You can hat that man all you want, but there is one thing we cannot deny: Everything he invested in turned out to be great* and apparently so did this AI.

*Social media companies not included; Brain thingy pending; Animals were definitely harmed during production

When you have not thanked your chatbot of choice even once

Tbf, some viruses are our friends. I would really like to avoid others tho

You have no idea what a pain in the ass it is to develop even a fraction of a car. I have seen the madness first hand. Everything is specified precisely, tested, protyped and tested again. Pretty much every part, microchip, piece of software, you name it. In addition you have designers wanting stuff certain ways, cost cutting and so on.

Now take that, put some old farts in exec position into the equation and imagine you want to totally change how cars work. They may be convinced you are right at this point, but now you need to rethink and adapt all processes, develop and specify and prototype tons of new stuff, integrate that with old stuff, build new supply chains, test all that and repeat.

Comparing a company to a containership was always a great analogy. The current situation is attempting a 360 with one at full speed. Startups have the advantage of being build arround new ideas like centralised computing, autonomous driving, modern entertainment systems etc. They have disadvantage when it comes to cost, quality management, distribution, volume… That said, the technological advantage is very pronounced atm.

I’m sure we will get there eventually, but it will definitely take some more time for the Germans to fully catch up.

Yes, no, and they can still become a dish if you wrap them right…Or so I have heard…

Elon likes it, you good

Tbf, you could use portable / user installs (if everyone would actually do their apps right), you can (now) use a package manager and you can (sometimes…) get an official, verified version of an app through the store and even if not, installers are (usually…) signed these days (although criminals do apparently get signatures too…)… And then this all falls apart, because you need a random driver from a random website. Security 👉👉

Europeans who’s children go to school alone at 6 would be laughing their ass off if this wasn’t such outrageous bs

Funny how this reflects exactly my train of thought.

Oh god, what if that asshat runs for president next?

Oh, wait, isn’t he from Africa or something?

pew

Wait, doesn’t his buddy run the country, his party and the supreme court?

*panic intensifies*

For a second I didn’t not get why you’d want to point out to not be affiliated with KDE so explicitly… Then I read the name again. I’m not seeing it anymore man. They have broken me…

How the hell is the monitor attached in no. 2

Sysadmin vs. Rust dev

I mean, it’s on Phoronix to take this kinda out of context, but on Linus how he phrases things. You would think after years at the forefront of one of the most important FOSS projects, he’d know better.

So to add some missing context: We are talking 11 maintainers, it’s not like hundreds have been removed. Im addition, it seems like most of them are employed by russian companies, not private individuals. Their code on the other hand has not been removed.

What bothers me is that it’s unclear whether future pull-requests would be rejected as well, or whether this is a matter of association.

IMO it would have been nice if Linus focused on some details regarding this action in his response, or alternatively not responding at all. Even if all he can say is that currently he can’t comment on it, it’s definitely better than borderline xenophobic rambling and getting mad at supposed trolls, feeding trolls if anything.

“You see, he meant it as in: “A mexican that fucks”, which is a totally normal thing to say.”

Israel does want the land, but they can’t “just take it”. The humanitarian crisis and the many civilian casualties they have caused, or are at the very least willing to accept, are seriously damaging their relations with the rest of the world. They have to make this go away, one way or another, otherwise they will be isolated at some point, and they really can’t afford to reach it.

If they were to occupy Gaza and expell all Palestinians now, you’d have hundreds of thousands of refugees. No one wants to take in that many people, so it would cause significant tension with everyone around them and play into the hands of their enemies. If they don’t drive them off but suppress them (or worse…), the problem continues, so that’s not really a good option either. Giving up on some land, that isn’t theirs to begin with, is a small price to pay to (maybe) make their problem go away. At the same time, they will likely even keep a bunch of land they already occupy.

As for Saudi Arabia: They want influence. And this would give them a whole lot of it, even if they only kinda solve this conflict.

I mean, no surprise there. All-out war with Russia is probably on few people’s bucket lists…

Isn’t that mostly a problem in the big, international ports / port cities? I mean, you can have empty prisons everywhere and still mot enough police and customs there

Random guess: Tiktok might actually generate revenue

Ivan the Troll’s media message is that this is hypocrisy. Western governments, he has noted, have armed the world’s insurgents and authoritarian leaders with weapons of war. “I’m sharing a computer file,” he said in a 2022 interview. “If I’m guilty of sharing information, what does that make them?”

1. “Owning hypocrites” is hardly a good reason to endanger the general population
2. Other people being worse doesn’t make you any better or less guilty
3. Sacrificing peoples lives to send a message kinda does make you a terrorist

If this was his intention that is. It seems so given his nickname, but maybe he just got famous and used his chance to come up with some bullshit.

That’s bad and all, but it’s only because the dems manipulated everything and everyone /s