watch this especially from 4'45"

https://youtu.be/OcQy1zaflbw

The entirety of Europe is rapidly and aggressively migrating from USA software. It simply CANNOT be trusted.

Once Europe does this*, the rest of the world will rapidly follow. People, organisations and governments themselves have now had it proven to them that the USA cannot be trusted, is not reliable and now (proven) that confidential information is nothing more than an open book.

* e.g. EuroOffice is being released on the 9th June - a direct competitor of Google Docs and Microsoft Office.

Can't wait until AI makes a security hole and a billion dollars' worth of cryptocurrency disappears overnight.

...before Linux 7 takes over Linux XP in number of users?

Flip side - AI code generation makes developing small ‘throw away’ tools for niche problems trivial. There are plenty of niche tasks for which there are no existing software tools. Writing your own via vibe coding - i did this myself for a temporal disk space calculation tool. In an hour. Including walking across the street to grab a coffee, and checking it in to github. Previously this would have been a few hours of searching the internet before writing something myself with less features and more bugs in 3-4x the time.

It makes it economical to solve problems in code.

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.

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.

The community college I'm attending a class in online uses Proctorio. The rules say that we shouldn't wear headphones during the tests because we could be getting answers through the headset.

I'm taking a foreign language class, and part of the tests involves listening to spoken words. I don't own computer speakers, so how am I supposed to follow that rule? I'd have to buy speakers for just Proctorio.

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

I wonder why I spend $200 a month on my various AI Services for zero positive benefit.

You can always make your own custom Secure Boot key database and sign whatever you want.

It's even easier on millions of Dell and Alienware computers that used the test key as their production Platform Key. You can just use the leaked private key to modify the keys without being easily detectable.

not a good look

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.

I checked one from the article at random (hdtoday) and it was definitely hosted/fronted by cloudflare. DNS wouldn't help here. Sigh.

I don't understand why more people don't run a local recursive resolver. It isn't hard.

Additionally, I'd love to see every consumer router have a local Unbound recursive resolver (or similar) included. Ideally, used by default. With an optional forward to the local ISP or a 3rd party DNS resolver if absolutely necessary.

Having mega-resolvers like cloudflare, google, 9.9.9.9 etc makes them an overly attractive target.

Knowingly.