I have been using XFCE for a some years, having dumped KDE, the desktop I used for over a decade, for it.
I like its minimalist approach, its low overhead and that it stays out of the way.
KDE had more features but one release went against what KDE stood for: customizability. I was no longer able to control for how long a notification is visible. Then, it was missing certain crucial features (e.g. a weather widget, was it the 14.04 or 16.04? Can't remember).
So, I decided to move to XFCE, and has been on it ever since.
The thing that Assange will be extradited for, is the password thing with Manning. The professor says this is no different than a journalist setting up a drop point for information.
Never the less, Assange will be convicted, and most likely new charges will magically appear once he is on US soil.
The issue here is not whether Assange has bad personal hygiene, or whether he is a self serving narcissist. The issue is freedom of the press in Western democracies, and the willingness to make an example out of him to deter others.
Watch Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil to see how algorithms have bias, and the results can also be used in various ways. If this law addresses some of that, then it is a positive change.
We have a cat, regular short hair domestic tabby, almost 9 years old now. Came to us when he was 5 or so months old. He has always been odd: very scared of loud sounds, and when the door bell rings, he runs away, often watching from a perch. The possible reason is that we were told he spend some time (before he came to us) in a dog shelter and the continuous barking probably permanently traumatized him. He also does not like to be lifted up, or placed on laps at all. Like most cats, he does things on his own terms. He approaches to be petted (but not carried) and gets his dose in only 5 or 10 seconds. This is usually in the morning, or after he wakes up from naps.
He responds to the sound of the food tin being opened, or dry food being rattled. He knows these are signs of food being served. He only comes to you when you make a scratching or grinding sound (innate genes on rodents munching). He likes to chase the laser dot.
Unintentionally, he responds in a specific way to his name being called 3 times in quick succession. When I do it, he runs to the window, since it means there is a critter there (squirrels, chipmunks, birds). If they are close, he will pounce on them (never learned that glass is a barrier, though he rests his paws against it). But that is not recognizing his name.
A family member often boards another cat which is half Persian, and his demeanor and behaviour is very different. He does not know to pull doors open like the tabby one. He has to go up on hind quarters and put his weight with the front paws on the door. Does not work on both sides of the door. He is not scared when the door bell rings. On the contrary, he will run to the door to see who is coming. He is more cuddly and tolerant to handling than the other one.
I saw a documentary on 19th century agriculture in the UK. The farmer said that he called one cow a name with one syllable, and the other one a name with two syllables, since cows do not recognize the names, but will know which one has a two syllable 'call' and which is just one.
Because on most Unix systems Apache httpd runs under the root user, any threat actor who has planted a malicious CGI script on an Apache server can use CVE-2019-0211 to take over the underlying system running the Apache httpd process, and inherently control the entire machine.
Well, on Ubuntu and derivatives, Apache does not run as root. It runs as the user www-data.
So this applies to some Unix/Linux systems, not "most".
"There is simply no way to talk to a human being at @Google", he said.
This is absolutely true.
My experience contacting Google is the same. A few years ago, I got an email from them (via Webmaster Tools) that my site has been removed from Google index due to "some or all of your pages violate our quality guidelines." This was a form letter, probably from a bot they have, and I think no human has reviewed the site nor the email.
I contacted them (via a web site, but can't remember which one) and asked them to point out which pages are in violation, and I would remove them. I got back an acknowledgement for "a reconsideration request". Then some time after that, the same email as the initial one (my site is in violation of quality guidelines). I contacted them again, saying if it is the 419 scam email examples, I have those to warn against falling for such scams. Again, I said point out which pages are bad, and I will remove them. Got an acknowledgement for reconsideration. Then finally got a notification that my site is back in their index.
Not a single human reply in all this. All form emails, automated. Perhaps there was a human that reviewed the site, but there was no interaction with one.
How long did this process take? April to September!
Unbelievable how a large company like this does not have any 'regular' customer support.
While some of these were experimental in nature, and had a small population of users, it is a joke how a large company like Google kills so many products and services, even ones that have substantial number of users.
Google Reader, Google+, goo.gl URL shortner, Google Wave, Google Code, and on an on an on...
How do they feel now that Microsoft owns github, the most used code repository and sharing web site? They could have had a viable competitor.
To make an analogy, it looks like that the 'sensor' is there (possibly the cells with magnetic crystals in them), and it is wired to the microcontroller (that is why the normal Alpha wave subsides, as if an 'interrupt' has been received).
