https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

Scared of Chupacabras or something like that is my guess.

Americans are always living in fear of something, so why not that I guess.

Yeah Mutually Assured Destruction is a helluva thing isn’t it?

Antisemitic types that want another holocaust might be butt-hurt over this, but most people understand that all nukes are bad, but Israel’s nukes aren’t somehow worse than those owned by Russia, USA, China, UK, France, North Korea, India, or Pakistan. Every one of those countries would nuke another country if they became an existential threat to them. But why are you upset over Israel having nukes and don’t worry at all about the other eight countries that have them?

Oh right, because they’re Jews.

Feel free to your rationalizations over why your feelings on this aren’t rooted in antisemitism below this comment.

They added chromecast to mine this year which has been useful.

Same. There’s a lot of options in open source software, and so I try different applications until I figure out which I like best. Then apt sorts out how to make it all work.

I’ve met many people that have killed people. I didn’t think that was all that unusual. I know for sure two people I’ve met had killed people and there’s a whole bunch more that range from maybe to probably.

Are you really saying you want an authoritarian to make the trains run on time?

Don’t you think that’s a little unoriginal?

Yeah… source needed.

It kinda is navel gazing though. Sort of like how Inglorious Basterds (which I would recommend) is alternate history about some violent dudes killing bad guys, the Hollywood movie is like that… except Hollywood.

So instead of Brad Pitt playing a bad ass that kills Hitler, it’s Brad Pitt playing a bad ass killing the Manson family cultists before they do those murders. Maybe the implication is that Roman Polanski wouldn’t have become a child rapist if that happened? There’s some kind of implication that 70s Hollywood was awesome until the Manson family ruined everything.

Anyway, it’s basically like Inglorious Basterds, but Hollywood. Definitely one of Tarantino’s weaker movies, maybe better than Hateful 8 (seemed more like a stage play to me) but not by much. Unless, like Tarantino, you get off on women showing off their dirty feet while watching 70s movies, you can probably give it a miss.

It was a movie that Kubrick and Spielberg both thought the other guy would be able to make it work. So they passed it back and forth. The scenes you think Kubrick came up with, were actually things Spielberg came up with and vice versa. “Here’s a scene you’d be the perfect director to make, you should direct this movie!” So it’s a mix between what Spielberg thought Kubrick should do and what Kubrick thought Spielberg should do.

Neither of them could make it work. But Kubrick died and Spielberg felt he had to finish it. It’s an interesting movie to see what each director wanted the other director to do, but it’s not a great movie to just sit and enjoy as a movie.

I thought it had more to do with the fact that there isn’t a ≠ key on most people’s keyboards.

I heard they didn’t really have a script for the first Gladiator and it turned out great.

But I think it’s a thing where if you have some actors that can contribute a lot, that kind of thing can work out. When you don’t, you get Gladiator 2. Denzel was pretty entertaining in it though, the rest of it was pretty meh. Seeing the ship battle in the Coliseum was cool, but I don’t remember what it added to the plot. In the first one the fights all added to the plot and characters.

Not that it’s the actors’ fault they aren’t supposed to be writers. But maybe the first one just worked because of dumb luck, who knows?

The real reason is it’s a pain in the ass to deploy software in Windows. It’s not like you can easily set up a server and put some packages on and have it just automatically apt update to that. Sure there’s some “Enterprise” servers you could set up (and pay license fees for) that might work somewhat like that, but it’s easier to just make it a web app and deploy to an internet webserver.

For product distribution, you need someone download an .exe, hope a virus scanner won’t block it, maybe pay microsoft to sign it or whatever, hope the user has a compatible version of windows, and maybe they can get some working software. But then you have to make some mechanism to handle updates and hopefully that doesn’t get blocked by some security software. So it’s easier to make your software a web application.

Also putting out windows native applications means you might not be able to enshittify it later since people could continue to use the old version forever. It’s weird to assume enshittification happens accidentally, but it’s actually what some companies want to do their software because $$$. They want applications they can enshitty later, they don’t make applications that may work on linux and whoopsie it just somehow got enshittified because of that… somehow.

But many times it’s just best solution. If an application doesn’t need access to anything on my system, I’d rather it be a web app. App does the thing I need, and when I’m done, I close the tab and we’re done. Why install more software on my system if I don’t need to?

You think you’re an expert but you’re not! Some serious Freddy-Kruger effect happening here.

I guess it kinda depends on the accuracy of the numbers available to the application. If 0.00 is actually zero then a negative zero doesn’t make sense. But if the number was -0.001 then yeah -0.00 would make sense, it would be conveying a decrease just not in the decimal places displayed.

But if it is actually zero then they probably should’ve used a different colour than red because it is confusing.

My guess is it’s probably just if x > 0 then “green” else “red” kinda logic happening.

A joke in the aviation industry is that planes will someday become so automated there will just be one pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The dog will trained to bite the pilot if they try to touch the controls.

So I maybe windows users will need a virtual dog to bite copilot if it tries to do anything.

FFS a government makes a policy on phone security which may or may not be a good decision. OK whatever, who cares?

Ah but that government is Israel. So now this is today’s reason for your daily Two Minutes Hate?

Get a grip people.

Oddly enough it seems like Microsoft themselves that’s working towards breaking the network effect. They are pushing people to use the web versions of their software now and since edge is chromium, their web versions should work in Linux.

In the past Microsoft made most of their money from Windows and Office, but now they make more money off of cloud services so the traditional Windows and Office products are becoming more and more about just driving people to their cloud services. But as they they put more emphasis on cloud services they’re actually making it easier for people to dump Windows, and as they make Windows more about marketing their cloud services, they give people more incentive to dump Windows.

Microsoft is digging the grave for windows.

A fan of manuals, obviously. There are dozens of us!

It’s more likely they have contractual obligations with marketing companies, retailers, data centers, etc. If a product is discontinued they can get out of those obligations. Sure they will write off a loss and reduce the taxes they pay, but it’s not as if a bigger loss nets them more money somehow.

Really what needs to be regulated is all of the excessive exclusive B2B contracts which mean a company can’t just sell a product for a small amount of money to someone to maintain it when they’re done with that product.