I don't know the terms any more than I've read but it sounds to me like Tesco signed a contract for very expensive perpetual license with upgrades and support until 2026. But Broadcom tried to fuck them over by denying them support and fixes in breach of the terms and tried to strongarm them into another more expensive contract. The venue is no surprise and its the right one - Tesco is a UK company, they purchased the license from Computacenter which is a UK company and an authorised reseller of licenses and support.

I just hope Tesco go through with it and don't settle, but I expect they'll eventually settle because that seems to be how these things play out.

Dealing with large repos and large binary blobs is definitely the biggest issue with Git. So many solutions have been proposed over the years and none of them seems to be ideal. e.g. putting blobs in lfs is better than storing them in the repo, but it means you need something like gitlab or nexus to store the blobs and they're not necessarily backed up with the rest of the repo.

I think the most viable thing these days is probably Scalar, which is the successor to VFS for Git and has been integrated into git 2.38+. It basically runs a cronjob to sparsely checkout a repo and does housekeeping tasks so the working copy only contains a subset of the cloned data instead of everything.

As far as AI companies go, Anthropic seems to be applying some ethics to its business dealings, especially towards military applications. So of course the Trump administration is being vindictive and spiteful towards them. It's clear that OpenAI has no qualms lying about what it sells, or the uses it is put to, so they're in the good graces of the government.

Tesco is a UK company and presumably signed contracts under the legal system of England & Wales (Scotland has a separate legal system). So it makes sense their lawsuit is also heard before English courts.

Don't do it kids. Yeah they may be friends today but if they're strapped for cash or get bought out they might be assholes tomorrow.

Let Meta haemorrhage money trying to prop up it's actively despised AI offerings until it finally throws in the towel.

Learning vi has some residual value if you're trying to do something in a shell like a container or constrained image and it's the only editor available. But it's only a last resort when there is nothing else, not even nano.

If the emergence of interactive text editors multiple decades ago didn't remove Vi's sharp edges then AI certainly won't.

Maybe gamers would be more reponsive to some good games instead of the usual monetized Bethesda / Activision slop.

Are you a retard?

No, somebody capable of observing what Apple are and their predilection with shutting out 3rd parties. And many phone makers burn an efuse when the bootloader is unlocked. This is common knowledge. But if you're so fucking childish, clueless and immature to call somebody a retard instead of even considering the point or doing a simple google then that's the end of the discussion.

They don't allow it on iOS and go out of their way to prevent people rooting phones. And MacOS is very clearly converging with iOS - same silicon like M series chips, similar software stacks like SwiftUI. MacOS 27 only runs on M series, no more Intel so the days of even slightly commodity hardware are gone. So I wouldn't be so sure they're not going to lock down the bootloader and the operating system so you have no choice but to run their OS on their hardware.

As for the EU, yes it might threaten their plans but Apple has history of being dicks when the EU tells them to do something. Like even if they were forced to support other OSes they could burn a diode in the CPU so it irrevocably only runs Linux from that point on if its rooted and gimp the device in other ways. That's something some other phone makers have done when the bootloader is unlocked.

The counter argument is that Apple loves controlling its hardware and software, and allowing some 3rd party OS to run on their hardware is something they cannot countenance. To their thinking these Linux folks will be reverse engineering hardware and god knows what they'll dig up.

Nobody wanted the chatbot in WhatsApp and the fact that Meta gave no choice but to opt in and to stay in makes clear of that. So if it's an anticompetitive action give them the choice - remove it entirely or require people to affirmatively opt in and select AI from a lost. Sam should go too of course for Gemini and any other agent that is made almost mandatory to use.

The UK demanded porn sites age verify. The reputable ones did, the disruptable ones didn't. I'm sure kids are exposed to far worse content than if they hadn't bothered. Then the UK discovered that VPNs are a thing, and they're making noises demanding VPNs not be used to sidestep porn verification. Then they're demanding phones and tech companies identify porn and block it which merely requires impossible demands.

All of this is so fucking stupid because the solution is simple - require ISPs (and VPNs if they so wish) to provide optional content filters to UK account holders. Adult account holders can opt into filtering on a per device basis or the entire account. Child account holders (e.g. kids with SIMs) get it enabled without choice until they turn 18. The filter can block porn and it can block VPN and does so effectively. It doesn't require random businesses around the world to comply with UK law.

It's not rocket science.

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