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We’re now at the point where tech media has turned and will now have you believe Google should be questioned, is untrustworthy, and that their promise means nothing

This is worse than even the most insufferable apple fanboy.

Google! Untrustworthy!

God I can’t imagine why anyone would think that

Modular design

am I crazy or is this just a markdown renderer

So if this is a plea for help, where should I go to see what I can do?

Yes?

Which is why Macs only come pre installed with the App Store and finder

Its like everyone outside, knows a breaking the ABI definition from the sub system implementation would create a far more stable ABI which would solve a bunch of issues and allow change when needed, except no one in the kernel will entertain the idea.

We also can’t go back to fix SMTP either. Simply saying “we need to break ABI” is not a solution for the same reason, the fear Darrick mentions in the email is justified, it’s the fear of e-mails when you change something that breaks everyone’s widget in a way they don’t expect or care to learn about and demand you fix it for them. It’s all well and good to say that they should simply wash their hands of it, but that’s not an option when your inbox is flooded with automated bug reports that don’t explain the problem

I’m having trouble understanding the email, is this for people to help with fs or xfs or both or are they effectively equal? The linked patch is for XFS which I understand Darrick has quit, is he still on fsdevel? Is this plea for either ?

thanks op, I’ve been meaning to rip my digital music collection

Everyone else uses website builders for their static websites, I don’t see why I wouldn’t. On the job I would expect you not to reinvent the wheel if you don’t have to

Whoa I m totally pigged out

You’re description of stripping dignity from the cattle and sheep turned me on, is all

Ok! I don’t care, that has nothing to do with this post!

For governments, big businesses, etc windows is already open source

I mean, you guys have all that Nazi gold still so I’m not sure extrapolating that “neutrality” to other countries is necessarily useful

Can they do it? Yes. Can they do it with a reasonable level of support for many different desktop hardware so it’s cheap to implement? Probably, though it won’t be as comprehensive as windows. Can they get a 1:1 replacement for windows that has the same level of security as windows? No, because many national governments collaborate on windows security. But! They’ll be safe-ish from NSA back doors in windows (if you think there are any)

Same reason they do Nigerian prince scams still: it’s so ridiculous no one will believe it except the people you absolutely 100% can get a score off of, so you can send these to a million people easily and they self select into the “easy to scam” group and you only work that one. You automate the cheap part of the process (initiating the scam) while making the expensive part (chatting with the mark) more productive

I’m against car parking on streets too, that doesn’t mean random companies should get to dump their product anywhere they want on the sidewalks.

Whatever, get your trash off the sidewalk

Shouldn’t leave them on the sidewalk then