But what is missing is the 'firmware' to analyze and act on this interrupt. Seems pigeons and others have it and use it, but we lost it along our evolutionary history.
The paper also mentions certain human populations are candidates for further study, since they have languages that have no relative positions (no left, right, front,...etc.), and rather have cardinal positions (north, south,...).
All of the software I use now is FOSS, not so much because I planned it that way, but because each time a company destroyed the UI of their product, I've moved to a free alternative with a functioning UI. Now I'm on all FOSS because UX designers have so thoroughly destroyed commercial software. When I see articles like this it makes me glad I bailed out.
Unfortunately, this UI/UX Redesign Syndrome has crept in FOSS for a long time. Gnome2 to Gnome3 is one example (which I was not impacted by since I never used Gnome outside of just kicking the tires).
Before that, KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.0 (late 2010s) was plagued with problems. The design was done for no valid reason. I complained about that to a KDE community member at a conference and he kept saying: the project was stagnating, the number of commits were done, and now it is up again. Hey devs: there is something called stable software and feature complete. It does not need to be constantly tweaked if it works. The final straw was when I upgraded form Kubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and KDE lost some features. For example: I was not able to set how long a notification is displayed for. Prior to that I was able to do so, and much more. So I switched to Xubuntu (XFCE). If I am not allowed to configure my UI the way I want, then why use KDE at all? I have been on KDE for about a decade and a half. Now I am on XFCE for over 2 years now.
Still, there is Firefox which changed their UI twice in the past several years, each one taking away features for the sake of less-functional minimalism.
And don't get me started on systemd. It is not UI per se, but yet another 'let us redesign the whole thing from scratch and throw everything we learned over 30 years'.
This UI Redesign Syndrome is everywhere, not only commercial software.
Any time you run across anti-vaxxers, show them how preventable diseases affected the life of people who did not get vaccinated.
I grew up before vaccination for polio was common, and saw many kids and colleagues who were disabled, ranging from simple limping to having totally non-functional limbs. And those are the lucky ones, who survived the disease. Others died.
Go on Google images, and search for "smallpox scars" and show them how their boy or girl will look like if they ever get infected and survive the infection.
If someone makes a video from old footage of all these diseases, it may sway some who are willing to follow the evidence.
The feudalism that existed in medieval times, is back in full force.
You have the king (the state nowadays) who controls lords through allegiance. In turn the lords own and control the land (we call them megacorporations today), and serfs who are tied to the land, and work it and the lord (we call them employees now).
The serfs work the land and produce goods, and pay the lord, who in turn takes their toil, lines up his coffers and lives lavishly, and pays the king from the work of others. The serfs live in poverty and have no way out. Even if they leave the lord's service, they have to find another lord and be in his service under similar conditions.
Same thing today: the corporations come in and say we will create jobs, and only the workers pay taxes. The corporations do not pay taxes, whether because of subsidies or by creative accounting and reporting the revenue overseas...
Stop and Frisk in Toronto was one of the main drivers of crime downwards. Since Toronto stopped this in high crime areas, the crime rates are screeching ever higher now.
For others who are reading this and modding it up, a bit of perspective.
The Stop and Frisk version in Toronto was known as Carding, and had problems. It targeted blacks disproportionately.
You also make it sound that Toronto is a kill zone. Yes, murder rate has gone up, and is the highest in Canada, but compared to cities in the USA, it is nothing.
One thing that irks me, is that the Mediterranean Diet claims that it is based on what people of that area eat.
Well, I am from the Mediterranean (Alexandria, Egypt), and I have to tell you that this diet is not based on reality. If anything, it is highly selective.
Yes, olive oil, nuts, pulses and fruit are part of the diet. But there is also all sorts of chicken, duck, doves, beef, lamb, and fish, mostly cooked in clarified butter (almost the same as the ghee of India).
If you look at Italy, Greece, Turkey, Southern France, and Spain, their cuisine has those claimed magical components, but also plenty of animal products (lamb, beef, pork, goat, rabbit, duck) and animal fat (lard, sheep fat).
And you find the same magical ingredients in countries far away from the Mediterranean, such as Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan,...etc. Lots of nuts, raisins, lentils, beans, and fruit.
So, this Mediterranean diet is imaginary at best, regardless of whether it works or not.
Memory footprint is bad with Quantum. Never had my laptop swapping until I upgraded to Firefox Quantum.
