From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 27529 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2023 19:34:45 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 19 Jan 2023 19:34:45 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E504249A; Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:34:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-il1-f173.google.com (mail-il1-f173.google.com [209.85.166.173]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7EC0542499 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:34:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-il1-f173.google.com with SMTP id u8so1670773ilq.13 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:34:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=YWGmgPFr0I2J/+USdj1VHLezLU2ef5WiENP1cnNxCBU=; b=puBaiTnYfd4vtVmb3aZ5a2PxV71cDx3XRGthpcjNLNjayra/Kvj79tSkBOMt6n+T+T /wcU8fiHcutN1pnGEcNuvT1LMBPskzDlunyNSGoTXlPUg/0dYFhUHLtWhLBJ4T0oYyvX gk57Csrck1hWIBsoe6v+yEy+6cwu0c77QQKkhudHGe+c+5feLqYjqbRQxw77z3o5gUfl uEi84J0ic/m6HOS6IgNbBP35YO3EZYLzAI5zj+XCoWt76JZhIsmc9Q5rzTIjZobAkfNB 5vOz0Ur2qng43AKz3A46l7aoHtly9wkqS23+PtMTX3drphM5rREwOCK3iVWFeVXRAOlX MNTg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=YWGmgPFr0I2J/+USdj1VHLezLU2ef5WiENP1cnNxCBU=; b=UvXcCE3ekMivjGBNPqjL36t/vegLIcUoJMixsByYgzfUzpuEl1U4bnFYPgzBzhijEY rgdg8Cy3fLDRR+c4mUPxXLg83jgwwkVONZxr9mmlHC+HttnZAQ5zUmwyKXOSoMdb/9Z4 9iA2L5wtxKHu7ZL6vNATymZt6iU0Y++mbMihHqRU/Sbye3/tuxsMDASFQJrWucSUGaQH wgwA96V+jpLDV+5TyCUOaVayH2I9mdUDMPSAOxawEnE8kYMsCIdn0g6NhIfPO+7BKyyo 0Mjpuh21Q8B1EEO4yvlnx7OGBsnEP2etMfai7RB0prWfEipbpSsUTSVVmXPBSgHIwmr4 JUyg== X-Gm-Message-State: AFqh2kqAxKxSgKNIWQMKrUYO3gWC7nGuK11c5SBqGZUlVQ6dgEnuPiMG FDkQdJ5glGad8AEe+2wOkxM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMrXdXu0DNS83z9kk0JJH/mCiRtNEKk5MEabib+GH9mmly6AmIlWyeDsG567VXeDtFa4ezc6GA3WeA== X-Received: by 2002:a92:d8cd:0:b0:30b:b320:77e2 with SMTP id l13-20020a92d8cd000000b0030bb32077e2mr24897173ilo.24.1674156811808; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.5.0.2] ([185.255.130.86]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c16-20020a056e020cd000b0030f46602063sm365043ilj.2.2023.01.19.11.33.30 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:33:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:33:29 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1 Content-Language: en-US To: Bakul Shah , Dan Cross References: <202301180943.30I9hrOw030485@freefriends.org> <202301181513.30IFDDUJ015224@freefriends.org> <20230118151446.GD2964@mcvoy.com> <20230118161959.GE2964@mcvoy.com> <0882D9CA-FAC8-4EC6-BA82-CE1D457423E5@iitbombay.org> From: Will Senn In-Reply-To: <0882D9CA-FAC8-4EC6-BA82-CE1D457423E5@iitbombay.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: QQBGPZEEG7OIVIQUONMQSQOSPROEGJAE X-Message-ID-Hash: QQBGPZEEG7OIVIQUONMQSQOSPROEGJAE X-MailFrom: will.senn@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] The death of general purpose computers, was - AIX moved into maintainance mode List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 1/19/23 10:59 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: > I wonder if the era of general purpose computers will > survive. Provocative! I too wonder this and if the end of personalized computation is going the way of the dodo bird along with it. Is the future coming where I will only be allowed to run approved applications on my device (via something like an App store or somesuch)? I sure hope not, but it seems to be where we're headed. The good news being that those apps will be curated (not censored, right?) to just be good for me.