Algorithms that put "possibly interesting" things in my feed that I didn't specifically subscribe to need to have some "dampening"/"negative feedback" built in to reduce the chance of "runaway algorithmicly-generated virality," much like a steam engine has "negative feedback" to prevent an explosion.

If a post or topic or poster is starting to "go viral," the algorithm needs to dampen/partially-squelch the post/topic/poster so it appears less in people's algorithmicly-generated feeds.

Of course, if I'm subscribing to/following the content or it was sent directly to me, then this doesn't apply. If the post is going viral organically, without any help from algorithm-generated feeds, that's good, that's the way it should be.

So many things depend on dates that it would be irresponsible to assume nothing would go wrong until proven otherwise.

Also, GParted itself calls fsck for some operations. It's very likely that at least some file systems' fsck.* tools use or check dates and would prevent a successful fsck under certain postend-of-epoch scenarios.

I could easily be wrong here, but the rational assumption is to assume something could go wonky under certain post-rollover scenarios until someone proves it can't.

Oh wait, we have been.

Do a date-restricted internet search for "post-quantum cryptography" for anything older than, say, 5 years ago to see that the world is taking this seriously.

A 20-year-old rescue disk that "gets the job done" without the network turned on is a perfectly cromulent solution.

Got 32-bit hardware that won't ever get a post-2024-technology upgrade? You'll be able to use the "final" 32-bit-supporting GParted Live distro for years to come without problems, at least until the end of time (if your system predates 64-bit time on 32-bit systems).

I kind of agree with you that "XYZ distro that other distros don't depend on and isn't a top-line distro drops 32 bit support" isn't Slashdot-worthy, but "no one uses" is a bit over the top.

Rescue- and other special-purpose, one-task distros have their place, there is no reason to disparage them because they aren't most people's "every day distro."

I haven't used GParted Live recently but only because I have a similar "rescue" distro handy that has gparted on it.

"This practice of punish-until-proven-innocent also creates fear about buying [del]used games[/del][ins]this company's products[/ins].

There, fixed it for you.

Either you are a real, bona fide company, in which case you need to change your name, OR

You are a satirical company, in which case you shouldn't confuse people by doing things only real companies bother to do, OR

You are on the way to becoming a meme stock, where your "value" compared to your competition is because of your snarkiness.

I wouldn't want to depend on a meme stock company for my electricity. My non-essentials like the bumper sticker on my car or what fast-food place I eat at occasionally, sure, but not for something as essential as electricity.

... funding, this ranks relatively low on the "harm to the human race if we don't do this research now" scale.

Yeah, this hurts and I wish it wasn't happening, but many of our other science cutbacks hurt a lot more per dollar "saved."

As others have already pointed out, the data isn't going to disappear on us any time soon.

About crops: If climate change happens slowly enough, we can start farming in areas that are now too cold to farm in time to make up for areas that now produce but will be useless for farming later.

All joking aside, there may be a day within my lifetime where this statement is true. Well, at least close to true - we will always be able to do something about it, but there will come a time when we can't bring ourselves back to pre-industrial-times temperatures within a reasonable period of time (say, 100 years) without causing some other massive harm.

said an anonymous hacker with hoards of McDonald's candidate data.

Don't forget that these false filings may have delayed a divorce by 3 years.

... whatever is 10 years in the future, i.e. something that will never be achieved because the goalposts are always moving.

There's very likely enough child- an child-like drawing around to make a decent training set for an AI that could fool people into thinking a child did it.

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Yeah, I know you were trying to slam Rubio, but I'm redirecting this thread back to something a bit more technical.

Ask your LLM to write a paper in the style of an English-language paper from a major journal in your field on your topic from the years 2010-2020.

Change the years to fit your particular situation.

Be sure to have a human check the paper and its references for content/accuracy and do a good human copy-edit of it.