All around the world, people are celebrating Blue Screen of Death Day.
This year's festivities, proudly sponsored by Crowdstrike and Microsoft, kicked off in the wee hours of the morning -- people from all corners of the globe simply could not wait to ring in BSOD Day 2024!
Below are pictures -- from airports and offices... to Times Square -- of how people chose to comemorate the day.
ReactOS at 30 Years Old: Like Windows ME, Only Buggier
ReactOS, the open source attempt to build a Windows 2000 compatible system, turns 30. Which, coincidentally, his how many times it crashed on me in the last hour.
XFCE Spends Donations to Write New Wayland Compositor... in Rust
The XCE Desktop Environment plans to spend most of their donated funds to throw out their well tested X11 backend, in favor of a non-existent Wayland compositor written in Rust. Leftists cheer.
Gaming Linux Distro Bazzite Bans Key Dev for Unspecified CoC Violations
The core developer of one of the most critical components of Bazzite has been banned for secret "Code of Conduct violations" following a mob campaign accusing him of "transphobic slurs".
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
Am I psycho? I just installed Slackware and I'm really enjoying it. I used the Slackware Live to boot and install from which was a breath of fresh air. Text based installer asking questions that actually matter. Then the documentation is wonderful. It treats you like you aren't stupid but also explains why you're doing whatever you're doing so you can learn. Crazy thought, <sarcasm> teach a man to fish? How absurd. </sarcasm>
Anyways, the whole thing doesn't lock me into any choices for anything I may or may not want to use. Default state is, you decide. Heck, sudo isn't even enabled by default. (Sadly, I had to remember how we used to use Linux before sudo.)
I really, really like this. So if there is some political reason I shouldn't be using this, please, just keep your mouth shut.
Alright everyone, we're gearing up for this snow storm in the morning, so I wanted to get this one out before the fun begins. Thought this one might be right up the alleys for several of you graybeards. Enjoy!
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