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I had one of these with NeXTSTEP but a while after a RAM upgrade it let its smoke out. I wasn't ever able to get it all back in so I threw the whole thing away.

That was like 20+ years ago.

Digging, destruction, building, crafting, all are becoming as much the focus as slaying zomboids

It’s 15 eyes now and has been for years.

The only thing they make which I have bought in the last decade is Lipton tea, and I only bought that at a gas station because I didn't want an energy drink.

Apparently they make lots of soap.

I use Tor for most of my browsing these days. While I'm under no illusion that it protects me from the US government (it IS NSA software after all), I'm fairly confident that it does protect me against non-15-eyes and corporate spying and data collection.

CDDA is gradually evolving into more of a Dwarf Fortress than a Roguelike as time goes on.

What is this even? Like Snort? I haven't been knowledgeable about the Windows ecosystem since the Web 1.0 days.

We have to wait and see.

This is good, Intel won't fix the CPU in my old Thinkpad W701ds because it's too old now for a firmware upgrade I guess. But the thing is not only more than fast enough for today's use, it also has 32GB RAM and I just got a couple new Chinese batteries for it. There's no way I'm switching from it, you can't even get a real keyboard in a laptop any more.

If operating systems start to beef up security more aggressively then I won't have to worry so much about having old microcode. OpenBSD is ahead of Linux on this too afaicr, sadly though it doesn't like the Nvidia GPU in my computer.

>checks benchmarks And that's why I disagree. Also old-school Firefox and Seamonkey run great on my P3 450.

So what I'm getting here is that some poor quality app was banned from the store. Science knows Apple needs to do this much, much more aggressively. But because the people who coded the app were differently sexually preferenced, it has become something of a gay rights issue too even though Tim Cook and several other top Apple people are gay and Apple has had, since its earliest days, a tolerant culture toward gays.

Look at that Instagram post linked in OP's blog entry. I just don't understand what's going on sometimes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CByVfi7hoCl/

We can expect every security hole possible to be exploited by these Chinese military apps. Heck, Fortnite intalls a rootkit on your PC for "anti-cheat" and that's even more egregious, yet it is allowed. The situation on Android is probably worse, most apps request access to everything these days and users are afraid to say "no" because of fear of breakage.

It's totally easier to just close the whole tab with control-w.

Just one thought, everybody can buy an imported tractor these days. And steel too.

Journalists need to take a page out of Assange's playbook and use ancient Thinkpads and Powerbooks and use VPNs which would make this technique obsolete.

What data? Show me the data.

They didn't have to rewrite everything in Rust thereby harming performance to a large degree.

I bet they don't. All the Mac Safari users I know also run Firefox because Safari's ad blocking sucks.

I only know of a few Mac users of Chrome.

Lots of pointless user-facing "innovations," some of which break things with no warning, and very little improvement of the base OS from what a Unix person would notice, combined to cause stagnation.

When Apple moved to file 'tags' from comments which one could edit which would be attached to the file, they literally nuked thousands of annotations of mine. I was never warned that they would be blown away. What kind of company just does this?

Isn’t anybody else a little worried about how creepy this all is? The applications are endless, and I have this feeling that default on will become the norm, then the setting to turn it on and off and even see if you’re being contact traced will eventually disappear.

Oh my gosh I wish they'd have stopped with Rhapsody, to tell you the truth. Constantly redoing the UI while leaving basic functionality at a very bare level is really not doing it for me any more. Apple has moved against power users several times in the past in more aggressive terms but always having a fresh look in the UI is just a pointless exercise.

Consistency is much more important especially when reaching the phone- and tablet-raised crop of people who don't really know how a computer works nor do they care. Same with many people, they simply need a computer for their various duties. A more tech-oriented person will never have problems adapting to even radically different UI paradigms and degrees of chrome but less techy people will.

Add more functionality to the OS, fix the ancient packages, do SOMETHING for the more advanced users, Apple. Please?

OpenBSD has to be able to build itself on fairly lean hardware, it's a design goal for the project. Rust has been in ports and packages forever if you want to install it.

Tech hiring and salary suppression cartel's going to have a rough time.

Well "they" could in fact be George Lucas, who is an active ham and has been for decades, which makes us suspect he was also using the Internet too.

Of course you have the right to poke your nose wherever you like and complain about whatever you like as well.

I also don't care for the idea that bribing the indigent and poor is what I'm doing. Glad to know that people are decoupling from the idea that welfare helps upward mobility.

Nobody would mind how they spent it if it was actually theirs to start with. When you give out free money it becomes everybody's business.

The article mentions this but links to a Google search as "proof." Even VM's have lots of ways to escape these days.

Chroot vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed over time, as any security issue in an operating system is. It's not accurate to say that they are insecure in a blanket fashion especially these days. My opinion is that we should be using Unix as it is meant to be used, as on operating system, and using its time worn facilities meant for purposes such as security and sandboxing. They are very well tested and the solutions are baked-in and generally pretty small in terms of both code and overhead when compared to spinning up a VM, for instance. There are arguments for using VMs for security and scaling but they don't always win over just one modest local server in either domain. We're not all serving Google search after all.

Better late than never!

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

Think of the overhead which could be saved if services could be "spun up" in chrooted environments or even just as members of traditional Unix-style user-private groups! I know, I know, this is a newish concept which seems crazy. But it could work.

How's it any more of a monopoly than Microsoft's store, Google's store, or even a digital content "store" like Netflix?

Let's not misuse words to make a point here. All companies have, in your definition, monopolies over their own proprietary stores. By the same token, Wal-Mart has a monopoly over the products it sells and Ford has a monopoly over the vehicles they produce and distribute.