However, there is a workaround:
Under Preferences -> Performance -> Content Process Limit, change it from 4 to 2 or 1. The default is the number of cores in your CPU, and when I went from a 2 core laptop to a 4 core one, memory skyrocketed. Setting it back to 2 or 1 keeps it under control.
Also add the Auto Tab Discard Addon, and set it for 15 minutes.
The harm that is done by this way of thinking is beyond self harm.
Think of vaccination vs. anti-vaxxers. There are now outbreaks in the USA and Canada on almost extinct diseases (Measles and Mumps for example). First worlds countries, developing world problems.
A similar situation with flouridation of drinking water. It has been done for a long time, until the pseudo skeptics objected. Votes were held and it was stopped. Now dentists say dental decay are up.
And it goes on and on, whether it is earth is flat, moon landing hoax, birthers, truthers,...etc.
Canada's Prime Minister asked the ambassador to step down, because of his previous remarks on the case of the Huaweoi executive who is detained and waiting extradition hearings to the USA.
Storage of the year internally (BCD or otherwise) is irrelevant when it comes to Y2K and its remediation.
Most business programs were written in COBOL. For older programs that were not written in the mid to late 1990s, the programmers declared the temporary buffers that are used to retrieve data from files or a database, and process them, like so for a date:
... 05 INVOICE-DATE PIC 9(6)....
Or ... 05 BIRTH-DATE PIC(6)....
In other words, it is YYMMDD, and that is two digits for the year. And all calculations were done assuming two digit dates. If the program calculated late invoices (or age, bank interest, payroll,...etc.) and the dates all fall between, say 1950 to 1999, all is well. Dates can be checked to be before or after a certain date. Data entry can be validated that a date is not greater than today's date, and so forth.
If the programmers had the foresight to store the date in 8 digits, like so:
... 05 INVOICE-DATE PIC 9(8).
That is, CCYYMMDD, then all is good, and that was one of the main ways of how Y2K fixes were done.
However, if the clock rolled from 1999-12-31 to 2000-01-01, and you were storing only two digits for the year, then all hell breaks loose, and many of the calculations, range checks, validates would fail for the wrong comparisons.
Remediation involved doing an inventory of the code, and checking all dates (temporary memory usage, as well as file/database storage) to make sure they can deal with the millennium change. If not, then the programs have to be fixed, the data migrated to the new format and all that tested and put in production before any calculation in the future would fail.
So it does not matter how many bytes were used or if it was BCD or not. Even if it would, the programs would fail if using 6 digit dates, or 2 digit years, regardless.
Yes, I started my professional career writing COBOL programs.
I am into astronomy, and one time, out of curiosity, I wanted a video 'proving' the the earth is flat and 'refuting' the usual proofs for it being round and rotating.
What happened next is that I was bombarded with similar videos all refuting that the earth is spherical, from someone doing laser over a frozen lake, to observing Toronto's skyline from across lake Ontario,...etc.
This kept happening for months before it subsided, maybe because I hit enough 'Not interested' links, or maybe simple not clicking on the recommended videos. But it was very annoying for that duration.
The arguments presented range from blatant conspiracy theory (NASA is promoting that the earth is round to maintain funding), to ignoring science (atmospheric refraction causing skylines to be visible).
This is not about politics, this is not opinion.
The Greeks knew the earth was round (and probably other civilizations before them, in Mesopotamia). Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth (before 200 B.C.E.). So did the Arabs in 800 C.E., by a committee formed on the orders of the Abassid Caliph in Baghdad.
Why are we (as a species, and civilization) regressing to such low levels?
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Install Guake Terminal, configure a hot key (I use F12), and then screen to various hosts, or terminals on the same host.
Been doing that for a long time, and can't think of any other way that I would use terminals.
Me too ...
I have been using XFCE for a some years, having dumped KDE, the desktop I used for over a decade, for it.
I like its minimalist approach, its low overhead and that it stays out of the way.
KDE had more features but one release went against what KDE stood for: customizability. I was no longer able to control for how long a notification is visible. Then, it was missing certain crucial features (e.g. a weather widget, was it the 14.04 or 16.04? Can't remember).
So, I decided to move to XFCE, and has been on it ever since.
This is a opinion piece by a US law professor: How likely is an Assange conviction in the USA.
The thing that Assange will be extradited for, is the password thing with Manning. The professor says this is no different than a journalist setting up a drop point for information.
Never the less, Assange will be convicted, and most likely new charges will magically appear once he is on US soil.
