And Redhat[0], and professional services a la Accenture[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#2010s%E2%80%93present

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture

Their old services arm was Kyndryl which they spun out as its own thing

Because some people would still smoke in restaurants and airplanes if left to their own devices.

I spent way, way, way too much time at that site (Partly because it’s a 1990s GeoCities mess).

Compelling, but still wanting a Nokia 33xx brick recall.

Same, the marketing absolutely got me.

> This is something much more close to justice as the punishment fits the crime.

True, but to put a still finer point on it, still fantastically more harmful to that poorest man than the king.

Again I agree, this is why some countries have scaling fines. If a rich person gets a speeding ticket they still don't execute them.

We're on the same page.

The real injustice is that the poor man does not have a hat. Whereas the king most likely has a whole room dedicated to them.

> I've wanted an excuse to try out emacs in the first place[...]

This isn't the excuse - just try Emacs! I've gone through periods where I really wanted to level-up my $EDITOR-fu, and just jumping in is what I did. Compared to so many other decisions, this is such a low-barrier, low-cost decision, there's no reason to not just do it. If it's stalling your development speed, jump back to vi or VSCode, or whatever. Don't want to stick with Emacs? Uninstall and forget it was ever there.

For my editor explorations (vi, emacs, ex), I was strict with myself and used $EDITOR exclusively for 4 or 8 weeks (I forget which) - which sometimes just turned into years.

I'm not deep into Emacs culture these days, but I'm hard-pressed to understand why one wouldn't just go canonical GNU Emacs rather than some fresh "revolutionary" Emacs - you'll have your mind blown regardless, without the potential bugs and lack-of-history/community which come with some new-hotness interpretation of a standard that is already fit-for-purpose.

I disagree somewhat. It helps to have some kind of exciting, exotic, whimsical, or challenging context to try it out in. Like how they say you learn a technology best with a project. "Just" trying it out can be a flavorless and easily dropped experience. But I agree with the other poster that this is not a great project for learning Emacs as it currently exists.

> I feel a better use of the screen space is around the corner

:)

See too the Porsche 917[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_917?#Construction

> Last week, Meta[...] agreed to a settlement of up to $18bn [...].

>

> But if Meta is truly interested in prioritizing the safety of users [...]

Where did that "but" clause come from? Has that ever been a priority?

Microsoft brought up an new processor[0][1][2] with NetBSD...

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=524...

[1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/an-onli...

There's the Installing Linux on a dead badger HOWTO, but NetBSD actually runs everywhere for realsies. It's also lovely to work with and has the nicest man pages imho.

lol, how am I only hearing about this now?

Installing Linux on a dead badger

https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/articles/i...

> Default partitioning: /root goes in the spinal cord and brain stem, /swap and /soul go on the left hemisphere of the brain, and /usr, /var, and /home go on the right. If you're working with a badger with damage to one of those areas, you can repartition one or the other brain hemisphere, but as noted in Step 2, using a brain-damaged badger is not recommended and may interfere with successful installation.

> lol, how am I only hearing about this now?

You're one of today's lucky 10,000! [0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/