Because even with a fresh new battery from Apple I still want longer battery life over eye candy, up to the microsecond email delivery, and "hey siri" always listening.
How about the ability to connect to and disconnect from bluetooth devices from the swipe-up screen thingy instead of auto-pairing when I turn a spaker on and then having to poke around so someone else can connect to it?
You're picking things apart starting too high up in the stack.
Does the government require buildings be built with secret back doors or faulty locks (so the occupants' security measures can be easily bypassed by anyone who knows the trick) or that building material manufacturers make bricks and lumber to shoddy specs so that new holes can be poked through structures at their whim?
Why, then, should it be able to require that software on which peoples' lives and livelihoods depend be similarly compromised?
It's funny how the media speaks of "software devs" like they're a cohesive body of professionals.
In fact it's largely a bunch of people straight out of a coding bootcamp in over their heads with titles like "senior full stack developer" who think they're 10x rockstars because they can code Hello World.
Managers love these folks because they work for peanuts + inflated job title. Need someone to cut corners to meet a deadline? Or to take some unethical business idea and build it into software? These are your guys.
Find me someone who's worked his ass off getting licensed to practice their profession who's willing to put their livelihood, license, and professional liability insurance premiums on the line to save a couple bucks here and there.
It's time for software to mature like other niches have- plumbers, electricians, structural engineering, for example. You DIY your projects around the house until you burn it down or the building inspector condemns it, and you should be able to do the same with your own computing hardware until you let the blue smoke out of it or it simply grinds to a halt under a malware infestation. But if folks are going to build apps for money they should be certified and accountable for ensuring their work meets reasonable standards.
One of my big concerns with github has been that companies use it for hosting their proprietary apps' source code. In my consultant role I've always pushed my client companies to keep their stuff on a private gitlab server instead.
I wonder if having (or at least controlling) access to damned near everybody's source code for pretty much everything will give them a competitive advantage?
The last few "tech" conferences I went to have been terrible.
The last one, which may be the last one ever because of how horrible it was, had NO actual technical speakers, but I did hear talks about a group who wants to get ex-con's started in coding and someone's struggle with their eating disorder. Then there was a spiel by a headhunter and some more marketing blither that I thankfully can't remember. There's a venue for all of those topics somewhere, but a tech conference is not it.
User groups are still viable as a way of getting actual tech content.
Carrying this to it's obvious and inevitable conclusion: 2020's headline: Top US Antitrust Official Uncertain of Need for Two Wireless Carriers 2021's headline: Top US Antitrust official uncertain of need for more than one telecom company 2021's headline: Top US Antitrust official uncertain of need for antitrust oversight
And to pick at nits, I woudn't trust a cast can opener. Would seem to have to be too brittle for the job. Forged or gtfo.
And on the subject of can openers, my favorite is the kind that breaks the lid's seal instead of cutting the metal below it: https://www.amazon.com/Kuhn-Ri...
The only *real* trouble with that is that's not what mainstream culture values. It's a marketing machine, and as soon as you opt out of the lifestyle of constantly buying shiny new crap you're worthless to advertisers and therefore irrelevant.
There are some good resources for those who think in those terms. One of my favorites is the Mr. Money Moustache blog.
It's a hoarding/bunker mentality versus a focus on quality of life.
On one side, there's the folks who want to keep economic and physical resources on hand and maintain and develop manufacturing capability to ensure self sufficiency.
On the other, you've got the folks who want to enjoy as many of the available ancient vises and modern conveniences as possible.
Both sides have good arguments supporting them. On one side, what happens if international trade goes to hell? And on the other, why live like a Great Depression survivor when that crisis may never come?
As with most things, the most successful strategy is probably a middle ground between the two extremes.
That link somewhat works against your point if you read into it-
The Chinese aren't simply shipping us cheap stuff. And at times it seems like they're doing less to lower production costs and invent new stuff than they are simply circumventing licensing costsâ" hence the intellectual property complaints.
If inventing new things is a boon, then creating a disincentive to invent new stuff (through not respecting intellectual property law) is a detriment.
