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Here's my source[0], certainly I doubt all of society in the 1300s designed a word to intentionally confuse you 700 years later. But feel free to provide your sources.

Just because you heard it 20 years ago, does not mean that it was not used before.

In addition, "it" is not used for people. Yes, it is a gender neutral pronoun, but would be considered very offensive if you refer to a person by "it". The only example where you can use it usually is a baby whose name and/or sex is not known, often prior to them being born.

The phrase "politically correct" mostly only used by "anti-woke" snowflakes who believe they are better than those who tell others to leave non-binary folks alone, yet at the same time will rage all day just because some said that they're a "they" or some silly little thing. As if they've got nothing else to do in life but get angry at someone for having a preferring on how they want to be referred to.

Also implying that the natural evolution of the English language is some form of propaganda is wild to me. The language is essentially an evolution of German, with heavy influence from Roman/French and Old Norse. Saying that it is propaganda is like saying there's been some psyops by millions of people happening over centuries to mislead millions of other people.

The only correct thing you've said is "communication normally is about clarity". Honestly, to me, it feels like that hasn't really worked on you. You're certainly not clear about the history of the English language.

[0] https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-the...

Not really, "they" has been used to refer to a singular gender neutral subject for way longer than you've been alive. Whether it refers to plural or singular subject, and often who it refers to, is all pulled from the context of the story.

AWS is still way ahead in cloud usage, that's probably why AWS is the primary target. Anyway, floci has GCP and Azure versions, how mature they are, I'm unsure. But it does exist.

I don't know why but to me the worse bit of it is the giant emoji finger that keeps trying to click the sign up button.

Google, Azure, and AWS already have their highly available PostgreSQL alternatives.

Or, as the author said, you can just photograph an AI generated picture, and that will work too.

Great rebuttal. /s

What a strange Islamophobic comment to make. You should probably go out a little more.

Great entrepreneur is a bit of a far fetch. His own friends(?) didn't want him to be CEO of paypal back in the day.

I don't quite know what it was, but the submit button on that page did not work. Had to call the submit() function on the form's DOM.

I just wish Ladybird can do what Electron currently does, but with much better resources. Especially in today's age where memory is so expensive.

Have you seen Spicetify[0]? It allows for this kind of stuff and seems to be a lot more stable than doing it all manually.

[0] https://spicetify.app/

More actually. Generally those rewards happen by using your credit (there are exceptions). Meaning you are more likely to pay for something that you'd probably otherwise not have spent money on.

I had a look at BookOrbit not long ago. Love the fact that it is able to manage all book types (manga, comics, ebooks). Perfect for me and have been struggling to find a good tool that does all of them without being stupid heavy in resources. Once I looked at the repo, source, PRs etc. I noticed how heavy AI use is. This feels purely vibecoded without much for understanding what is actually being delivered. So ended up not using.

Right. I've really struggling to get AI to stop explaining the what. It seems to add it to the commits, PRs, code, wherever it feels like. I've put in multiple places to not write the "what", but the "why", and in multiple ways, but it still does it in one or other place.

But OP is the loser for leaving a comment.

My favourite: misconfigured Linkerd setup that causes CA certs to rotate every month :) Definitely worth restarting on that

I don't understand why Google is needed for this. My understanding is that this is basic weather forecasting, something the aviation industry already utilises to avoid turbulence. Seems like it'd be trivial to track cold spots in the sky as an addon. It's worth noting the US military has been doing this for basically ever already and their planes avoid them when necessary.

Regardless, I'm glad somebody is doing something about it as a temporary stop gap.

> I check with nmap periodically. I have a break-glass backup terminal login option via my cloud provider dashboard (secured with MFA) in case Tailscale failed and needed investigation and repair.

Cool! Are you able to provide more information on this? My break glass is to temporarily allow public access to my IP, but it's manual and takes time for the firewall rules to apply. I'd love to have a better solution if possible.

The real solution is using something like Pangolin or Tailscale (or Headscale) for this. You can control access way better and you never have to expose ssh ever. Not even temporarily.

Appel has, and it can be used. Apfel[0] has exposed it as a CLI:

    $ apfel "What is the capital of Austria?"
    The capital of Austria is Vienna.

[0] https://apfel.franzai.com/

I thought this was interesting. Most companies and candidates use AI these days as part of their job search, and during my current job search, so far this is the first time I've come across a comapny having such thing outlined. I think this is great, as it sets expectations, in addition to that, you as a candidate can decide whether you're okay with these expectations.

Well, I stand corrected! Thanks for the link

It's obviously Amazon that requires them to wear the vest. Just because the contractor they work for enforces it doesn't, doesn't mean it's not Amazon requiring it.

I think if one thing Mamdani is great at, it's that he's a great marketer. His brand is just so much better than any candidate I've seen in the US. Heck even in the UK to be honest.

Once you have a vm, the container provides next to no additional security benefits. It's just unnecessary overhead at that point.

> If the alternatives are clunky linux machines

I can tell this is a bad faith argument considering Linux can practically run on a toaster if you'd like.

And if Apple would allow it, Linux could easily run on Apple hardware, but that's the user hostility Apple gives. The things you've mentioned Apple does, Linux OSes have been doing for way longer.

And yes, Microslop is user hostile. It seems any org with an ounce of necessity for profit eventually turns hostile to user. This includes all FAANG. And yes, though far less hostile (and still not an excuse), even Valve has made some user hostile decisions.

What mask exactly?

Tactile click? Really? Weird hill to die. You're willing to accept inferior hardware, more ewaste, and a tighter grip by Apple for a silly little click?

> Phones don't run on fuel (and you can recharge a phone with any electricity supply)

That analogy would be the charging port. Until the EU forced them to use USB-C, they refused to let you use anything but their proprietary (inferior) connector.

> I’ve never found them user hostile. They just sell appliances that do a thing.

It is very hostile to users and their freedom. They are requiring you to buy things that they approve of. I guarantee you somewhere in their backlog is an item that says "require app store for app installations on macOS". In line with iOS.

You have paid for some hardware, and you can only run their software. They are refusing to give you information on running one of many other operating systems. They are refusing to allow you to buy hardware that runs their operating system[0] (this is in my opinion more okay, unless they are willing to sell the software separately).

They then refuse to give you new versions of the same software that they enforce to run on the hardware you bought. The hardware is probably still in perfect working order, and will still work with an older version of said software, but soon after some zero day is found, and you are stuck with this software that you can either never connect to the internet, or suck it up and accept the risk.

You can recycle it sure, but apple will give you pennies on the dollar (if they give you anything at all) and no one else really wants it because Apple refuses to let them (or you for that matter) fix it if it breaks, give it a new life through Linux (or Windows for that matter). So now you have at best some expensive paperweight, at worst e-waste.

So yes, Apple is user hostile whether it affects you or not. And no, Apple is not the only one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh