Wow, you’re right. I can’t believe I forgot about that era, when you could expect to see John Bridgman providing insight in every thread under AMDGPU news.

Maybe my memory is just warped. How far back did you have to go?

The Phoronix comment section has always been kinda shit. Maybe one in every thousand posts will contain anything of value (in most cases a comment by a developer telling the peanut gallery why they’re wrong).

A threat actor with code execution on a Linux desktop immediately has access to the filesystem and can do whatever anyway, in practice

No.

TempleOS is a marvel in many ways, but it’s not particularly useful to any normal person. I wouldn’t even say that Terry Davis was an asshole, because it feels wrong to hold a paranoid schizophrenic responsible for his manic episodes.

The guidelines for Windows developers kinda suck tbh. Maybe it’s better these days, but plenty of weird legacy software behaviour can be blamed on MSDN.

I agree with your recommendation. As for free/freemium email providers, there’s Tuta for one. I’m hoping that there are others.

On the other hand, GMX (and web.de) is a notoriously bad influence on email communication and will randomly block mailservers if they feel like it while flooding all of their own users with spam. The world would be a better place without 1&1 / united internet.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/06/prism-j-edgar-hoover-would-have-loved-the-nsas-surveillance-program-topic-government-surveillance.html

This is a decent read concerning the effectiveness of the systems designed to prevent abuse.

And the ability to breathe.

Neither are other methods of air conditioning/circulation.

A steno machine is just a kind of chorded keyboard.

I think you’re just being contrarian for no reason. The market for specialty input devices is much smaller compared to “normal” keyboards but it still exists and has become much more diverse over the past decade, with many new niche products being launched. This isn’t even the first commercially available chorded keyboard. From the video, this particular iteration seems to be marketed towards mute people and I’m sure that they or people with other kinds of disabilities are probably glad to have any products at all available to aid them in daily tasks. Not every product or company needs to participate in a high volume market. Apparently, the chorded inputs can also be reprogrammed and it can work in a normal keyboard mode, which should make it more flexible than something designed purely for stenography.

Yes, the most important concern with accessibility devices: “Does it make me look attractive?”

Literally nothing happens.

Linux init conservatives: Alright that’s the final straw, systemd!

I hate posts where the question is the top (or only) search result and the answer is some dickwad saying “did you try Googling first, smh”.

That doesn’t explain the “luddite” part, I feel.

It’s easy to accuse a noob of making the wrong choices when you have the experience necessary to make the right ones. There are a ton of outdated guides on the internet for every programming language. I’m almost certain there is some school kid downloading an old Borland C++ version right now, because the youtube video from 2010, regurgitating a tutorial from 2004 said so.

That’s good advice but I would add that Java really sucks at using “the type system to enforce invariants for data” and that this approach doesn’t have much to do with what most (especially Java programmers) would consider OOP. I die inside a little bit every time I need to use code generators or runtime reflection to solve a problem that really should not require it.

I use both professionally and I hate both of them for different reasons.