Y2k was not fear mongering. There were a great many systems, in industrial finance and infrastructure applications that definitely needed to be addressed. You know, the things that keep modern infrastructures running. Of course there were consumer facing companies that took advantage of it, but that was small in comparison.

It ended up not being a disaster, because it was taken seriously.

Nah, they will do what they always do. Change some system environmental variables to move the zero date on till after they would have retired.

Nobody wants to touch the original code, it was developed in the 1970s

I am disturbed by the number of people who don’t understand that WiFi is not the internet.

Any intelligent joke requires a disclaimer because of flat earthers, Qanoners and conservatives.

"Don’t worry. I am sure they will stop after we give them the sudetenland. "

Here is the secret, Russia has already started WW3, the west is just not acting that way.

What Biden really needs to do is remove restrictions on the use of their weapons to their European allies, so they can support Ukraine in his absence.

Does this guy look like a civilized Elon Musk to anyone else?

Saying someone is ignorant is not calling them stupid.

Someone who does not understand that difference, while having access to a dictionary on the other hand…

I was not talking about Tokyo, I was talking about German cities that were firebombed.

Firebombing multiple German cities was fine?

You need to educate away your ignorance.

Where does the Geneva convention come down on sabotaging military issued equipment?

I stand corrected.

I thought Cerci Lanister used crows?

Wait until they evolve opposable thumbs.

Line that is straight in two dimensions.

I believe so. Have not checked recently. All my Firefox extentions work as expected

I mostly use waterfox, which is very similar to librefox. I just like the more compacted UI and performance optimization they have done.

Your own raspberry pi will probably outperform your ISPs DNS, since it’s on your local network.

Also, just by blocking what it does, pages load a lot less, so they load a lot quicker.

“And then Mozilla management comes in from the top rope with the chair”

Seriously, for profit companies should not own open source projects.

That is true. The issue is that because there are so many permission escalation issues in windows, that many anti malware products must run as kernel drivers.