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I'm kind of offended they changed them all. At some point you just have to say 'okay this is just complete bullshit' and stand for the things you create. Otherwise everything ends up in this corporate bland soup of nothingness. Of course we know where Microsoft ended up, but I doesn't have to be that way.

By all means be pragmatic if it's a government complaining, but you don't have to take all crazy feedback at face value.

I just use docker and I don't feel I'm missing anything?

It's not lack of self-awareness, they know what they are doing

Mail is dropping features left and right, like gmailify. I'm pretty sure they're trying to limit the maintenance costs as much as possible.

"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors"

Your examples are both quite gimmicky and not a fundamental value shift.

So how do we ensure that Tiktok doesn't covertly alter the algorithm to subtly include propaganda tailored to China's geopolitical interests that are detrimental to the US? Or even just propaganda tailored to enhance internal strife to weaken the country?

I'm extremely skeptical about this, I once believed the internet would do something similar and it seems to have done exactly the opposite.

So what's a good alternative for Android and Windows/Linux usage? I've tried Opera, Vivaldi and Firefox and disliked them for one reason or another.

This whole article is terribly confusing. Take this paragraph for example:

Now, your process might depend on other system resources like input and output; as this event is also a process, it also has a file descriptor, which will be attached to your process in the file descriptor table.

What event? Are input and output an event? Why is this event its own process? Input and output are not a process are they?

Also, does a process have its own file descriptor table? That was never mentioned before and this reads like it is already known.

This sort of stuff goes on in my head throughout the entire article...

It's also still unclear to me what happens if multiple processes try to access the same file. Do file descriptors help to lock files during writing?

Keychron has too high latency for me, I'm hoping this has a more acceptable input lag.

I think this desire for understanding ultimately drives the resistance to systemd and the Linux/BSD divide, and I think for good reason. There will always be friction between features and inherent simplicity/ability to understand the system.

The article was talking about the first computer science guy in a team of mathematicians. I don't know if mathematicians should be called technical, but they're hardly MBA types.

I definitely think it's a mistake that IKEA stopped printing their catalogues last year. The offline experience is totally different from online. Online I tend to do direct searches for things I already decided I want, but the IKEA catalog is perfect for casual browsing and getting new ideas for stuff I would've never bought otherwise.

It might come off as a cost saving short term, but I doubt in the end the catalogues did not bring in enough money anymore.