bluGill: "how is your family" $another-guy: oh, still dead after that train crash.
or
bluGill : "what do you do for work" $another-girl: why are you asking? Do you have a problem with that?
... fun conversations indeed.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to communicate.
I don’t have a problem with those questions. I do have a problem with getting bored at social events by boring boilerplate conversation, and I shared my strategy for having interesting conversations.
I’m happy to debate you if you clearly state a viewpoint.
"explained at lengths" ... do we need to care to read all of that when someone "summarised" it for us in poorely written post?
Also - correct me pls if I'm wrong – but I recall it was Oracle that gave OpenOffice to Apache foundation after its acquisition of Sun.
If these people kill LibreOffice, someone at MS Office365 will cork a champagne ... What a cluster!
At the time, Oracle wanted to completely drop OpenOffice.org, but there was a contract with IBM which could use the source code to produce their proprietary Symphony office suite. Because of this contact, Oracle was not able to drop OOo and had to follow IBM's request to give the source code to ASF to create Apache OpenOffice. IBM openly declared the intention to kill LibreOffice during a call with The Document Foundation Steering Committee on April 30, 2011. I was in the call, and I regret I did not record the call.
Eh, being a high profile security website, VPNs are where the harassing traffic comes from, and I'm sure there's no lack of it. VPN "security" is a bit of a joke because why would I trust some VPN provider any more than my ISP? Everything is HTTPS these days anyway.
> [...] why would I trust some VPN provider any more than my ISP [...]
Of course, whether or not to use a VPN always depends on the specifics. (threat model, circumstances, VPN provider, etc.)
I am with the biggest telecoms provider in Germany, and I trust them about as far as I can throw them.
They are known for censoring their DNS servers, being opaque about government requests, and creating artificial bottlenecks to extort money from companies in order to avoid throttling.
It works really well for "You're helpful assistant / Hi / Hello there. how may I help you today?" Anything else (esp in non-EN language) and you will see the limitations yourself. just try it.
Looking at downvotes I feel good about SDE future in 3-5 years. We will have a swamp of "vibe-experts" who won't be able to pay 100K a month to CC. Meanwhile, people who still remember how to code in Vim will (slowly) get back to pre-COVID TC levels.
What is CC and TC? I have not heard these abbreviations (except for CC to mean credit card or carbon copy, neither of which is what I think you mean here).
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