Then as smart phones took off, all the companies quadrupled down on the walled garden idea

Yahoo and MSN had interop before smartphones existed. AIM and Google Talk (Jabber) as well.

When smart phones took off, Facebook Messenger actually had Jabber support (which also gave it interop with AIM and Google Talk).

The consolidation and walled gardens unfortunately came back later.

Nickelback

Polishing up your resume and LinkedIn?

Are you okay?

They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.

https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

More like SudoExW

Is that… ICQ? Why?

besides memory leaks

Have you tried auto memory reclaim yet?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/#:~:text=Automatic memory reclaim&text=When this is set to,you’re not using it!

Do you want to talk about it?

The customary reply is “Thanks! I’ll add it to my list”

That’s a funny way to say “Have you opened a ticket?”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/linux-distros-are-about-to-get-a-killer-windows-feature-the-blue-screen-of-death/#:~:text=The systemd-bsod component is,photo or write it down.

What a great idea! They should automate something like that! Maybe they could call it System Restore?

https://www.silentinstall.org/msiexec

This is one of the issues that systemd purports to solve, and it gets nothing but flack for it.

Granted, systemd does have its flaws. But the religious war around it is unjustified.

systemctl disable systemd-critic.service

Systemd-init, the core part of systemd, offersa wide range of features surpassing other init systems. More features lead to more bugs and security vulnerabilities.

This is a bad take. Many of systemd’s features improve security significantly. And having all that code in one cohesive place can’t possibly be inherently less secure than the cornucopia of init scripts we used to use.

There was a post the other day about how Reddit never took anything seriously and how the top comments were always predictable jokes that stopped being funny years ago.

It was nice to have places like Daystrom, Ask Science, etc. that were curated for serious discussion.

That’s okay. It’s good to live in a world where very different people enjoy very different things. I’m glad we can all be part of a social federation and still get along despite our infinite combinations of infinite diversity.