So basically the same thing that Ubuntu's two-year "LTS" track does. Ubuntu 24.04 "noble" is feeling fairly old at the moment. Ubuntu 26.04 "resolute" was released a week ago to users on the semiannual "interim" track, and it'll be offered to LTS users come the first point release about three months from now. Drinkypoo has a point, however, that Debian has no direct counterpart to Ubuntu's interim track.

When you self-hosted Git and an issue tracker, how did you take care of these?

1. Last I checked on DigitalOcean's website, a VPS in that price range would have 1 GB of RAM. And last I checked, MariaDB took 300 MB of that by itself. How do you fit Linux + front end web server + MariaDB + Forgejo into 1 GB of RAM?
2. People need to sign up again to report bugs or contribute patches. Signing up is itself a friction, not to mention that your VPS is probably not already trusted by the major email providers. This means one-time codes for signup confirmation and password reset are likely to end up in the user's spam folder at best, if not just dropped without notification.

A lot of people can't self-host because they're behind an ISP that blocks incoming TCP connections. It's fine if you already own a domain name, already lease a VPS with big enough RAM to run Linux, a front-end web server, MariaDB, and Forgejo (that is, more than a dinky little 1 GB droplet on DigitalOcean), and already pay for smarthosting of your outbound email to make transactional messages deliverable to would-be contributors who use the big three webmail providers (Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo). Otherwise, that's a chunk of change every year.

Cartoons *can* be educational. (I think you're right, but I'm quibbling with your terminology.)

He's evil, but I'm not sure he's in the running for most evil.
The problem is that he's also extremely powerful, and is surrounded by people (and machines) that reinforce his delusions. So even minor evils get magnified into atrocities.

Turning a project that size into a FOSS project would kill it. FOSS projects need to start small and grow a community of support. It would be possible to turn it into an OSS project, develop a community, and then spin off as FOSS parts of it that could later merge, but that's *extremely* unlikely...and would probably take decades.

More plausible would be to publish the current version as a working snapshot under a FOSS license, but for the company to maintain copyright ownership, so they could continue to work on a closed source version. That would probably be workable, but I hardly think it plausible.

Also, remember that thing to too large to even be built on most systems. This is hardly ideal for a FOSS project. (Does a FOSS project exist that is larger than Linux or BSD? Possibly LibreOffice. This would be a lot larger.)

To be totally fair, they're *part* of a cure. A necessary part, but a small part. The basic thing that needs to change is the economic focus. Consumption, itself, should not be the goal. Profit needs redefinition...though just how I don't know.

Consider the system rewards "fast food" over "healthy food". This is clearly wrong, but what's the proper fix? It's another aspect of the same problem.

Hero worship is always dangerous, but people tend to do it anyway. I still admire many things Musk has done, but that doesn't mean I need to admire him...or even the person he used to be. I used to say "I'm glad he's doing that, but I sure wouldn't want to work for him". Now the first half of that has been truncated.

In this case though, I wish both sides could lose. It's possible, however, that Sam Altman still has a few good intentions.

No. Basically it's a move to handicap competition. But he's also trying to get any other advantages he can out of it.

I was born with hip dysplasia and spent six of my first nine months in a half body cast. I was in a state run orphanage, I was growing inside the cast, which left me with terrible scars on the front of my shins, and I was a "fussy" baby, so they "treated" me with phenobarbitol.

The experience left me faceblind and with some other developmental stuff that nicely compliments my otherwise mild autism. I am the squarest of square pegs, a misfit in every situation my whole entire life, except when I am blessedly alone.

I don't agonize about how I am, I enjoy intellectual pursuits, and my ability to focus on stuff in ways that neurotypicals can not. But if I had it to do all over again, I would very much like to have a bit more understanding from others, given that I had no say in how I came to be so different.

Small brains should develop normally, with limited screen time, until they are fully formed. Maybe that's late tweens, maybe it's sixteen, maybe we are going to learn that we need to treat dark pattern engagement magnet software just like we do slot machines.

That fits...

if they had known he'd turn into a raging Nazi.

Then again, they probably would've. It's not like billionaires have any principles...

Yeah, let's see how many principled antiviolence activists at Google quit their jobs now that their employer is a military contractor.

And by cutting the country loose from its allies and destroying international faith, he may have weakened the country enough to avoid WWIII when China makes it's bid for recognition as the supreme power.