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There are serious projects being written in D as we speak, I'm sure, and the language has a track record of having been consistently maintained and improved since 2001, and has some very good libraries and tooling (very nice standard library, three independent and supported compiler implementations!) It does not have good libraries and tooling for all things; certainly integrations with other libs and systems often lag behind more popular languages, but no programming language is suitable for everything.

What I'm saying is there's a big world out there, not all programmers are burdened with having to care about CV-maxxing, community or the preferences of other devs, some of them can just do things in the language they prefer. And therefore, not everything benefits from being written in Rust or whatever the top #1 Most Popular! Trending! Best Choice for System Programming 2026! programming language of the week happens to be.

Debian also isn’t shipping telnet in the base install since Debian 11.

The amount and appearance of noise also heavily depends on whether you're looking at a RAW image before noise processing or a cooked JPEG. Noise reduction is really good these days but you might be surprised by what files from even a modern camera look like before any processing.

That said, I do think the simulation here exaggerates the effect of noise for clarity. (It also appears to be about six years old.)

I'll be decommissioning 40+ 2020 27" iMacs this year (i9-9900, 32 GB) and it's such a shame to see so many great displays and otherwise functional and plenty fast computers become, essentially, e-waste.

It could be worse -- at least you didn't spend tens of thousands on a 2019 model Intel Mac Pro in 2023. (Yes, they still sold them, and owners of those will be SOL in 2028. That's probably the worst OS support story in recent Apple history, and it's for some of their most expensive machines)

Don't get any gaming laptop. Some of them are truly bottom of the barrel slop and it really matters that you do your research. (See, for instance, NuclearNotebook reviews on YouTube)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Apple_1_...

(I still use a Firewire audio interface with my music studio Mac -- it runs macOS 12 Monterey)

It is often useful to differentiate between "concentration camps" and "death camps" or "extermination camps". The Nazis had both. Some of their concentration camps were focused on concentrating and detaining people, some of them also systematically killed them -- they are not the same. If you fail to make this distinction, then saying "America has concentration camps" could make it sound like they're running extermination camps.

The US does to my knowledge not yet have those, nor as large-scale application of concentration camps as Germany did, and whether you even want to use the term "concentration camp" rather than something more like "detention facility" is up to you, but the federal government certainly has camps where people detained by ICE are being concentrated. Sometimes they are also subject to human rights abuses and/or die there.

Here's one of these camps, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_East_Montana

Here is a list of people dying under ICE detention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_in_ICE_detentio...

What is the reason Linus lives in Oregon? By his own admission, 90% of his workday is reading and answering email. We have email in Europe, so that can’t be it.

Most people would probably have preferred if Windows had zero feature updates* since Windows 7, just security patches.

* Well, OK, fine. Task Manager is better now, I'll grant them that one.

Windows 98. Windows 95 would let you do this if you installed Internet Explorer 4.0 but there was no HTML anywhere in the OS in vanilla Win95.

So I cancelled Apple Music and reluctantly went back to Spotify. At least in Spotify, music playback is functional.

For a further layer of irony, after Claude Code was used for an actual real cyberattack (by hackers convincing Claude they were doing "security research"), Anthropic wrote this in their postmortem:

This raises an important question: if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial for cyber defense. When sophisticated cyberattacks inevitably occur, our goal is for Claude—into which we’ve built strong safeguards—to assist cybersecurity professionals to detect, disrupt, and prepare for future versions of the attack.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

Part of my job is automating macOS software deployment. I do this all day. I can confidently tell you that your percentages are way off. I wish you were right because dragging an app bundle into Applications is obviously the correct way to do it. But alas, that is very far from the world we live in.

For example I have never used Homebrew/Macports because my 1% power-user software has been available through the developer's Github (e.g. `bazel` etc. all publish mac release binaries )

This is "a tar.gz with random crap". Convenient perhaps, but it doesn't help your argument that macOS is less of a hellscape.

But `apt install foo` is a synonym for "custom installer that does who knows what" and/or "tar.gz with random crap in it"

No, it's really not. It knows what files it puts where and can cleanly upgrade and uninstall with a predictable and standardized method. It's not that I usually care where the files are strewn exactly, it's that I want consistent installations done in a systematic and coherent way; I don't want to rely on an UNINSTALL.EXE that, like the installer, I have no idea what it does.