That doesn’t make the source code proprietary or non-open, it just means it isn’t a community driven project.

Slackware is still around, no past tense. What makes you think it was closed source?

You are correct, I should have said there was an atomic clock out the window that the walker looked out at.

https://www.quora.com/What-if-you-walk-forward-on-a-ship-moving-at-light-speed#%3A~%3Atext=You+would+experience+nothing.%2Cof+travel+wouldn't+exist.

Because of relativistic effects, from your point of view on the train you would just walk forward. But you would notice a strange effect while the trains were accelerating: your atomically synchronized wristwatch the clock you can see out the window has slowed down and stopped counting time. So it seems that your journey to the front of the train takes no time at all.

From someone standing on the side of the tracks catching a glimpse of you and the train as you whizz by, the front of the train is moving at light speed. You’re at the back of the train completely frozen still, unable to move forward because the front of the train is moving away at light speed.

Weird things happen when you’re talking about the limits of physical reality.

Sound is air vibration

Sound is not exclusive to air, it can be generalized to vibrations in any media. Whale song and dolphin echolocation are certainly sounds, and we’re almost always talking about them propagating in water rather than air.

which has to travel from one place to the next

No, that isn’t how sound works. In air this would be a description of wind, not sound.

just transfer kinetic energy to the adjacenct atom

This is actually a good description of how sound waves propagate.

That’s not what “insider trading” means, not even a little bit.

Lying and stealing

Back in 2009-2010 I bought an entry level 13" MacBook Pro because it was fairly competitively priced compared to other options with similar specs, but the MBP had by far the better battery life, display quality, touchpad, and probably keyboard. It was easily worth the upcharge for those factors, so no real Apple Tax.

It’s pretty niche, but https://alternativess.com (sport archery retailer)

It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.

Yup, the arugula/balsamic combo is the same way I’ve enjoyed pear pizza. Delicious.

Pear works well on white pizza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

I’m honestly surprised they made 10,000 sales.

People decide who to hire for what roles and who to lay off. People form unions and people bust unions. The shareholders are people, and the decisions made in their interests are made by other people.

When was the last time you saw a corporation making decisions and taking actions of its own accord, without people?

Maybe they will start to, now, as people delegate their responsibilities to “AI”

AI on its own isn’t a threat, but people (mis)using and misrepresenting AI are. That isn’t a problem unique to AI but there sure are a lot of people doing dumb and bad things with AI right now.

You can check the release notes to be sure, but generally you can just perform the update and move on with life. Backing up your data is always a smart precaution.

Generate the binaries during test execution from known (version controlled) inputs, plaintext files and things. Don’t check binaries into source control, especially not intentionally corrupt ones that other maintainers and observers don’t know what they may contain.

You can use it for normal applications that aren’t sort of “system components” like a VPN. So if you want to install some office/productivity software, or a web browser, or a music/video player, then a Flatpak would be a reasonable choice. For most of those cases you would probably still choose the RPM if it is available, but Flatpak is also fine if not.