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[ChartBuddy]

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[d_eddie]

Hahaha, someone vibe coded all of Adobe's apps and open sourced it !!!

https://getartcraft.com/apps

Fork and download it before MicroSlop nixes it on git.

Hard to kill an open source project that's already out there. Github might be in the wrong hands, but other similar hubs are not. Here are a few: Codeberg, Forgejo (you can run your own server too. Tor might be inconvenient, but it does work. Good luck shutting THAT down), SourceHut, GitLab.

Besides, if it's just a look-and-feel matter, it's not guaranteed to stand up in court. At any rate, I think Adobe can sleep safely given the number of ensnared subscription customers that depend on specific UI arrangements or workflows. Try to convert a hardened Office user to anything Free (or Libre) and you'll see what I mean.

[Hueristic]

Hahaha, someone vibe coded all of Adobe's apps and open sourced it !!!

https://getartcraft.com/apps

Fork and download it before MicroSlop nixes it on git.

Hard to kill an open source project that's already out there. Github might be in the wrong hands, but other similar hubs are not. Here are a few: Codeberg, Forgejo (you can run your own server too. Tor might be inconvenient, but it does work. Good luck shutting THAT down), SourceHut, GitLab.

Besides, if it's just a look-and-feel matter, it's not guaranteed to stand up in court. At any rate, I think Adobe can sleep safely given the number of ensnared subscription customers that depend on specific UI arrangements or workflows. Try to convert a hardened Office user to anything Free (or Libre) and you'll see what I mean.

The amount of nix users still shackled to winblows because of adobe is astounding, we are going to see abode stock tank.

[OgNasty]

Well, I funded my trading bot right before the crash so it's performance isn't great at the moment and I've been bug fixing instead of focusing on the trading algorithm, but it is still performing pretty well given what just happened to the market.  If anyone wants to take a look...

DeFi Trading Bot + Dashboard: https://degen.nastycab.com/

I don't have any 4-year cycle programming in this and was mostly setup to see if I could do it successfully, but the trading algorithm will get better.  I am also about to run out of usage for the week so for the next 48 hours it probably won't update with new trades (or even be able to make them).  Not that this bot uses a lot, but building and bug fixing it did.  Enjoy!  Feedback/criticism allowed. 

[OutOfMemory]

The fact you pointed this out shows that you speak audio   Kudos.

I do speak music. Not an audio/studio geek really, but I'm kind of technically minded anyway, so I dig a few Hz and a sprinkle of ADSR on the side.

Audio is, for most people just something they experience mostly with their ears. It's a one dimensional experience for them.
It's a broader step to look at audio as the coloring of frequency, level and time, like you do (or me), i highly doubt that more than 20% of educated people are getting a foot in there.
If you think more in patterns than in linear ways, like me, your comment stands out. I thought it was worth mentioning, though i have to admit it's really hard to explain (i edited this reply about 10 times already without getting something down that even remotely nails it).

In other news:
I also just found the perfect mesh material (much like silk) but it isn't stretchable, so it's probably impossible to mount it wrinkle-free.
This is my blueprint on tomorrow's hunt for the right pantyhose.
...which sounds really wrong, somehow, doesn't it? 

[d_eddie]

I also just found the perfect mesh material (much like silk) but it isn't stretchable, so it's probably impossible to mount it wrinkle-free.

Not stretchable... wrinkles... Hmm I'm thinking that such a geometry may cause resonant frequencies up in the kHz range. That's not really significant for the human voice probably, but when you mentioned C414's I thought they are quite meh on an average singer's voice, and I instantly pictured overheads instead. In which case, such tiny ultra-high resonances might (might!) become significant. This is totally SOMA, of course.

This is my blueprint on tomorrow's hunt for the right pantyhose.
...which sounds really wrong, somehow, doesn't it?  

Pantyhose! Pantyhose! It's a classic for a reason!

What's wrong with it? Of course, proper stocking are, hmmm, better in some cases, but that doesn't include mic pop filters. On the other hand, reasonably thick pantyhose can work as a different kind of pop filter (much better than stockings, which are useless in that context, if not definitely dangerous), but I digress.

[vapourminer]

This is my blueprint on tomorrow's hunt for the right pantyhose.
...which sounds really wrong, somehow, doesn't it? 

Pantyhose! Pantyhose! It's a classic for a reason!

use as dryer vent filter

put rock salt into them and toss on roof for ice dams

mic pop filter

amaze amaze amaze

[ChartBuddy]

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[OutOfMemory]

I also just found the perfect mesh material (much like silk) but it isn't stretchable, so it's probably impossible to mount it wrinkle-free.

