If I were to wager a non-crazy, Occam's Razor-compatible bet, I'd say the author had a bad day, saw one too many digs at the quality of their decade-long work, got pissy, and decided to call it quits. I love popcorn-munching news as much as anyone, but this probably isn't it.
Then why pour so much work into re-authoring and re-releasing the program for all os's? And why offer such a canned bullshit explanation like the end of the availability of windows xp? All to show the trolls how much they miss truecrypt now that it's gone? I don't think so... anyone can find an old cloned repo/bin. I don't think it's impossible but it doesn't sit right with me that someone who could write/manage a program as objectively beneficial to society as truecrypt could also write such horrid bullshit that stands against every principal of FOSS. That being said, I've witnessed lives torn apart by depression first hand and it can be easy to idealize a person you've never even met so who really knows.
At some point the reward metric for that shifts away from your interests. It's never going to be picked up by like, major companies for enterprise-y use since Bitlocker has that market sewn up and it's never been really practical to use with Linux (from what I recall of looking into FDE for my notebook a few times in the past).
That's been my thinking as well since this came out yesterday. And it kind of makes sense why they modified the license to no longer require attribution, the only thing left in 7.2 is decryption related code, this would allow 3rd parties to distribute derivative works around decrypting legacy volumes (and possibly migrating to other encryption methods). But would stop anyone from creating a fork of earlier versions that still contained the encryption routines.
"BMW says its laser system is 1000 times brighter than LED headlights but uses half the power." Yeah, that's bull, unless they're using some very creative definition of "brighter". LED headlights put out about as much light as do standard halogen incandescents, about 1000-1500 lumens per fixture. A million lumens? You'd be hard pressed to tell that apart from the sun. Also theoretically impossible, as LEDs are already at 10-25% maximum luminous efficacy.
Decent LEDs are, currently, about 6x less efficacious than the theoretical maximum of any light emitter, as measured by the human eye. Incandescents are much poorer performers, of course.
Well, I'm glad that you, specifically, have never had that issue. Might you have noticed the large number of complaints registered in the years since HID lights became common?
I think it is possible that they are more sensitive to the particular color of those lights. If the majority of the population doesn't have the problem, it may never be fixed without identifying what the issue might be. It might be like a color blind person complaining that red and green lights on the road look the same when most people don't think they do.
Also, no, until this article & comments, I have never heard this complaint.
