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defensive munitions

I don’t think it makes sense to separate these defensive munitions from “offensive” munitions, especially when talking about a belligerent state like this. Contributing either supports their offensive agenda.

They seem like the weird fixation people have here in the northeast about Wawa and Sheetz. People, they are just shitty convenience stores with gas pumps. Relax!

I get my news from my dog. It’s our little secret 😉 🐶

I’d probably do something corny like remodel it to be a free admission museum or something.

You might age into store clerk who may or may not be murdered by Anton Chigurh before long.

Yes, almost certainly

I’m pretty sure I remember that actually happening, because my shithead dad was angry about it.

Yeah, what most people have in their pockets is providing them access to a well-oiled propaganda machine. Maybe the people on Lemmy are on average less trusting of such things, but that’s not normal. The right picks and champions influencers nearly constantly. The Dems don’t have much success here.

I really like my '23 Bolt EUV. I bought it when it was new, and it’s been perfectly reliable ever since. Like you, it was the first time I ever bought new. I’ve got no regrets!

Are you drunk?

Wow, that’s a lot of upvotes

I don’t begrudge Cosmic or anything, it’s just not what I want. I’m glad it exists.

KDE 4 was the TRULY bad release, if I recall correctly. It was a massive change from 3 and reduction in features and stability. I actually noped back over to Windows for a while as a result. I remember 5 being a welcome return to form comparatively.

EDIT: From the wikipedia Article on KDE4, oof:

KDE 4.0 was released in January 2008. Linux.com described the reaction from users as a “revolt”, writing that the backlash KDE 4.0 received was on a scale that was unprecedented for a FOSS project. Although it was a developer’s release, several distributions made the KDE 4.0 desktop environment available to their users without specifying that it was an experimental option. openSUSE released a more polished KDE 4 option while other distributions “released packages that simply [didn’t] work,” according to project leader Aaron Seigo. As a result, many users complained about the loss of features and stability. A number of KDE developers, including project leader Aaron Seigo, were targeted for abuse by outlets like Linux Hater’s Blog. Several KDE developers stepped back from the public scrutiny.[36]

A script that shows a modal box or whatever when something fails to load as expected need not spy on you to function, but maybe I’m reading into a funny post more than I should be.

As far as code quality and reliability goes for mature projects like KDE and Linux, I trust the maintainers to know what they are doing. I have no place second-guessing them. If they think LLM usage disclosures are useful I believe them, if they feel otherwise I accept that as well. To me as an end user, it makes no difference. I’m not going to stop using Linux or KDE over LLM-assisted code contributions either way.

As far as copyright-ability, I could be convinced here. I’m not a legal expert at all, but it seems pretty speculative. I did read your first link, which is interesting. The legal risks as I understand them are:

A judge somewhere might say “This long-lived project has recently merged some patches which, to some unspecified and unknowable degree, involved LLM usage and therefore the GPL license indicated for this project is no longer valid. Therefore, the project is now Public Domain and it may be used and modified without releasing the changes.” Seems unlikely to me, but who really knows?

and probably much more likely:

A patch is accepted that replicates copyrighted code exactly, putting an unwitting maintainer in jeopardy. I looked around for examples of open source project maintainers being sued for this sort of infringement out of curiosity, but I really couldn’t find any. If this happens, I bet it’s typically handled outside of court with a C&D type situation.

Are there other legal risks I’m missing? I think it’s only a matter of time before some type of consensus for what the implications of the copyright questions are for FLOSS software.

I like that. Anti-hoarding mechanics, I guess. I can’t remember which game it was, but one I played recently recharged your mana/energy/mojo or whatever between fights, so you were encouraged to actually use the abilities instead of tediously avoiding it for most of the game. “How do I best use the total available mana for each battle” is a bit more fun than “Better pretend I don’t have these abilities most of the time.”

This is similar to why I actually came to like the rapidly breaking weapons in the Switch Zelda games. Once my mindset became “don’t bother hoarding good weapons, just use whatever you want because you’ll just find new ones all the time” it stopped being annoying and instead kept things fresh.

Nah, backups are for nerds who screw things up, like unit tests.

We don’t like each other enough. We see the government as a way to make other people angry.

Can you explain what you mean?