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.

well once they crossed 2 billion the signed integer representation made losses into profits

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

they don't have to make a profit on the investment. The investment is defensive. The goal is not to be outside the moat.

instead of explaining to my boss why he caught me spinning on my chair and stacking office supplies into Jenga towers as "I'm waiting for the compiler to finish" I can now tell him I'm waiting for claude to get back to me.

I was looking forward to tokenising the Swiss citizen. There would be fewer of them than bitcoins and not growing in populations, so by the same logic bitcoinETF use they would appreciate. And they are even backed by gold. Dang.. I'd have made a fortune.

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.