None of them are right. Two thirds are looking in the wrong direction and the males facial expression is the exact opposite of the original photo.

Wow, you’re right. I can’t believe I forgot about that era, when you could expect to see John Bridgman providing insight in every thread under AMDGPU news.

Maybe my memory is just warped. How far back did you have to go?

The Phoronix comment section has always been kinda shit. Maybe one in every thousand posts will contain anything of value (in most cases a comment by a developer telling the peanut gallery why they’re wrong).

A threat actor with code execution on a Linux desktop immediately has access to the filesystem and can do whatever anyway, in practice

No.

TempleOS is a marvel in many ways, but it’s not particularly useful to any normal person. I wouldn’t even say that Terry Davis was an asshole, because it feels wrong to hold a paranoid schizophrenic responsible for his manic episodes.

The guidelines for Windows developers kinda suck tbh. Maybe it’s better these days, but plenty of weird legacy software behaviour can be blamed on MSDN.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/06/prism-j-edgar-hoover-would-have-loved-the-nsas-surveillance-program-topic-government-surveillance.html

This is a decent read concerning the effectiveness of the systems designed to prevent abuse.

And the ability to breathe.

Neither are other methods of air conditioning/circulation.

A steno machine is just a kind of chorded keyboard.

I think you’re just being contrarian for no reason. The market for specialty input devices is much smaller compared to “normal” keyboards but it still exists and has become much more diverse over the past decade, with many new niche products being launched. This isn’t even the first commercially available chorded keyboard. From the video, this particular iteration seems to be marketed towards mute people and I’m sure that they or people with other kinds of disabilities are probably glad to have any products at all available to aid them in daily tasks. Not every product or company needs to participate in a high volume market. Apparently, the chorded inputs can also be reprogrammed and it can work in a normal keyboard mode, which should make it more flexible than something designed purely for stenography.

Yes, the most important concern with accessibility devices: “Does it make me look attractive?”

Literally nothing happens.

Linux init conservatives: Alright that’s the final straw, systemd!

It’s only missing every ingredient except Eier.

This looks loke something stupid, but it doesn’t really look like KKK costumes. I could understand if your point is that even a vague resemblance might be in poor taste, but “closely resembling” seems like a stretch.

I wouldn’t recommend Docker for a production environment either, but there are plenty of container-based solutions that use OCI compatible images just fine and they are very widely used in production. Having said that, plenty of people run docker images in a homelab setting and they work fine. I don’t like running rootful containers under a system daemon, but calling it a giant mess doesn’t seem fair in my experience.

XML aims to be both human-readable and machine-readable, but manages neither. It’s only really worth it if you actually need the complexity or extensibility, otherwise it’s just a major pain to map XML structures to any sensible type representation. I’ve been forced to work with some of the protocols that people like to present as examples of good XML usage and I hate every single one of them.

Fuck YAML though. That spec is longer and more complex than any other markup language I know of and it doesn’t have a single fully compliant implementation.

C has not aged well, despite its popularity in many applications. I’m grateful for the incredible body of work that kernel developers have assembled over the decades, but there are some very useful aspects of rust that might help alleviate some of the hurdles that aspiring contributors face. This was not a push by rust evangelists, but an attempt to enable modernization efforts at least for new driver development. If it doesn’t work out, that’s fair enough but I’m grateful for the willingness - especially of Linus - to try something new.

If I may ask: how practical is monitoring / administering rootless quadlets? I’m running rootless podman containers via systemd for home use, but splitting the single rootless user into multiple has proven to be quite the pain.