Meanwhile, the number of unpleasant interactions I've had with entitled submitters acting as if they were bestowing their brilliant software upon us idiots who are rejecting it went through the roof in the last month.

This is a psychological side effect that I'm finding more and more impossible to tolerate.

"The AI wrote this, so it's perfect, and thus I'm the new John Carmack"

I can see the fuming maintainers as if they're in front of me right now.

Maybe it's a bit too radical of an approach (but considering where the LLMs train on, it may just be a copyright-safe way to handle the thorny issue), and I find Linus' approach more reasonable. But still, I can fully understand the frustration of who needs to read this kind of PRs day in and day out.

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I understand the concern.

BUT.

Just as much as I actually love to not have rootkit-like anti cheat "solutions" available for my gaming machine (I consider them an RCE-in-the-making), I will be extremely happy to be excluded from those services that will need to ask my (admittedly ancient) age without a reasonable motive.

You're a bank? A credit card circuit? A governative agency issuing driving licenses? A municipality celebrating marriages? A weapons or liquor store? Other goods/services provider which must be reasonably sure I'm an adult? No? Then I don't need to do age-verified business with you, thank you. You can keep your pictures of kittens for yourself, I'll live happily without them.

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This is a major win for FOSS. It means this burdensome spy-on-users fiasco is another selling point for non-proprietary OSes.

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Tbh, live charging connectors should be sockets, not prods, to reduce the chance of involuntary short-circuits.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI don't quite understand some of them.
For example: Why remove "Warhammer 40k" as a tag?

Considering the removal of LEGO, Dungeons & Dragons and Games Workshop, I guess it's a push to "de-brandize" tags, remove IP/trademarked terms, and go in a more general direction than referencing other companies or specific products.

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I'm on life support of Copium and Hopium at once.

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Isn't the web version good enough? What critical feature I'm missing by not using a local app (which is probably just the same code wrapped in a local web client)?

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Quoting: Mountain ManIs it finally happening? Is this the Year of Linux?

Depends on the context.

For games, it may be that this is the year that Linux has a serious push into mainstream numbers - among hardware insane prices (due to AI datacenters - mostly running Linux!), Microsoft stellar advertisement (for Linux, of course), and Wine/Valve/GE/Vulkan/Mesa/etc. doing a ludicrously good job with the Wine environment.

For HPC, every year is the year of Linux since November 2017, when 100% of top500 was all Linux systems for the first time, and remained so ever since.

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I find always... uhm... interesting to see how some corporations need to run to the damage control room right after announcements (that they fully know are cause for concern), and they rush to "clarify" only after the fecal matter meets the bladed air blower.

But never before that.

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AI in snap: see "slop in slop"

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