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Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can’t be, either.

From a private end user point of view yes. But in enterprises Windows and Office is successful. Lots of money is going to Microsoft here.

Usually, they can, if there are risk of violence appearing. You’re allowed to protest peacefully, but the current situation suggests the protest would be based on anger and maybe provocation.

I am not a guy who blindly trusts technology. Why go forward when you cannot see what’s in front of you? How can that happen?

AFAIK Google makes a disclaimer about it. A bridge can also be destroyed on the same day, so…

So… ad hominem? That’s all you have, Putin?

Most of my text files are from Unix/Linux systems, because I don’t work much on Windows. So Wordpad is more important than Notepad for me, because the latter one does not handle end-of-lines correctly.

Good job!

No one says the devices are anti consumer, except for some that are intentionally made incompatible with common replacement parts (missing “apple logo”). The walled garden is.

The only case where I’d use a virus scanner is when I’d host a file server for Windows systems.

Btw, ClamAV is slow and generally awful. It has many false positives that you get spammed all the time. There are also cases where it doesn’t really find the virus (false negatives). It’s also buggy and it’s not a good sign for security product.

I’d still recommend Linux, if you want to be safe. Windows has never been designed with security in mind. It’s not even a proper multiuser system.

I’m not particularly for the Green Party in Germany, but Mrs. Baerbock seemed to do something right to anger some Chinese officials that much that she needed to take public transportation for a meeting.

We’re talking about AfD. They don’t even hide the fact that they are nazis. People who vote for them never really learned from history.

What happened? Did they finally introduce death penalty for smoking in public?

Of course, but I can see and understand what is patched and can see if I’m affected or not. In the previous version I haven’t been affected for 500 days.

Another shitty country on my list where I’ll avoid to travel to. Thanks for the hint.

You mean when you update the kernel? No one updates init on BSDs. This is mostly a entire world upgrade. But I’d never reboot from cron. My servers run 100 days without a reboot on average. In most cases there is no reason to update world, only the packages.

Reboot? Since when does Linux need a reboot? I’ve been thinking about migrating from FreeBSD to Linux, but now I am confused.

Many popular things are crappy. It is not an ideology, unless you consider the scientists who invented the WWW to be some freaks.

Flash wasn’t really useful, because many people couldn’t display these websites. It was the exact opposite of WWW. WWW enabled people to use hypertext and provided accessibility.

It’s the market that controls the prices. Many shops won’t rise prices because they would lose customers, if many others don’t.

But after an agreed price rise, it’s a different situation. It takes more time to sell cheaper, because the shops want to pretend that stuff is expensive just a bit longer.

Just have some patience and try to avoid the expensive stuff, as much as you can for some time. The biggest risk for shops is that someone finds alternatives and actually never again buys the previous product. They’ll panic and prices will fall drastically.

Adobe has already proved they don’t understand web technologies when creating Flash.

I use LaTeX. I needed to learn a lot about it to use it, but it’s the only thing that can set letters, paragraphs and book structure properly.