In time it may become a trade-off between new (with associated features and speed) Vs tried and tested/secure.
To us now this sounds perverse, but remember that NASA generally use very old hardware because they can be more certain the various bugs & features have been found and documented. In NASA’s case this is for reliability. I’ll concede ‘brute force’ does add another dimension when applying this logic to security.

This may also become an AI arms race. Finding exploits is likely something AI could become very good at - but a better AI seeking to obfuscate?

How long until US bans code from developers with ties to CN/RU?

That won’t happen because it would effectively mean banning all FOS which isn’t remotely practical.

Some people use apps which hide posts they have interacted with. A downvote counts as interaction so people in turn then liberally downvote nearly everything. Yes it’s unhelpful and dumb. Solution, use kbin and at least you can see who downvoted you! (Except I don’t think downvotes are federated).

No Mint pretty much just works.
Great thing about Mint (or most Linux distros) is that you can try it by booting from a usb stick - see if you like it that way.

Not even sure it’s EEE, they just clone and provide the clone of a good product for free and/or as part of windows.
Their products are usually only second best, but kill the market leader anyway.

Actually… Reddit was open source until 2017.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
But the rest of your comment still stands.

There are already plenty of audio hats available, indeed they are recommended for better quality sound.

What kind of a pro is taking photos using an iPhone?

It could get interesting with right to repair, that probably includes the right to load custom firmware…

Not sure, it just taught me to write really efficient code!

Sales tax is the most obvious example of adding to the cost I’ve been shown, but it’s everything. Here if there is a price on something that is the price you pay. Period.
If I have €5 and the price on the shelf is €4.90 we are all good, and I don’t even need to know what country I’m in!

But is is more than that, if I take my car in to be fixed, they have to agree every cost they want to charge me in advance at no point can anything cost me more than I expected and agreed to up front.
Airline tickets, theatre tickets, hospital bills, TV ads, you name it, the price they state or advertise is what I pay, no ifs-no buts.

As a European I’ll never cease to find it mind blowing that it is normal for a Americans that the cost to them of damn near everything is more than the cost initially shown to them.

Indeed, and for me giving me a rough framework to modify is hugely useful and time saving. As the commenter above said it’s a tool, it’s not a team member.

Have you tried asking ChatGPT or Bard to write you code to do something? It is actually remarkably good at it.
That and being an alternative to a thesaurus is about all I use LLMs for.

Neither very much. Python won’t change. Excel when running in the cloud will become more powerful, but the workbooks using Python will also be incompatible with desktop versions of Excel. At least that’s what I’m understanding so far.

And the chromium open source project while they are at it…

Except at it’s core chromium is open source, and I can’t see the FOSS community embracing the idea. The French also wouldn’t be able to fully limit access to unrestricted browsers.

It’s an all round dumb idea. Much easier and more effective to tell ISPs to do the blocking.

You can already send images as an attachment and it doesn’t compress or change the file in anyway.

No. You might see a Mastodon user if they reply to a comment, but even that way round is not easy to do.
Kbin makes it easier to access Mastodon content while still having access to Lemmy content too… But to discover Mastodon content you are probably best making a true Mastodon account.

You’ll find different parts of the fediverse have a different focus and feel with varying levels of compatibility depending how much the core focus overlaps.

I’ve found the trick or to follow hashtags rather than people. But it’s a balancing act, sometimes you’ll find your stream gets flooded with one topic so you need to refine what you are following.