Fun fact: the entire Free Software movement exists because Richard Stallman got pissed off at Xerox one day, for not giving him the source code so he could fix his printer.

It means a change either applied completely and successfully, or not at all (think “atomic transactions” in databases).

Man, I miss Humble Bundle from before it sold out to IGN.

Oh shit, I forgot about that. Myst was the crowning achievement of HyperCard (which is still superior to PowerPoint, BTW).

LOL, that quicktime butterfly animation on the main island was hot shit back then.

TIL Firefly is part of the Phalanxverse.

I want something like that too, although it’s worth noting that the implementation corner-case details could be horrendous.

On a related note, threads ought to be able to have the default sorting changed at least by a mod, if not by the user who posted them. For example, the recent hurricane megathreads ought to have been defaulting to sorting by new.

Is there even some coreboot or libreboot motherboard for PC that supports “high end” hardware?

As far as I know, the highest-end motherboard that supports Libreboot is an Opteron – not Epyc, Opteron – dual-socket server board from about a decade ago.

Non-file based computing is a highly unexplored design space.

No it isn’t; that’s what databases are.

I got a copy of Turbolinux 6 from a Hamfest and never managed to get it installed correctly. A few years later, I did succeed in running Debian and Gentoo in college.

We also don’t have control over automatic number plate recognition, surveillance cameras, etc.

I, for one, have consistently avoided publishing photos of myself on the Internet my entire life (and I’ve been online since the '90s, so I was really ahead of the curve on that), and even shy away from being in other people’s photos as much as possible (sometimes you can’t avoid it without consequences, such as if it’s a driver’s license photo, or imposed by your employer, or the news covering an event you’re participating in, or that sort of thing). Even then, I still have very little confidence that I’ve managed to stay out of these sorts of facial recognition databases.

Now pipe it through lolcat

The internet is ^{supposed to be} peer-to-peer

FTFY. Megalomaniacal corporations, especially advertisers and the copyright cartel, are Hell-bent on “fixing” that so they can better control and exploit everyone, though.

The trick is designing the thing in such a way as to resist infiltration by astroturfing marketers.

Last time I went to Costco, my the second most expensive thing on the receipt was tax.

That just means you bought a whole bunch of cheap things.

what use cases do you have in mind that require root access?

Ownership.

Aren’t these guys supposed to be tech geniuses or some shit?

Rich/famous tech people have never been “tech geniuses.” They’re always sociopathic business/marketing types.

I mean, that’s been obvious since Microsoft bought it.

But this is really more about how emulator devs ought to accept that Nintendo is going to try to persecute them and start keeping themselves anonymous to avoid being ruined by lawsuits, even though what they’re doing is neither illegal nor unethical.

Don’t worry OP, there are plenty of sharks in the sea.