I bought a copy of Corel Linux in 2001 at a USAF base exchange because I was a broke airman and was building my first homebuilt PC and didn’t want to shell out money for Windows, and I didn’t have Internet to pirate it in the dorms (this was the days of no wifi and pay as you go Internet cafes). I thought it’d be JUST like Windows, and I could get shit done, and the differences were just like those between Mac/PC. Just a different interface.

Boy was I wrong. It sucked balls. I didn’t pick up Linux again until Ubuntu in 2006. Now I daily drive Debian. Oh well, at least it came with an inflatable penguin.

I found a “< 0” comparison instead of a “<= 0” in a conditional check once for someone else’s audio library I was using which caused random lockups in the decoding loop only ever so often when decoding MP3s. It was for a function that removed ID3 data on the fly while decoding and then checked for more to strip out. Took a day to finally pinpoint what was happening, test my change, and then notified the author, who immediately fixed it. It felt great.

You don’t gotta be a rockstar 10x developer working on 50 projects at once to help out.

I use KDE because it has a cute dragon instead of a stinky foot.

So many things they could target that’s related to the cause but they go for the fucking IA? Might as well burn down an orphanage. This is fucked up.

In the future, there are no potholes or imperfections of any kind. The ground and buildings are smooth, shiny, and constantly maintained to perfection somehow. Everything looks like a starship.

In a world of satellites, advanced air forces, guided missiles, drones, etc, a couple spiky things on the ground seems very medieval.

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Yes, if they are working with the thief. I’m dumb. It’s still early.

Big steel box with a one-way door and keyed access anchored into concrete next to your door, with a sign saying to drop packages into it. That’s what I’ve started seeing some people do. Basically, a personal mail deposit box.

Higher frequencies = smaller wavelengths = ability to pack more information into the same wave.

That’s why phones started using the very high upper microwave bands for 5G.

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Ma Bell: “Just do a T-1000, pull yourself back together slowly over a decade or two.”

I’m not eating pizza at your house, that’s for sure.

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It’s like how they slapped ‘Smart’ on every tech product in the past decade.

When I was a teen, it was “e”-everything. E-mail, e-pets, e-bologna, e-games, e-surance, whatever. eBay is a relic of this era.

Also known as “hmm, what else can the ESP32 do?”.

Is this allowed? Are we allowing them to do that again?

You’re not going to be the only one with plans like that. There’s a few billion more of us that would like some water too. In an actual resource conflict, that water is most likely going to be secured, prioritized, and rationed by government authorities first, if some random militias or warlords don’t get to it first.

This isn’t going to be a case of “oh I’ll just move away from the fighting and chill and keep going to work and paying taxes”. It’s going to come to you no matter where you are. Easy access to fresh water is a pretty basic foundation of an advanced, stable society.

It was because VHS had longer runtimes at first (but worse quality) and so VHS got a head start in the market because people didn’t care about quality as much as runtime because tapes were expensive back then, and by the time Betamax caught up to the capabilities of VHS it was too late. It was also because of restricted licensing. Everybody and their dog were releasing VHS players of their own, while Sony had a death grip on their tech. In the stores, VHS was all you saw, with maybe one Betamax in the corner. VHS was the Android to Sony’s “iPhone”.

That’s a level of trust I’m surprised that so many companies and governments are completely fine with.

Crowdstrike. 'Nuff said.