Unfortunately, at least in my country, it’s getting harder and harder to do banking through a plain old webbrowser. Apps are being pushed hard and afaik all of them use the Google Lock-In API in their Android app. Alternatively I could switch to iPhone, but having had the displeasure of experiencing their crappy hardware and even worse service I’d rather cut my balls off than ever dealing with Apple again.

As someone who also bought a WinRAR license ages ago: yes and I hate 7zip’s UI with a passion. Sorry, I’ll stick to WinRAR which suits my needs just fine.

Well, my apologies for misremembering the exact Gnome 3 launch date. Turns out that was 15 years ago instead of 20. You caught me red-handed sir.

Because putting QoL improvements and having an effective workflow behind a bunch of plugins that break on the tiniest Gnome update is all part of the user experience I guess. I’ve given it several tries over the past 20 years or so, but each attempt eventually ended in utter disappointment.

Founded by Nazis, but abandoned during the war and revived by British army officer Ivan Hirst whom both saw the potential for turning it into a workshop and building new vehicles for the British occupation forces.

After the war it was used by REME (Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) to repair British army vehicles, and it was used to build new vehicles. It was handed over to West Germany in september 1949.

The company as we know it today therefore effectively has more British roots than Nazi ones.

I didn’t had the time to go into that much detail, but that is correct. 🙂

The company actually inquired, our government said no. That’s what you get when capitalists are at the wheel and expect “the market” will magically solve everything.

The title is a bit misleading by the way, it’s about the company that hosts the infrastructure, Solvinity. The application itself is built by a government agency called Logius.

It moves the value of register (a CPU memory cell) rbx to register rax. It’s not that important though.

Basically the comic shows that the CPU is happily chugging along, executing instructions when suddenly the keyboard sends an interrupt telling the CPU it must stop all work and listen to whatever it has to say.

That was how keyboards worked before USB (back when they used PS/2 or DIN connectors). With USB it’s the other way around: the device gets polled X times per second to check if it has any data to send.

Could very well be, our family PC running Windows 95 also showed this screen after shutdown, had an actual power button and required manually pressing it to turn off the pc.

So is comparing a Microsoft bug to the highlight of the Apollo project and conveniently ignoring all the setbacks that both led up to and followed it.

I don’t mind bashing Microsoft where warranted, but this just feels like cherry picking from a long list of technical and procedural failures.

Apollo 1:

Fire, I smell fire. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Roger Chaffee (presumed)

Outlook malfunctioning is extremely tame compared to the issues the early space program ran in to. Somehow this meme really rubs me the wrong way.

If they wanted to live, they shouldn’t have signed up to kill people for the empire. Instead of following orders, they can refuse them.

Guess at least it’s good to see there isn’t any difference between Americans and Russians after all.

Linux being a kernel is hardly relevant though. The law lies the responsibility at the “operating system providers”, looking at the definition in the article that would be the developers/organisation behind the individual distributions. Politicians don’t care if each distro comes up with their own solution or gets built-in to the kernel.

But personally I think they all just give this law the finger, put a ‘not for use in California’ in their licenses and forget about this brainfart.

This begs for a response by Robert Ricardo, offering an analgesic cream for those burns. 😂

Haha, don’t worry, no harm done. Maybe I was a bit too subtle in hindsight.

That’s Poe’s Law by the way.

It was meant tongue-in-cheek, you seem to be taking it much more seriously than I intended it to be. 🙂

But in reality is not done because it simply doesn’t bring any benefit.

Fully agree that there is absolutely no benefit to NAT66, it only causes enormous headaches. I sincerely hope nobody uses it these days, this poor bastard however did manage to find a VPS provider that used NAT66 back in 2018: https://blog.apnic.net/2018/02/02/nat66-good-bad-ugly/ 🤢

Have I got news for you. ☹️

Edit: I’ll just add an ‘/s’ for good measure, as apparently I was too subtle. Be sensible, don’t do NAT66.

He ends the thing prematurely right after

No shit, they were going proactive on those new chemicals after all.

I paid for a ticket to the Windows 7 launch event back in the days. Cost a few euros, in return I got a day of talks, networking, a laptop bag full of sweets and a retail copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. The serial also worked for Windows 10 and 11, so I’d say that was a pretty sweet deal. I honestly cannot say if that technically counts as having paid for Windows though.

KDE on Wayland has only very recently started to become workable for me, before that it was utter crap as I switch between home and office with my laptop, with varying display setups. In that case you got stuff like screen positions not being remembered and applications consistently starting off screen, requiring gymnastics to coax them onto a display.

And regularly it would crap out and not show output to one of the displays, if you opened up display manager you’d see the displays not touching and a big red error telling you that gaps betweens displays aren’t supported. Well here’s a brilliant idea, how about not automatically putting a gap between them in that case?

As I said, last few months it works better (although I still encounter some issues from time to time that I never had on X11). But the whole Wayland protocol had such a rough start, with issues encountered often being downplayed by parts of the community because “it’s better and we don’t want to hear otherwise”, that I simply cannot feel any love for it anymore. There was too much basic stuff that took too long to support, while people were shouting “but HDR!”, “better code!”. I don’t fucking care, I just want to be able to work and for too long that required X11.

Edit: some typo’s and improved readability.