Yeah, I've wondered a bit if the Spectre class of vulnerabilities was discovered a couple decades sooner if it would have changed the course of history there.
Encouraging. I hope the increasing drumbeat of awareness and advocacy around this reaches a critical mass soon. I'm not naive enough to think it will solve all security problems, but it will reduce the attack surface so, so much.
The messaging space also had the amazing Adium client during the last round of messaging wars, and less amazing Trillian as reverse engineered clients distributed or sold. I for one am excited to see this space heating back up.
From using PopOS, mostly for other reasons like out of the box drive encryption and nvidia support, the DE's purpose as far as I can tell is mostly to provide a reasonably user-friendly tiling window manager without replacing all of Gnome. Though now they are also replacing all of gnome in the next major release, so who knows.
Half the time people with new projects just forget to choose one. He could put up a completely non commercial license if he wanted. It doesn't even have a copyright notice right now, making simply overlooking that so far the most plausible explanation.
Bootloaders support all the common root filesystems now, and even less common like zfs & btrfs. Just leave the bootloader where it is and use a directory in root for the kernel & initramfs.
These tiny boot partitions are such a self-inflicted wound in linux distributions. I do agree there's a lot of people in the same boat, but maybe the solution is to offer some sort of migration out of that state.
I get that people don't care or understand this, but that's also saying he cc's OpenAI, and therefore probably Microsoft, and therefore almost definitely the NSA, on all his business communications. What a world.
I think ChatGPT will eventually be good at the garble of weird text. It's immensely helpful already but you really must be checking up on what it is telling you. Plausible but non-existent or incorrectly used APIs are routine still. I definitely bet on it eventually getting there though.
Yeah, people have also gotten mealworms to eat Styrofoam. My concern is more that the plastics industry successfully pushed plastic recycling heavily with marketing so that growth of their products would continue, even as said recycling was just dumping the material in developing countries where it mostly ended up burned or in the ocean. There can be a huge, huge disconnect between technically possible and what happens in the real world.
All coinciding with a large, engineered, split in pandemic cautiousness about attending in-person voting stalls between the two main parties. There are more examples, gerrymandering is a decades-long one, but most of what I've read & heard about 2020 was about forcing people to wait in long lines or vote in person when that would favor one party over the other.
This comes up every time, but it doesn't make any sense. Routers, software, IT professionals, would've all been just as happy to not support IPv4.1 as they have been to not support IPv6. At this point though the inflection point has already been passed adoption-wise and AWS needs to just do the thing already.
In the United States the space race led to a ton of STEM education, and secondary technology use cases. It would amazing to get similar benefits in those countries.
Yes custom class loaders can solve this. Eclipse had an entire OSGI module system that did this among other things. In general though Java (and Kotlin) have been trending toward simpler and lighter though for years and I’d recommend just sorting out your dependencies, even drop some, to avoid that kind of thing.