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The author actually has it right due to OpenBSD's httpd running in a chroot of /var/www.

Edit: nevermind, you're right, just checked it again and the author put the copied awk under /usr/bin inside the chroot

Insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have held up pretty well against the US military over all. Pervasive gun ownership in these countries prior to our involvement is a major part of this equation. I think a militia uprising in the US would fare even better because a substantial number of the members of said militia would have been trained by that very military they are fighting. I also believe that a substantial number of the National Guard units would be loyal to their state instead of a tyrannical federal government.

Let's also not forget that our country got its start by a scrappy group of farmers and tradesmen armed only with muskets and flintlock pistols that defeated the greatest world power at the time.

I'm waiting for a politician to pass legislation requiring us to have the telescreens from 1984.

We already have thought crimes, I mean red flag laws and no fly lists.

People need to stop giving up their liberty and privacy for perceived safety.

You're much more likely to be killed by an automobile than a mass shooting. This is the new flavor of scare tactic.

The problem with property taxes as they are usually implemented is that they put a very high burden on farmers and are often passed on directly to renters by their landlords.

Why would they do that? Why would they care which hypervisor/VM solution you use?

Interesting move by IBM.

See also OpenSPARC. [1]

I'm curious if anyone will do anything interesting with this.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/index.h...

For this reason I would never trust my livelihood with the Play Store. Beer money, yes, paying my bills, hell no.

Also every release of the .NET framework to my knowledge ships with the "csc.exe" and "vbc.exe" compilers. So C# and Visual Basic.NET are available out of the box with modern versions of Windows as well. No IDE support, but you could whip up quick hello worlds with notepad without breaking a sweat.

Is Bill Nye's opinion relevant in this either?

This is rich, considering just how reliant Federal Government agencies like the Department of Defense are on contractors.

To continue this analogy. When I go to a restaurant and order a steak I don't get told by the waiter that I should really be eating vegan gluten free instead.

What really bothers me the most about modern "news" is that a lot of it is really just biased political commentary and editorials masquerading as news.

What concerns me about the Red Hat acquisition is just how much of what we consider "Linux" is developed and controlled by Red Hat employees. Look at things like Gnome, PulseAudio, and systemd. Canonical and other Linux companies very rarely have this kind of impact across the entire ecosystem.

I'm not saying that just doing word processing on my phone is incredible. Microsoft Word is one of the most powerful word processors and I just find it incredible how many features from the traditional desktop version are supported on a mobile device.

I find all of the negativity related to this very strange. Microsoft Word on Android is incredible (and the other MS Office apps for that matter). The ability to not only view, but even edit documents on my phone has come in handy many times. Google Docs is good for what it is, but it is not 100% compatible, and round tripping documents that contain complex formatting is risky.

Overall Microsoft's Android apps are of very high quality. I'm pretty certain that these 1 billion installs are not just bundling deals. The vast majority of businesses and governments rely upon Microsoft Office, so is it really that surprising that employees of these organizations would install these apps on their mobile devices?

This is pretty incredible work.

I'm curious to hear how well Platform Uno works in practice with real world projects. The demos are quite impressive.

I always thought that UWP was a much nicer platform to develop for than Android. It's a shame that Microsoft's mismanagement pretty much killed Windows Mobile as a viable platform.

Between the environmental impact mentioned here and the meteoric rise of ransomware that crypto currency has caused, I have a hard time believing that it is a net positive overall.

The problem is that the Android SDK is a Rube Goldberg machine full of layers of over engineered complexity. It does not work well with anything other than Kotlin, Java, and to a much lesser extent C++. Even other JVM languages have a hard time working properly on Android.

In their defense the vast majority of mainstream media in the United States is left wing biased. Fox news is pretty much the only major right wing counter balance.

I think it's much simpler than that. The reason why Android updates are so broken compared to iOS and Windows is the lack of a stable driver ABI. Fuschia would fix that.

I will stop playing this game if I have to make an Epic account. Their security is a joke. Some Russian made a fake account using my email address without Epic ever actually verifying that the email address they used belonged to the individual that made the account.

Rust's learning curve isn't exactly a shallow one either.

For the record I think Rust has a lot going for it, but it is not the C++ killer that many are touting it to be.

That's because SCOTUS refuses to hear any gun control cases.

See also California's unconstitutional gun control laws.

They believe they have moral superiority on their side and federal laws don't apply to them.

However Rust is single vendor and single implementation, has a much smaller community and ecosystem than C++, is not standardized, and does not support all of the platforms and use cases that C++ does.

Thank you Joe for all of your contributions!

You will be missed.

I second this. Garmin's wearables are excellent. My Instinct gets almost 2 weeks if battery life with approximately 30 minutes of GPS run tracking 5 days a week.

I think PHP endures because it does one thing and does it exceptionally well. There is no other tool that makes the creation of simple dynamic server side web sites as easy and accessible. Simple FTP/SCP deployment to the server is such a killer feature.

It is also one of the few choices available on cheap shared hosting sites.

I agree... Debian's corporate independence is a feature not a bug.

How is it an abomination?

It seems to have served its purpose well so far. It is relatively easy to use and hasn't gotten in the way of anything I've wanted to use it for yet.

Don't forget Spectrum (the result of the Charter and TWC merger) as well.