And my point - Not much of modern Linux is hampered by lack of funding. And the Linux movement has a long history of contributors who were essentially sponsored by their employers. NASA, for instance, had a few key contributors who took time form, full-time duties to make Linux much much better.
There were articles about the amount of microplastics in human blood and tissue. Then they discovered that some of the lab equipment had plastic parts that contaminated the samples.
tl;dr: When you're measuring tiny particles in tiny amounts, contamination is very, very difficult to avoid.
Do you wear your mask while driving, too??
Would charging for access have stopped the work on Wayland?
Since they cannot simply put that much money onto a bank-account, they reasonably did all kinds of non-browser related things with it.
They could have created an endowment and then would not have had to worry when the money dried up, because the earnings on the principal would have funded them through the end of time. But, like most non-profits that end up with a bunch of money, they just used the opportunity for mission creep.
Totally not a gimmick. Totally not incredibly easy to bypass. Totally not a bunch more e-Waste in the making.
But someone expects to earn good money with it, so...
What sort of self-respecting techie-type buys their used cars from a dealer??
as in someone else is buying the beer.
Dum-dum still doesn't get it?? You are the beer.
Remember when you could, in System 6.0.7, and still in System 7, copy a file to a floppy (in MultiFinder), then from the floppy, then back to the floppy, and so on for a few minutes, and your Mac would hard crash. Remember?
As a tech I had a few tricks to crash Macs without any software. Just stupid Mac tricks. Not overflowing a disk, either, that was a stupid Windows trick.
Macs were not and are not yet infallible. They enjoy a huge advantage over Windows - control of the hardware. Windows suffers a multitude of hardware drivers, written by who-knows, and every significant attempt by Microsoft to insulate the kernel from bad driver behavior failed up to Windows 8. Mostly.
But it's sport to bash Windows. Has been since about Linux kernel 2.0, which if you were around then, you know was the pot calling the kettle black.
Windows has many flaws to hang your beanie on, but considering the requirements, it's remarkable. Not as remarkable as Linux, which somehow has become so despite (virtually) no paid developers. And I've used Linux since Slackware something like 0.9, which was not 'officially' distributed, and sort of worked. But it hooked me on Linux. Using Windows since the Mach 20 board and Windows 2.0, I've suffered but persisted. Felt bad for WordStar, WordPerfect for Windows, and some other software that never quite made it. Anyone remember Jazz?
Still, bashing Windows is easy. Anyone care to be similarly honest about X11?
It's about time that the pro-AI shills came up with something positive... not that they haven't been trying.
Care to share actual metrics with us?
The social media platforms would rather have it treated like an R rated movie that kids can't get into than simply not run ads or show content for people they aren't explicitly connected to on the platform.
Because most people would opt for that.
Imagine only seeing content from people you follow and who follow you back.
Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.
As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.
"Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing." -- Robert Orben
