What's the risk? You own the code, and you aren't pre-committed to updating to any new versions in the future. You can just take it and use it on your own forever. Many people do. What's their risk?
WordPress 3.7, which introduced automatic updates, received security backports all the way to 3.7.41. From 2013 to 2022. 4.1 and above are all still receiving them.
Doesn't WordPress officially only support the two latest minor version release though ? I can't find an official source at the moment but a quick googling seems to confirm that.
> The only current officially supported version is the last major release of WordPress. Previous major releases before this may or may not get security updates as serious exploits are discovered.
> …
> Security updates will be backported to older releases when possible, but there are no guarantee and no timeframe for older releases. There are no fixed period of support nor Long Term Support (LTS) version such as Ubuntu’s. None of these are safe to use, except the latest series, which is actively maintained.
Tunisians all over the world are rejoicing haha. I don’t know if he considers himself to be Tunisian, but we’re all extremely proud of him nonetheless!
The problem is actually much worse for topical drugs, where there is often very little information as to the how, where, when, and how much of drug permeation through the skin. It’s a huge gap in our understanding not just for brand name drugs but for generics as well.
> You’re in a train station, you’re not part of it.
Thank you for posting this. This captures something that I had trouble putting into words.
As someone who started using Reddit back in 2006 pre-Digg migration, this is probably one the best explanations of the immense loss I have felt in experiencing Reddit change over the past decade and a half. All the parts I enjoyed were pushed to the periphery, and while you could still find "villages" there, the bulk of the experience was "just passing through". This isn't a "get off my lawn" sentiment, it's about what value you place on the places you inhabit, whether in person or online. Whether I kept returning to Reddit out of habit or because I was still looking for that old experience almost doesn't matter, because it's not there anymore.
As someone who was on reddit for about as long, I miss that. But I wonder if it's really reddit I miss, or the naive web we had back then, that allowed people to get excited? Back when everything was not engineered specifically to grab the most attention, I felt more like we were actually communicating. Nowadays we're just collectively filtering noise it seems.
I miss the long posts that explain a thoughtful, technical, essay on a subject. I vaguely remember from the ~2010s internet reading some very informative posts on bulletin boards and reddit.
Mostly gaming stuff, but there was some great work on math, science, and DIY. Today even the "Reddit gold" posts are garbage by the standards of those days.
Once phones became the default device for browsing and commenting on Reddit, comments began to grow shorter. (Some people might claim they can type on their phone just as comfortably as on a keyboard, but this clearly isn’t the case society-wide.)
The sad thing is that even if you are using an actual keyboard and type well, you look like a weirdo on Reddit today if you type longform text. I have seen someone posting merely a couple of solid paragraphs get reactions like “LOL wall of text bro”.
The average person’s use of a phone today is also one reason why it’s not easy for PhpBB-style communities to make a comeback.
> The sad thing is that even if you are using an actual keyboard and type well, you look like a weirdo on Reddit today if you type longform text.
I still do this on occasion if I think what I have to type is worth reading. But usually when I do, I include a tl;dr to act as a hook/summary to get my main point across.
I remember a lot of similar thoughts and remarks at the time about the Internet ca. 2000, so I feel like maybe people are just getting older. When people dig up old Something Awful posts from 2002 they aren't as funny or engaging as I remember but I was a kid when I first saw them so they isn't surprising.
I remember taking part in an early Reddit gift exchange. People were gifting members in need computer monitors and and pizza. There was the jackdraw facts biologist guy. The website definitely felt smaller back then. It was toxic, but still cozy.
> In July 2014, Eisenkop's Unidan account was banned from Reddit for using alternate (or "sockpuppet") accounts. The accounts were used to upvote his own submissions and downvote submissions made by other users that were posted around the same time and were potentially attracting attention away from his own.
A community that can support a secret Santa and not have it devolve into a shitfit of scamming and backbiting is still a village. Once it’s bigger than that, it starts to fall apart.
In some ways Reddit is like the club. In your 20s you're meeting all these new people and the interaction feels amazing. In your 40s, you're still meeting all these new people, but you are bored of it and just want to go home to bed.
I realize your probably leaning towards "naive web", but I think it might actually be reddit you miss, or at least the club that you identified as reddit. I say this because I felt the same 10 years before that about watching the decline of usenet. Or irc. Or metafilter. Or niche sites that I can't even recall the names of. It's not just "kids these days" ruining a more innocent time, but the feeling of being in a community with a shared ethos that's eroding as the community's values change.