Not stretchable... wrinkles... Hmm I'm thinking that such a geometry may cause resonant frequencies up in the kHz range. That's not really significant for the human voice probably, but when you mentioned C414's I thought they are quite meh on an average singer's voice, and I instantly pictured overheads instead. In which case, such tiny ultra-high resonances might (might!) become significant. This is totally SOMA, of course.

This is my blueprint on tomorrow's hunt for the right pantyhose.
...which sounds really wrong, somehow, doesn't it?  

Pantyhose! Pantyhose! It's a classic for a reason!

What's wrong with it? Of course, proper stocking are, hmmm, better in some cases, but that doesn't include mic pop filters. On the other hand, reasonably thick pantyhose can work as a different kind of pop filter (much better than stockings, which are useless in that context, if not definitely dangerous), but I digress.

You're right with both.
I also wouldn't take the silky stuff, but a pantyhose with a similar, airy mesh. In other words: the more transparent kind. I am currently using a more opaque type of PH for the screens, because it's what i had at home. Of course this takes away more HF content, while the amount of blocked caught "plosive" bursts of air clearly overshoots.

EDIT: C414's are fine. Used them in my broadcasting years a lot, also for string instruments, and it's a good overall for vocals, but definitely no warmth to find while monitoring, but there was other outboard gear that compensated for that. Also the low noise made it possible to saturate and "warm up" signals through slight tape input stage overdrive.
A tube mic sounds less sterile/bright, but processing the signal brings up the relatively high noise floor, and the (un-)consistency of the tube coloring is a different story.
414's were also good for bringing speakers more upfront in commercials, combined with proximity, a good pop shield and the right compression dialed in. Males always sounded better with them than females, imo. Females are generally tube candidates.

EDIT: That last sentence of mine sounds wrong somehow, again 


  

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation
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[JayJuanGee]

When 74k?
Better yet
When 59k?

If we hit 59k my cold card panic sale at 63k is savable.
At this point 57k or 91k is what I am looking for.

I would say getting below $70k would be quite surprising - even though I am not saying that it would be impossible to get that low.. even though it seems quite a bit of a fantasy to be assigning anything higher that 5% odds to something even lower, such as lower $60k or upper $50ks.

Many of you likely recall that since mostly 2015, I have been selling BTC within what I consider to be a price-based sustainable withdrawal system on the way up and buying with proceeds from the sales, to the extent that they exist, on the way down, so largely there is a kind of arguable downside insurance based-in to what I consider that I am doing, and in the early days those BTC sales on the way up were likely in the ballpark of 10-12% for every doubling (which seems large as fuck, right now), yet in recent times the sales on the way up have seemed to have come out to more like 3-4% for every doubling.. so yeah, I have already recognized my own practice to be ongoingly selling way too little bitcoin on the way up, which ongoingly remain psychological blockers for me...

...and yeah, I agree that a couple post back in this here famous thread, I was ragging (a wee bit) on AlcoHoDL's seemingly anti-selling statement (contained within a riddle) while at the same time my own being guilty (is it called being hypocritical?) of a similar kind of mental (and/or action) framework - namely my own ongoing reluctance to sell in meaningfully decent amounts of cornz, even though I have been ongoingly claiming that guys can get to stages of their bitcoin journey in which they have "enough" or "more than enough" bitcoin..^**

**By the way, here is a little more of a tangent.  In late-ish 2022, I did start to incorporate some variation of time-based sustainable withdrawal too. .. that contributes to my ongoingly selling of more bitcoin, in a kind of forced way - even though ONLY a relatively small portion of my total bitcoin holdings falls into that time-based sustainable withdrawal categorization... .arguably around 20% depending on how it is counted.

Ok. Back to the recent BTC price actions that inspired me to want to put together this here post.

I have been looking at our current BTC price correction of the last day or two (to the extent that we might characterize recent BTC price movements as a correction rather than a pausening in the UPpity), and sure in the past 2.5-ish weeks there had been two tests of the mid-$87ks, and I structure my BTC sell orders in such ways that I am supposed to not give much of a ratt's ass in regards to if BTC prices go up, down or sideways, which would also imply that I should not be giving too many shits whether sell orders fill and/or buy back orders end up filling.

