Oh, I too doubt the regret is for anything beyond “I got caught and this makes me look bad shash will directly cost me money slash power slash influence”. I only made the reference to say that Gates’ ties to Epstein were known well before 2026.

In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’. Make of that what you will.

But this post doesn’t really address that. It suggests Epstein bought Windows XP once, which … is fine … I guess? (Doesn’t let him off the hook for the criminal empire he ran though)

Thank you. I seriously looked over the image and my eye caught the weird compression artifacts, but didn’t see the other things despite well trying. (Also, my client apparently doesn’t show web banners - the heart LLM is a pretty strong hint) I appreciate you sharing what you saw.

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What makes you say this was made with AI? Not exactly doubting you, but curious about your methods.

I’m in the middle. At work, I play it fairly conservative, applying well established solutions to well-known problems.

I have friends whom I advise and assist with their networks that absolutely fall into the first category.

MY network is is like the lab of a mad scientist, everything tinkered with right up to the edge of breaking. My home router collapses multiple times a year due to the wonky chaos I ask it to do. Home automaton sequences that are more complex than most rube goldberg machines. Metaphorical sharp edges and loose clutter everywhere, but an unholy abomination that works better than it has any right to - until I scrap it all to rebuild it from scratch next week.

For security, Copolilot will extract your credit card details from your browser history to enroll you into this feature. It will even click next on the I agree to the terms and conditions with those arbitration clauses for ya!

Now don’t you feel safe!

Because innovation dies the minute licensing gets involved.

My workplace runs several VMMs for clients (ESXi, Hyper-V, etc) - because each Windows guest system needs licensing and has costs, clients spin up as few as possible, shooting the advantages of having services partitioned off right in the foot.

Soon? Let’s talk DOSBox

It’s a lowest common denominator kinda issue, methinks. Gnome is chasing it’s own tail trying to create a single UI that will please everyone, plus have it simple to use and both similar enough yet distinct enough to/from Windows/Mac experiences. It’s a noble enough goal - but honestly strikes me as well impossible.

KDE gives you a barely updated Win95 era desktop and then becomes a tinkerer’s paradise - whenever there was two or more options, they focused on making each available, but neither becomes the default.

You do add important detail, but I’d make the counterpoint that if the corporation is bullying their least privileged users today, stealing their lunch money privacy, they’re not going to stop with only them. This is testing the waters for them.

Plus - it’s also messed up that they can fundamentally change the nature of the 501©(3) donated version and will likely try to claim a tax benefit as though it’s equivalent to a paid copy.

I suspect it’s in line with big tech policies to coddle end users instead of educating or trusting them. I assert (particularly since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007) that learned helplessness is built into the game plan.

My hypothesis is that the freezer motor has to be right at the freezing point and the tray has to have few nucleation points such that when a small spek of water freezes the phase change disperses enough heat to prevent them from immediately following suit, the small flake of ice then rises to the surface. As it continues to cool, further freezing is more likely to occur in the existing crystal. Through a combination of ice’s buoyancy and the surface tension of liquid water, the crystal gets pushed upward compared to liquid water.

I wonder if the fridge motor’s vibration plays any role on where the fingers form (due to resonance patterns).

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Bro!

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Honestly - even if there were no other practical benefit to the code base - having a new language to recode everything in is healthy for programmers - it gets newer engineers excited.

I’ve been advocating for Linux for decades. People who have historically just dismissed me have been trying and many have converted.

Also (credit where it’s due) behind the scenes Valve has been greasing the wheels on a transition to Linux gaming … which has quite often been the biggest fiction point in the past.

I’vs seen several content creators outside the traditional Linux bubble try Linux, notably including PewDiePie.

Copilot has shaken many small businesses out of complacency, often into modern self-hosted turn-key Linux solutions.

I have friends on Windows 10 who tell me they will not move to 11 - they’re hoping Microsoft folds, but they’re beginning to build a Linux-shaped parachute.

I’m glad Bazzite is what it is, but I’m hoping some of y’all get interested in other distros in the next few years. There’s several great options out there (and I don’t want to say … have everyone wind up on Ubuntu flavors and be having the same conversation about corporate overreach in a decade with Canonical as the new Microsoft)

For you and me, that’s fine, but for little johnny first time, it’s adding friction and new points of failure that push the whole idea further away from their comfort zone.

It could be argued that Microsoft knows this and is deliberately weaponizing peoples insecurities to keep them in line.

Also, “Been available since 2023” means Microsoft gave distros 2-3 years to implement the new signing keys. Yet they’ll give themselves decades between signing and updating their own root certificates.

Example: on my work machine, “Microsoft RSA Root Certificate Authority 2017” is valid from 2019 to 2042. It’s valid for 25 years, but it took Microsoft 2 whole years to deploy the certificate within it’s own structure, specifically to get all the relevant sign-offs needed to issue the cert.

Not really. Browsers were one of the first pieces of software to do sandboxing, but now virtually everything uses sandboxing for organization and security - Android apps have a permissions manifest so they can be sandboxed. Amazon cloud servers are mostly Kubernetes clusters, which is just sandboxed virtual machines. ChromeOS already is a OS/browser hybrid with native sandboxing (and the short lived Firefox OS. Running a 32 bit app in a 64 bit environment requires a compatibility layer, which is a sandbox. If browser technology has already been pushed through the OS stack, why not complete the loop.

The main use case for hardware acceleration is progressive web apps, which is literally a plan as old as 2006 to make browsers able to securely run signed code natively (as an alternative to using extensions like ActiveX, Java, Shockwave, etc, all of which were notoriously insecure).

So honestly, I don’t think it’s a dumb idea at all. It would honestly be kinda cool if I could go to blizzard.com and just launch a game full screen, securely with a simple approval rather than downloading and running a separate launcher app. (Assuming the implementation was otherwise sane; I know the current environment of enshittification could torpedo the idea entirely)

Not really. Microsoft compiled a version of their OS for ARM devices - creatively named “Windows on ARM”, but on a Raspberry Pi I’d hardly describe the performance as “running” - walking/crawling would be more apt.