It’s not that internet explorer was good that made it successful, it was packaged with windows where Netscape wasn’t. People used the one that was already on their computer, then as they got market share they extended http to encourage sites to make stuff that wouldn’t work in Netscape, and couldn’t due to patents

By the time Microsoft was forced to unbundle IE and windows it was very hard for Netscape to get market share back

I’m sure that back in the day there were adults in charge of the big companies. I know that where I work management used to listen to tech areas for tech stuff. Now they just trust whatever the Microsoft agent tells them

DOS 5 docko was fine. I wonder* when they went wrong

*I don’t really

What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn’t great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help

The web was pretty small in the '90s

I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars

I find it amusing that you think Linux is weak against attack because of the recent LLM bug searches but each of those bugs will be fixed, making Linux even stronger against attack

No other operating system is under more examination, but I expect we’ll see Windows getting the same level of examination when the LLMs are able to examine the binaries

I expect Microsoft is using Copilot to examine their source code. I wonder if it’s as good at it’s job.

They are making the same mistake we used to make in Linux, they think that their system is more secure, when really it’s just a less attractive target.

You are quoting the thing that gives you the ability. I was describing how to identify those. Please state your point. Do you mean “range: self” spells don’t count because they don’t use the exact same words?

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The system I work on uses “Y” and “N”.

Historical, but static because the existing user base is used to how gnome works. At least most big distros let you use whichever you prefer

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Targets self means you can only use it on yourself, in 3.5 it’s things with range personal. Read magic, for example

3.5 druids share their self spells with their animal companions

Ed. In 5e the range of such spells are “self”. Level 7 druid spell draconic transformation would make a pretty terrifying winged rhino

The game supply is built against those APIs. If games are to be played on Linux it is necessary to adapt to the games until Linux is big enough that games change for us.

Yet another backdoor. Runs as a PAM module with root privileges. Since you need to have been pwned before an attacker or malware can deploy this you’re screwed anyway.

I take it you didn’t read it. It’s a dry description of what the exploit is, how it works, how to make it happen, how to mitigate it

It doesn’t try to invoke worry or panic.

The productivity tools seem fine, almost all the games work, photo processing is fine; what workflow of your does Linux not support?

No java sounds like the best first choice in selecting a language

Right so the solution is that people should own multiple expensive devices. That seems discriminatory to me

The summary is steam deck is popular and runs Linux so it’s good that this game uses an anti cheat that works under Linux, and they hope that steam deck causes many other games to work under Linux in the near future

I play with adults, so I appreciate it when you can turn off anti cheat (to not waste the cycles it costs) in a group you trust. When I was running a server for thirteen year olds in the early 2000s, good anti cheat would have been nice