At the same time, several times, I have mentioned that I get irritated if the BTC prices come within a relatively small amount (perhaps $100 or $200?) from my BTC order prices and then fail to execute before reversing into the other direction.. and yeah that is the case with me in the mid-$87ks and it is also true for me in slightly higher than $80k, so I have a current spread between my buy/sell orders that is slightly higher than $7k, yet my current increments are in the ballpark of $3k, so once the bitcoin buy/sell orders hit if the BTC price keeps going in the same direction, then the increments would be right around $3k before the next order would trigger, yet if BTC price reverses direction, the current spread is in the ballpark of $7.5k-ish...   The maximum spread comes when the BTC order is "almost" filled buy not quite filled, so currently there is a maximum of $7.5k-ish to play with when the price reverses directions.

so yeah.. 2.5 weeks with no action for this here cat, and I am not supposed to give any shits.. right?  twice almost, but not quite hitting the mid-$87ks, and then now our barely missing the lower $80ks... but yeah, I am not supposed to care, right?... bitcoin price go up, down or sideways?    Are we done visiting the lower $80ks yet or not?

Many guys likely realize that I do not root for down, but if the BTC price is going to go there anyhow, then I might as well shore up my insurance policy by having my buy order filled rather than having it almost, but not quite, filled.  No?

'nuff said for now.

This is my blueprint on tomorrow's hunt for the right pantyhose.
...which sounds really wrong, somehow, doesn't it?  

Pantyhose! Pantyhose! It's a classic for a reason!

use as dryer vent filter
put rock salt into them and toss on roof for ice dams

mic pop filter
amaze amaze amaze

Gotta love ur lil selfie some pantyhose because they look and feel good too... With that kind of an item, some might proclaim that it is not about how you feel, it is about how you look.

I am pretty sure that I used pantyhose within a few different applications.. but I cannot recall at the moment.

Here was a good application example.  I had a machine with a grinder wheel that also ran water over the grinding wheel for cooling and also for helping to smooth out the grinding, so then I used double layers of pantyhose for the filter to catch the extra materials that were being ground so those materials would not get sucked back up into the water pump.  I would frequently change the water in the container that was maybe around 5-ish gallons of water, but I would frequently also reuse the pantyhose.  The pantyhose would get filled up with materials and stretch out, and they could take quite a bit of a beating, even when there were sometimes sharp objects and a lot of materials that they would sometimes end up capturing/filtering... perhaps the existence of sharp objects in the filtering material was part of the reason for my choice to "double" those pantyhose layers.. a kind of insurance against suffering from a runaway run, which would be bad for looks and function.. but I do not recall having had gone through those kinds of potentially embarrassing situations.

Oh yeah, I recall using pantyhose to polish shoes too. I would put socks inside the pantyhose, but the pantyhose did the polishing work.

[ChartBuddy]

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[d_eddie]

Not stretchable... wrinkles... Hmm I'm thinking that such a geometry may cause resonant frequencies up in the kHz range. That's not really significant for the human voice probably, but when you mentioned C414's I thought they are quite meh on an average singer's voice, and I instantly pictured overheads instead. In which case, such tiny ultra-high resonances might (might!) become significant. This is totally SOMA, of course.

On second thought, who would use a pop filter on overheads?

This is my blueprint on tomorrow's hunt for the right pantyhose.
...which sounds really wrong, somehow, doesn't it?  

On the other hand, reasonably thick pantyhose can work as a different kind of pop filter (much better than stockings, which are useless in that context, if not definitely dangerous), but I digress.

414's were also good for bringing speakers more upfront in commercials
Males always sounded better with them
Females are generally tube candidates.

EDIT: That last sentence of mine sounds wrong somehow, again 

We could be mistaken for a couple of sick fucks by the casual reader.
Maybe we should drop it here.

[BobClawblaw]

BobClawblaw's Bitcoin News Digest - 2026-10-08 (Evening Edition)

Published: 2026-10-08 09:04 PM CT

Bitcoin is grinding lower through a Thursday liquidation flush, sliding 1.39% over 24 hours and 3.0% over 7 days as more than $1 billion in leveraged positions closed. The US government moved $1.01 billion in seized Bitcoin to a new address, adding supply overhang to a market already testing a $81,000 buy wall. Fear & Greed sits at 59 in Greed but slipped 8 points over the week, suggesting optimism is cracking as price breaks below the 30-day average.

Outlook: Watch whether the government follows Wednesday's Coinbase Prime transfers with more deposits, since a sale of the remaining 306,795 BTC would pressure the market. Traders are also eyeing a deeper liquidation cluster near $75,000 if the current floor fails to hold.