What does or doesn't constitute sane intellectual property law is another subject entirely.
Solaris has always felt most Linux-like to me. AIX was interesting (topas was cool) but very corporate-feeling. And I'm just going to try to forget that I ever managed HPUX systems.
Solaris, post-Oracle, was of no interest to me. It's spinoffs are neat. And FreeBSD getting ZFS and not having SystemD is making it a front-runner for when I finally get around to leaving Linux behind.
Devuan is the only Linux distro that seems sane to me. Can Gentoo or Arch build with regular init instead of systemd?
The error you're making is thinking that Linux is UNIX.
It's not. It's merely UNIX-like. And with first SystemD and now this nonsense, it's rapidly becoming less UNIX-like. The Windows of the UNIX(ish) world.
Happily, the BSDs seem to be staying true to their UNIX roots.
It'll be kind of like the inverse of when the Brits cracked Enigma- they let some bad stuff happen to not give away that they'd cracked the code, and not tipping off their adversaries meant that they could continue to decipher all the messages and avoid the very worst stuff.
The tactical advantage here will be small leaks (courtesy of Meltdown and Spectre and whatever else we haven't heard of yet) that are true and the occasional huge leak that's a ruse.
âoeNo one in this world, so far as I know â" and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me â" has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.â H. L. Mencken
This was my favorite mail client back in the days of MacTCP on my Macintosh LC with my screaming-fast (and dirty cheap, and unreliable) 14.4 Linelink modem.
Slashdot Mirror
"Blockchain's"
Because there's only one blockchain?
What is this, Highlander?
Or just clickbait journalism?
While they're at it, why not also fix the vulnerability that the unlockers exploit?
Because even with a fresh new battery from Apple I still want longer battery life over eye candy, up to the microsecond email delivery, and "hey siri" always listening.
How about the ability to connect to and disconnect from bluetooth devices from the swipe-up screen thingy instead of auto-pairing when I turn a spaker on and then having to poke around so someone else can connect to it?
You're picking things apart starting too high up in the stack.
Does the government require buildings be built with secret back doors or faulty locks (so the occupants' security measures can be easily bypassed by anyone who knows the trick) or that building material manufacturers make bricks and lumber to shoddy specs so that new holes can be poked through structures at their whim?
Why, then, should it be able to require that software on which peoples' lives and livelihoods depend be similarly compromised?
It's funny how the media speaks of "software devs" like they're a cohesive body of professionals.
In fact it's largely a bunch of people straight out of a coding bootcamp in over their heads with titles like "senior full stack developer" who think they're 10x rockstars because they can code Hello World.
Managers love these folks because they work for peanuts + inflated job title. Need someone to cut corners to meet a deadline? Or to take some unethical business idea and build it into software? These are your guys.
Find me someone who's worked his ass off getting licensed to practice their profession who's willing to put their livelihood, license, and professional liability insurance premiums on the line to save a couple bucks here and there.
It's time for software to mature like other niches have- plumbers, electricians, structural engineering, for example. You DIY your projects around the house until you burn it down or the building inspector condemns it, and you should be able to do the same with your own computing hardware until you let the blue smoke out of it or it simply grinds to a halt under a malware infestation. But if folks are going to build apps for money they should be certified and accountable for ensuring their work meets reasonable standards.
Found the Zen master.
Are they really programmed to be curious?
Or is someone just anthropomorphizing them to make them seem cute and cuddly?
One of my big concerns with github has been that companies use it for hosting their proprietary apps' source code. In my consultant role I've always pushed my client companies to keep their stuff on a private gitlab server instead.
I wonder if having (or at least controlling) access to damned near everybody's source code for pretty much everything will give them a competitive advantage?
If you can't beat them, buy them.
That's my experience as well.
The last few "tech" conferences I went to have been terrible.
The last one, which may be the last one ever because of how horrible it was, had NO actual technical speakers, but I did hear talks about a group who wants to get ex-con's started in coding and someone's struggle with their eating disorder. Then there was a spiel by a headhunter and some more marketing blither that I thankfully can't remember. There's a venue for all of those topics somewhere, but a tech conference is not it.
