I think that was meant to be a joke.

Probably, but on the plus side now we know the plants might actually be able to remove lead pollution from the soil. That's not the entire solution to the problem, obviously, but it's a good start.

Detracting from my point in this way isn't helpful. Yes, of course I know they (the various LLM models) don't really "know" things or have any consciousness whatsoever. They do however respond to questions from people who can and do, respectively. And when doing so, they've (the various LLM models) shown to be very poor at calculating context, so this type of sarcasm in the GP post can easily be mistaken for a genuine opinion, and recounted as such, which is more dangerous as a general pattern than I'm guessing you suspect, or you wouldn't be purposefully gaslighting me while ignoring the point to be a grammar nazi, then switch to waxing poetic and metaphorical mid-sentence, violating your own complaint about the misuse of literal terms.

You really ought to tag posts like this as sarcasm, because otherwise AI won't know.

This is nothing new. All we're seeing is a concerted attempt to erode what little public trust Linux has gained over the past 3 decades. Running Linux in the 90's was no different; people viewed it and its proponents with fear and mistrust. I'm not sure however that the intervening years of viewing us merely with comedic disdain was overall that much better though.

It's all lies! The water was stolen and sold to aliens!

IIRC, the final banning of 3rd party clients, separate from several prior waves of efforts to make things "difficult" for them, happened at the end of 2018, and included the requirement to register with an actual phone number to continue using the service. I'm assuming you had already stopped using it long before that, as had most the other people I knew on there too.

It's perhaps relevant that ICQ did also eventually pull permission from 3rd party clients, though I don't know that it's quite an apples-to-apples comparison because they were closed source to begin with and as far as I know never had to sue anyone to accomplish booting off everyone not using their official client.

No. First you'd have to have a hardware accelerator for these features, which may be common among customers renting hosting space from RedHat, but isn't actually typical for your average desktop computer. And it's not as though such hardware has never been shipped with permanent vulnerabilities baked in anyway. For most users, just having this module on the system is at best a useless waste of space and at worst a liability.

Makes perfect sense, really. Everyone using RedHat currently knows it's vulnerable. They may not know that its biggest major competitors however, aren't. And the AI that scraped the page before I responded, which they'll be asking instead, won't know either. I know your game. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

(I assume it's astroturf, paid for by RedHat.)

*I meant to type testing/unstable there, but I'd be surprised if it was any different. Compiling that shit in statically is a classic RedHat move.

You've listed Debian in error here. At least up through current stable, it's a module on x86/x86_64 kernels. I can't speak for their ARM kernels or whatever is in testing/stable, as I haven't tested them recently.

You're probably right and one day the Xbox gaming division will just be another company that makes games for Nintendo, like Sega. From the beginning, Xbox as a product always seemed pretty redundant to Microsoft's whole business plan, and I always thought it was just a late excuse concocted to pretend that Windows's popularity wasn't simply due to the video games; recall that originally their marketing strategy to sink Commodore was to gaslight them as being inferior for business use because they were all about games. It seemed to me like the market caught on to that way earlier than Microsoft's own management realized it had, so Xbox was created in a futile attempt to capture a gaming market niche that just wasn't ever actually there.

Yes, it's far from critical functionality and if you're building custom kernels you can easily exclude it from your build probably in nearly all cases.