The first time I saw this happen was clear back in 1997 with an IRC system called "Talk City". It was a dot-com startup that grew out of the incredibly vibrant, close-knit chat-room community which developed on Apple's short-lived "eWorld" service, carrying forward most of its people and culture... right up until the company signed a couple of big money-making deals, one with WebTV and the other with some ISP in India, connecting their customers to Talk City's network.
It was amazing to watch, in a kind of natural-disaster way, as hordes of strangers showed up practically overnight - far too quickly to be assimilated - and the whole social fabric dissolved. A community I had spent at least an hour a day on for several years simply disappeared under the flood.
I was in the world record secret Santa and it was the funnest coolest thing ever (they sent me my world record letter even!)
Pre-subreddits, it felt very similar to HN (which they ofc have the same birthplace) and the real gold was in the comments, which made it stand out from all others and made it less about you and more about us.
When subreddits started it was totally game changing and from there on it was great.
The Condé Nast thing was weird but it didn’t really change anything, but slowly it felt like it was trying to always “grow up” but never figured out that it didn’t need to
All this nonsense going public is expected but it’s sad and another victim of late stage thunderdome capitalism.
It hasn't been there for many many years. I loved how open and free it was. Everyone really had a place there and you could read and interact with every idea, viewpoint, etc. Then as it got popular, it got corporatized, politicized, etc. Journalists attacked it to make reddit align with their version of hell. Corporations attacked it to make it more amenable to foreign markets. Political actors attacked it to further their political interests. It became an insufferable propaganda shithole. Movies, music, sports, nfl, etc subs used to be interesting places for discussion. Then it became publicity platforms for movie and music studios, sports teams, etc. News subs used to be interesting places for open discussions. Then journalists got their meat hooks into it and now they are state propaganda. Even political subs used to be diverse places for political discussion. Now they are purely political propaganda probably run by political parties.
But I guess that's the way it is with all social media. Once it gets popular, the corporate, news and state entities want control over it. Now, most major subs are just advertising platforms. Which is ironic since most of the subs ( news, movies, politics, etc ) started as a reaction against advertisements masquerading as news articles, movie reviews, sports commentary, political commentary, etc. Money/power ultimately won and reddit became what it hated.
>Journalists attacked it to make reddit align with their version of hell
I mean yea, you see it that way because you grew up with small reddit. But by the time journalist's were on to it, that small reddit was dead and a much larger city existed with all its dark and danger filled corners. Even by that time reddit was bleeding money fast and was looking for further investor handouts to survive.
Reddit never wanted to be small. This was always set to happen. I think you just have too thick of lenses in your rose colored glasses to see that.
I made the same move a few years ago and honestly never looked back. Manjaro might have its warts, but it works really well, has an active community, and gives almost all the advantages of Arch (the AUR is amazing!) for "cowards" like me. Manjaro "just worked" and it has been extremely easy to roll with the updates since install. I have since migrated other machines to Manjaro happily.
Every time I end up on the Ubuntu machine: "sudo apt install somet<tab><tab>" nothing. Urgh. Off I go to Google "install <package> Ubuntu" and visit some third party website for a .deb.
If I wanted to circumvent the packaging system by default, I'd use Windows.
Our realities must be very different; I have never had to side-load a .deb. I honestly didn't even consider that tab-completion on apt might be a thing; I usually search with grep for what I want, but I've never not had something be there.
Proper Binary Chrome (not Chromium), Minecraft, MS Edge, and I'm sure there was something else I needed to install recently where I needed to download a .deb and run "sudo dpkg -i <thing>"
Okay, I don't *need* to install Minecraft, but I like it.
Yes, Edge works just great on Linux, probably better than it does on Windows.
I am not a typical Linux user. I have been doing weird and unsupported shit with it since kernel 0.93 and I know what I'm getting into before I unscrew the lid.
This is very exciting to see. I invested in several System76 machines for my team, and have been extremely happy with the computers and distribution. Coming to Pop_OS! from Ubuntu has been wonderful - systems upgrade properly, external devices work, and my team is productive. It reminds me of when I first started to use Mac OS X - things just work. The current Gnome/COSMIC is slick and I am looking forward to using their new COSMIC DE when it comes out.
I set up Linux on a Dell XPS 13 with the HiDPI screen. With both Ubuntu and Manjaro it was relatively painless, especially using GNOME via Wayland. i3 and sway also worked well too. I had heard a lot of issues with Linux and HiDPI, and was worried I would have to return/swap for a FHD screen, but everything has worked almost flawlessly.
I have used a 4k screen for several years now without any issues on GNOME with 200% scaling.
