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Wouldn’t be the first time.

Yeah I came to comment this. She is our current incredibly bad and corrupt minister for economy & energy. Her ministry was openly asking the gas lobby what policy to implement to best push out renewables. Official calls for her resignation have registered already. This protest must be seen in this light.

Microsoft survived on inertia. Windows was the default. Office was the default. GitHub, after the acquisition, became the default forge for software teams. That kind of position lets a company coast for a long time.

That’s how I remember it from before I switched to Linux.

Just one off-topic niggle: when Github went M$, Git was already a big thing, and other big Sourceforges supported it, maybe most notably GitLab (I considered moving from GH to GL but GL was already way too corporate). Sure, MS envisioned GH to be “the default”, but it never really was. The biggest, probably, but never the default.

And if you think that all repositories are on GH, check how many of those are actually just mirrors.

I hate how the author frames Linux as “cheap”.

I don’t like it either but it’s definitely an aspect. Why should I continue paying money for (or even pirate) something that exploits me and makes my life worse? Linux is cheap and legal. E.g. I can use it to experiment with old hardware without needing to make a cost-benefit evaluation first.

“Free” has a double meaning that should be pointed out each time one says FOSS, but “as in beer” is not a bad thing.

Windows is “free”, too, if you never activate it.

OK now I’m stumped because it’s so long I actually used Windows. I rcently installed Windows on some work computers but I had to enter the code on the laptop or I couldn’t even finish the installation (I think). AFAIU that code was purchased with the laptop. Did I get that wrong?

And in what way is usability hampered if I don’t activate it?

Here are Images Voyager Took.

I have no idea how to sort them by recency; I’m guessing it’s not sending such expensive data anymore, but what are the most recent (and furthest) images?

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 - just before the Reagan era. Coincidence?

Also, and I’m still just guessing here, it’s probably the culmination of the space race to the moon minus the pressure to be there before the Russians.

In other words, NASA’s Golden Age.

I don’t think even Sam Altman thinks this. He’s saying it, sure. He’s a liar.

I’m not sure I’d give him the #1 position. Definitely up there, but not quite at the top. Or maybe several megagrifters should share the throne.

As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

They hurt you at home, and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever, and they despise a fool
Till you’re so fucking crazy, you can’t follow their rules

When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can’t really function, you’re so full of fear

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill