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Don't take it personally OP, but taskbar-as-a-service is objectively one of the funniest things I have ever seen posted on this site.

The major data centers being built for AI are much more energy-hungry than car manufacturing, and they're being built at a pace that the US energy grid simply cannot accommodate in…

No, we have convenient online services in spite of the endless security theater that permeates consumer tech. All it's done is gradually increase maintenance burden and technical c…

Very nice site, but it seems to expect you to be following along with some other resource. The exercises each have links under the details tab, but the links are broken, and I cann…

I elaborated a bit when I edited my post, but to be more specific, I think LSP is a protocol that fails at its stated goals. Every server is buggy as hell and has its own quirks an…

The OP defeats his own argument. LSP was a collaborative effort that benefited from a degree of coordination that only hierarchical organizations can provide, yet it still sucks as…

I understand the analogy, it's just ridiculous. You are conflating entirely unrelated things based on your personal feelings about them with no regard to historical or technical co…

...what does Emacs have to do with any of this? And how does running Linux in a Hyper-V virtual machine magically make it better?

Google likely just doesn't care. They know most people won't bother using privacy-oriented services out of inconvenience or apathy.

My point about VSC is that brands itself as "open source" when Microsoft clearly intends for it to have a proprietary, tightly controlled ecosystem. It's not just RMS-unapproved, i…

I noticed this the other day when I installed VSCodium on my new Windows box. I had a functional setup for one day , then the next day I couldn't install a language extension I dir…

Hurd isn't exactly a useful project, but using Doom as the benchmark for the capability of an OS is a bit ridiculous.

> While there are technical differences between Snap and Flatpak, the gist is the same. Offer a sandboxed, isolated, and universal package format for Linux. Universal package forma…

Most Ghidra discussion I see online boils down to whining that it's not IDA Pro, so, probably not bad.

Seeing Brave New World references every time drugs are mentioned is tiring and pretentious. There is plenty to be said about the virtues of moderation and abstinence, and none of i…

I've grown dissatisfied with it, but I can't be assed to switched to anything else since it's the only terminal emulator that renders fonts well, at least on my machine.

I would argue that what constitutes clever code varies a lot by language. There's always a "cleverness" threshold where being able to read or refactor the code becomes harder, but …

Unsurprising, but I'd still totally buy a Superfest glass set with this in mind. I've owned glassware that was both fragile and prone to exploding into jagged particles, and it was…

If I had to guess, people who judge Linux security based on niche desktop distros with no security features enabled.

I've used Lisps on and off for a decade or so, and my experience with it is pretty much in line with the Grammarly devs' summary: misuse of macros is one of those things people jus…

Powershell feels a lot like Microsoft wanted to appeal to *nix users, especially system administrators, without really understanding them, presumably because D̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶C̶u̶t̶l̶e̶r̶…

> People are perfectly free to have Android devices and side load apps on to them. And people who do not like "unsafe" technology are perfectly free to not use it at all. If you ma…

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