Yeah, basically. Speeds up new installations, less duplicate downloads. Not interesting at all if you’re updating regularly, which most people are.

Please don’t post that without a trigger warning. Some of us are IE6 survivors.

WA just publishes that for everyone to see. It’s wild that they do that.

That guy had worked for ICE for 10 years, should be enough to work some stuff out on his own.

They will, but only the ones who already believed that. Doubt there’s going to be a net change in either direction in our lifetime.

Also infuriating, so you’re going to be pissed off and more likely to click the link without thinking.

Also triggering to anyone upset by ICE murdering people in the streets. I’ve never been scammed, but the idea of my emails automatically announcing support for the gestapo stirred up some feelings in me.

… which is why it’s an excellent phishing email, hats off to them. I’d be way more likely to rush to the link in this case than if I received a standard “your account is being locked” phish.

Nobody runs AWS in their data center, but lots of people have a humongous and ancient oracle database or two running. Oracle Linux was forked from RHEL in the mid 2000s for this use-case.

I never had any interest in it because it didn’t make sense to run Oracle Linux for the DB and some other distro on everything else, so we went with a more mainstream enterprise distro we could use for everything.

After they acquired Ksplice and ruined it for everyone else they have a better value proposition for it, since now they’re the only ones who can patch kernel vulnerabilities without rebooting.

I’m pretty sure you can run Oracle Linux on bare metal? But it only makes sense if you plan to run Oracle software on it (they only support enterprise distros like Oracle Linux, RHEL, or SLES) or want to use Ksplice to patch the kernel without rebooting.

It’s way cheaper and easier to not have to source the buttons. The bean counters saw Tesla get away with doing it on the touchscreen, so they figured they’d get away with it, too.

Next quarterly report: “Usage of Copilot has increased 500,000% in the last quarter”

He’s resting his hand on his foot, because having two hover-hands in a photo looks awkward, and he doesn’t have any pockets.

Dumbest branding decision since renaming Twitter to X.

It certainly has LinkedIn energy, but that screenshot is not from LinkedIn. They have multiple reaction emojis, whatever this is only has a heart.

Doesn’t the VP take over if the president is incapacitated? Then they get to try to kidnap him too!

All of these people are extremely nearsighted. I’m just a little bit farsighted, and wouldn’t need glasses if I didn’t also have astigmatism. The refraction in my case is barely visible. People with an even subtler prescription with astigmatism would possibly have no refraction at all in that direction.

I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if Boebert was actually wearing non-prescription glasses, but she could have legitimate reasons to wear glasses which still would look like that. You’d need to also check refraction in the other direction to know for sure.

They won’t need to. Their next guy will make Trump seem competent in comparison, just like Trump did with George W. Bush. He’ll be looked back on with nostalgia.

That’s not a given. A friend of mine worked on a weather forecast implemented in Fortran by people who were better at meteorology than programming, and some functions had thousands of parameters. The parameters for one of the calls (not the function definition) were actually supplied in a separate include file.

I figured the 2004 release as the PS2 slim turned the tables again, but that was still before the Wii came out in 2006. It’s possible that story only counted the original PS2 and this chart counts both, though.

Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.

I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.