well, wonderful, but it's a distinction without a difference. The bottom line is that the Firefox snap does not run in a VNC session, and which specific library is responsible for the problem is a distinction without a difference.

The new employee who's supposed to link to dupes didn't show up for work today.

The notion that this is about helping SpaceX kill off their competition is absurd.

This is Musk Derangement Syndrome. The Brandon administration is simply trying think of every way to go after Musk. He pissed them off. He dismantled the branch office of Pravda that the old Twitter was building for The Blob. He fired all of the CIA and FBI spooks on Twitter's payroll, who were busy censoring and shadowbanning anyone who was engaing in wrongspeech. But the worst of it: he has all but explicitly endorsed Trump. Just read his tweets. He's been fully red-pilled. Not a day goes by that he doesn't rag on all of the left's sacred cows: environmentalism, transgenderisms, the illegal alien invasion from all the South American shitholes, et. al.

This is why they're doing this. This is why they have a bunch of lawsuits going against Tesla, for a bunch of bullshit reasons. This is why every time the Brandon administration tries to puff up the US's fledging EV industry they always fluff only Detroit's automakers, and conspicuously ignoring the elephant in the room.

And this is why they're doing this, that's all.

What about OpenSSL, is it available from homebrew? Sounds like it's time to build OpenSSL from source, and link curl to it.

There seems to be an obvious solution to anyone who finds themselves in this boat and needing to use MacOS for some reason: build their own stock version of curl and use that. Did someone mention homebrew?

Giggidy!

Come on. Admit it. You were thinking the same thing as me.

It's not paper vs. screen, per se.

It's just that the screen also gives access to a wealth of information on the Intertubes.

Including many flashy web sites that will assure you that you do not need to waste years of your life studying a particular subject using a traditional textbook, with an organized, well-developed, logical curriculum that introduces and explains each progressively complicated topic, one chapter at a time, in a disciplined manner.

No, all you have to do is take a few quizzes, or solve a bunch of dumb coding puzzles, in order to become an instant Guru, in whatever topic you're pursuing.

Come over to Stackoverflow, and witness this phenomenon happen in real time. Watching all the refugees come rolling in, from various coding puzzle sites, pleading for help in just solving one more coding puzzle for them, before they finally become an instant uberhacker.

The push and hype for AI-based developing mostly comes from 2nd-rate developers who see AI as their great hope for finally mastering the craft and becoming rock star uberhackers. They also watch Star Trek too much, and are having multiple orgasms at the thought of saying "Computer: write me a node.js web server that implements a shopping cart", and have the code appear instantly before their eyes.

All the AI tools I've seen are little bit more than glorified predictive type-ahead tools. I can see how they can save quite a bit of time with rote typing, but that's pretty much it, nothing more beyond a glorified menu. But, guess what: you still have to use your brain to figure out which option to pick. An AI is not going to make the choice for you.

The remaining AI tools boil down to nothing more than producing a fill-in-the-blanks templates. The starting template is nothing special, and nothing that requires a lot of intelligence to write. But it does take the same amount of intelligence to figure out what goes into all the blank spots.

So, sorry, all of you who hope that AI will turn you into a supercoder. It's not going to happen, sorry. And the few of you who are worried about the Ai taking your job: there's nothing to worry about. It should not take a great thinker to conclude that before an AI can surpass a human brain in some measurable way, someone has to actually demonstrate that an AI surpasses a human brain, in some measurable way. Where's the evidence?

(Disclaimer, I also watch Star Trek too much, but I also watched Bill Shatner's SNL skit)

Perhaps it's just the tags that I'm subscribed to. But I haven't noticed a damn's worth of difference today. Stackoverflow is still the same dumpster fire it's been for the last couple of years.

(just checked -- nope, it's still an endless stream of wandering, confused souls, who keep getting confused between stackoverflow.com, and pleasedomyhomeworkforme.com, writemycodeforme.net, or pleasesolvemycodingpuzzleforme.org)

So, this is a web site that offers Party A the ability to log in, and upload a PDF file.

Then, this web site offers Party B the ability to log in, look at the PDF file, and upload Party B's own file, an image of whatever Party B claims its signature to be, and then it attaches it to the PDF file, in a designated place.

Then both Party A and B get a copy of a result, timestamped and digitally signed.

And it requires seven thousand people to run a web site that does all this?

I'm going with the opposite take: he does want to buy Twitter.

But he simply wants to force Twitter's current management to pay whatever he can get out of them.

Twitter is on the record, as in "SEC filings", that only about 5% of their user base are bots.

Musk believes that the number is much, much higher. But if that actually comes out in the open, gkeep in mind that the 5% number is in their 10k filings. If the real number is 5.1 or 5.2%, who cares. But if we're talking 10%? 25%? As Musk alleges? This is securities fraud we're talking here. And if Twitter management knew about it, and still lied about in their 10K filings? Hoo-boy...

I've got a hunch that Twitter's current management will be willing to do anything to block this from coming out in public, and that's what Musk is counting on.

EOM