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For those interested, FidoNet and "Alt nets" such as fsxNet are still going and active!

I've now worked with 3 teams that have moved from Python (2/3) and C++ (1/3) to (async) Rust. All successfully, all with less bugs, moving faster, etc. And now we have AI.

Node.js based BBS software, now with built in x86 emulation ability for DOS doors and more!

You could end it with "Python is not a great language". Now, is Python a SUCCESSFUL language? Very.

I don't quite understand the name. Sort of follows the "I wrote this in C++" convention of naming.

`netstat -tnalp` ?

I'm still a fan of HJSON, and JSON5 looks quite nice, but this does as well. That's all I can really say. There are so many choices, but looks like you did really well on this one.…

Yes.

The Supreme Court is bought and paid for by the group that wants to ban likely take over. So, regardless of what your thoughts on TikTok are, it's mostly all irrelevant.

Love every bit of this type of stuff that mostly only the younger generations are doing. Maybe someday, our society will move away from slaving away in terrible environments to rea…

Gross.

Good, here you go https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

These discussions continue to come up, and I feel like it's wasting time on the wrong issues. Is AI *borrowing concepts* from artists? Yep. Do artists borrow concepts from other ar…

The suggestion to switch to Chrome is pretty rich. Firefox is more privacy conscious Chrome even with this enabled.

"I completely misunderstand the purpose of SQLite, so here are some rants"

I've been trying to convince people of this for years. The problem is from my view, that people have the idea of IP being some sort of the American Dream ingrained in their heads t…

I wrote a article on the history of this stuff a while back you may enjoy: https://l33t.codes/2020/12/10/Retro-standards-part-1-file-de...

TL;DR: Once again, capitalism takes it's toll.

Beware of !rtfm

No clear answers? Maybe you should ask some of them. The younger generations are constantly talking about it - while the older generations are constantly talking about it as well, …

No, it feels that way because music is a monthly service, any media is a monthly service cost, backups are monthly service cost, news are a monthly service cost, VPN is a monthly s…

That's some super steep pricing

I'm not sure why the bigger issue isn't being talked about more, but yes, algorithms and "AI" are deployed in fashions that optimize profit. That's it. Profit. It's only getting mu…

Totally agree that individuals buying houses just for the sake of renting them out is also a problem. Renting out your legitimate 2nd home, I don't have a problem with.