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They'll keep trying because there's big advertising dollars to be had. Everything you look at will result in a "relevant" ad. Google already found out the hard way that these glass…

Why is Meta insisting on forcing these "pervert" glasses on us? I can tell you why: advertising. I bet some "pervert" within Meta (may Zuck himself) has already thought up that wha…

I can't take any Big Tech company that still uses PHP seriously. Sorry.

Impressive for $8000. But its low top speed (80km/h) only makes it suitable for urban transportation. Also, I doubt this thing will be able to pass the NCAP (EU) or IIHS (USA) safe…

How would this be any better than Facebook? I mean, in the end all social networks want to be Facebook, right? As soon as there's talk of an IPO or private equity becoming involved…

Email itself is not encrypted but the links between email servers are. That makes it non-trivial to intercept email. However, most people these days are using webmail from the big-…

I call this "sovereignty washing": American companies pretending they can magically free themselves from the U.S. CLOUD Act by setting up a paper European presence. Anyone who fall…

You're spreading misinformation since AWS, Azure, GCP (Google) and Oracle are all U.S. companies which are subject to the CLOUD Act. Just because they pretend to be European-based …

LLMs are not going to put large numbers of software developers out of work. It may have some influence on copywriters, artists and musicians, but to which extent is unknown at the …

Is plumbing seen as the pinnacle of human development? We lived without it until the late 19th century whilst in Mesopotamia they had sewage systems, plumbing and even toilet bowls…

General turmoil in an important project like Linux Mint will work to Microsoft's advantage. It will usually lead to developers and users leaving preventing Linux Mint from becoming…

I believe they've come to realize they've gone too far this time. Simply forcing people to buy a new PC simply to kick up Microsoft's quarterly sales numbers has enraged customers,…

Windows may have looked like something to squeeze until the last drop, but customers are clearly voting with their feet. And Microsoft knows it. Plus the realization that if Window…

Maybe you should write a blog about it. I'm interested. I'm afraid there will be too many corners cut. The most important being the lack of available software. I'm of the notion th…

Although I'm supportive of your cause I find it ultimately futile. Developing and maintaining a mobile operating system is a hugely expensive endeavor. Only a wildly profitable com…

Trump is (mostly) not the problem. He's the canary in the coal mine. He does what his constituents want. Other politicians were simply too thick to hear what people's concerns were…

It relates to the two-party system, not whether the U.S. is an oligarchy. The article implies that the U.S. is not a democracy, but oligarchy and democracy aren't mutually exclusiv…

This is a direct outcrop of the winner-takes-all electoral district system which forces parties to merge to have a chance at winning. I personally find it an undemocratic, archaic …

Trump is part of upper class oligarchy in the United States and his election is the direct result of the concerns of his constituents regarding immigration.

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Qt Rust interop crate. Idem wxWidgets.

Wasn't COBOL invented to read like business prose and be easily understood by programmers and non-programmers alike? If developers are able to write COBOL code no one understands t…

With the advent of A.I. these rewrites should be Full, but the generated code should only be used as a starting point. The code should be refactored so the engineers can take respo…

Then they should elaborate and define what "A.I.-assisted" actually means. I have no idea to be honest. Could be anything.

I believe Ladybird is being ported to Rust as we speak.