Well, you can't directly, but you can use SMTP, which you can plug into any garden-variety spamming tool as long as it supports that.

Yup. Wait till our genius lawmakers figure that out! Then we'll have all software that can be used to do that job require registration and inspection to certify that it "won't print gun parts." Or maybe "all software" for good measure, in case any sneaky so-and-sos try to make an IRC client with a secret "slicing easter-egg." Better yet, all software of any kind has to be sold through an App Store so we can have Google, Microsoft and Apple gatekeep. That'll work. Gun problem solved.

Hearty agree. I think the PMs fall victim to wildly optimistic imagination of how fast and easy it will be to correct from “good enough to not get yelled at by CEO for not shipping by X date” to “works correctly and isn’t creating more bugs” - and importantly, it seems like they repeat this mistake every project, compounding the problem. So we perpetually have an increasing number of hacks, interacting with each other to cause difficult issues, all of which the PM says we will fix next sprint, just as soon as we ship one more Important Feature.

Not all orgs of course. But most I’ve personally seen, seem to be like this.

Apparently there’s a proper app launcher in PowerToys.

They did brand the Microsoft accounts themselves, from “Passport” to “.NET Passport” for a while. That was before they were “Windows Live IDs.”

I’m gonna be That Guy for a minute: if you enjoy using a Sudoku app, isn’t there one available on more acceptable terms, e.g. a single purchase or a IAP that removes the ads from this one? I’m not saying you have to pay like $3.99/week for a scam one, but more like pointing out that if you don’t like ads (as I also don’t) why not support the developers who believe in selling software to you for a few bucks rather than selling your annoyance to Google via Adsense?

Escaping and quoting isn’t really that hard

Yes and who needs Dropbox since for a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

Who cares if she can’t find her elderly father? A small price to pay to preserve the stratospheric prices on football TV rights!!!!

The thing is it doesn't protect anything. All it does is funnel money to VPN providers

It does something: the people who pay for the TV rights threaten the league or whoever if they don’t try to push for this type of BS. It’s not about whether it’s actually effective at stopping those who do pirate. It’s about placating whatever media conglomerate paid €XXX million for those TV rights.

The bit about dogs just gives me nightmares. I picture a few puffs of the dust from that dispersing in my kitchen during that experiment, and then every item then in the vicinity becoming a beacon for drug dogs for the rest of my life :D

Please consider your biases. Musk could not have “changed” the government if the DNC didn’t hand it to Trump on a platter. Republicans took over because serious people had had enough with the DNC’s full-throated embrace of two things: race-based selection (with the unpopular Harris’s undemocratic coronation as the flagship example), and the relentless focus on trans ideology (to the point anyone not endorsing the fullest embrace of that idea has been declared equivalent to the worst racist). Without that, Democrats would have remained a powerful and relevant party and Musk would have gotten nothing he wanted.