I guarantee someone here worked on this system and is very proud of their work.

I bet someone here reading this is very proud of their work on such a large scale system.

some low birthrate countries are basically saying that already...

Sounds like you had a bad repair then. take it back and get it fixed properly.

always has been. some countries used AIM, Others Yahoo messenger, others MSN.

A DDoS back then was what, one guy banging F5 on his keyboard for a while?

I saw her last few talks at VCFeast. Always extremely engaging to hear from someone with as much skill and knowledge as her. Amazing to hear how she built her own debugger for the (i believe, i have the memory of a goldfish) Atari 2600. I always tried to catch her talks if possible, if just to get a glimpse of what the past looked like. I'm going to miss having those to look forward to.

RIP

Not really related, But I just had a flashback to MiarageOS on my TI calculator.

Anyone else get an eye twitch when they read or hear "Agentic"?

Full on cringe shivers

aye, shiver me timbers, argh

Well "system that calls functions in a loop" doesn't sound like it is from a science fiction story. Obviously, that is no good if you are trying to sell science fiction fantasies to people.

what word do you prefer?

Six seven

Doesn't most of the embedded Linux world run on u-boot? whats going to happen to that market now?

The answer is in the link you clicked: U-boot will be maintained as the open-source project it is, with some engineers previously working at Denx going to a specific different company with the express purpose of supporting U-boot.

Seems that it will be maintained by those using it (eg: companies and hobbyists alike)

U-boot will not die from this