I think it must have been Etch, though I had to look at a versions table to figure that out.

It’s funny because Debian was the first Linux distro I ever installed and used.

Very shortly after my 14th birthday.

I thought I’d read somewhere that in Germany, the regional governments do most of the heavy lifting in terms of legislation, with a very limited federal government

The federal government in Germany certainly has more legislative power (in comparison to state governments) than that of the US.

The thing about Germany is that in Germany, there are many areas where federal laws are enforced by state executive branches, which isn’t really a thing in the US.

Yes, you did: OpenID.

I remember when I first read about it (late 2000s? not sure when), I thought it was an awesome idea and surely the web of the future would be full of “log in with OpenID” buttons.

Instead it is now full of “log in with Google”, “log in with Facebook”, “log in with Microsoft” buttons.

We could also use the term “age declaration”.

It’s not by itself an outrageous feature (what does that even mean, outrageous feature). What is outrageous is that governments around the world are starting to think they have the authority to compel this.

https://xkcd.com/810/ was oddly prophetic

Confusing because there is a DB client called SQuirreL.

But also relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1989/

I like the JetBrains IDEs too from a purely practical perspective, but I would still rather use FOSS VSCodium than a nonfree JetBrains IDE. Those that are FOSS are a different story.

I don’t hate Microsoft, I hate nonfree software. I happily use free software developed by Microsoft, eg VSCodium.

It’s possible in general, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on specifically here; not many people read IP addresses in such detail to notice such things at first glance.

Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android

So are Windows and macOS.

Is the source code already available?

2006: user generated content is a revolution! We are now exchanging information and ideas directly with each other without needing information gatekeepers like traditional media or paid advertisers or anything like that! The future is gonna be a utopia where the powerful will be challenged at every turn!

2026: a significant percentage of “user generated content” is generated either by AI or people who are being paid to do so for commercial or political reasons… I suppose those are “users” too…

why, humanity, why??? ;____;

at least https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22780466/why-cant-my-program-compile-under-windows-7-in-french was actually funny

???

At my job I don’t. I once used it for some open source code where I implemented a fairly complex one line formula; I did eventually figure out the problem and don’t remember how helpful the AI’s suggestions were.

On that other question you raise, here is the FSF’s position: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ClickThrough

No. I explained the same thing a few days ago at https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55176429/24029241 without remembering anything you ever wrote.

PL/SQL needs to be compiled, there can be compilation errors when you create a function or procedure on an Oracle DB. Doing that is part of my current job, so I definitely know what I’m talking about.

That is one option. I myself use VSCodium (vim mode <3) for all my text editing; if you want to avoid that, there is also Kate.