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  • Weird that Apple has renamed OS X to Mac OS, my first thought opening the link to statcounter was NO WAY 8+% use an OS that was discontinued 25 years ago.

    WTF Apple?

    Opening Wikipedia it says Mac OS was introduced in 2001!?!?!!??
    WTF? That’s the year it was discontinued!!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

    macOS (previously OS X and originally Mac OS X

    Mac OS X succeeded the classic Mac OS, the primary Macintosh operating system from 1984 to 2001.

    For fucks sake! No it’s not “classic Mac OS”, it’s Mac OS. It was never named classic. Just because Apple fucks up doesn’t change the name of the original Mac OS.
    And no OS X did not maintain the same version number for decades. It was introduced as OS X 1.0, 10 is not a version number, it’s part of the name like with OS/2 where the number is also not a version number but is part of the name, and describes something completely different, namely that it was meant as the default OS for IBM PS/2 computers.

    Sorry for the rant, but the stupidity of Apple removing the X from the name and not distinguishing properly between the original Mac OS and the new macOS is just such a piss poor decision IMO.
    For instance Mac OS does not have multitasking! But macOS does.





  • Considering spending on military adds zero value to society, Russian society already had negative real GDP last year.
    Meaning the civil economy to lift the military spending was already declining last year, and the ability for Russia to keep military spending high has been constantly declining for a while now.
    The Russian government is currently at wild over-expenditure, and the Russian economy has shown no interest in buying federal bonds despite 4 recent attempts to sell them! Giving the Russian government few options to finance the spending, other than increasing taxes further.
    The amount of economic gymnastics the Russian federal government has performed the past few years is astonishing, probably worthy of a gold medal in international economics, but the tricks have been exhausted, and every segment of the Russian economy is drained to near bankruptcy, and some of them even beyond, but bankruptcies have been avoided because Putin has made it illegal to declare companies of key industries bankrupt!!
    But Putin insists on keeping the military spending way above what Russia can afford, just like the Soviet Union did to compete with USA. And just like last time, we are seeing Russia go bankrupt and collapse as a society exactly like the Soviet Union did.






  • WTF? As the text says:
    Fedorov is the brains behind a huge part of the success Ukraine is currently enjoying!
    He was key in getting SpaceX to shut down Starlink for the Russians in Ukraine, and he was behind the massive purchasing of drones that is now turning the war to Ukraine’s advantage. And the strategy to award successful drone pilots with more drones.

    Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi; critics say that without a military background he is not qualified to plan a war

    Again WTF he did better than any general in the Ukrainian military has done!
    I really really hope Ukraine is doing the right thing, but I suspect not.

    Edit:
    After reading the entire article, it seems pretty clear that this is an insanely stupid decision. In 6 months Fedorov has been behind no less than 20 successful strategies against Russia. with the above mentioned being only 2 of them!!
    All because a general is pissed that Fedorov wants to modernize some of the old post Russian structures, and make them NATO like, in part to prevent corruption!!

    Goddammit!? 😬

    Edit2:
    I don’t get the downvotes? If you think I’m wrong watch this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcDH-tKV_o8

    Apparently there are also already protests against it?!