I don't remember a 90s "IT bubble" - they must mean the "dot com bubble," when people thought they would get rich overnight just by having a website. A zillion startups took advantage of it and venture capital flowed freely down the drain, just like now.

Wasn't Candy Crush originally created by a lone dev and then copied by a company with a bigger legal budget than he had? TBH I'm not sure but I seem to remember this story from years and years ago.

That's nice, but what I really want a car to do is drive me where I tell it to, so I don't have to pay attention to any of that stuff.

I'm not a Python programmer but just intuitively it seems like if i==0 will make the first block fall right after it's created. Shouldn't it be if i==25? Or does it work because the loop has time to generate all the other blocks before the first block has time to hit the second one?

Oh that makes sense - apparently bpy.ops has a current context that the transform acts on. Instead could you move the transform call outside of the loop after establishing the first block as the context? That's how I would instinctively do it, to avoid checking i in every iteration when I know it can only be true once. Totally minor critique lol.

I'm a longtime dev but never work with images. What's the disadvantage or danger (or whatever) of the metadata? Can metadata execute?

I agree. Uproars like this reflect an irrational fear that rewarding someone for one reason also rewards everything else about them, including stuff we don't approve of. We see a ton of crowd-sourced demonization nowadays. Yes, you cured cancer but you also liked the wrong tweets, so no Nobel Prize for you, spawn of Satan.

None that I know of.

Stallman earned his position of influence as a voting board member through his software-related achievements, not his sexual attitudes. Removing him for the latter absolutely WOULD take away from those achievements. Paying lip service in the report doesn't change that. In another era when homosexuality was illegal, Alan Turing was removed from his position in British intelligence because of being gay. The two situations aren't identical, but they don't have to be. The point is that they both earned their positions, and taking away what they earned because of unrelated moral disapproval is wrong. This isn't a defense of any of Stallman's attitudes - I'm saying no such defense is necessary or relevant.

TBH I don't have a problem with this. I am often very unsure if someone is an adult or a high school sophomore who's had two Red Bulls and really has to pee.