Not if the social in social media was actually referring to keeping in contact with friends and mutual support.

I’m ambivalent on social media bans as they seem rather blunt approach to the problem of algorithmic dopamine triggers. My kids don’t have access to tiktok or Instagram but they are starting to get interested in joining discord communities around their interests. Online predators aside this seems a good thing. Having access to the net in the nineties is when I started to see fellow hobbyists from around the world discussing things in newsgroups. It expanded my world view.

Please tell me they went in to become a lumberjack?

I was confused because the gif isn’t from SFA, is it DISCO?

The year of Linux on the desktop is whatever year you personally switched over.

Absolutely. Linux on the desktop, f-droid on my Android phone. The fact if something irritates me enough I can download the code and fix it.

I’m lucky I have a job working with FLOSS software. I don’t think I could go back to hacking on propriety code.

Someone was telling me it was Kool Aids competitor which they did such a good job discrediting that eventually the Kool Aid brand got the association.

The demand for LLM inference will drop off when people finally realise it is not the road to AGI. However there is still plenty of things GPU compute can be applied to and maybe spot prices will come down again.

Foundation was the first sci-fi I remember reading but I don’t understand what people want when they ask for a faithful adaptation. The individual characters weren’t especially well written, the dialog is very rooted in the 50s/60s that Asimov was writing in and the constant reference to atomics was also a function of the time.

To me Foundation is about grand space opera and the rise and fall of empires. I think the TV show captures that pretty well. The narrative hacks to introduce recurring characters across the seasons never really bothered me. The inventions and embellishments of the “lore” basically modernise the story and that is fine.

mu4e inside my Emacs session.

Anyone working there during the shutdown?

Has anyone compiled a Gowron arc watchlist?

We can remember it for you wholesale?

I’ve generally been up front when starting new jobs that nothing impinges my ability to work on FLOSS software on my own time. Only one company put a restriction in for working on FLOSS software in the same technical space as my $DAYJOB.

The article mentioned there is a long history of forks in the open source Doom world. It seems the majority of the active developers just moved to the new repository.

He does?

I read the first link in the thread that examines his blog post about London. While I don’t agree with his politics he wouldn’t be unusual amongst a significant minority of the population who vote for the likes of Reform. That seems to be enough for some to draw the conclusion he’s a Nazi he wants to arbitrarily murder people.

This automatic jump to accusing anyone who you disagree with a Nazi just devalues the term.

I helped with the initial Aarch64 emulation support for qemu as well as working with others to make multi-threaded system emulation a thing. I maintain a number of subsystems but perhaps the biggest impact was implementing the cross compilation support that enabled the TCG testing to be run by anyone including eventually the CI system. This is greatly helped by being a paid gig for the last 12 years.

I’ve done a fair bit of other stuff over my many decades of using FLOSS including maintain a couple of moderately popular Emacs packages. I’ve got drive by patches in loads of projects as I like to fix things up as I go.

Sounds like another UK import is doing well in the States then? HIGNIFY has been a British staple for decades.

I didn’t know who Kirk was until the assassination I have better things to do with my limited time than go on a deep dive into their history before posting any comment on the news. I kinda got the vibe when I realised that was who Cartman was based on in the recent South Park.

Without algorithmic transparency how can you ensure it’s not a propaganda machine?

That said tilting the algorithm isn’t exclusively a TikTok problem, I would love to know how active the bots have been the last week on all the US owned social media platforms. Is there a push for division? How would we know?

There are large areas of open source that don’t rely on volunteer labour because companies with a vested interest pay people to work on them. They tend to be the obvious large projects that are continuously developed and gain new features. The trouble with something like xz is it was mostly “done” (as in it did the thing it was intended to do) but still needed maintenance to address the minor niggles, bug reports and updates to tooling and dependencies.

The foundations could do a better job here of supporting the maintainers. After Heartbleed the Linux Foundation started the Core Infrastructure Initiative to help fund those under recognised projects. I would hope the people running that could be more proactive identifying those critical understaffed components.

Edit I think it’s now called the Open Source Security Foundation: https://openssf.org/