If roles are reversed, and those being watched were responsible for safety and security, little would change. The human race being what it is, the same tools would still be in place and in use in much the same way.
The protest is more about who watches the watchers. And neither will trust the other.
When it works it's amazing. Files are saved as is with date time stamp appended, so all do is to undo that. Great if you trashed something a while back and always quicker than getting it back via github. Haven't found anything using a similar approach - just copy the change to the mirror. if the file is moved, just make a copy of the changed file, if it is deleted, who cares, just ignore from then on. simple. Everyone else is being way too clever, compression and exact deltas history, etc
One recent issue required cloning the user account to get file history working. Just would not work with that account while any new account worked fine.
Current status is broken - the last two security updates report file history as broken. Git hub handles code ok, but for all the other stuff on windows file history was the way to go. Now cumbersome incremental backups.
I can't help wondering if the major labs think that tackling the alignment problem and implementing the 'kill switch' that is currently being proposed is going to be their moat.
That ship has sailed. A far as most are concerned gmail is email. So that is now the reality. Google has successfully, without any resistance, assimilated email and the web.
I run my own mail and I faithfully avoid chrome as much as I can but the ship is long gone over the horizon.
Not true for me. All businesses of any size, and even most small businesses, that email me have their own domain. Individuals use a variety of services, and even one or two non-geeks use their own domains.
I'm having to leave Gmail soon (kicking and screaming) because they've made it so you can't send mail using third-party email addresses anymore.
I have 8 email addresses configured through Gmail, only a few of which I even own the domain for. My main email address goes back 25 years. I've been using Gmail for over a decade, but I guess I have to switch to Fastmail, which is so frustrating because everyone has standardized on Gmail.
I have emails from gmail, hotmail, yahoo and my own domain. Also many browsers. I use Google stuff mostly because it works best. It's sort of how the free market is supposed to work?
When i worked in small ISP, i did some stats on customer accounts (about 2k customers) and only about 10% was @gmail.com. But it was 5 years ago and in EU.
None/negligible. It was ISP in Czechia, about 50% was @seznam.cz, 15% together two smaller local freemails, 10% @gmail.com, 25% individual/unique domains.
Plenty of reasons to continue using WinForms for quick and dirty utils.
WinForms has had a major cleanup over the last few years. Issues with DPI, multiple windows are mostly gone.
You no longer need VS2. vscode on its own is excellent, and you can if you need to, still use VS2 for debugging
(Same applies to AvaloniaUI for cross platform.)
Codex, Claude need guidance if you want something maintainable, otherwise they generate a mess structure wise or reinventing functionality already available in standard controls 'out of the box'.
Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844[1] – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born ...
Including the bit where he built his own boat in India with his brother to sail back to the UK, his brother didn't go, so he sailed it alone. Then he tried to get a company to sponsor a new boat for the round-the-world race and nobody did, so he took his homemade boat.
Entered the Southern Ocean at roughly a third of the way around, took damage and lost all his water supplies, and had to do the rest of the race by rationing his beer cans. 1960s battery and valve radio technology failed somewhere in the Indian Ocean and he could receive but not transmit, and had to send a status update by throwing a message in a bottle to a passing ship.
There's a related link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst who entered the Golden Globe race without the proper equipment, backed himself into a corner, planned to cheat to save his home, and didn't survive it.
I have a DVD somewhere about Donald Crowhurst's "attempts." I felt sorry for the poor guy, but he really should have just admitted that it was beyond him and given up.
FYI - You don't have to drag the app to the applications folder in the install window.
You can drag the app to a different location. I have an entry level mini 8GB/255 GB SSD with 1TB external SSD. Everything goes on the external.
There are only a handful of apps that insist on being installed in the system Application folder. Even had xCode running on the external.
Uninstalling is supposed to be as simple as moving the app to trash but often that leaves a load of stuff behind that no one tells you about.
Uninstalling has the same issue on every OS because the OS isn't keeping a log of every file an application creates over its lifetime being installed; it can only remove what it knows about.
In Windows this is currently being transformed with MSIX... Whenever that gets a foothold that is. But this is also why it was expected that you were to bundle an uninstaller with your application. It was expected that the developer was to handle cleanup. Obviously too many developers cut corners. The only way around this really is to have a system-wide hook that tracks what files an executable touches, and then have that executable registered to an overall application definition.
It's never going to be perfect. You can be really anal about it where you end up with iOS where, yes, you can sleep pretty well knowing that when you delete an app it has cleaned up after itself. The obvious tradeoff being that it's inherently limiting the scope of what you can do with the app.
I think it's gotten much better in recent years for the Windows crowd. I've been running the same install of 11 for about two years now. Back in the XP days I'd be lucky to be able to make it 6 months without feeling like everything was incredibly bogged down with no way out.
Is this not Trump's usual negotiation strategy? Start with outrageous, totally unacceptable demands and then slowly dial back while everyone else runs around like headless chickens. Ends with him in a much better position than if he had approached things in a rational manner?
The protest is more about who watches the watchers. And neither will trust the other.
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