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Very apt headline, IMHO. I have been an ardent opponent of AI since it came up a few years back. I refuse to vibe code and I refuse to let AI think for me. I won't be an AI control…

Tiny suggestion, possibly without merit (no comments or email in the article): Use ULEB64 encoding instead of RAW unsigned 64-bit fields for STRING lengths. ULEB64 ( https://en.wik…

You can disable the "commercial usage detected" haressments easily enough: https://anydesk.com/en/whitelist-request

I agree fully with you. AnyDesk is pretty cool and mostly works well. There's a small trick you can use: Run but don't install AnyDesk, that way it won't install its services and s…

Is it me or is there a bug with pointers on the bottom of http://www.pjhutchison.org/tutorial/pointers.html ? The author uses this code to dereference a pointer to a structure memb…

I don't want to be toxic but why make a function to cast a char to an int? I was astounded when I briefly skimmed through the list. I hope this is not curriculum in education.

Okay, sorry, I misunderstood you :-) As a matter of fact, I think it is a shame that so few support ReactOS. The idea is grand and think about how many resources people are willing…

In a way, yes. But I left because I could see no future for the project due to the fact that I could format my system partition without getting warning and other similar issues. I …

I agree to that. I probably should have used the word "deliver" instead of the phrase "compete with Microsoft".

You should check your attitude. I didn't offend you, so don't offend me.

I was invited to join the ReactOS project about 10-12 years ago. I was part of it for, say, four days, then I left. I realized I could format my system drive with no warning or err…

As a language purist, I'm slightly saddened by the removal of the colon to indicate the beginning of an indented block on the next line. I believe Cobra did the same and it always …

Three cheers!!! So fine with new and actually improved technologies instead of the many GUI rehashes that some companies make money off delivering all the time. I don't often use S…

1. Hype over Rust. 2. Pragmatism because of the many complexities with imperative programming and multi-tasking in a more and more multi-core world. 3. Hype over Rust. :-) I person…