I've been hearing this a bit from very traditional greybeard linux users (I mostly just use linux at work and I'm very much a terminal jocky. tmux is my "terminal manager".) who have come around to KDE from being strong dislikers of it in the past. That Mate is just crusty and old, Gnome hasn't really been fun for a while but KDE has solved most of its nonsense problems and is now a quite complete and useable system, so its become their daily driver.

I just want to get alpine functional again so I can revert into terminal world permantly and never see a web page again lol

Yeah I work in an adjacent field in soil science but studying how soils retain and release carbon and doing work with farmers on trying to capture more carbon by looking at soil practices. Turns out you can sink a LOT of co2 in soil if you do things right. (Well I mostly just take extremely shit python written by scientists and make into competent python (and in strategic areas cuda and C) and stuff it into giant pipelines. But I guess since I also write research proposals I SORT OF count as a scientist. One day the boss will let me drop a little bit of that NDA and write a paper on my "DumBoScan" algorithm..... I guess I'm a Lab assistant maybe lol.

But there is DEFINATELY serious concern about this with the boffins. We do rely on a lot of stuff from NCAR and related labs (Ie WRF model and so on) so .... yeah this is a huge worry. Its going to impact farmers for sure as those guys are very dependent on understanding weather and climate trends for planning harvests and the like.

Not like trump gives a fuck. I'm really glad I'm in australia, though a lot of our clients are in the US, we do seem a BIT more isolated from it as the euros and brazillians have been picking up some of the research funding slack.

Unfortunately flattery doesn't feed the kids or pay the rent.

One of the more appalling things I've seen in the US on this stuff is people saying "Well actors are so well paid why should we care". The thing is theres a very very tiny number of actors that are paid well, the stars. But the vast majority, and the ones currently being sold by the AI firms as being replacable by AI, are background actors and bitpart actors and these are the guys who MIGHT be getting $30K a year if they are in regular work, and more likely far far less (The mean wage for actors is around $56K but its heavily skewed by a small number of very highly paid star actors so in reality its down around the $40K wage. Burger flipper wages.

And thats not even touching on the majority of workers in film, the crew, who have been getting fucked on ever since covid, worse in LA where large numbers of crew have been struggling with the fallout of the fires.

I TOO AM ANGRY AT EDUCATION.

My dude. You might be the first accout I've seen where almost every post is marked -1 TROLL

I'd suggest sitting with that fact for a while, but I know your not here to think are you champ?

Im actually not a fan of the AGPL at all. I think its intention is noble, but in practice it tends to get used as a shareware license instead of a free software license.

The GPL is very clear about its mandate. You can do whatever you want with this code, as long as you dont go distributing it, and if you do distribute it, here are your responsibilities.

The AGPL however violates GPLs freedom 0 , the right to USE the software however you wish (as long as you dont distribute it without source and a few other distribution requirements).

That means , for a start, its not compatible with GPL2 (GPL3 has a waiver for this). But to my mind the bigger issue is how its used. I have found very few examples of AGPL3 being used without an option of "dual licensing" (aka "shareware"), and since the AGPL3 pretty much prohibits almost any commercial useage as part of a web service, the end result is a license that effectively say "You cant test this, but if you use it for real, you must pay up".

Its a shareware license, not a free software license.

Tell Python programmers that white-space block delineation is dumb and braces are better. :-)

The reason people will roll their eyes at you over that is that its an incredibly boring debate that ended 30 years ago. Its pure surface level semantics and it just isn't interesting and tends to suggest people haven't actually spent much time understanding what they are complaining about.

Python has plenty of serious problems. But if what you get hung up on is whitespace, it means you dont know what the serious problems are.

Yeah I think mid last year there where leaks suggesting it was at a beta stage with internal playtesting.

Maybe poor old Alyx can finally stop hanging off that literal cliff lol.

Or its all bullshit. I probably will get me a steam box thingo though. I always had a rule back in the day where I timed my upgrades for Half life releases. And windows has pushed itself past my pain tolerance with its nonsense lately so maybe steamos might get an install out of me.

Yes, however much like AI, Netcraft confirms that BSD is dying. Its just one more crippling bombshell to hit the already beleaguered BSD community when IDC confirmed that BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers

Im fairly sure quite a few of his supporters have been coming to that conclusion.

I'd wager if you got MTG away from a camera and the threat of being smacked by trumps team of lawyers, she'd have some choice words on this matter. (and probably some crazy words on it too, this is after the jewish space lazer woman, but I digress.....)

Because they keep trying to undress in front of my children.

Damn right. I think its important we all band together and get more angry about made up bullshit that isn;'t true for some reason.

The left didn't shoot charlie kirk. A crazed gunman shot charlie kirk.

The right doesn't keep shooting schools up. Crazed gunmen shoot schools up.

If the left or the right take up arms, you'll know it, and it wont be some feckless angerbait celebrity getting popped.

Cool, except they''ve had multiple governments, some anti russian, some less so ever since, all because of democracy.

For reference, Zelensky was pro russian. He was also pro european and pro Nato, but he wanted to fix repair ties with the russians. Until, right after Nato voted to reject their application, the russians invaded.

The americans are irrelevant , this war had nothing to do with them.

Who gives an actual fuck if China gets to fancy AI first.

Seriously. As long as I can buy cool shit I dont care where its made.

Its not like ANY of this shit will actually create jobs once they automate us all into personal bankerupcy and perpetual unemployment.

"You can keep the whole town under surveilance as we jack their power bills through the roof. Think of the profits!"

Probably.

This is why I think a severe AI market crash might actually be good for AI. We've proven LLMs can be impressive, and occasionally even useful. Now, we just need the marketing people and CEO suite to fuck off and send it back into the labs for another decade or two to work on the more impressive stuff. And let the ethicists and policy wonks have a decade or so to get us ready for it so it doesnt dismantle civil society, the economy, and politics as insane silicon valley loons torch the forests and redirect half the planets worth into building a premature stupid product nobody wants.