Do you know what Unix is or the C programming language? Your bafflement is entirely baffling. OpenBSD is never switching to Rust or Go or any of the new fad languages, so why not use libc? It’s the Unix way after all.
The problem with having a benvolent dictator is that the system is set up for a dictator to control things, and the chances of the next dictator being quite as benevolent are low.
perhaps Theo has a plan for an eventual succession, perhaps not. Sometimes dictators can't really conceive of somebody else running the show so they don't plan for it.
The Linux kernel development model is one that embraces forking and submitting patching in a way that totally horrifies webdevs paid to mush together data transformation pipelines.
Linus and Greg KH are both very clear that you don't have to use their "blessed" source trees. You're encouraged to fork.
All of the genuinely moronic rhetorical arguments about "maintainer responsibility" are downstream from the GPLv2, which very clearly states in all capital letters there's no warranty implied or otherwise. The amount of time wasted on moot debates over that is mind boggling.
After he chewed out Intel for making such shitty CPUs, he was unceremonsiously removed from his position and sent away for a full month of re-education at an undisclosed location. This was shortly after Spectre and Meltdown became public. Feel free to read more about it!
What does this mean? 64-bit inode numbers? 64-bit timestamps? Something else?
> Also they removed softupdates,
Shame in a way, I remember reading McKusick's paper and being impressed. But I guess it's the antithesis of batching, which turned out to be more important for performance than avoiding the extra I/O due to journalling. Also the implementation was AFAIU fearsomely subtle and tricky.
This is grandstanding, there's no way to enforce how people or machines dispose with the data you put on the Internet. No enforcement mechanism, no chain of responsibility. It's literally FREE data. And this extends to photographs, drawings, music, code, prose, poetry, and all of the human generated content which IS being used by everybody from search engines (Google never asks permission) to AI companies, to cyber criminals and overreaching security theater weirdos in government. All of them can do whatever they like with whatever they find.
Don't like it? Don't put your data on the Internet, or use a mobile device near a conversation you'd rather keep private. No amount of regulation will ever stop any of this.
Well, it's not open source, it's not open to the public, they're not open with what they're doing or what their goals are. It's just a word like wuzzle or fibblefobble. Or google.
It's good AIslop is labeled for now, as if it's a novelty worth pursuing. But when this meaningless, demonic horror show takes over most entertainment, people will be less amused.
I for one do not look at AI-generated images, listen to AI-generated sounds or music, watch AI videos, and other than the various bots and shills online in forums like this, I do not interact with AI chat bots. Imagine filling your brain with generated garbage.
They'd die, just like people. Mammals in general can't digest chitin. There aren't any human populations that consume a significant amount of insect protien. It's just a trick to demoralize and humiliate the peasantry.
Bugs literally aren't even fit to be fed to pigs. But I'd enjoy force feeding somebody like you more than you could handle!
Are you a pig farmer? Because this has been studied many times and you’d think they’d notice.
This is one situation where I can say, “how can a billion Chinese people be wrong?” without sarcasm. Roasted grasshopper is sold as a snack. Whole grasshopper. People aren’t dying from it.
