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No! Stop!

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> Windows 2000 also served as an alternative to its successor, Windows XP, for several years. XP included some features that were controversial at the time. These included an Internet-based product activation system that complained if you changed your PC hardware, and a colorful new shell interface some derided as “Fisher-Price.”

Did nobody ever change the theme back to Windows Classic? It was really simple to switch over (like, ten clicks at most) and then you could get comfortable with the 2000 interface again.

This but unironically. I can get C code from the 70s to compile in GCC but I can't get Windows programs released twenty or so years ago to run in Win10. Open software will always be easier to support and always be more stable than proprietary software, because one invites a free community of maintainers and the other one tells them that they aren't welcome. In the short-term, writing for proprietary systems is fine, but if you want your application to be use-able after you die you should probably open-source your stuff and make it compatible with free platforms.

If only the world was rational enough that this would end Fox News's claims of credibility.

I don't really see how master/slave is such a controversial issue in the computing community. The name change doesn't really affect anything either way, so if it makes people feel more welcome to the field I don't see much wrong with that, but of all things do we really need to go after terminology?

I should quickly edit this to make my stance more clear. Slavery is bad and America should be ashamed for its past. But slavery as an institution is older than the racist Western implementation of "Africans are property". I feel like the implication behind changing the master/slave terminology is that the people who decided to use these terms were racist (which may be true) when they were probably just using the terms that made the most sense to them. At the end of the day, I'll use the new naming conventions whenever I write relevant code and I'll use them gladly. But we're bickering about names right now when Black people are getting shot by cops in broad daylight.

Exactly.

> There's something wrong with our civilization when some people have to go in for the increased risk to their health for $15+ just to feed their families while we comfortably and safely sit at home getting paid multiples of that and ride that great stock market.

This isn't a jab at workers needing to go back to work, this is a jab at the fact that we treat retail workers like garbage when in reality our society would crumble without them. The whole "just get a better job if you want to be paid more" argument levied at those who push for a higher minimum wage not only ignores the fact that, when in poverty, it's very hard to get a "better job", but also ignores the fact that these jobs are necessary. Somebody has to do them. Why are sanitation workers getting paid less than stock brokers when sanitation workers are doing objectively harder work and are at far more risk (especially now)?

> perhaps you can invent a society where the work needed to live can get done without any humans doing work.

No, I'll invent a society where people whose job it is to move money around are paid substantially less than retail workers or janitors, and where those that do labor like this are respected more highly than someone like Warren Buffet or Crissy Teigen.

That's unfortunate for the jailbreaking community (as mentioned in the article, 13.5.1 patches out the kernel exploit used by unc0ver to jailbreak). It's a shame Apple has to be so hostile to its users. I got my SE1 for the express purpose of jailbreaking when it was no longer supported by updates; I get the perks of having a customizable media player with a headphone jack with none of the downsides (cheap build quality) that plague the MP3 players on Amazon, plus I can use it as a smartphone too. I guess until the community manages to crack 13.5.1 - or, even better, whatever iOS version formally marks the end of the iPhone SE1 and 6S's support - users will just have to wait.

I jailbroke on 13.5 with unc0ver and it really is worth it, even nowadays. It opens up a world of customization and lower-level system utilities. It's a shame the tools to do so don't work with Linux - in order to keep the apps on your phone you need to "refresh" them using AltStore, which only works on macOS and Windows - but I believe the jailbreak patches your phone so that it no longer automatically updates iOS, so you don't just end up with a brick when Apple pushes a new one.

It's odd to highlight that Forth is 50 years old, considering C is 48 years old and still in very heavy use in operating systems development.

It's a social thing - and a particularly stupid one. If you're ostracized by your peers for having the "green bubble" you're not gonna have great luck asking for the class notes or what Joey got on question 13. iMessage is the messenger of choice for students who don't value privacy or portability.

Don't get so ahead of yourself. Even people in relative poverty, in many cases, have new(er) iPhones, and HEIC is default on my SE, the budget iPhone model from 2016. In high schools you're alienated if you don't have the "blue bubbles"* - although it's stupid, if you're in high school in 2020 you probably need an iPhone, and you can get older models for a relatively small price (my SE was <$100). If anything, the ones with the most privilege will have enough technical training to know to make their phones default to JPEG rather than HEIC.

[1] - Source: I currently go to high school.

I wish Microsoft would officially release the source code for Windows 7 or even XP. I use Windows 7 now (with AV and common sense) and although slower it's a marked improvement from 10 in terms of customization and privacy. If Microsoft gave the open source community the tools to start improving Windows it would completely change the game.

I think Microsoft knows this and I think they don't want to make Windows open-source for fear that they could create their own competitor.