The issue here is not whether Assange has bad personal hygiene, or whether he is a self serving narcissist. The issue is freedom of the press in Western democracies, and the willingness to make an example out of him to deter others.
Watch Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil to see how algorithms have bias, and the results can also be used in various ways. If this law addresses some of that, then it is a positive change.
I can confirm almost everything you said.
We have a cat, regular short hair domestic tabby, almost 9 years old now. Came to us when he was 5 or so months old. He has always been odd: very scared of loud sounds, and when the door bell rings, he runs away, often watching from a perch. The possible reason is that we were told he spend some time (before he came to us) in a dog shelter and the continuous barking probably permanently traumatized him. He also does not like to be lifted up, or placed on laps at all. Like most cats, he does things on his own terms. He approaches to be petted (but not carried) and gets his dose in only 5 or 10 seconds. This is usually in the morning, or after he wakes up from naps.
He responds to the sound of the food tin being opened, or dry food being rattled. He knows these are signs of food being served. He only comes to you when you make a scratching or grinding sound (innate genes on rodents munching). He likes to chase the laser dot.
Unintentionally, he responds in a specific way to his name being called 3 times in quick succession. When I do it, he runs to the window, since it means there is a critter there (squirrels, chipmunks, birds). If they are close, he will pounce on them (never learned that glass is a barrier, though he rests his paws against it). But that is not recognizing his name.
A family member often boards another cat which is half Persian, and his demeanor and behaviour is very different. He does not know to pull doors open like the tabby one. He has to go up on hind quarters and put his weight with the front paws on the door. Does not work on both sides of the door. He is not scared when the door bell rings. On the contrary, he will run to the door to see who is coming. He is more cuddly and tolerant to handling than the other one.
I saw a documentary on 19th century agriculture in the UK. The farmer said that he called one cow a name with one syllable, and the other one a name with two syllables, since cows do not recognize the names, but will know which one has a two syllable 'call' and which is just one.
Well, on Ubuntu and derivatives, Apache does not run as root. It runs as the user www-data.
So this applies to some Unix/Linux systems, not "most".
This is absolutely true.
My experience contacting Google is the same. A few years ago, I got an email from them (via Webmaster Tools) that my site has been removed from Google index due to "some or all of your pages violate our quality guidelines." This was a form letter, probably from a bot they have, and I think no human has reviewed the site nor the email.
I contacted them (via a web site, but can't remember which one) and asked them to point out which pages are in violation, and I would remove them. I got back an acknowledgement for "a reconsideration request". Then some time after that, the same email as the initial one (my site is in violation of quality guidelines). I contacted them again, saying if it is the 419 scam email examples, I have those to warn against falling for such scams. Again, I said point out which pages are bad, and I will remove them. Got an acknowledgement for reconsideration. Then finally got a notification that my site is back in their index.
Not a single human reply in all this. All form emails, automated. Perhaps there was a human that reviewed the site, but there was no interaction with one.
How long did this process take? April to September!
Unbelievable how a large company like this does not have any 'regular' customer support.
There is also the Google Cemetery web site.
While some of these were experimental in nature, and had a small population of users, it is a joke how a large company like Google kills so many products and services, even ones that have substantial number of users.
Google Reader, Google+, goo.gl URL shortner, Google Wave, Google Code, and on an on an on ...
How do they feel now that Microsoft owns github, the most used code repository and sharing web site? They could have had a viable competitor.
To make an analogy, it looks like that the 'sensor' is there (possibly the cells with magnetic crystals in them), and it is wired to the microcontroller (that is why the normal Alpha wave subsides, as if an 'interrupt' has been received).
But what is missing is the 'firmware' to analyze and act on this interrupt. Seems pigeons and others have it and use it, but we lost it along our evolutionary history.
The paper also mentions certain human populations are candidates for further study, since they have languages that have no relative positions (no left, right, front, ...etc.), and rather have cardinal positions (north, south, ...).
Unfortunately, this UI/UX Redesign Syndrome has crept in FOSS for a long time. Gnome2 to Gnome3 is one example (which I was not impacted by since I never used Gnome outside of just kicking the tires).
