Because he is not (currently) a dictator, he can't make his own laws. He's limited in what he can do.

Tariffs are one of the few things in which he is mostly able to do unilaterally. When all you've got is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Something any serious jazz drummer already knows - getting syncopated rhythms going in each limb independently

Like ask Jeeves but with get 'er done attitude

Your post is fascinating, but also mindboggling. The amount of code to review must be... impossible.

Ive been coding for 35 years and thought I knew it all, but now find I know nothing. Keeping up is impossible.

I enjoyed reading your experience.

Yep, still have the XP running - it's only function is for an old Epson scanner that they won't update the drivers for but that's it.

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.