The font and color match the shutdown screen from release versions of MS Windows 95, as far as I can tell / if I recall correctly.

(Also IIRC, ACPI was new enough that MS Windows 95 [or any software] couldn’t actually turn off most of the machines it was installed on, which is why the screen exists at all.)

Maybe at some point in the far past, certainly before Linus started Linux, if ever.

The Halloween Documents tell us it wasn’t this century.

I’d say yes, indirectly. It wasn’t through LinkedIn’s job search, but a college classmate of mine saw my LinkedIn post that my current contract was ending and messaged me on LinkedIn to come interview with his team.

I ended up staying with that company for nearly 10 years. Good people, and while the client and tech stack could be frustrating, there was also room to be creative / innovative. I voluntarily left because I thought I had something better lined up.

In another job I do think they had me do something on LinkedIn, but my point of contact actually found me on Reddit, answering programming questions and occasionally mentioning that I was unemployed. It was also a good job for a while, but I think the company let me go because I was about to get a benefits bump, though it might have been a minor clash with someone more senior regarding “genAI” outputs being introduced into the repository. They said it wasn’t anything I did, and they offered positive recommendations, but it was still surprising.

(If anyone is hiring, I am unemployed right now; DM me if you want a resume.)

In the rare case I do watch a YT video with my phone, I’m using the official YouTube app from Google, because it has all my YT Premium features and can seamlessly Chromecast to many devices.

what’s the point of prisons in the first place

Depends on who you ask. But, there’s plenty of people that believe strongly in a punitive system. Prison is primarily for punishment and retribution–the state empowering the (assumed) revenge desires of the victims. If there was a painless way to execute someone they wouldn’t want to use it; the suffering of the convicted is a feature, not a bug.

I agree with you that we should focus and rehabilitation and restoration, but the U.S. prison-industrial complex is not actually currently oriented with that being the primary purposes.

Yeah, I figure once (signs of) life showed up in the atmosphere, galactic civilization probably started isolation/quarantine procedures until we can show we are actually social, civil, and communal instead of violent, competitive, and individualistic.

The live image requires more RAM than that. Try the installer-only media (not the netboot).

Responsible disclosure is a kindness; it is not required–especially if/when the vendor doesn’t act in good faith.

MS shouldn’t be able to silence researchers, but that’s what the industry gets by voluntarily clustering around a single, proprietary service.

I don’t think either party should be compelled to take (or reverse) any action.

Age verification laws are cropping up in far more jurisdictions than California (which is already quite large both in population and economically).

Anti-circumvention laws already exist. If OSes and browsers do start reporting ages, you can expect Apple, Google, and Microsoft to use the DMCA to (at least) shift liability (potentially criminal liability) onto users that adjust their browser to report an inaccurate age.

If this proposed law the “end of the world”? No. But, it is yet another contribution to both tech and government panopticons and should be resisted, even WITH a POSS carve-out.

As several people I follow try to remind me: “Users of non-FOSS software deserve privacy and safety, too.”

IIRC, they want to have browsers automatically report age, and have OSes restrict access to software (like browsers that don’t do that) based on age as well.

I believe the “goal” is to restrict access to information to younger persons. Porn is the threat they most often wave around, but many advocates also want to restrict access to social media, and apps that have in-app purchases, etc.

Absolutely the law is still dumb, and people that use FOSS OSes should still fight it. But with this change, as least you won’t have to compile your own version of systemd (and NOT distribute it) to escape the insanity.

From Wikipedia:

The name is a portmanteau of GNU and Nutella, the brand name of an Italian hazelnut flavored spread: supposedly, Frankel and Pepper ate a lot of Nutella working on the original project, and intended to license their finished program under the GNU General Public License. Gnutella is not associated with the GNU project[15] or GNU’s own peer-to-peer network, GNUnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella#History

Not all, but mostly, yes: https://hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr/116609141864889111

Eco-seer isn’t really that bad, and “misspelling” the company name is almost mandatory.

We don’t even have standards that strong in programming languages or even fucking machine code (ISAs) anymore.

I think I would like to return to that ideal time (if it ever existed), but… I feel like I’m in a vanishingly small minority.

I think it comes down to incentive structure, and the most clear incentives push away from strong stnadards. The big advantage to (a) strong standard(s) is(are) interoperability, but that’s something end users have to demand because it’s an anathema to rent-seeking-behavior (a central facet of surveillance capitalism, choke-point capitalism, enshittification, and technofuedalism). But, even there, natural incentives fail us, since most users get more utility from “innovative” features instead of low switching costs – or at least the think they do until they actually try to exit a platform/service.

The video covers that “option”.

It might suck, but if you haven’t, maybe give ImplicitCAD a try: https://media.ccc.de/v/bob2020-110_implicitcad_haskell_all_of_the_things

If you buy a Bambu P2S, you don’t really own it. Bambu can see and control each file printed, and are suing anyone that attempts to rectify that change.

If you buy a Prusa Core One, you do own it.

The boycott just makes financial sense.

Well, if it’s good enough for quartz mining…

Good, the children yearn for the lithium mines. /s

Maybe I should re-train from computer programmer to lithium miner?

Authoritarian means will not generate the anarchist ends.