Before that, KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.0 (late 2010s) was plagued with problems. The design was done for no valid reason. I complained about that to a KDE community member at a conference and he kept saying: the project was stagnating, the number of commits were done, and now it is up again. Hey devs: there is something called stable software and feature complete. It does not need to be constantly tweaked if it works. The final straw was when I upgraded form Kubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and KDE lost some features. For example: I was not able to set how long a notification is displayed for. Prior to that I was able to do so, and much more. So I switched to Xubuntu (XFCE). If I am not allowed to configure my UI the way I want, then why use KDE at all? I have been on KDE for about a decade and a half. Now I am on XFCE for over 2 years now.
Still, there is Firefox which changed their UI twice in the past several years, each one taking away features for the sake of less-functional minimalism.
And don't get me started on systemd. It is not UI per se, but yet another 'let us redesign the whole thing from scratch and throw everything we learned over 30 years'.
This UI Redesign Syndrome is everywhere, not only commercial software.
Any time you run across anti-vaxxers, show them how preventable diseases affected the life of people who did not get vaccinated.
I grew up before vaccination for polio was common, and saw many kids and colleagues who were disabled, ranging from simple limping to having totally non-functional limbs. And those are the lucky ones, who survived the disease. Others died.
Show them examples of that: how Itzhak Perlman walks on stage, because he was disabled by polio when he was a child. Tell them that when he travels he has to get assistance with having his violin and bag carried, because he cannot do so while walking with his crutches.
Go on Google images, and search for "smallpox scars" and show them how their boy or girl will look like if they ever get infected and survive the infection.
If someone makes a video from old footage of all these diseases, it may sway some who are willing to follow the evidence.
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. In other words, laws are for little people ...
The feudalism that existed in medieval times, is back in full force.
You have the king (the state nowadays) who controls lords through allegiance. In turn the lords own and control the land (we call them megacorporations today), and serfs who are tied to the land, and work it and the lord (we call them employees now).
The serfs work the land and produce goods, and pay the lord, who in turn takes their toil, lines up his coffers and lives lavishly, and pays the king from the work of others. The serfs live in poverty and have no way out. Even if they leave the lord's service, they have to find another lord and be in his service under similar conditions.
Same thing today: the corporations come in and say we will create jobs, and only the workers pay taxes. The corporations do not pay taxes, whether because of subsidies or by creative accounting and reporting the revenue overseas ...
For others who are reading this and modding it up, a bit of perspective.
The Stop and Frisk version in Toronto was known as Carding, and had problems. It targeted blacks disproportionately.
Read and watch these:
DocZone: Stop and Frisk
What You Need to Know About Carding
You also make it sound that Toronto is a kill zone. Yes, murder rate has gone up, and is the highest in Canada, but compared to cities in the USA, it is nothing.
Baltimore has 56 per 100,000, and Chicago had 23.8 per 100,000 in 2016.
Toronto's worse year in a decade (2018) is 96 murders for 2.8 million people, so 3.4 per 100,000, and that is up from around 2 previously.
One thing that irks me, is that the Mediterranean Diet claims that it is based on what people of that area eat.
Well, I am from the Mediterranean (Alexandria, Egypt), and I have to tell you that this diet is not based on reality. If anything, it is highly selective.
Yes, olive oil, nuts, pulses and fruit are part of the diet. But there is also all sorts of chicken, duck, doves, beef, lamb, and fish, mostly cooked in clarified butter (almost the same as the ghee of India).
If you look at Italy, Greece, Turkey, Southern France, and Spain, their cuisine has those claimed magical components, but also plenty of animal products (lamb, beef, pork, goat, rabbit, duck) and animal fat (lard, sheep fat).
And you find the same magical ingredients in countries far away from the Mediterranean, such as Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, ...etc. Lots of nuts, raisins, lentils, beans, and fruit.
So, this Mediterranean diet is imaginary at best, regardless of whether it works or not.
And there is a massive push by the Chinese government to 're-educate' the ethnic Uyghur Muslims in western China, at an unprecedented scale.
Chrome is just another example of the inner system syndrome.
Just like systemd, it becomes bloated and has feature creep as it tries to take over and devour the functions of the platform it is running under.
Now, wait for Chrome taking more and more features away from the operating system ...
Memory footprint is bad with Quantum. Never had my laptop swapping until I upgraded to Firefox Quantum.
However, there is a workaround:
Under Preferences -> Performance -> Content Process Limit, change it from 4 to 2 or 1.
The default is the number of cores in your CPU, and when I went from a 2 core laptop to a 4 core one, memory skyrocketed. Setting it back to 2 or 1 keeps it under control.
Also add the Auto Tab Discard Addon, and set it for 15 minutes.