However, I recently bought a ThinkPad T14 with a 1080p screen. With 100% scaling, the fonts and widgets are too small. The ideal scaling seems to be 125% or 150%. GNOME has experimental support for fractional scaling. This works generally ok for Wayland applications, but windows of X11 applications are incredibly blurry both on the laptop display with 150% scaling and the external screen with 200% screen. I think they are rendered at 100% and then scaled up. There are various workarounds for X11 applications, but it seems that e.g. none of the workaround really works with e.g. JetBrains IDEs (there are some bug reports about it).
Windows 10, on the other hand, handles fractional scaling and per-screen scaling just fine. It's frustrating, because I highly prefer GNOME and Linux and if all applications supported Wayland, there wouldn't be any major problems.
I have a similar problem with a QHD screen that I want 150% scaling. The worst part is that using the experimental scaling is it seems to consume a lot more cpu usage and thus power on my laptop.
14" WQHD would have the same problem, you would just switch 125% to 150%.
The ideal would be 3200x2000, but sadly, nobody sells such laptops anymore. Everyone jumps from WQHD to 4k. With 4k, you have exactly the same problem, except for 125% you need 250%.
In Windows, large fonts is basically 125% (120 dpi, vs the base 96 dpi, double for @2X HiDPI), except it enlarges only fonts and pushes dialog controls around, but doesn't touch raster assets. It is something that was part of Windows since '90s, but in many applications, it newer worked right, because the developers never knew about the option and newer tested it (looking at most Delphi developers here).
Changing scaling to 125% (since Windows 8 and 10) changes both font sizes, grid calculations in windows controls and bitmaps; the subtle brokenness of some apps disappears, just to be replaced by another set of subtle brokeness. However, the good news is, that the chance of developers testing in this mode is higher than them testing Large fonts.
I also have 1080p 14" laptop somewhere; at 100%/dpi the display is too tiny, at 125% it is great. I also used to have 1600x900 14" laptop (T430s) - that one, at 100% was perfect (except it was an TN display, which was different downside). Prior to that, 1440x900 (T400) - that one was a bit too large.
Its because everyone having issues is using X and likely 2 monitors with different dpis. On wayland its pretty much flawless unless you use 2 monitors at different scales and load an X application.
> unless you use 2 monitors at different scales and load an X application
Agree 100%, this is the only issue I ran into using Wayland (Sway) with different DPI monitors.
I only want to stress that the impact of this issue is very limited—at least for me. Most of the apps that I use run natively on Wayland and scale perfectly: Firefox (with some extra setup), Telegram Desktop, Alacritty, all GTK and KDE apps.
The apps that do get blurry are the ones that are made by big companies for which Linux experience is not the first priority (thus they don't care about native Wayland support). Zoom, Chromium, Google Earth, Discord, Steam, Skype. I don't use them much, and when I do I try to keep them on my big (non-scaled) monitor, and it works fine.
The xps 13 with 4k is gorgeous. Pair it with an external 4k and everything is seemless. If you go 1080 or whatever for the external monitor it becomes a pain to switch resolutions and scaling. I briefly had to do that and had a script to adjust things but pycharm for instance needed to be restarted
Once I upgraded to a 4k it's a great setup. I actually have dual 4k monitors now and that xps can handle it easily. No software issues either. The most I've had to do was adjust the zoo launcher to be hidpi
My only issue is that my mid sized 4k screen is a but clunky at 2x UI scaling but otherwise I don't have an issue until I plug into a standard Monitor when 2x scaling is ridiculous.
But I find 1x scaling to be too small to enjoy on the QHD screen. Multiple integer scale factors are possible but it is a bit complex and when I did it machine was prone to crash...
I'm using linux mint with fractional scaling on just one of my displays. (The other display is just 1:1). Everything seems to just work fine.
Well, except for an outstanding bug where after I log in, I get a duplicate, stationary mouse cursor appearing somewhere on the screen that just hovers over any open windows. Its annoying and weird.
I agree. In the last ten years I have had Macbooks, a Surface tablet, a Surfacebook, and am now on a XPS 13. I found that Microsoft's surfaces had great build quality, IMHO on par or better than the Apple laptops. Like the author of the article, though, what did them in was Windows. I switched to an XPS developer edition and have not looked back. Don't get me wrong - macos is pretty, but Linux makes coding and data science easy. I also ended up using PopOS, which I found to give an extremely good user experience. Perhaps I am too much of an old school 90's Linux guy, but I still find having a single repo system for 99% of my needed software amazing. I don't think I'll ever get tired of apt-get.
I should have mentioned I was trying to dual boot too. And Windows doesn’t like the flat out change. You need to change the settings in windows before changing the bios. Something I didn’t need to do on my Lenovo.
