make popcorn, it'll be another rust unwrap

centralized censorship mechanisms just cause migration to peer2peer alternatives

it’s a cue not a threat, get back into p2p computing

Our trade has a solid tradition of terrible names for programming languages. They are ALL bad. The whole Ekmuhscrip.js schism fits perfectly. Yes, this is our circus, and these are our monkeys.

> Yes, this is our circus, and these are our monkeys.

In this case, it's Oracle's circus and we are the monkeys.

But some of us get to be pretty looking penguins in this circus of ours.

Markdown will never make layout more frustrating than Word.

Markdown will also never be Word’s equal in data corruption.

There’s only one #1.

pick your clique: nerds & hustlers

the two tribes of tech

im not smart enough to be around the nerds, but im not douchey enough to hang with the hustlers. I pick nerds. Hopefully they accept me.

not a great basis of discrimination tbh, there are people with dignity in spirit and there are those without, there's no other quirks etcetra for you or anyone else to have to identify yourselves/others with as very essential.

this whole thing stinks

his books exist mainly to help sell consulting gigs

there was a whole tribe of 90s oh-oh pundits hustling

for every new technology mankind has developed, the safety rules are written in blood, based solely on the series of calamities and inhumanities that followed the invention’s wake

it’s not gonna be any different this time

Many are saying this.

it is surreal to watch the relentless beating MS has taken at its own hands

there’s no competitor out there clobbering them, they are doing this to themselves

It really opens the market for a commercial RedHat-like offering. There are already those out there, and Microsoft is working really hard to piss off most of us with bad updates and AI.

Their October update forced me to do a clean reinstall. That NEVER happened before.

We need a new commercial OS. Surely there’s a way to monetise it without ads, spyware, and LLM garbage.

> Surely there’s a way to monetise it without ads

I honestly don’t think so for any consumer focused ones.

Including it with bespoke hardware kinda works but is so expensive to actually do.

Someone should work on Linux to make something better than gnome or kde and charge for it. I would pay.

Why not donate to gnome or kde to improve those directly?

I don't think the problem is the money. Neither of them provides a long term stable API, let alone ABI. So progress gets reset on a regular base.

Gnome is further hampered by no respect for user choice. They provide an appleish UI, with an Enterprise, one size fits all experience.

KDE is better, but they are not the official GNU/Red Hat choice. They will choose practical above esthetica.

A big part of the Linux success is POSIX, a standard to provide direction. The UI world never had anything line it, so it is very fragmented. A real solution could be a complete enough UI standard, used by OSX, Windows, Gnome and KDE.

Those 750$ M4 mac books are going to be forced to be reckoned with if they keep this shit up

If Apple does indeed come out with an A series based laptop for $500 it should really help out Apple with marketshare.