OpenBSD folk re-implemented Openssl as Libressl because its codebase sucked.
Apple chose Zsh over Bash because licensing.
Mysql was forked as Mariadb.. for no good reason it seems, seeing as Oracle didn't break anything in the 15 years since.
Libreoffice was forked from Openoffice because its maintainers sucked.


None of those decisions looks dumb to me.

I know people are wary of wrapper installers and have heard of the Sourceforge scandal at the time, but for Audacity whose product I like, do not just spread a rumour without verifying what it is, on the very website you mention at https://www.audacityteam.org/d... there is a MuseHub option but 1 cm lower you can plainly see the MSI installer binary identical with the one in Github, same SHA e2ff38589989ac2030ecf127f3df6e6c3ad59088 please don't make them look shady for no reason.

Jfrog's Artifactory + Xray is such a solution. It is not perfect as it doesn't execute the complex steps an antivirus solution usually has like running code in a sandbox. But it has approvals, audit logs, CVE scan for most popular package formats. And it can be deployed fully isolated on-prem. It is not cheap, but for Broadcom customers that shouldn't be an issue :)

The Tories are the oldest party in UK politics, they must be aware of what history is and how it's done. The others admittedly are very new.

There is serious push back on the ECHR mainly due to
- excessive immigration
- trans movement
At least two major parties in UK politics have clearly stated an intent to leave the ECHR.

That description is inaccurate though. He is not and never was an investor, most successful or whatever. He just bet on other people's misery. Most prolific gambler maybe.

alza.cz
emag.ro
allegro.pl

And those sites also deliver to other countries; we are spoiled for choice in the EU.

For second-hand shopping (equivalent of eBay) there is a multi-national giant OLX.

I notice in this thread and others a lack of comment of the impact the ongoing wars have on the climate. Yes I may have a diesel car. But I'm not dropping 1000 bombs per day on Ukrainians. That shit will take centuries to clean up, if we are to measure by the ongoing efforts to clean up WW2. And it's not stopping. And the reason it's not stopping is because eg France bough 40 billion $ of oil/gas from Russia last year. And France's government will ride a private jet to Cop30 where they will tell me to stop using my diesel car. If those are the terms of the deal, I'm seriously tempted to say "fuck it, let the world burn".

VMWare were very good at this - and probably still are, but people don't like them anymore. Their hypervisor and guest OS drivers came with a "VMCI device" which offers a wealth of information and management options without exposing a classic network interface. I'm not aware of an equivalent in the VirtualBox / KVM world. I've heard of "vsock", also written by VMWare, haven't tried it yet.

All I said was a person booking an entire train compartment is not efficient (not to mention horribly selfish); easy with the knee-jerk.

This doesn't scale thought, it would make train trips horribly energy inefficient so where's the green incentive then? It's also a very good reason to pick the plane: it efficiently packs 200-300 people and flies them 1800 km in 2 hours.

To anyone silly enough to try debating this topic: remember that very often the people you argue with are not rational. They truly madly deeply believe to be what they say they are. To the point where they irreversibly chop off functioning body parts and attach non-functioning ones. The debate should have taken place with their parents long ago.

and are ready for one in which the teams do some actual coding. Hell, maybe even bring Brendan Eich back for some domain-specific guidance.

Indeed, my reaction to reading even the whole article was a "huh?" - surely those people can't be so naive as to think butter = fat. There are likely hundreds of other ingredients, varying on animal source (goat, cow), nutrients fed to the cattle, region in the world, exact species so many factors in play. This article basically says all the work a Swiss farmer does to produce the best milk in the world is useless as the result is just some fat - if ever there was a reason for the to abandon their neutrality and go to war!

I am surprised none of the geeks here has suggested photos on paper. Proven to last for centuries, high quality media easily available, and very good error toleration. For films - film. Same qualities paper, just with one important snag, which I did encounter: it is highly flammable. Storage needs to be done carefully.