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no. just NO. look at maps of polio proliferation before/after Jonas Salk, the frikkin guy who DISCOVERED/CREATED the polio vaccine, and then look at maps related to Gates work, whi…

WHAT??? Jonas Salk GAVE the IP for the Polio Vaccine TO THE WORLD FOR FREE! how dare you say that Billionaires gave us these things. you are telling lies.

no, creating the actual technical standards and the internet is/was hard. monetizing it and walling off sections of it is STEALING FROM THE PUBLIC that which we already PAID for an…

and a lot of it is directly funneled to crony's of the current king... I doubt DOGE will recommend cuts to SpaceX funding. I need to remind you that Mush has invented nothing nor i…

sure it is. "mature" markets are only interesting for large moneyed entities to try to tweak things and squeeze .01% more profit out of a service/process/product. innovation is ris…

nice try. The billionaires gave us none of the above. Sincerly, an old programmer who was actually there when these things were funded, often at the public expense in many nations.…

They are dodging a bubble and don't even know it. If America thinks it can base future prosperity on the AppStore and AI, it should think again, because actual innovations are need…

RaspberryPi's SOC famously boots from it's GPU first, then it's CPU. The GPU is a binary blob (not open source) thanks to Broadcom... Broadcom... that same hardware mfgr that makes…

It boggles my mind that the entirety of the hardware world cannot accept the simple concept of making computer hardware capable of booting and running I mean, it's not like Linux d…

Please tell me what quantum leap was provided by LLMs. Please inform me of any developments that made current LLMs possible. I contend that there are none. Witness the actual trans…

Please name me one technological advance of major import in the fundamental transformer kernel space that has occurred in the last decade that has any import at all on today's LLMs…

it is unlikely that the output of LLMs will improve. there is no fundamental breakthrough in transformer technology (or anything else) powering todays' LLM "revolution" There is on…

Consider the bubble already burst, in terms of developer confidence in this sort of nonsense.

Containerization and orchestration of containers vs learning how to configure HaProxy, how to use Certbot, hmmmm The questions you pose are legit skills web developers need to have…

Author presumes we need Docker in the first paragraph. I suppose this is why they think we need Kubernetes. I propose using "the operating system" as the basic-unit here. It alread…

I have no need for Redis in my life. There is nothing unique it provides in 2024, and they have no special sauce I would consider getting hooked-on (locked into). I am trying to re…

... but, garbage collection, no direct memory management = impossible to write any firmware etc that needed to directly set bitflags and such. how could you call Go "low-level syst…

i saw that... (gem, ruby... hahhaha)

I would say that bad ideas are having a heyday across all economic sectors, not only tech. You could call it the epoch of bad ideas having a heyday, if you want. One has to be care…

no Linux build? (appimage or snap etc? not expecting distro support for proprietary small-shop software)

If you have actually learned from the code, you learned about code structures, and yes, they are attributed/named/noted. Everything from "Gang of Four" patterns to applied mathemat…

I would avoid Facebook and Meta products in general. I do NOT trust them. We have approx. 20 years of their record to go upon.

Am I the only one that sees unfriendly input/output channel names with Pipewire in client software? (Bitwig, Ardour, Reaper, more? I would like to see "Input 1" or "Channel 1" and …

wow. no. debian is the opposite of a dead end. now, ubuntu and lubuntu and xubuntu = i agree. android, however, is garbage. - it most certainly is not consistent across devices and…

The "mess" of Linux audio is due to ONE reason: single-client ALSA driver model. every other layer is a coping mechanism and the plurality and divergence of the FOSS community resp…