Rust is a platform, and platforms are always political... and full of religious fanatics.

At least they let you unsubscribe. Try unsubbing from the e-mail newsletter that comes "complimentary" with a magazine subscription. No matter how many times you go into your notifications preferences and unsubscribe from daily e-mail newsletters, they simply ignore you and keep sending them anyway. The links do nothing or point to nowhere.

There's dark patterns, and then there's lies... damn lies.

I spent some time looking at all the licensing terms, and I can't ever tell if they use online DRM or not. The apparently do require an online account to use the software and they reserve the right to terminate your account for any reason.

So, I'm guessing the correct answer is, "No more perpetual than anyone else's license".

So... 99% of the software industry? Every EULA says they reserve the right to change their terms of service at any time, because fuck you.

All of this needs to be illegal. We all know HP (and everyone else) is already cooking up their next scheme to blackmail customers, and the laws will do nothing about it.

Here here. I'm glad these features exist, but I can't stand it when they are forced upon me. I really can't stand MFA, especially when a smart phone is the only accepted method, since I don't own a smart phone and don't want one.

As with mandatory password rotation, it'll be interesting to see how many mandatory security practices today will be banished in another 10-20 years.

The only reason why this is the case is because the government allows it. The only reason why corporations are legal is because people recognize them as a net positive benefit to society. If they become a net negative... well, there go your evil overlord privileges.

Depends on what applications you use. Whether we like to admit it or not, the OS doesn't do much for security except cover its own butt. Almost all security is done at the application level.

I don't doubt that at all. Only advertising executives could see logic in displaying ads when people are not watching TV.

Intent.

In the 90's, I once had a half-hour argument with my high school computer teacher when he insisted that a floppy disk is a hard disk, because it has a hard plastic shell around it.

Decades later, I can't assume modern computer instructors are any more knowledgeable.

I prefer to call it intuition, not intelligence. Computer people have a certain "way" of thinking, and to survive in this industry, you have to think like them and understand their rules... even if those rules are really stupid. Also, that's before you get to the petty problems, like elitism.

When I went into CS in the 90's, I thought it would all be about math and logic. Turns out, a lot of people who design computers aren't even remotely good at common sense, which is why computer usability has always been a major problem. That's why I shifted my focus to GUI design. LOTS of programmers are absolutely awful at that.

Don't use crap hardware with crap drivers. Last time I saw a BSOD was about 7 years ago, and that was caused by my sound card.

Don't worry about AI power consumption. Once we figure out how to get it working right, we'll ask the AI to fix the problem for us.

Instead of listening to his words as speeches, try reading them as transcripts. If you still think he forms complete sentences that make sense, well... I don't know what to tell you.

We live in an era where corporations use DRM and killswitches for forcibly take things away from us, and most people don't seem to have a problem with that.

Explaining the symbolic significance of a museum -- let alone a flag -- to today's generation seems utterly futile.