I sincerely hope you're right :)
Holy crap. I shouldn't be surprised, but.. wow.
Don't let your guard down. Maybe this time they'll fully pull the TPM/UEFI trigger and make it impossible to install any other OS on new PCs... they have lots of leverage over manufacturers to tighten the screws on the BIOS and boot process.
Yes, please. We do want to know.
(I read somewhere, long ago, that some suspect he went after the Italian mob in NY merely to clear room for the Russian mob.. with attendant kickbacks to him for doing so... any juice to that?)
I don't currently run it myself -- I have some files in IPFS but haven't spun up the daemon on my own server in a while...
Hmm! I just checked their site and since I last looked into it they've added a nice desktop UI. I'll have to try it out myself again.
Hosting a node isn't like running a Tor exit node or anything -- you don't AFAIK host anything you don't explicitly put in there yourself, so there's no danger of accidentally serving something you wouldn't want to :)
How long indeed? I have had oil/gas stocks that were underwater for multiple years; then they went above my price point. If I'd given up and sold earlier, I'd have lost money. If I'd held longer, I'd be up when I sold. Your point?
It's all a gamble. So why get twisted up about what others are betting on?
Fact is, the company has no debt, and is trending toward profitability. Do you think humanity in general will give up on games, on collectibles, on play? If so, then you should get out now. I happen to think this particular company is positioned well for the long term.
I see the reasoning, fair enough. Just grumpy this evening I suppose :p.
I wish more people knew about IPFS -- a content-addressable, persistent filesystem. It's a peer-to-peer system that can offer durable backups to important info. Of course I'm a hypocrite as I realize I haven't been running my IPFS node lately due to upgrades... off I go to fix that.
Going to find Sinatra discography, specifically 78s, to DL just to spite these a*holes. I don't even like Sinatra that much. Thanks, Streisand Effect.
Fair enough, probably was hyperbole :) But performance does seem to be a higher priority than security; they can always spin PR after the next exploit, after all, users already have the CPU in their system, they've made their money; what are users really gonna do if an issue comes up after they've bought their box?
Seamonkey (Mozilla browser/email/news suite) still exists! https://www.seamonkey-project.org/dev/
And there's even still a build of uBlock Origin for it! https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
There is still hope, if we keep the open tools alive...
Posted from freshly-installed Seamonkey browser with uBlock Origin :)
Everywhere I've ever been,
If it's lower than "High" or "2", it's as good as "backlog" :)
(There can never be a priority "1" and seldom "Highest", never "Blocker", otherwise the CEO gets a text or something.)