I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

Whichever month is convenient for remakes and reboots.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

Is the severe emotional problems or chemical imbalances a feature or bug? Lets rephrase the question... Should my well trained electronic parrot who knows many languages be classified as people? If they have an off/on switch they aren't people.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Thanks.

Only took 20 years to double the clock speed. Roughly the time I got out of Semiconductor industry, sorry guys.

Duh. Internet is nice to have, but I do not like having it crammed down my throat as the only option for common activities like applying, ordering, forms, communication, etc. AND I'm too old to work in Information Technology according to some and mention cobol in the same breath, wtf. So I don't make good money and it doesn't save me time usually as it tries to monopolize all of my time. No, I liked the oversized calculation devices when it was a convenience or nicety, not my leash, homing device, pacifier, antagonist, excuse, etc.

Bankruptcy made me homeless for a short time until I could get on my feet, Northeast USA.The shelters and missions I spent time at were mostly mentally ill people who rebel against the system and chemical dependency of drug or alcohol. Only a small percentage were divorcees. Can't say it was lack of education as I met a few masters degrees along the way. If they want off the streets they'll get off the streets. Most of them are doing the limbo to see how low they can go by moving from the shelter to camping in a tent and so fotth. We say they are a problem, they don't see themselves as a problem and like their lifestyle. /shrug Not my cup of tea and wrong direction as I prefer to improve society.

JavaScript? Ruby? This is soft fluffy languages, not close to the hardware. you should ask the variable what they feel they identify as instead of forcing your type on them.

you watch too much TV. You need to disconnect. I don't want to go to prison for shooting my television.

Warp is good, AI built into prompt to ask it real world questions of what the command is for the platform. Rust fast. Blocks for scroll back and current block stays at bottom. popup tabbing for selection, etc. Not just an old vt100. https://www.warp.dev/ Starship with warp is just neat. https://starship.rs/

They are still a thing https://m-audio.com/home/v-ser... I have an M-Audio Oxygen that I used in Garage band for a ADHD minute.