It’s at this moment, Little Billy recognized his ideas aligned more with that of the long-time foe, than with those he had considered allies.

Good. He can stay out.

Sure! It won’t comply, though.

The Windows 10 equivalent, Timeline, got discontinued in 2021. At this point in time it is unknown whether Microsoft will retrofit Recall into Windows 10. Knowing Microsoft it is safe to assume they’ll try anything for profit.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

Seconded: CryptPad and Obsidian.

I like CryptPad by Framasoft, for big stuff.

Microsoft has a history of doing so, both with Minecraft customers and others. They just don’t care.

Some web applications force me to open their screens in separate tabs and windows, by making the screens remove any filtering on revisit by back button. And thus I have 20 tabs open that all start with the same meaningless word.

“Could”.

Indeed. I’m not totally oblivious. Luckily I have learned a few phrases and figures of speech. But it seems I had a way harder time learning those than my school mates who weren’t on the spectrum.

Right! I totally missed that! Why is Jalopnik advertising for the Post?

I took that AQ-10 test, and also pondered this particular question. No, I suck at reading between the lines. Give it to me straight, please. No beating around no bush.

Figures of speech pose an equal problem: I may just lack the cultural awareness that allistic people enjoy, but it’s rare for me to understand a common phrase, and more often than not I’ll invent a completely new one.

Reading between lines: do allistic people do that? How? Is it some skill I can learn?

Thank you! As I’m learning more about my own autism, I’m quite willing to share experiences.

No, they aren’t. You can switch to their Universe patches anytime, at your own risk. If you want Canonical to mitigate that risk for you, you pay. Simple, really.

The Post? Really? Half of that article is an ad for the Post itself!

All the good things Records bring are stifled by JPA and DAO conventions and requirements. I really hate JPA for that reason, and have avoided Hibernate in favor of my own DAO implementations.

Records will slash thousands of lines of code from my implementation and will make it infinitely easier to maintain, and trust down-stream.

From the perspective of maintenance and technical debt: yes, you do want your code to be as clear as possible. But some languages, like assembler and mindfuck, simply weren’t designed to be semantically expressive. Assembler clearly states what is happening but not why. And mindfuck is created to be as hard to parse by humans as possible. Without a description of why things exist or what they should be doing, you’re going to have a bad time.

With some of my smaller clients, the CIO is the same as the CTO and the same as the IT Director. There, IT is developers, too.

Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they’d create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.