Absolutely! Not making fun, but whenever somebody brings up Emacs in earnest, this is what I think of!

Emacs is not that hard. You can learn Emacs in one day, every day!

A relatively small company can’t afford to fight a protracted legal battle or simply ignore the law. They have employees with families, and $800/hr for legal representation adds up fast, not to mention potentially getting hit with $6500 fines per infraction for refusal to comply. They also can’t afford to just not sell in California, which has a huge chunk of the US population.

We don’t have to be happy about the state of things, but it’s not their fault that capitalism and authoritarianism have effectively forced them to comply.

Be upset by all means, but remember to focus your anger upon those who actually put/is putting these laws in place.

There’s a handful of projects out there that are trying to do exactly this, by programmatically poisoning potential training data.

Are you talking about The Pearl, by chance? It’s one I haven’t read, yet, but if you’re talking about another story, I’d like to read that, too!

Did he throw him out? Last I knew, he basically gave Kent a blanket “no,” forcing him to go his own way.

Not arguing, just asking.

Which DE? CachyOS has several options. The “Open With” menu option works great for me, but I’m running Gnome on CachyOS.

Flatpak doesn’t always work correctly, because you may need to explicitly allow the app container to access certain system services and paths. You can usually do this easily in a program like Flatseal. Most apps should work correctly, however.

In recent tests that I’ve seen, KDE has better touchscreen and multitouch support. It’s long been thought that Gnome was gunning for the touchscreen market, but they got overtaken, because their release cycle is slower.

But I use a Wacom tablet with Gnome, and I agree that the pressure support is great.

I think they’re still a pretty small operation, and I’m just grateful that I have a functional alternative to Goodreads.

They’re talking about Twitch’s own internal moderation, not streamer-specific mod tools.

A streaming suspension applies to violations occurring during a livestream. This penalty blocks the user from going live and temporarily disables chat on their channel.

It was not. Poe’s Law.

They’re a complete stranger, and there are actual people who unironically say stuff like that, even on the Fediverse.

Omfg, don’t talk to Meta’s chatbot. Period. Don’t use Facebook.

I can’t believe it’s 2026, and people still think Meta somehow has any neutrality—after it’s been demonstrated time and again that they aren’t just accidentally bad, they’re actively malicious.

Sigh of course it’s a Nordic thing. I should have guessed. White nationalists also love other Heathen/Norse symbolism.

Good to be careful, so thanks for educating me.

Can you explain why you feel that way? “Hyperborea” is not a term I’m familiar with vis a vis Nazism.

Join an instance without downvotes, and you’ll never have to care about them again.

Thanks for the reference!

That very much depends on my use case. For example, I have a laptop that needs to have maximum uptime, so I use a periodic atomic distro that’s just under bleeding edge.

For my daily driver, I like to tinker and customize, so I trade that stability for openness and a bleeding edge, relying upon btrfs snapshots as a first-line backup should the OS shit itself.

Because I’m tired of people making flimsy arguments for why LLMs are “akshully really good and underrated.” I’m tired of regular people, wittingly or unwittingly, carrying water for the billionaires who are currently fucking over the economy, the environment, and even entire supply chains in an effort to show—against all evidence to the contrary—that LLMs are much more than fancy chatbots.

It has been an incessant drone of sloppy arguments and omitted facts, and I am tired, boss.

Obviously, my mini-benchmark only had 6 questions, and I ran it only once. This was obviously not scientifically rigorous. However it was systematic enough to trump just a mere feeling. … If and when AI usage expands from here, we might actually not drown in AI slop as chances of accidentally crappy results decrease. This makes me positive about the future.

Spoken like a true AI apologist. You ran one test, and you extrapolated your results to an optimistic outcome that conspicuously matches what you wish to be true. Not scientifically rigorous? Bruh, this is the very definition of confirmation bias.

If this is actually a hypothesists you want to test, maybe contact some computer science researchers to see how to best design an experiment. Beyond that, this is virtually the same as flipping a coin once and drawing a conclusion about how often heads is the outcome.