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You’ll forgive me if I ever-so-briefly misread your boilerplate link as “And then I woke up.”

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The real punishment ought to be an atomic wedgie. For everyone who was a C-level for more than a month at that company in the last 10 years.

This ought to be the punishment for a lot of unethical business practices. You can’t delegate that to a customer’s wallet.

If we tried this in the UK with someone like, say, the late David Coleman, I’m not entirely sure anyone who remembers him would be able to distinguish - other than, as I said, the knowledge that he’s been gone for quite some time now.

Coleman, was considered a go-to commentator for decades despite being gaffe-prone even at the best of times. He was occasionally oblivious and apparently lacking any self-awareness too. (He did kind of learn to laugh at himself though and was a good, well, sport, about it all.)

Sounds very AI to me. Come to think of it, he may even have been kept around precisely because of the entertainment value.

I assume that Al Michaels is not of this bizarre calibre and it wouldn’t take long for people to notice.

Cygwin on Win7 back in the day was pretty close tbh.

I don’t know about that. Non-binary files have been put into bin directories for decades at this point. (Feel free to marvel at the analogy.)

Delete the contents and it’s not just binaries going to the bit-bucket.

The joke here is more “Tony Lazuto said to execute these files.”

That’s called “time to get a new job.”

Before I came in here, I assumed that’s what “or else” meant, and I’m still not sure it doesn’t mean that.

Asking him to auto-cannibalise? I like it.

One downside to this is that $10 is worth more to one person than it is to another, and I can’t see how that can be fixed.

Feeling daring? If you have to buy the software anyway, invoice the government department the price of the software.

Nope. This episode of The Outer Limits has lived rent free in my head since the 90s and I want no part of it. Neither should anyone else.

(In fairness, quite a lot of those stories live rent free in my head because they’re all horror. If you really want to know, this one was called “The New Breed”. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)

Hasn’t Office worked under Wine since forever?

(And if not, what are the show stoppers?)

They did. See “netflitwitter”.

Borrowing from something I saw elsewhere: Set up a task / cron job / whatever it is on your OS that takes a full screenshot every minute and then sends it to Microsoft’s AI team.

Or save it to a drive or something, I’m not the boss here. And neither is Microsoft.

Big Brother? No. Not yet anyway.

Abusive in other ways? Let Uncle Louis tell you all about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA

wait until you learn about .tar.lz

Kind of redundant. Both .zip and .rar store an index of files within the archive and are a bit ‘inside-out’ when it comes what we get from tar.gz.

That is, ZIP is pretty close to what you’d get if you first gzipped all your files and then put them into a .tar.

RAR does a little more (if I remember correctly), such as generating a dictionary of common redundancies between files and then uses that knowledge to compress the files individually, but better. Something akin to a .tar file is still the result though.

Bzip2 compression is often surprisingly good with text files, especially log files. It seems to “see” redundancies there - and logs often have a lot of it - far better than gzip and sometimes even lzma.

Anyway, if I saw a bunch of tar.bz2 files, that’s what I’d expect to find in them.

“This wouldn’t have happened if you had told me where you keep the f**king catnip, Susan!”

The upshot of your comment with the current situation is: Windows users want someone to wipe their a*** for them and are increasingly OK with the wiping hand doing other things it feels like at the same time.

At least with Linux’s rough paper, it’s my own damn hand.