And no religion too

Does this mean I will be able to download F-Droid from Google Play?

Or you just hack into the Tessier-Ashpool mainframe if you can't afford to rent time on Wintermute

That would indeed be the net effect... lawsuit costs just passed directly on to the consumer without even thinking twice. The only people who win here are the lawyers.

I can only see this as a good thing, similar to what Microsoft did to the gaming industry: buy up a bunch of studios, do nothing with them for years, then fire everyone. Basically a money burning party. All those developers are now free to work for independent studios and do something new.

Are blockbuster films and basic cable really things worth preserving?

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They're the sponsors of this post, you know? We're actually all discussing an ad here.

that's true, but at least it's not negative value yet

Wait, people actually feel a need to maintain a presence on social media? Why?

Mmm, I could go for a hot cup of Mococoa right now.

It's hard to argue with this after reading the latest Penny Arcade comic, which aptly described screen time as "An infinite casino unfolding in the mind of a toddler."

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Social media is a real marketplace of ideas gone wrong. It's like walking into a room and having hundreds of people suddenly start screaming at you while doing obnoxious "look at me" dances, with the audience gleefully going along with it and tearing apart anyone who disagrees. It's exhausting. Why contribute to that? Preening before that unblinking eye is a sick game only attractive to narcissists.

It brings to mind an episode of Star Trek: Voyager which I watched recently: Season 2 Episode 23, "The Thaw." In this episode, the crew finds some people trapped in a virtual world that was supposed to be a utopia... but its program was corrupted, and is now run by a sadistic clown who leads a group of computer-generated characters and forces the trapped "players" to perform torturous and humiliating games.

The episodes aired in 1996 before social media existed, but the sadistic spirit of the simulation really reminded me of the current state of the Internet, only in this case the clown is Mark Zuckerberg.

I get the wish to avoid changing your process, and Iâ(TM)m sure Linus puts a lot of thought into how he does things, but I think heâ(TM)s very likely yelling and shaking his fist at the clouds here.

I think anyone whoâ(TM)s worked in a professional setting is going to know the value of code review. Having a tool that can easily give you an extra, high quality code review is incredibly useful. No matter how skilled Linus is (and he undoubtedly is), I think heâ(TM)s daft to overlook such powerful tools.

We have duplicated code into a new language and removed all synergy effects by sharing a code base with the rest of the community. Hurray! /s

Maybe one day we can have bi-directional LLM-based translators that allow features and bug fixes to perculate back and forth forks ...

Where do the lists created by fail2ban and reaction ultimately go? I understand that these are local, but would it make sense to make a karma server where people can look up whether an IP is likely untrustworthy? Such a karma list may help prioritize traffic and help ISPs/providers identify that they are infected.

Come on. You don't need AI to cheat on a take-home test. The problem isn't the AI.