Cannot wait to see Kid Rock open it. 🤮

Linus was sympathetic to GPL 2 but actively rejected GPL 3 because it gave too much power to the users. Linus said that under GPL 2 he gets source code and that all the matters, he isn’t really concerned with how it can be implemented or it is can be implimented afterwards.

I see that there are a few people that do not like this but it seems like a reasonable contingency plan considering the way things are going. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

I do work for free if it is for the greater good. Any works I have done by myself are all copyleft. I have even inherited loads of copyrights from written works that I immediately put into public domain.

Live simply, don’t use much, share as much as possible.

In another time line, Stallman and the GNU team don’t attempt a moonshot Kernel with Hurd and Linux kernel never gets its foot in the door. Many are still promoting Libre/Free software and not the morally corrupted open source that Linus and Eric Raymond fell into for quick success.

Same here. Have been using Linux since 1998 and a daily driver since 2005. After all this time I am starting to look to alternatives to potentially jump to. Currently I run Triqsuel which uses a de-blobed kernel but all the code coming in nowadays will slip past that filter and it will increasingly fall to the wave of slop code.

I wish Haiku OS was a bit more stable because it has so much potential, but I have still found it lacking despite the brilliant work everyone has done on it.

So it might be a BSD system in future as well.

Ewwww, do not like that! But also even if it doesn’t originate here, Australia is the test bed for this junk to see if it flys with the people. So far most of us have just laid down in front of the steam roller for “SECURITY!!!”!!"

Of the big three I would say that Apple is the lesser of three evils.

Have said it for ages, it is End to end encryption, the question is if they are the end or you are? Is it Your end to Apple, Apple to them? Plausible but hard to verify.

For all the problems of Steve jobs, he at least kept the company fairly honest in this sense. But the instant he died, Tim cook immediately rushed to install PRISM backdoors into all their systems while still carrying the image of privacy.

To answer what other have missed, if you run Linux then that will fix this.

I had always wondered why so many people have had compatibility issues with Linux systems, that was until I realized that because I am basically a computer scrap-man, I almost always a decade behind and everything had been long hardened by then.

I will not post a link to it for privacy reasons, but I wrote an article on this the day before the original M1 was announced warning of this situation. Apples move to their own chipset meant that any attempts at maintaining compatibility would always end up behind the curve.

I am surprised that Apple manage to keep their chips constantly changing as much as they do between generations. Most others seem to be on the ‘same but more’ path nowadays but Apple is still shifting the baseline almost yearly.

The real issue will come if they lock down the boot loader.

No them cuddling up to Trump was an extinction level event, it just took a decade for the blow back to become loud enough.

I was starting to think ole Donny T was going to get away with it via the grave while everyone below him that propped up his nonsense got the brunt of it. Maybe I should have been a little more optimistic for once.

He has been especially down trodden and looking a little scared the last few days.

Debian the foundation of the modern world. Or at least we wish it was.

It is odd seeing someone do political self immolation for no reason at all. I’m starting to think Haley isn’t the brightest bulb in the pack.

I have softened very VERY slightly on AI code. If it can identify genuine issues than that is fine. It is when folks just trust it blindly and just send 50 commits without understanding a thing or even remotely testing it, that is just crazy. But then on the flip side, yeah all the other issues probably aren’t worth it.

It is complicated at times but then things like this always are. The most successful evil always has some claim to virtue.

Alas, occasionally you have to walk with the devil to achieve some good. One just has to weigh up if it is worth it.

I once asked Stallman about how he used to build and run GNU tools before having the Linux kernel. He was using a proprietary Minix system as a means to get work done until there was a better alternative. I mean running a proprietary system is one thing, burning through the amazon with 100 quintillion tokens is very different.

There are folks in the occult space that think LLM’s are possessed by evil spirits. Yeah, I know, make of that what you will.

BUT, when I see folks at the top and the way they talk about this stuff, my rational mind kind of wavers and you see people who are just completely and totally absorbed with these things. Maybe them occult folks are on to something. 🙃

Scary to see, it is like alzheimer’s disease in how it eats away at the persons autonomy below but unlike that disease, it still maintains enough cognition for them to be functional in society. For better or worse.

I use Trisquel, one of the FSF approved distros. So far it seems to have held up well against a lot of the less inviting changes in the Linux space, but it is based on Ubuntu. I do wonder how much longer it will hold up until I end up making the jump to a BSD system. Not the fault of the developers, just that the flow of the base system is too strong to fight against forever.