SavvyWolf

Logistically it doesn’t even make sense. Like, it’s only existed for maybe a month or so (at least, in the public mind). Are we to assume that a lot of people have decided to switch distros recently?

Given what I’ve heard of him, I doubt it’s tounge and cheek, sadly.

And as someone who follows the LGBTQI+ community, I’ve seen Christian values lead to really unhealthy communities and atrocities. :P

You shall have no other gods before Me.

If he is sincere in his beliefs then he won’t be able to follow the “no discrimination based on religion” part of the code.

Heard Lunduke went super into the deep end but “suggesting” that you follow Christian commandments in the ethics is wild.

https://github.com/BryanLunduke/LCOS/blob/master/CodeOfEthics.md

Google, Microsoft, banks and everyone in between has been spending the last decade rolling out sophisticated scam detection systems and infrastructure. If a scam can get through all that, then it can get through your little kiddy model.

And even if you did have a model that worked well, why is the best interface for it an llm? Why not just have a big red “scam warning” banner? Loud, clear and to the point.

AI agents can make mistakes, that’s something you’re going to have to explain to the user. But you also have to explain to the user to always listen to the scam warning even if their gut thinks otherwise. How do you define whether or not you should trust the AI in such a way that someone with cognitive impairment can apply it?

I’d recommend against having someone with cognitive health issues offload cognitive load to a machine that has demonstrated many times to be poor at it.

You’ve brought up the dangers of hallucinations and dependence, but I think the dangers are much riskier than you think they are.

Besides, doesn’t learning and using critical thought help slow down the progress of dementia?

If they’re translating GPL code to Rust, doesn’t that constitute a derived work and require the resulting code to be GPL licenced too?

A better question is whether anyone is using such old hardware and also needs a really modern kernel. The current LTS kernel will exist basically forever in the git history if you really need it.

Just for testing purposes, have you removed every device except the root device and sys/dev/tmp from fstab? I know Linux can get a bit upset when a NTFS filesysyem is marked as needing chkdsk’d and might be blocking other disks from mounting.

I’m annoyed at modern Gnome’s hostility towards user customisability. Their refusal to support server side decorations has trickled down to Cinnamon’s Wayland compositor and it looks like it’s going to be a barrier in Wayland Cinnamon.

The latest version of NTP is 15 years old, and implementations are expected to be compliant. There is no risk of embrace/extend/extinguish from licensing here.

Open standards are better than copy-left licenses, IMO.

If you’re worried about Steam, you can always use the flatpak version of Steam. It runs it in a sandbox, so it doesn’t have complete access to all your files, although it can still do a bit of telemetry (which is unavoidable really, as you need to download files from Steam’s servers).

Cinnamon does everything I need it to and I’ve got it customised to the way I like it so I’ve not felt a need to switch. MATE’s status as a fork of an old version of Gnome (at least at the time I was looking) worries me a bit as well because the legacy codebase may get left behind.

Cinnamon. Desktop UI peaked in the Gnome 2/Windows XP era and anything after that is bloat for the sake of bloat.

Might try kde plasma though, if I can make it behave the same.

First we had “this meeting could have been an email”, now we have “this blog post could have been a tweet/skeet/toot”.

Most of this article is bashing an imagined strawman and the main meat of the issue is two papercuts.

VLC’s shareholders must be pleased though. /s

That last paragraph is why maintainers step down from projects. Recieving vitrol like that for something they do in their free time is not healthy. And then we’ll have no vlc whatsoever, good or bad interface.

If you are that bothered by it, pin it, fork it or patch it.

Most actual Linux code changes come from large companies implementing or improving drivers for their own hardware.

The Linux foundation mostly manages the Linux “brand”. That is, all the logistics and infrastructure required to run a huge project with many stakeholders.

I thought we weren’t supposed to be using Mint anyways because it uses Systemd? /s

Emacs.

With all the vimmery going around nowadays though, I feel like I’m on the losing team. ;_;