what personal gain is there to be had?

The satisfaction of being “on the good side” and “sticking it to the man” with righteous outrage, as usual with these things. I fucking hate AI, but trying to tear down Linus (and the rest of the Kernel team) over them trying to see if it makes sense to use is silly. They aren’t planning to drop their rigorous QA or to accept code the submitter can’t explain/maintain. Ethics are a concern, but since the end result will be FOSS I personally don’t care as much either (YMMV).

I’m also really interested in hearing how this will go for them and what policies they will ultimately implement. I expect them to do this properly, which then means that everyone can point to their implementation when confronted with vibe coding at work. And then the suits will decide that they’d rather just do it cheap & fast, fucking everything up yet again, but at least they will have been told so.

Cool I guess, but still trying to make client-side cheat detection happen is so futile and stupid.

I’d have to ask, they weren’t mine. But part of the problem was that it’s either high latency and no mic or very low quality both ways, neither very usable for video conferencing. Was fine on Windows. I’m sure their Thinkpad’s shitty Mediatek Bluetooth module didn’t help either.

You still will run into issues with certain Bluetooth headphones on Linux because they either need proprietary codecs that just aren’t available or fall back to really shitty ones. Not Linux’ fault, but users will only see (or hear) that it doesn’t work properly.

I don’t think your premise that it is going to grow more in terms of impact size is valid. It’s already eaten the US stockmarkets (and a number of others).

Stock market schmock market, this bubble is also doing damage to society and the environment and at least the part that comes from the lies and lobbying from “OpenAI” and consorts would be stopped by it popping.

Yeah but Linus also says Linux isn’t good because he’s unable to read.

He’s literally saying the opposite of what you’re claiming in this.

It isn’t twice as expensive though.

I’m a Millennial and work in IT. We aren’t magical. There’s competent and incompetent people in all age groups. I wouldn’t even say we had better starting conditions overall because being good with tech was seen as cringe nerd stuff when I grew up.

I think your theory is mostly right though, just along the lines of competent/incompetent. So many people constantly choose what they believe the path of least resistance with tech, even if it actually isn’t. Don’t spend one or two minutes to learn how to save to PDF in Word, instead google “word to pdf” and upload whatever sensitive data you have in that DOCX to some shady website.

And what was up with 3 different styles of settings pages?

And from a company that used to scaremonger about Linux being inconsistent and therefore wasting time & money…

The idea of the Basilisk is constructed in such a way that it makes it sound inevitable, like some sort of mind virus that wills itself into existence through fear and panic, then asserts that it likely already happened. I think saying no to that is a pretty clear example of a universal principle because there so obviously isn’t an upside/a way to frame it as a positive. The whole concept is insane and explicitly only brings suffering. I trust that humanity wouldn’t ever do this because of that.

Categorical imperative is escape enough for me. Don’t assume it has been built, nobody in their right mind would do such a thing. Everything else is giving in to fear, panic and selfishness because spooky sci-fi devil computer.

Besides, what do you mean no fractional scaling? It’s supported since 6.0 and improved significantly since then with more improvements to come. Even Firefox now handles it very well (in my use). I have good time even with weird scaling factors like 180%, 155% etc

Huh, you are right, I should check that out then, thank you! Most machines we have at work thankfully don’t need it, but a while ago KDE and Gnome seemed to be the only ones implementing it in a workable way for those that do.

It’s for self-hosting.

It’s just whether you grew up / are more comfortable using Windows or Mac.

No, it’s clearly about the amount of fan art the mascots of each ecosystem have. That is also why Overwatch is clearly the greatest game of all time.

I think what happened there is that the share is anonymously readable, but not writeable. So he could connect to smb://srv/share and it seemed to work, but what was actually needed is smb://user@srv/share - hard to diagnose the issue just from the video though.

It’s one of the main reasons I decided not to use KDE for Linux trials at my workplace. KDE applications can use KIO with network shares and it’s actually pretty great, but I/we can’t stay strictly within the KDE ecosystem. GVFS is great because it provides a fallback, even for the terminal. KIO used to be able to do this too, through a GVFS compatibility layer, but development on that feature stopped.

So we’re doing Cinnamon, all the Windows-like familiarity of KDE and some of the stuff from Gnome/GTK that are just better there. Hope they can reach their Wayland goals this year though, no fraction scaling is pretty bad for some laptops. On the other hand, those displays shouldn’t exist in the first place…

The use case for AI assistants seems to be reserving tables at a restaurant.

It’s one of the friendliest programming languages around. If you have written something in VBA then you’ll do fine with Python, except for all the bad/outdated nonsense you’ll have picked up from that language. And there’s interactive interpreters you can just mess around in.

If this doesn’t scare you then give it a look:

things = [4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42]
for number in things:
    print(number * 16)

64
128
240
256
368
672

I guess the idea is that yes, machine learning algorithms could be used to solve these, but that’s essentially brute forcing. You can make a simple algorithm learn how to complete Super Mario Bros or how to make a virtual robot walk, it just takes millions of iterations. The promised actual artificial intelligence wouldn’t need that.

We have already thrown just about all the Internet and then some at them. It shows that LLMs can not think or reason. Which isn’t surprising, they weren’t meant to.