Text editors with plugin support as potential vectors of malware is a pretty well known problem. It’s why at the very least organisations should be auditing the plugins used and actively monitoring them.

Genuinely worried about that when Gabe passes the torch. I’m glad most of their Linux work is going back to the commons and to open source tools so even if they do become shit we’ll still have decent compatibility.

Yes it’s indirect, but remember that Microsoft is one of their biggest competitors. This isn’t about seeing absolute profit from every change, it’s about improving linux as a platform to make it more viable for consumers, which will make it more viable for developers, which pushes more people to Steam and SteamOS as their first Linux distro and first destination for games. By making the platform perform extremely well on older/cheaper hardware they also create a market for other businesses to create hardware (Legion Go for example) which will increase the PC market and increase the number of people using steam since it’s the defacto monopoly. Yes, they won’t necessarily get every penny from every sale of hardware or even games since other game stores exist, but they will get a huge percentage from the majority of people in the PC market.

What business purpose does it serve to continually improve their product? Hmm. Gee. Hmmmmmmm. Geeeeeeeeee. I’m stumped.

I was complete opposite. Filling up the bio generators was like a ticking clock and it stressed me out so much.

Would you want to publicly lead an explicitly anti Trump, essentially anti-capitalist movement right now?

Yeah the main developer’s blog has a lot of interesting and stupid examples of reports. At least before he could laugh at the silly reports but AI seems genuine until it doesn’t, by which time you realise you’ve entirely wasted that time. daniel.haxx.se if you’re interested.

Tldr; we shouldn’t be idealistic, we should accept that LLMs stole from FOSS code, we should accept reality and instead of abandoning daddy GitHub we should ask them super nicely if they can pretty please open-source the training models trained on our stolen code.

I don’t understand how the author simultaneously holds the position “we should accept reality” and “GitHub/Microsoft will open up their models if we ask them to”.

Only because I otherwise prefer KDE, nothing against GNOME, it’s just preference.

I don’t know about mint specifically but I saw a while ago that the Dracula theme was owned by jetbrains so open source derivatives tended to play on the name like “darcula”. Could be a licensing thing.

I would always use KDE on a desktop/laptop, but as soon as I have touch hardware (eg an old surface laptop), GNOME does win unfortunately.

Don’t worry, we millennials had the same shit. I couldn’t relate to half of the headlines and didn’t know anyone who did.

You can but the point is that people/companies/public services generally don’t.

This seems to be the European take too from what I’ve seen.

I know a few people who subscribe who I never would have expected to do so, but I also know people who have started asking “why does Google show me an AI summary all the time when I don’t need it?” I think any sheen it had is diminishing, slowly but surely.

It doesn’t help that most people don’t know that there isn’t such a thing as “The NHS”. It’s just a brand that the state run health services use. As others have said, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales are entirely separate entities, who report to entirely different local governments.

Starmer, at least according to polling data, is less popular than all of them because he doesn’t appeal to any of them. He isn’t right enough for the Tories, Reform, or centre-right labour supporters, he’s not left enough for core labour voters nor left labour voters. He was too harsh on Israel for the right, and too harsh on Palestine for the left. He has pissed off every possible political ideologue and everyone in the middle is just hearing about how pissed off everyone is. He could not have spent his political capital in a worse way than he has. I don’t actually think people hate him. I think it’s just that noone likes him. Say what you will about Boris, Truss, Sunak, Cameron, May, they all had their detractors but they actually had allies, or people to whom they were at least trying to appeal. Starmer doesn’t have anyone, and it will be his downfall.

TIL people actually pay attention to GitHub stars.

Your syntax is fine, but not all commands/programs accept input from the pipe, or more accurately from stdin. Looking at the man page for file (https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/file.1.html) I can’t see a stdin option, so you have to pass each of the files from your head output as arguments to file.

What’s all this egg doing on my face?