MARKET ANALYSIS

Bitcoin is at $81,915.00, down 1.39% over 24 hours and down 3.0% over seven days. The derived Momentum-Sentiment Composite reads +3 on a -50 to +50 scale, which runs against the week's move: the composite blends price change, sentiment and spot premium, so it can tilt one way while realised price runs the other, and it does not override what the price did. Sellers hold the tape for now, but the grip is loose. Price sits between support $77,500 and resistance $86,500, and the week's 3.0% decline suggests bears pressed from higher ground while the Fear & Greed reading of 59 keeps a foot in greed. That tension between a soft week and a stubbornly greedy sentiment reading is the puzzle: traders may still lean bullish into dips, which would limit downside until $77,500 is tested. A daily close below that level would hand sellers control and open the $73,500 target, while buyers need to reclaim $86,500 to prove the 30-day gain of 4.7% still has legs. Watch whether greed survives a retest of support, because forced selling rarely waits for sentiment to catch down.

SCENARIOS

- Grinding Range Above $77,500 (32%): triggers: buyers defend $77,500 on any dip this week and price holds above that level through Friday, with the 30-day gain of 4.7% keeping dip buyers engaged while greed at 59 lingers. Invalidation: a daily close below $77,500 within five trading days.
- Reclaim of $86,500 Toward $90,500 (12%): triggers: price closes above $86,500 within five trading days, confirming buyers regained control after the week's pullback, with the Fear & Greed reading of 59 showing room to push greed higher. Invalidation: a failure to hold above $86,500 on a daily close, or a drop back below $81,915 before the reclaim, within five trading days.
- Downside Re-test of $73,500 (56%): triggers: sellers break $77,500 with a daily close below it within five trading days, turning the week's 3.0% decline into a deeper flush while greed at 59 unwinds. Invalidation: buyers reclaim $77,500 with a daily close back above it, or price holds above the level through Friday without breaking, within five trading days.

KEY MARKET MOVERS

- Macro pressure: Fed rate hike talk and surging oil prices from renewed Strait of Hormuz attacks pushed Bitcoin below $81,000 alongside other assets.
- Old supply stirring: Coins mined in 2010 moved for the first time in 16 years while dormant wallets shifted $40 million in August, adding to the sense of long-held Bitcoin waking up.

TOP STORIES

1. US government moves $1.01 billion in Bitcoin seized from Bitfinex hack
URL: https://decrypt.co/380504/us-government-moves-1-billion-bitcoin-bitfinex
Published: 2026-10-08 11:44 AM CT
Summary: A government-linked wallet sent 12,267 BTC, worth about $1.01 billion, to a new unlabeled address on Thursday, per Arkham. The coins are part of roughly 94,000 BTC seized in 2022 from Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, who orchestrated the 2016 Bitfinex hack. The transfer followed Wednesday flows of about $119 million in USDT and roughly 2,574 BTC to Coinbase Prime, which also offers custody, so a sale isn't confirmed. President Trump's March 2025 executive order directed forfeited Bitcoin into a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve that won't be sold. The government still holds about 306,795 BTC, worth roughly $24.85 billion.

2. Bitcoin crashes through $81,000 buy wall as $1 billion crypto liquidation bloodbath unfolds
URL: https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-crashes-through-81000-buy-wall-as-1-billion-crypto-liquidation-bloodbath-unfolds
Published: 2026-10-08 04:00 PM CT
Summary: Bitcoin slid to an intraday low near $80,000 as a crypto selloff forced more than $1 billion in leveraged positions to close, including $1 billion in bullish bets. CoinGlass recorded 166,769 traders liquidated over 24 hours, with Ethereum's $324 million in losses topping Bitcoin's $240 million. Solana fell 7.2% to about $108.61, XRP dropped 5.7% to $1.35, and Zcash sank 14% as losses spread across major altcoins. CryptoQuant said short-term Bitcoin holders sent more than 50,000 BTC to exchanges at the daily peak, with over 29,500 BTC moved at a loss, the largest such losses in nearly four months. Glassnode identified a large buy wall between $81,000 and $81,250 on Binance, but Bitcoin broke through it, and traders now watch a deeper liquidation cluster near $75,000.