And, the result is more false positives ...
In the past 6 to 8 weeks, I found several emails from people I know in the Spam folder.
The strange thing is that those were from email addresses are in my contact list, and have been communicating with me for years.
Bad move Google ...
That 7timer.info looks good. Adding it to my bookmarks.
There is also CalSky.com, in their Meteo section. They have seeing.
ClearOutside.com shows cloud, but not seeing.
We have ClearDarkSky.com, which does seeing too, but it is probably North America only.
I am not in countries neighbouring Norway. In fact, I am an ocean away, in Canada, but I do use YR.no.
First, it powers the XFCE Weather Plugin. Some of us still use Linux for the desktop (remember that?), unlike many on Slashdot.
Second, the web site loads fast, and does not use AJAX and other abominable practices (as opposed to Canada's TWN and Wunderground).
Third, the UI is simple and to the point.
Fourth, they have a API that can be used from many applications (one is the XFCE Weather plugin), including Home Assistant.
Fifth, they provide a cloud forecast, which is useful for astronomy.
Accuracy is good for temperature and precipitation. For clouds, it is not as accurate (but most of other services suffer from that too).
Thanks Norway ...
The harm that is done by this way of thinking is beyond self harm.
Think of vaccination vs. anti-vaxxers. There are now outbreaks in the USA and Canada on almost extinct diseases (Measles and Mumps for example). First worlds countries, developing world problems.
A similar situation with flouridation of drinking water. It has been done for a long time, until the pseudo skeptics objected. Votes were held and it was stopped. Now dentists say dental decay are up.
And it goes on and on, whether it is earth is flat, moon landing hoax, birthers, truthers, ...etc.
Canada's Prime Minister asked the ambassador to step down, because of his previous remarks on the case of the Huaweoi executive who is detained and waiting extradition hearings to the USA.
The discussion misses an important point.
Storage of the year internally (BCD or otherwise) is irrelevant when it comes to Y2K and its remediation.
Most business programs were written in COBOL. For older programs that were not written in the mid to late 1990s, the programmers declared the temporary buffers that are used to retrieve data from files or a database, and process them, like so for a date:
05 INVOICE-DATE PIC 9(6).
Or
05 BIRTH-DATE PIC(6).
In other words, it is YYMMDD, and that is two digits for the year. And all calculations were done assuming two digit dates. If the program calculated late invoices (or age, bank interest, payroll, ...etc.) and the dates all fall between, say 1950 to 1999, all is well. Dates can be checked to be before or after a certain date. Data entry can be validated that a date is not greater than today's date, and so forth.
If the programmers had the foresight to store the date in 8 digits, like so:
05 INVOICE-DATE PIC 9(8).
That is, CCYYMMDD, then all is good, and that was one of the main ways of how Y2K fixes were done.
However, if the clock rolled from 1999-12-31 to 2000-01-01, and you were storing only two digits for the year, then all hell breaks loose, and many of the calculations, range checks, validates would fail for the wrong comparisons.
Remediation involved doing an inventory of the code, and checking all dates (temporary memory usage, as well as file/database storage) to make sure they can deal with the millennium change. If not, then the programs have to be fixed, the data migrated to the new format and all that tested and put in production before any calculation in the future would fail.
So it does not matter how many bytes were used or if it was BCD or not. Even if it would, the programs would fail if using 6 digit dates, or 2 digit years, regardless.
Yes, I started my professional career writing COBOL programs.
Youtube recommendations is horrible.
I am into astronomy, and one time, out of curiosity, I wanted a video 'proving' the the earth is flat and 'refuting' the usual proofs for it being round and rotating.
What happened next is that I was bombarded with similar videos all refuting that the earth is spherical, from someone doing laser over a frozen lake, to observing Toronto's skyline from across lake Ontario, ...etc.
This kept happening for months before it subsided, maybe because I hit enough 'Not interested' links, or maybe simple not clicking on the recommended videos. But it was very annoying for that duration.
The arguments presented range from blatant conspiracy theory (NASA is promoting that the earth is round to maintain funding), to ignoring science (atmospheric refraction causing skylines to be visible).
This is not about politics, this is not opinion.
The Greeks knew the earth was round (and probably other civilizations before them, in Mesopotamia). Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth (before 200 B.C.E.). So did the Arabs in 800 C.E., by a committee formed on the orders of the Abassid Caliph in Baghdad.
Why are we (as a species, and civilization) regressing to such low levels?