Imagine what? What was this comment again?

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… eww

Right but wow I didn’t want to imagine that.

That’s a tough nut to crack. Even as a video game platform, they don’t write most of the software that they sell today. They would need to find some way to convince developers to write software for something that’s not the platform nearly all users are running.

I’m not sure that Microsoft ever did halt going down that path. My wife recently bought a PC that came locked down by default and required some fiddling to allow running unsigned apps. This was Windows 10, not sure about 11.

I think it could be more that broad compatibility with everything is their main selling point, and by doing so they were undermining their own ecosystem.

However, this is mere speculation on my part.

Valve is a Titan doing incredible work for the open source community and making money while doing so.

Successful open source software business model at work. Way to go.

Priority inversion sounds frighteningly subtle. You might not notice you’re under the effects of the spell because it manipulates priorities rather than bends will directly.

It still feels like your intent, but you’ve been rendered massively ineffective and it may take ages for someone to suspect magical involvement.

But we continued to use the substances anyway because it was cost-effective.

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I think you mean for the rich that own them. Some of the most conservative people I know are struggling financially.

I don’t understand the term conservative. What are they conserving? They should call themselves regressionists.

Loads of complex code exposed to an assumed trusted network is the model of printers. They’re going to be full of security issues.

This stuff should be sandboxed and then never, ever exposed to the Internet.

Entirely personal recommendation, take it or leave it: I’ve seen and attacked enough of this codebase to remove any CUPS service, binary and library from any of my systems and never again use a UNIX system to print. I’m also removing every zeroconf / avahi / bonjour listener. You might consider doing the same.

Great advice. It would appear these developers don’t take security seriously.

Why don’t we just give up, Pardner?

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Vote because this very well could be our last opportunity if you don’t.

It’s even more unnecessary because the content is already plenty concerning in my opinion. I don’t see a need to embellish.

That shame and disappointment you feel? That’s fun. This is the fun. This is what you want.

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With that said I still prefer it to TMNT.

Indeed. It’s a problem for any online platform, but the hope is that it’s a self-limiting problem here because of the natural segmentation of the network and given than admins aren’t trying to sell advertisement views.

Handy

Do you consider the smartphone a mature product? I really struggle to think about where it could be improved excepting of course for those things that no manufacturer wants to do anymore like expandable storage. Every day it seems like the offerings are becoming more similar than different, and as an enthusiast I find that a little disappointing.

There can only be one true corporation and you will pay infinite money for every one of its products.