Some of us have to use Windows for one reason or another at least part time. WSL is totally awesome for those times! I am glad it exists. And now it is getting an opensource license makes it even better.

> Honestly so far I find them kind of useless

Like most things, it takes a while to get good at using AI based development tools. Garbage in garbage out applies here as well. You have to provide good context and frame your prompt in a way that another human would understand.

Many times I already have an idea of what I want. What libraries I want to use and the very rough architecture of the solution. I provide this as input and ask the AI to help me refine it and create a final and a comprehensive implementation plan. I then review the phased implementation plan and ask AI to write the software for each phase. I check the output of each phase before moving to the next.

Good software engineering skills are still required. AI will make errors and get off track. Your job is to know what it is doing and put it back on track. I believe a good engineer can 5x their output with the aid of AI development tools. But, at the very beginning, it may be less than 1x. You do not have the option to quit in the learning phase. Or you will eventually be replaced by a 5x engineer.

Should and could are different things. She can purchase her freedom. "Donate" $1m to Trump and call him the best president ever. This is what the Nikola founder, who was also convicted of fraud, did. And it worked.

This is the approach that the convicted founder of Nikola took. Donated money to Trump. Trump pardoned him. When Trump was asked about it, he said he didn't know much about the guy, but heard that he likes Trump. So, there is that. It appears that unless you actually murdered someone, a pardon can currently be purchased. And a little bit of ego stroking doesn't hurt either.

I work at a small 10-person company. Here, regardless of how good you are, if you do not use AI, your output will be far far less than an engineer who does. All checked-in code goes through layers of review process and QA. We recently went through the process of hiring another software engineer, and any candidate who did not have significant experience developing with the aid of AI tools, was eliminated early.

Any software engineering team that is not using AI will not be competitive. Yes, you still have to know your stuff. But days of manually typing in every single line of code are numbered. Anybody who thinks otherwise and refuses to level up on AI based development tools will eventually lose their job.

You can downvote me all you want. Just know that you are sticking your head in the sand.

The small 10-person company I work for was paying a lot of money for renting a few VMs from a company in Arizona. Several thousand dollars every month. It was an awful deal. Any of the big cloud providers would have been cheaper. However, the software engineers were not really infrastructure people and had limited interest in learning anything more than what they learned in college about computer programming. So, for them, this solution was already stretching the limits of their knowledge and understanding of things. I suspect this is the case with many organizations.

Cloud services are a good choice for such places.

For someone with even a basic understanding of networks and server systems, it is far cheaper, easier to host it yourself. One of the first things I did was kick the expensive service provider to the curb. Got us a gigabit fiber service at the office for about $300/month and a few good servers, backup UPS and a backup cellular connection. That was 5 years ago. It has been running rock solid since. And I don't touch anything. If they primary ever fails, we have a hot standby. Automated monitoring keeps tabs on everything. Almost nothing is manual. I am not a systems or network engineer but a software engineer. But, this is pretty basic stuff.

The best part for me is that I have a 10Gbps connection to all the servers.

UN funding FOSS projects sounds good in theory. But as you noted, UN is a huge bureaucracy. If a committee is deciding what projects should be funded, you are not likely to get good results. If however the funding decisions could be tied to github stars or something equivalent, you might get better results.

I just went to Cryptpad website, and it took a while to load. I even got the "loading" message that stayed there for a while. In the end the page loaded, but looked quite dated. I tried to load the word processor and got this message:

"Uncaught TypeError: ohc is not a function"

This thing isn't quite there yet.

But, did you know Hunter Biden's laptop had porn on it?

There are plenty of Chinese EVs that are price competitive with gas cars. And EVs are much much cheaper to operate.

To separate fools from their money. People have been bilking investors for decades. Decades. On foolish Hydrogen transportation projects. Only to rediscover laws of Physics. A recent example is Nikola Motor Company and their attempt to swindle investors. Trevor Milton, the founder was convicted and facing a long prison sentence, until pardoned by Trump for being an upstanding guy.

But, what about Hillary's emails? That alone cancels out everything wrong Trump is doing and will do for the rest of his term! /s

If Larry McVoy had not been such a hard ass about BitKeeper, many of us may still be using CVS, Subversion or shudder Visual Source Safe.

Stallman wrote an open letter, thanking him. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy...

> Congress is broken.

It would be less broken if Republicans were not in the majority. Dems with all their faults have never lined up behind one mad king like the Republicans here have.

I used Linux on the Desktop in the early 2000s. I am considering going back. The forced reboots and other heavy handedness from Microsoft is really pissing me off. More and more software these days is web based. So, software compatibility is less of an issue. And for the occasional need, I do have a Windows server that I can RDP into. The only thing that gives me pause is the ability to RDP into my desktop from remote locations. Linux and Mac have RDP server and similar solutions, but the last time I tried, they all were far far inferior to the standard Windows RDP server with multi-monitor support.

I am not sure why nobody has been able to create a real Windows RDP alternative for Linux or Mac for decades.

If I were a potential VMware customer, I am not, this wouldn't sit well with me. Suing your customers is always a bad idea. With their recent actions Broadcom is practically holding their customers hostage at this point. I would be very surprised if they still have a sizable size of the market left in a few years.

I run a small shop and have been using proxmox in production for years. Not a single problem. Perhaps proxmox doesn't have what the big shops need. But maybe one day.