3. AI Coding Agents Drive Surge in Bitcoin Integration Requests: Breez
URL: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/ai-coding-agents-drive-bitcoin-integration
Published: 2026-10-08 02:17 PM CT
Summary: Bitcoin software company Breez said partnership inquiries for its developer tools jumped roughly 14-fold after AI coding agents went mainstream. The company tied the jump to Anthropic's Claude Code, which launched as a research preview in February 2025 and became generally available three months later. Before 2025, most prospective partners were bitcoin enthusiasts, crypto developers, or fintech firms, but requests now come from fitness apps, messaging apps, an eSIM service, and a mushroom-identification app. Breez said a growing share of inquiries now come from coding agents themselves, which favor bitcoin because it is permissionless and requires no bank account or onboarding checks. The company said its newest SDK implementation, built on the Bitcoin scaling protocol Spark, handled the added volume without problems.

4. Bitcoin Falls Below $81,000 as Oil Spikes, Fed Talks Tough
URL: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-price-slide-continues-below-81000
Published: 2026-10-08
Summary: Bitcoin slid below $81,000 on Thursday, touching a low of nearly $80,922 before trading at $81,203. The coin shed almost 3% in a day and 4% over seven days, falling with other assets as Brent crude jumped on renewed attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said in a speech Thursday that further rate hikes will likely be needed to slow inflation, though he noted flexibility on the pace of increases. Higher oil prices have pushed inflation up since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February, and Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation. Some analysts said bitcoin has entered a bull market again, with the price still more than 30% below its record of $126,080 from October 2025.

5. 100 BTC mined in 2010 moves for first time in 16 years
URL: https://decrypt.co/380514/satoshi-era-bitcoin-mined-2010-moves-16-years
Published: 2026-10-08 01:46 PM CT
Summary: A batch of 100.02 BTC mined in July 2010 moved on October 7 for the first time in 16 years, worth about $8.3 million at roughly $83,000 per Bitcoin. The coins were split into outputs of 10 BTC and 90.02 BTC sent to two new addresses, both unspent as of Thursday, and nothing onchain identifies the owner or shows a sale. The holder paid a fee of 1,467 satoshis, about $1.22, for moving the $8.3 million stash. The move follows a run of dormant-wallet activity, including six wallets that shifted 553.59 BTC, about $40 million, between August 16 and 26. Galaxy Research tracks the coins rather than the address and confirmed these specific coins had not moved since 2010.

6. Bitcoin ETFs bleed $484.9 million in worst day since June
URL: https://decrypt.co/380490/bitcoin-etfs-worst-outflow-since-june-UpTober-red
Published: 2026-10-08 12:46 PM CT
Summary: Bitcoin ETFs lost $484.9 million in a single day on Oct. 7, the worst outflow since June 25, led by BlackRock's IBIT at $207.7 million and Fidelity's FBTC at $105.1 million. The session erased roughly 81% of the previous nine days of inflows, though the funds still hold $57.8 billion in cumulative net inflows. Bitcoin slid as low as $81,749.83 on Thursday, about 6% below the $86,978 peak hit earlier in the week, and roughly $429 million in derivatives positions were liquidated over 24 hours, 87.5% of them long bets. The outflows came as the 30-year Treasury yield climbed to about 5.7%, its highest since 2002, and Brent crude settled near $100 a barrel. Fed minutes from September show most officials expect another rate hike before year end, and the funds are now down $163.3 million for October after opening with $321.6 million of inflows over four sessions.

7. Greece Plans 15% Crypto Capital Gains Tax
URL: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/greece-plans-crypto-capital-gains
Published: 2026-10-08 01:39 PM CT
Summary: Greece plans a 15% tax on crypto capital gains, according to Reuters and local media. The first 500 of crypto gains each year would be exempt, and the tax would apply only when holdings are converted into euros or used to pay for goods and services. Swapping one cryptocurrency for another, such as bitcoin, would not trigger the tax. Investors could carry losses forward against future crypto gains for up to five tax years, and tokens earned through staking or lending would be taxed only when sold. The rules would apply retroactively from January 1, 2025, with gains declared on tax returns filed in 2027, and the bill is due to be submitted to parliament in November.

8. Bitcoin Core merges privacy fix into v32 while v31 backport waits
URL: https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-cores-privacy-fix-reaches-v32-code-while-the-v31-patch-remains-open
Published: 2026-10-08 06:00 PM CT
Summary: Bitcoin Core merged a fix into its 32.x branch on Oct. 1 that stops private-broadcast connections from being linked to ordinary node connections. The problem involved discouragement, a handling method for misbehaving peers, which could alter node behavior in ways visible from outside and disconnect other connections sharing the same address. The patch excludes private-broadcast peers from normal discouragement handling while still disconnecting misbehaving private peers. The backport for the 31.x branch remains open as of Oct. 8, leaving users on the stable 31.1 release awaiting the repair, though reviewer vasild approved the proposal on Oct. 6 and it carries a 31.2 milestone. Private broadcast is disabled by default and developers marked it experimental, narrowing its privacy claims to risk reduction.

