Relief.

If it was the one thing to keep Trump in office and therefore out of prison, yes, indeed.

I don’t have anything to hide does not imply that anyone needs to know. Not you, not a neighbor, not the internet, and absolutely not the government.

Brunel is an amazing character. Absu-f-ing-genius of his time.

You wouldn’t believe how often I have to convert measurements because one big backwards country still clings to nonsensical imperial units.

And it’s not only length, it’s even worse in the kitchen where they seem to measure about everything in cups. Like “add one cup of spinach”.

With wildly varying quality levels of “adults” polled for it.

And there already is a software called “Visio”, but it is nothing close to what they describe. The Visio I’ve been using is a drawing program. That is my point.

How do they deal with the point that there already is an established software called Visio?

Why am I not surprised? Whether there is no end-end encryption, they have a copy of every key, get the decrypted messages from the client, or can ask the client to surrender the key - it does not matter.

The point is that they never intended to leave users a secure environment. That would make the three latter agencies angry, and would bar themselves from rather interesting data on users.

You are aware that they don’t care for the law, be it american or international?

Those rights would count in a country still under the rule of law. Which the US is no longer.

When you have seen the apartment e.g. during daytime during a weekday, have a look at the area in the evenings and on weekends.

There was a story in the news where someone had rented a flat close to the city center, only to learn that two roads over is a amusement mile of national renown. Which was rather quiet during the visit, but lout and filled with drunkards and criminals every evening and weekend.

Roman Numerals died for a good reason. Being difficult is just one of them.

Just as I expected how security in Microsoft products works.

I came from SuSE, which defaults to KDE, so KUbuntu is my distro of choice.

Fun fact: this week, a coworker saw my laptop screen and asked: Is that Windows 11? :-)

As if Trumps GeStaPo would care about the Constitution! The rule of law died in the US about a year ago.

The rule of law has ceased to exist in the US. It has been replaced by the rule of power.

You either get used to no longer have rights, or you can start to get them back.

I was chasing a bug. Complete showstopper for a new system in which we had invested a lot to be the next big thing. And the responsibility lay with me.

I wrecked my brain on the two weeks towards Christmas trying to get it stable. I tried every trick in the book. I tried some more things after Christmas. Nothing, absolutely nothing made the system any better. I started to get anxiety attacks and breakdowns. I cried at work. Four weeks of bug hunting, and still no idea what actually went wrong.

In the end, it turned out to be a crazy hardware issue, something I could not fix in any way with software. One part for a tenth of a cent changed on each board, and the system ran like a charm.

Boss gave me the rest of the week off to recover.

Of course they deny that AI is a bubble. Like real estate speculants deny the housing market being a bubble. It simply would be an admission of failure.

There are a few shit pieces of commercial software with license managers that refuse to work on Linux (or VMs on Windows, too).