Saw this on EFF’s Mastodon account. Not sure if this count as tech news.
1984 was a heady time in the computing world. Apple’s Macintosh arrived at the beginning of the year. What would become the Commodore Amiga was shown off in prototype form at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and Peter Davison turned into Colin Baker on the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
For Unix users, the year marked the first release of the X Window System, which would race through versions until settling on version 11 (hence X11) in 1987.
Not really “news” anymore, but hack, people, hack
I agree, in substance, but there’s a “better word”…I’m just searching for it. Mesmerized, captivated, no…limited. The limited communication, the limited exposure to the real world, the limited exposure to their own and other languages and limited communication of other ideas itself.
Yep, limited. That’s my “word” and I’m sticking to it.
But I dig what you mean.
Needs root though!
If one adds to this unspeakable expression the half-sentence: “in the spirit of Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky”, there is, in my experience, no objection The Idiot - Wikipedia
Oracle is out for blood, this is the last chance to run.
That’s a shame. Fortunately we’ve still got Eclipse Temurin, which does the job just fine.
This policy can still be set until June 2025 to work around automatic removals: