And that’s why Windows is dropping support for 3rd party print drivers; they’re shitty and unnecessary

Just for the record, ad blockers will still exist despite the changes: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/x967w5/ubo_minus_mv3/

You’re free to spend your money however you wish, but buying a whole bundle and being OK with not being able to play any game in it? If you would wait for the 10 years until it actually becomes playable you’ll probably be able to get it for even less than $20.

You do you, but I personally don’t advise people buy something until it’s actually working. “Sit on this for 10 years and maybe then you’ll get what you paid for” is bad advice.

As the other guy pointed out that’s a little silly from an economics standpoint. Games depreciate quickly so it’s going to be cheaper to wait until someone confirms Linux support.

Also, buying something in hopes of it one day getting the support you want? That’s just crazy! Don’t buy something until it fits all your needs.

Gorhill already has an MV3 version of ublock. Why is no one aware of this!?

Yes but this is local to your browser and you’ll be able to edit and/or clear it out if you choose.

It’s not perfect, and I’m aware of which community this is, but this is vastly better than 3rd party cookies.

How often does that happen though? Usually these games get a couple updates early on to fix major bugs, and once it’s stable it’s never touched again.

On the Mac side it’s been a real sad story because so many old 32bit and/or x86 games simply can’t run anymore.

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Lemmy is a link aggregator. Yes it can serve a lot of (if not all) the functions of a forum but it’s not designed to be a drop-in replacement for something like Discuss or phpBB. It’s different enough that I feel like calling it a forum is not the right term.

One would hope that IBM’s selling a product that has a higher success rate than a coinflip, but the real question is long-term project cost. Given the example of a $700 million dollar project, how much does AI need to convert successfully before it pays for itself? If we end up with 20% of the original project successfully done by AI, that’s massive savings.

The software’s only going to get better, and in spite of how lucrative a COBOL career is, we don’t exactly see a sharp increase in COBOL devs coming out of schools. We either start coming up with viable ways to move on from this language or we admit it’s too essential to ever be forgotten and mandate every CompSci student learn it before graduating.

There is safari too, of course, but it hardly compares to either in it’s current state

Curious to hear you elaborate on this. It’s the #2 browser by marketshare and Apple, while slower in the past, seems to be hearing developer feedback and catching up to what we’re asking.

The turning point will be when companies/websites start spinning up their own Lemmy instances as their official one to replace their forums, which I think will happen.

I don’t know if this is going to happen, and to be honest I hope it doesn’t. Lemmy is not designed to be a forum and shouldn’t try to be used as a replacement for one.

And in this case they’re not doing that:

“IBM built the Code Assistant for IBM Z to be able to mix and match COBOL and Java services,” Puri said. “If the ‘understand’ and ‘refactor’ capabilities of the system recommend that a given sub-service of the application needs to stay in COBOL, it’ll be kept that way, and the other sub-services will be transformed into Java.”

So you might feed it your COBOL code and find it only coverts 40%.

The problem is it’ll convert 100% of the code base

Please go read the article. They specifically say they aren’t doing this.

It’s not inherently bad, I don’t even disagree with it. It’s just that (A) we all get it, enough already and (B) the open web is about letting people use whichever browser they want, so it’s kinda paradoxical that we all say we should all be using the same browser

“Big tech company bad, Twitter dead, Linux good”

Add Firefox in there and yes I’ve seen this everywhere. So many posts about browser news or the web that just devolves into a circlejerk about how great Firefox is.

All of that is mentioned in the article. Given how much it cost last time a company tried to convert from COBOL, don’t be surprised when you see more businesses opt for this cheaper path. Even if it only converts half of the codebase, that’s still a huge improvement.

Doing this manually is a tall order…

Converting ancient code to a more modern language seems like a great use for AI, in all honesty. Not a lot of COBOL devs out there but once it’s Java the amount of coders available to fix/improve whatever ChatGPT spits out jumps exponentially!

it never gets credit

Not that I disagree, but they get the exact amount of credit their licenses require… a small-text listing on a “credits” page buried deep in the system settings.