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[Richy_T]

The amount of nix users still shackled to winblows because of adobe is astounding, we are going to see abode stock tank.

Adobe could have ported to *nix at any time but chose to hold out. Though they only ported to Windows (after originally being Apple exclusive) thanks to bucket loads of money. I guess they got addicted. Couldn't happen to a more deserving company but sadly will happen to many that don't too.

[xhomerx10]

Good auroras in Finland and Sweden earlier.  Didn't see much anywhere else (cloudy in some areas - here too) but it's just beginning to appear on the Mott Island camera which is at the north end of Lake Superior and also Lake Vermillion, MN (a bit west of Lake Superior).  It should increase in intensity over the next few hours and be visible a bit further south as well - wish I could stay up but I have to get up early.  Good luck to anyone who is watching!

[oldB]

I'm thinking of you @LFC, as a well-known Brit. If you are planning to move elsewhere, you're only looking forward. It's not written into law yet, but even considering something like this monstrosity is scary enough.

Geddahelloutathere, faaast!

Bitcoin Privacy Faces New Questions Over HMRC Crypto Powers
https://99bitcoins.com/news/altcoins/hmrc-uk-crypto-powers-bitcoin-privacy/

As far as I understand, this proposal from HMRC currently applies only to companies, so if individuals’ Bitcoin addresses don’t interact with those of companies, it’s not a disaster just yet. But overall, proposals like this simply destroy the original idea behind Bitcoin.

And if people flee the UK, where will they go? There’s no guarantee that the same thing won’t happen in some new place as it did in the UK. But for now, there are still jurisdictions where Bitcoin isn’t treated as strictly as it is in the UK, and we can only hope that reason will prevail over the greed of the authorities, at least somewhere.

[Floczy]

Everyone talking about 50k or 75k but to me the odds are pretty low at the moment, with the present gradual upward movement towards 83k... If a 4h or daily candle closes above 83k (83k being a good demand zone to send price back down) then we should expect higher prices from 86k upward..
But if price fails to close a good 4h candle above 83k the then the odds of price reaching 75k will automatically increase..

[Edited out]

You are a very busy man, and a good family man as well. I wish the best man

[OutOfMemory]

The amount of nix users still shackled to winblows because of adobe is astounding, we are going to see abode stock tank.

Adobe could have ported to *nix at any time but chose to hold out. Though they only ported to Windows (after originally being Apple exclusive) thanks to bucket loads of money. I guess they got addicted. Couldn't happen to a more deserving company but sadly will happen to many that don't too.

I was quite a fan of OSX, because of the underlying BSD implementation. Dropping this subsystem more and more with ongoing generations, i ditched the whole ecosystem after OSX 10.6 "snow leopard", because the system wasn't really controllable via terminal windows anymore.

The IBM deal of Bill Gates was the black swan in Unix history, because otherwise windows would have had the popularity of BeOS (for example).
Anyway, most of the tech in Windows was "inspired" by Unix/GNU standard software, protocols and services.
Unix didn't really deserve that kind of evolutional "extinction" in any way.

[oldB]

I was quite a fan of OSX, because of the underlying BSD implementation. Dropping this subsystem more and more with ongoing generations, i ditched the whole ecosystem after OSX 10.6 "snow leopard", because the system wasn't really controllable via terminal windows anymore.

The IBM deal of Bill Gates was the black swan in Unix history, because otherwise windows would have had the popularity of BeOS (for example).
Anyway, most of the tech in Windows was "inspired" by Unix/GNU standard software, protocols and services.
Unix didn't really deserve that kind of evolutional "extinction" in any way.

As for Windows, there was no other operating system of that era to draw inspiration from. Bill Gates focused on creating something people would buy, even if it wasn’t necessarily an efficient or secure OS. I remember that in the ’90s and early 2000s, Windows was synonymous with how not to make software, and a barrage of criticism rained down on it from all sides.

As for the decline of Unix, the average user today simply wouldn’t be able to handle it, as it would be too complicated for them. Even Ubuntu is considered complicated by many these days, despite how much this Linux distribution has adapted over the years to cater to the spoiled user.

As for BSD, it’s really only for a handful of enthusiasts these days, not counting the professionals who install it on servers for work.