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?

I wouldn’t call it dead, maybe slowed down is fair.

We need a Mozilla equivalent to killedbygoogle.com.

I thought we were unique in this but frankly everywhere in the “western” world is talking about the same things. EU has chat control, Australia has similar efforts, USA aren’t pushing for privacy at all so it’s not a uniquely British problem.

It’s a programming community, you’re programming, you’re fine.

Watching the series on netflix I had the same reaction.

Basically any channel that started doing “reaction” content. Oh you’re reading the top page of Reddit today? Cool, what creative value does that have to me? Absolutely none. Goodbye. I get that it’s really popular but I have no idea why, and I get it’s cheap to make but it’s also shit, so you get what you pay for I guess.

The only exception to this is Jimmy Broadbent who occasionally does his “Sim Racing Stewards” series which is basically his take on Reddit user submitted clips of their online racing mishaps. I find it really interesting to watch because he has so much sim racing experience and, albeit less, experience of real world racing with real life stewards and racing rules. It’s entertaining and interesting and I want to know his opinion on these incidents because he has enough context to have an opinion, and doesn’t act like his opinion is gospel.

Farage and reform are dangerous yes but Labour are a more direct threat to the SNP’s vote share, so they kind of need to attack them a bit, even though in principle they agree on a lot. That said, current labour can fuck right off with their genocide-enabling, big tech-appeasing, tory-apologist cowardice.