Nah. It's like saying "The last 10 red lights I stopped at, there was no cross traffic, so I'll blow through the next one".

Whether the reports are being miscategorized is a different issue, but basically, this is just Linus venting some frustration.

If these are genuine bugs, it seems like they should have a bug reporting system capable of efficiently handling duplicates. The last thing you want is somebody failing to report a genuine bug because they mistakenly assumed it was already reported.

TFS is misleading. The word "free" appears on that web page 23 times. It's literally the first word after the header.

This all but guarantees an increase in ransomware attacks. There won't be any increase in defense against these kinds of attacks because it's easier and cheaper to pay the ransom. The losers here will be the users because of all the downtime and there will inevitably be leaks anyway.

Paying the ransom is reprehensible since it will cause so much pain for other people in the future, and should be illegal.

With all due respect, things have changed a lot in the 12 years since your kids became teenagers.

Most parents are good people with good intentions, but in today's world they just need a little help in steering their children away from the many dangers that are impossible to avoid entirely.

"A lot of users aren't that good at predicting the future" is just another way of saying the vast majority of the polymarket bettors are suckers. The old adage of "If you don't know who the sucker is, then you're the sucker" holds true for polymarkets. If you don't have insider information, especially illegal insider information, then you're just donating your money to those who do.

Making the ransomware payments illegal is the _only_ solution. We've endured years of attacks and the idea that this will be solved by organizations bolstering their defenses has proven to be a fallacy.

Making the ransomware payments illegal would not only cause the rewards for the cybercriminals to dry up, it will also remove the lazy solution that many organizations are relying upon (paying the ransom), instead of bolstering their defenses.

Gee, you staff the administration from top to bottom with incompetents and you get incompetence, ranging from pointless wars to lame apps. Who would have guessed?

Next it will be your bank account. Only, the bank won't have as much incentive to fix the problem as PocketOS did in this case. Good luck arguing with the AI customer support agent to try to get your retirement savings back.

When school lets out in my neighborhood, the streets are full of swarms of high-speed ebikes dashing every which way. The number of accidents is staggering. Something needs to change.

You're absolutely right. There is a certain style and format that makes them easy to spot. Or, more precisely: they are easy to spot for the small number of people who know what to look for. However, very soon they will become difficult to identify as AI-generated.

The problem is not that there are a lot of AI slop pages being generated every day. The problem is the search results you get back from google are increasingly dominated by these AI slop pages. It's becoming difficult to avoid them and the misinformation they spew.

What you're saying about "just the rich" doesn't align with the facts. In California, about a third of the people who file returns, mostly non-rich people, don't pay state income tax.

They despise Trump. Most of them have always despised Trump. That's not the problem. The problem is they despise the left even more. Like most hate, that hatred is irrational, and this particular irrational hatred is founded on the baseless belief that everything wrong in their lives is the fault of immigrants, people of color, and everyone else who doesn't look like them...in other words, the left side of the political spectrum.

Hatred is a powerful motivator and that's what has put this country in the position it finds itself in.

These markets are only serving to make evil activities far more profitable than they ever were before.