Make sure you haven’t accidentally left Mullvad’s “kill switch” turned on.

It usually works, but it takes a few minutes to reprocess the files if your project or solution is big.

In the JetBrains IDEs (which, relatively speaking, I like), I have to use “Invalidate caches and restart” several times a day just to get past all the incorrect error highlighting.

You should refer to Visual Studio by its full title: “Visual Studio (not responding)”.

Microsoft always has 20 variants of the same name for maximal confusion. It’s deep in their culture.

That sounds good, but when you start thinking about how to implement this practically, it seems like it would either be unfeasible or would fail to really address the problem.

Maybe the rule would be: Unicode is allowed only in resource files. It would make code comments awkward for many non-English-speaking programmers. But suppose you did it, then since URLs can include Unicode, it would become normal to put URLs in resource files. If the VCS flagged up Unicode commits in source code, it would have to give resource files a pass. So in any case where you’re not hardcoding a URL it wouldn’t flag up Unicode URL abuses like the one illustrated here. You wouldn’t really have fixed the problem, just hidden it in a different way. You’d still need to flag up ambiguous Unicode characters in resource files.

Surprising to see the NYT reporting on this, since they’ve usually been on board with such crushing.

Debian and Mandrake in the late 1990s. And I was already almost three times as old as you were when you started. These days I’m happy with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for daily use. I tried NixOS but it threatened to break my old brain.

Columbia University is really showing its true colors these days, and it’s on the wrong side of history.

The Catholic Church may be corrupt and reactionary and have friendships with fascists in its past, but right now it’s less extreme and less fascist than MAGA.

I searched around for this and the one on the right was described in a few places as “heavily photoshopped”. She may look a bit odd after all the plastic surgery, but as far as I could see she doesn’t usually look quite this odd.

When you start calling every leader of the Catholic Church a Marxist, you’ve seriously lost the plot. The American right is ridiculous.

Bigotry is the only thing they seem to want tolerance of.

This could easily turn into another avenue for oppression. “Desginate x a mental illness and treat it” doesn’t necessarily turn out any better than “Put all the practitioners of x in the gulag.” So really you need to focus on overthrowing the authoritarians who want to oppress people.

By Nazi standards, conservatives are too far left.

And this chaotic regime expects other countries to do deals with them.

The focus on Microsoft is odd. I remember most people using WordPerfect for DOS and other non-WYSIWYG word processors up until around 1993. These were much better for focusing on writing. MS Word came from behind and started to take over as Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95 became standard. Word wasn’t the best word processor back then and was very buggy, but Microsoft succeeded in marketing it as a natural companion for Windows and bundling it with Excel and PowerPoint, and WordPerfect was slower to move to WYSIWYG.

The rise of the web was also happening at that time, and this article doesn’t give it enough attention as a major influence on document format and a motivation behind markdown.

Especially when the US Government changes its mind about tariffs every few minutes. No one can plan major infrastructure changes around that.

If you replace “Trumpism” with “fascism”, it has clearly been on the rise all around the world for a decade or so now, and it’s taking over more and more countries all the time. However it’s far from clear that we’ve reached any kind of turning point where fascism starts to become less popular worldwide, just because of some fairly limp election results in Canada and Australia.