Linus’ recent comments suggest that he thinks we’re near the peak of AI slop for the kernel. All the bugs accumulated over the past 20 years of the kind that AI is good at finding are getting patched, and eventually the pool of those will be exhausted. We’ll soon find out whether it does happen that way.

Apparently there’s supposed to be a link to an image hosted on lemmy.ml. My instance not federating with that one may be why I don’t see it. If anyone else was wondering, it’s just some random startup advertising their new “AI-focused” OS.

ratcheting down every year until it reaches 74 grams per mile (46 grams/km)

The time for wrangling about the exact levels of emissions limits is past. The limit should be zero. Actual zero, not “zero emissions” where zero is defined as some non-zero amount that’s substantially less than average.

“But what about the economy?” I am asked. If this marvellous, stable, infinitely ingenious economy is worth saving, then it will find a way to adapt efficiently to the change.

“Trade crisis,” really? It seems like everything that happens gets called a crisis. Climate change is the one that deserves such a word.

Cool! I hadn’t seen that checkbox, it must mean they intend to maintain it at least until it becomes too difficult. Back to slightly less round buttons it is, then.

Don’t expect that to last, such settings are traditionally temporary. Mozilla normally removes them a relatively short time after the big new feature is released and any related bugs have had time to get sorted out.

I’m pretty sure librewolf doesn’t touch stuff like that.

But idk — my setup has so much custom css that the only rounded corners I notice are at the bottom of the urlbar autocomplete dropdown, where they don’t bother me. My tabs are still nice and square and below the url.

If KDE starts expressing feelings of love for its users, what else could it do? Might it get envious of Vim if its user spends too much time just editing text? Will it get into a fight with the web browser over memory resources? If it feels like its love is unrequited will it pin forlorn pieces of melancholic poetry to the task bar? If it’s a multi-user system will it like some of its users better than others? Will the window manager get dissatisfied with its repetitive job and decide that it wants to try a new career as a compiler? The possibilities are endless in the glorious AI future.

I question the design of this study. It seems that there was no control group with full-sized horses and donkeys.

Can the EU really save Canada from itself? I sure hope somebody can.

Major nation-states remain amazingly eager to gear up for World War 3, finds every international arms dealer.

They decided to take a vote on whether or not to “Ban LLM contributions” where the proposed policy wasn’t all that well thought out, and ended up settling on a subsequent proposal which was even worse, enshrining in official policy the standard that LLM contributions are just fine actually and don’t even need to be disclosed. The governance system, in this case, failed spectacularly. The contributors they will lose as a result of this are in my view likely to be more valuable ones than those they’d have lost had the vote gone the opposite way. It’s substantially worse than having done nothing at all. It does not inspire confidence in the future of Debian, and is enough to have many of us looking around to see what alternatives might exist.

They just recently did something bad.

Damn it I was just asking myself the same question. I don’t expect it to be easy to find one that’s anywhere near as good as Debian but without that one problem. I think a lot of them won’t have any firm policies yet.

That’s a month old. The voting period for Debian ends tonight, so check back tomorrow to see the news.

… I dunno, maybe it just needed a firmware update.

I mean… by now probably millions of people have done it. I’m one of them, started in 1997. It was easier then in that for example nobody used “Teams” (it’s still the case that nobody should) and it was harder in that Wine was not as good.

Perhaps she didn’t make it clear enough that the idea was “send them back to where they belong, unless that happens to be Italy in which case send them somewhere else.”

It says that the prevalence of smoking has continued to decline, making the headline a little misleading. I suppose what they mean is that enough people still smoke that changing that is one more potential way to further increase life expectancy — but if they simply said that directly it wouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

Apparently there is such a thing as a “Nexus Collection Downloader” for Mod Organizer 2, although I’ve never tried it. MO2 generally works fine though.