I don't think there's a real mystery here, but this shit isn't helping our street cred.

Came here to post basically this. People need to stop naming things after Eris if they want them to work right.

... they got to him!

For example in Debian currently, and I assume most other distros too, there isn't actually an explicit policy that requires the source package to be capable of building the literal binary package that accompanies it, which can stymie even the most basic auditing procedures. This sounds to me like a way to encourage that by making a full suite of solutions to automate "reproducable builds" while adding some additional security cross-checks - something which Google didn't invent themselves but now appear to be trying to help popularize while also taking credit for.

I suspect a similar operation is being carried out on both Splatoon 3 and World of Warcraft PvP games but they just haven't been caught yet.

Windows 11 discovered to be doing this by default as a "feature" in 3, 2, 1...

I don't know if they're slated for support by this Debian release yet, but Pine64 is also making some RISC-V SoC boards.

That commercial made me cry like a baby.

You probably know this already, so please don't take this as an insult if you do, but just in case: Rest assured you can probably port most or all of what you liked about the Clear Linux optimizations to any other distro fairly easily. Intel no doubt realized this too, and it was probably a key part of the decision to end their own distro. If the summary is to be believed, you may not even have to bother, because the relevant optimizations may be making their own way to your next favorite distro too..

I understand your knee jerk intuition about crypto currency. But very earnestly I suggest learning a bit about monetary policy. It's indispensable. And after that you may want to read about bretton woods and how banks in different countries actually can trade money to each other. The US treasury and its impact on monetary policy enables this. It's not just a methodology in the sense that bitcoin is a method for moving money. Monetary policy is how countries can perform the miracle of Keynesian economics to regenerate Growth in a downturn. That cannot ever be done ever without fiat currency and a central bank. Period. This was. Why for example Germany plunged in to pre-hitler ruin after world war 1. There was no way to climb out of turned down economy when you had no gold reserves (France took them). Germany only managed to recover when they pegged their mark to a kilo of wheat-- not a long term solution but a desperate move that mostly worked. But the economic malaise didn't end till Hitler started spending money into the economy. That was made possible by moving off the gold standard prior to Hitler.

Without monetary policy you are left with the austerity of Austrian economics which pretty much inverts the rational of monetary policy and loses all it's advantages.

If crypto ever rises to rival the dollar you can kiss the USA goodbye because it will mean the end of monetary policy and central banking. If you say good riddance, I think you may not understand how the world works

He's making an obvious reference to the hit Sci-fi/Horror film "Alien," in which the monsters' larval forms have come to be colloquially called "face huggers" in pop culture, though I'm not sure that term was ever actually used in the movie. If you watch relevant clips from the movie, or indeed any of its sequels, I'm sure the reference will become obvious. It's an astute observation, and bears serious consideration as plausible, however I'm fairly sure the actual origin of this company name comes from auto-translating "Fuck Face" back and forth between Russian and English through a few permutations.

...aaaand predictably modded down again for telling the truth as usual by the same.

What are the chances that one too many of these monsters merge together and just starts gobbling up the entire rest of the universe at an exponentially increasing rate? Has anyone done the math on that yet? Exciting times, indeed.

I'm pretty sure I predicted this about 5 years ago and was modded down for it.