Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

Re:Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months by specialist on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:09PM (#22376555)

"I think software developers don't quite understand how big a deal it is to a 70 year old when the button to do something moves."

My 84 yo mother was technically competent. Currently has mid-stage dementia. Long term recall still remains impressive. Apparently unable to learn new skills, habits.

Every software update is cleaving a few more things from her life.

My siblings and I thought upgrading her to an iPhone was a good idea, some years ago. Initially, sure. But now I wish we had a snapshot of her tech stack from her early 70s, and found a way to keep that working.

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Re:Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months by jjav on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:32PM (#22388100)

My mother, over 90, uses the exact same arrangement which I set up in the mid 90s. Linux, mutt, emacs, fvwm customized to be very simple. Whenever hardware stops working I just need to transfer the setup to a new machine and everything remains identical.

It would've been impossible to do this with commercial software as basically nothing has a 25+ year old support life. Because everything is open source, nothing needs to change.

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