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Yeah, about a decade+ ago I paid for mIRC and WinRAR as a way to pay them back.

Alex Lifeson!

Even more money lost for rural schools. Getting high speed, high capacity internet connections to much of rural America is extremely cost prohibitive. E-Rate was the only way the rural district where I was network admin could possibly afford it.

It’s a little bizarre that the Netherlands, or especially Spain, are in the time zone centered on basically Berlin. Damn WW2. The sun doesn’t set until nearly 23:00 this time of year, and during winter isn’t up until nearly 08:00.

My blog used to receive direct traffic to various articles from search engines.

Now, 90% of hits are on the homepage with no search engine referral. I’ve blocked the bots in multiple ways, but they keep coming.

I put my little blog behind Cloudflare because I was tired of it going down due to scrapers overwhelming my little VPS.

Google and the Open Web

1. Embrace

2. Extend

3. Extinguish <-- we’re here

Counterpoint: I think it’s reasonable to inform people of what a dev team allows into their project, or how they’re directing the development of the product.

For some people, it will be a hard no. Others maybe don’t mind AI interoperability if it’s not in the codebase itself. Others won’t mind if the app is critical to their workflow, but may reject apps that are less critical. Others don’t care at all.

I look at it like the Denuvo labeling curator on Steam. Nothing wrong in informing people.

I keep a small Win11 partition on my 2022 gaming laptop in case I need to take a cert exam or use a gov website, and I booted it for updating for the first time in 6 months. It took over 6 hours and 6 reboots to update! At one point, it was going bu-ding every minute from random notifications so I had to mute it.

Meanwhile, my 2012 Thinkpad T420 needed a full Fedora version upgrade, and that finished in 15 minutes.

No wonder MS is losing users