User: rene2

Breaking out of VMware

On: Edge, VMWare, Safari, And Ubuntu Linux Hacked at Pwn2Own 2017 (trendmicro.com)

is the most impressive. Heads up for that achievements!

As they only focus on iPhone fun toys, ...

On: Apple Losing Out To Microsoft and Google in US Classrooms (macrumors.com)

and not on professional tools anymore, ...

As long as it compiles,

On: Privacy-Centric Linux Distro Tails 3.0 Will Drop 32-Bit Processor Support (betanews.com)

we will not remove 32-bit x86 support from T2SDE:

Also still got some mice 32-bit vintage machines, like Oqo01+ with Transmeta Efficieon, or Nokia Booklet 3G, with 32-bit only Atom Z, ...

In general I find it a bit sad to remove support to use older machines for poor families and third world countries.

Unfortunately emissions do not know borders

On: Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk)

If we could just build a huge wall around Europe up into space and avoid having all the US, Chinese, Russian coal and and such emissions out of our nice clean air.
Sigh.

Would love to do that

On: Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP?

but then all the customers would feel cheated, that they have to pay a premium, ...

also if you want to sell in their local currency it becomes an accounting nightmare, :-/

T2 SDE

On: Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com)

T2 SDE - "Best distribution for those with something to prove," and people can later use their learned skills for their embedded projects ;-)

as expected

On: Rumors of Cmd's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (microsoft.com)

I already wondered when the rumored spread how that should work out in practice, ...

w/ a TouchBar?

On: Tim Cook Assures Employees That It Is Committed To Mac and 'Great Desktops' Are Coming (techcrunch.com)

possibly with a TouchBar, as great and up-to-date as the iTrashCan? :-/

Coal workers

On: Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com)

Yeah, well, I also do not really understand why coal workers desperately want to stay coal works.
Even here in Germany. In 2016 and global warming that is just downright crazy, ...

Re:requirements for retention of hard copies.

On: Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com)

how often is power out? can't really remember the last time, ... and if so you can work some 5+ hours or so on your laptop, no?

I scan everything

On: Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com)

Well, I scan everything to PDF with OCR (ExactScan Pro) and find what I am looking for using the built-in Spotlight desktop search. And pretty PDFs for long term archiving, ... Most vendor's do not have good Mac support though, hence ExactScan for the scanner drivers and fast OCR.

Re:It's pointless

On: Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com)

I am pretty sure in former times they thought stone plates and hammers can also not be replaced ;-)