The only label on the map that’s both on Latin and in old German.

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Is OpenBSD seriously still using CVS for development?

Anyone got a non-paywalled version?

Okay, your post is about the bird, yes, but that road sign confuses me. I have no idea what it could mean.

Going by what OP thinks “Chaotic Evil” means for sysadmins, they have clearly never heard of BOFH.

Writing good comments is an art form, and beginner programmers often struggle with it. They know comments mostly from their text books, where the comments explain what is happening to someone who doesn’t yet know programming, and nobody has told them yet that that is not at all a useful commenting style outside of education. So that’s how they use them. It usually ends up making the code harder to read, not easier.

Later on, programmers will need to learn a few rules about comments, like:

• Assume that whoever reads your code knows the programming language, the platform and the problem domain at least in general terms. You are not writing a teaching aid, you are writing presumably useful software.
• Don’t comment the obvious. (Aside from documentation comments for function/method/class signatures)
• Don’t comment what a line is doing. Instead, write your code, especially names for variables, constants, classes, functions, methods and so on, so that they produce talking code that needs no comments. Reserve the “what” style comments for where that just isn’t possible.
• Do comment the why. Tell the reader about your intentions and about big-picture issues. If an if-statement is hard to parse, write a corresponding if clause in plain English on top of it.
• In some cases, comment the “why not”, to keep maintenance programmers from falling in the same trap you already found.

I wonder when, if ever, Warner Bros. Is going to learn that players are actively pushing back against corporate greed and live service games are already way past the limit of microtransactions that players deem acceptable.

Some time after that actually happens.

Yes, there are a lot of players in various social networks loudly complaining about the phenomenon (although I suspect many of those are not even in the target audience to begin with), and there are even some actively boycotting these games, but so long as there are enough of them left willing to play ball, and especially some with an exploitable addiction-prone personality that can be hooked on loot boxes and microtransactions until they spend more than they have, there just isn’t anything for these companies here to “learn”. Other than “hey, this is insanely profitable”.

They may get insulted on Xitter for it, but who cares, everybody gets insulted on Shitter…

MacOS is basically a different world.

Melania is a blatant gold digger. She might divorce him if he goes bankrupt, but only then.

I have been sort of following Wayland’s development for over 10 years now. I have been using Wayland for over 2 years now. I have been reading and watching various lengthy arguments online for and against it. I still don’t feel like I actually know it even is, not beyond some handwavey superficialities. Definitely not to the extent and depth I could understand what X11 was and how to actually work with it, troubleshoot it when necessary and achieve something slightly unusual with it. I feel like, these days, you are either getting superficial marketing materials, ELI5 approaches that seem to be suited at best to pacify a nosy child without giving them anything to actually work with, or reference manuals full of unexplained jargon for people who already know how it works and just need to look up some details now and then…

Maybe I’m getting old. I used to like Linux because I could actually understand what was going on…

Honestly, this should be a bigger discussion, and not limited to just games. If a software company sells a software license for perpetual use to someone, they should not be allowed to use copy protection mechanisms that prevent the licensee from using it in perpetuity.

If there’s some other technical reason why the software won’t run any more after ten or twenty years, that’s another story. But if they just can’t be bothered to keep running the licensing servers, then they need to bloody well remove the stinking copy protection.

Legalisiert soll das ganze bis zur 12. Schwangerschaftswoche werden, und dann soll immer noch eine Beratung verpflichtend sein.

Frage: Wie lange dauert es im Normalfall, bis eine Frau überhaupt merkt, dass sie schwanger ist? Wie lange dauert es in ungewöhnlichen oder extremen Fällen? Wie lange muss man auf so einen Beratungstermin warten? Wie lange anschließend auf einen Termin für die Durchführung der Prozedur?

It’s a lot better than the system that just randomly throws in your USB drives with your SCSI/SAS/SATA/PATA drives. Or the systems that calls everything a SCSI drive when it usually isn’t a SCSI drive.

Okay, this bullshit. It’s not shareholders who would be negatively affected by this, and it’s not shareholders who are actively working against doing something about the problem. Shareholders are just an easy acceptable target to point your fingers at, whether it makes sense or not.

What needs to be done to tackle the homelessness problem (not the only thing, but probably the most important one) is to zone much, much more land inside or directly next to cities for affordable mid-rise multi-family homes. Guess who is opposed to that and has the power to do something about it? Existing property owners. Specifically owners of detached single family homes. Because doing that would negatively affect their property values. Personally, I think that shouldn’t matter, because what good is living in home that is worth absurd amounts of money on paper going to do you if society is falling apart because of it? But home owners are always massively concerned about their property values and will torpedo anything that might threaten it. Of course, pointing your fingers at home owners is much dicier than pointing them at shareholders, because even in a bubble like this one, you are bound to point at some people here who will feel personally attacked by that…

“Shareholders”, on the other hand, aside from those that are also home owners at the same time, don’t really have much reason to care one way or another about effective projects to reduce homelessness.

About 20 years ago, Microsoft was found guilty and convicted, because they forced their browser on their users, driving out competitors by abusing their de facto monopoly on PC operating systems. These days, they are doing the exact same thing again, just on an even broader base. I don’t even understand how this verdict took so long.

6. WebEx hat Sicherheitslücken, die im Öffentlichen agierende Security Researcher nicht gefunden haben, weil das closed source ist und man da legal nicht so einfach rankommt, während im dunklen agierende Zeitgenossen, die sich um legal versus illegal nicht kümmern, schon seit 10 Jahren auswendig wissen, wo genau man einen Stapelüberlauf provozieren kann,und welche Rücksprungadresse man da reinschmuggeln muss, damit das Ding macht, was man will…
7. WebEx hat absichtliche Sicherheitslücken, die Cisco vom Amerikanischen Staat aufobtruiert wurden, und die dann entweder durch Spionagegeschichten oder Eigenrecherche auch den Russen bekannt wurden.

Gut, in diesem konkreten Fall ist die Erklärung natürlich noch viel einfacher: Ein Konferenzteilnehmer hat über eine altmodische, unverschlüsselte Telefonleitung aus Singapur teilgenommen, und die abzuhören, war noch nie ein Problem.

Whoops, Weihenstephan gehört zu Müller?

Gut, dass das mal jemand erwähnt…

Ich bin ganz froh, dass sie’s irgendwie geschafft haben, der Versuchung zu widerstehen, da noch irgendwelche Produktwerbung rein zu schmuggeln…

*perjury

Purgery would be intentionally inducing vomiting on oneself to empty one’s stomach.