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Comment Re:That is called "being competent".... (Score 1) 135

The Lebanese just signed an agreement with the Israelis and the Americans in which Hezbollah who has been lobbing rockets into Israel from Lebanese territory would be disarmed and Israel would leave

Israel consistently breaks every cease fire. You won't have to wait long.

Hamas is severely degraded

Oh, did Naziyahoo stop sending them money?

Comment Re:Not sure what the answer is? (Score 1) 71

And related to Authors and others, yea they got robbed, but when it comes to LLM generated material not sure how it gets stopped now.

That's not an argument.

"Yeah, that guy is dead now. We have a pretty solid idea who did it. But not sure if that'll make him alive again, so let's not bother with catching them."

Comment Re:Apple uses and supports FreeBSD (Score 1) 93

Apple's macOS. Apple contributes code and employs some FreeBSD developers.

Its a little more complex. Apple does derive some of FreeBSDs userland and some services. However its a myth that the kernel is a modified FreeBS. Its a modified Mach microkernel, XNU (technically actually a hybrid, like most real world microkernels, that has a small amount of non core kernel in ring zero for performance reasons, that has some services that have FreeBSD derived code in it, namely the network stack, process model and IOKit.

Comment Re:They should do the same in The Netherlands (Score 1) 244

Chinas single timezone is bonkers. If your in Beijing its great, but in those back end industrial cities, you've got the sun rising at 10am and setting at midnight. That would *massively* fuck with your sleep cycle and I half suspect that western regions probably got some of the highest rates of melatonin prescription..... and sleep disorders.... on the planet.

Comment Re: GPL is software herpes (Score 1) 93

The point, which you seemed to have missed entirely, is that regardless of what you're running and what I'm running, the world is running rather a lot of Linux and Unix on all kinds of hardware, and it's often under the hood so it's not readily obvious which is in play.

Besides using fingerprinting for networked devices, mostly the information on what's being used is out there anyway. BSDs used to be massively popular because they were what ran on what you had when you had pretty much anything. Now that's Linux, some version of it anyway. And if anyone really cares, they can dust off those old architectures on some kernel version.

The BSD license was favorable enough in its time, and it led BSD to significant success. But it didn't protect the people and corporations willing to give away the most code, which is why Linux dominated. Now it enjoys network effects. Why would I not want things to work as much the same as possible on everything I need to work with? Especially since it runs on everything.

Yes, there is still BSD out there, but there's very little reason for someone to use it as the basis of a product except wanting the option to abuse their user base. Apple went with NeXTStep not just because of The Jobs, but also because of the appeal of the license. It matches walled gardens.

Comment the final death of fact (Score 1) 70

When Bill Clinton signed the CDA in 1996, he chortled that it would increase competition. Of course it did the exact opposite, and led to the dominance of Fox News and Sinclair Media and the death of factual reporting. It's not quite ded yet, but this is the move that will lead to our having ONLY full-on state media allowed in our supposedly free country.

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