User groups are still viable as a way of getting actual tech content.
Carrying this to it's obvious and inevitable conclusion:
2020's headline: Top US Antitrust Official Uncertain of Need for Two Wireless Carriers
2021's headline: Top US Antitrust official uncertain of need for more than one telecom company
2021's headline: Top US Antitrust official uncertain of need for antitrust oversight
How does the wind cheat?
If I were in Maryland I'd vote for you.
On the subject of there being a lot of cheap imported stuff, I give you Sturgeons Law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And on buying the $3 one instead of the $15 one, the Boots Theory:
https://moneywise.com/a/boots-...
And to pick at nits, I woudn't trust a cast can opener. Would seem to have to be too brittle for the job. Forged or gtfo.
And on the subject of can openers, my favorite is the kind that breaks the lid's seal instead of cutting the metal below it: https://www.amazon.com/Kuhn-Ri...
You make some very good points there. Good food for thought.
Can you phrase some of your ideas as positives (do X, Y, and Z) instead of negatives (this means you've failed, it's already over, X isn't Y).
What mechanisms should we leverage that we're ignoring or underutilizing?
Nothing at all.
The only *real* trouble with that is that's not what mainstream culture values. It's a marketing machine, and as soon as you opt out of the lifestyle of constantly buying shiny new crap you're worthless to advertisers and therefore irrelevant.
There are some good resources for those who think in those terms. One of my favorites is the Mr. Money Moustache blog.
It's a hoarding/bunker mentality versus a focus on quality of life.
On one side, there's the folks who want to keep economic and physical resources on hand and maintain and develop manufacturing capability to ensure self sufficiency.
On the other, you've got the folks who want to enjoy as many of the available ancient vises and modern conveniences as possible.
Both sides have good arguments supporting them. On one side, what happens if international trade goes to hell? And on the other, why live like a Great Depression survivor when that crisis may never come?
As with most things, the most successful strategy is probably a middle ground between the two extremes.
That link somewhat works against your point if you read into it-
The Chinese aren't simply shipping us cheap stuff. And at times it seems like they're doing less to lower production costs and invent new stuff than they are simply circumventing licensing costsâ" hence the intellectual property complaints.
If inventing new things is a boon, then creating a disincentive to invent new stuff (through not respecting intellectual property law) is a detriment.
What does or doesn't constitute sane intellectual property law is another subject entirely.
Commercial UNIXes are all odd in their own way.
Solaris has always felt most Linux-like to me. AIX was interesting (topas was cool) but very corporate-feeling. And I'm just going to try to forget that I ever managed HPUX systems.
Solaris, post-Oracle, was of no interest to me. It's spinoffs are neat. And FreeBSD getting ZFS and not having SystemD is making it a front-runner for when I finally get around to leaving Linux behind.
Devuan is the only Linux distro that seems sane to me. Can Gentoo or Arch build with regular init instead of systemd?
The error you're making is thinking that Linux is UNIX.
It's not. It's merely UNIX-like. And with first SystemD and now this nonsense, it's rapidly becoming less UNIX-like. The Windows of the UNIX(ish) world.
Happily, the BSDs seem to be staying true to their UNIX roots.
Let me guess-
It'll be kind of like the inverse of when the Brits cracked Enigma- they let some bad stuff happen to not give away that they'd cracked the code, and not tipping off their adversaries meant that they could continue to decipher all the messages and avoid the very worst stuff.
The tactical advantage here will be small leaks (courtesy of Meltdown and Spectre and whatever else we haven't heard of yet) that are true and the occasional huge leak that's a ruse.
âoeNo one in this world, so far as I know â" and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me â" has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.â H. L. Mencken
The same public that can't differentiate -or simply doesn't care about- the difference between fact and fake news?
Really?
Maybe you can use the source to patch it for the seemingly unresolved vulnerabilities...
https://www.cvedetails.com/vul...
This was my favorite mail client back in the days of MacTCP on my Macintosh LC with my screaming-fast (and dirty cheap, and unreliable) 14.4 Linelink modem.