> History will probably remember him as LTT, “Linus The Torvalds”

This is trolling right?

> This is trolling right?

Yes, and well done as well. Unlike the other two unmentionables, Linus very much worthy of remembrance. Sure he was extra grumpy for a long time but that's about the only bad thing you can say about the man.

There are a lot of tangential, one-liner, throwaway jokes in this article.

It is a reference to Torvalds making an appearance on the LTT youtube channel, intentionally getting the LTT meaning wrong.

Yes, everyone knows LTT is Linus Tech Tips!

Hi. You cannot log on to porn sites in Alabama which is subject to those documents. I think it’s crazy that you’re this naive.

Not sure about Alabama, but accessing porn sites in Virginia (where they are currently banned without adult verification) is easy. Just use the TOR browser, and it works just fine. No need for expensive VPNs.

It’s not about circumventing the bans, it’s about the bans being in place to begin with.

I don't know much about car economics but I'd think Tesla probably should have built a truck to sell as a fleet vehicle first. There are very few car brands that aren't part of a larger entity doing b2b vehicle sales.

Grok 4.1 told me my writing surpassed the authors I cited as influence.

Honestly I’d rather google get their gemini tool in better shape. I know for a fact it doesn’t ignore instructions like Claude code does but it is horrible at editing files.

I’m pretty sure Claude would not work well in my code base if I hadn’t meticulously added docstrings, type hints, and module level documentation. Even if you’re stubbing out code for later implementation, it helps to go ahead and document it so that a code assistant will get a hint of what to do next.

Weird question probably but outside of the super esoteric distros running a bespoke package manager what stops someone who installs a distro like bazzite from just continuing to update packages? If they use apt for example then they'll still get updates when the repos are updated and most of these distros reuse existing software repositories.

Bazzite works a bit differently as it's an immutable distro. Whilst updates for normal/user-level packages (Steam etc) will continue to work (as these are Flatpaks), your core system packages won't and you can't just change your repo to say Fedora's repos, as system updates are image-based and are pulled directly from Bazzite's github repo (which in turn pulls from Feodra).

The good news is, you can easily rebase to any other uBlue or even Fedora Atomic distro with just one or two commands, or if you're technical, you can even fork Bazzite's repo and build your own Bazzite (they even provide instructions on how to do this, it's very very simple, relatively speaking).

Steam is not a flatpak on Bazzite.

Even if they are, Valve has a long track record of contributing back to open source projects.

Proton was a community led effort years back. The guy who started that is now an employee at Valve (IIRC) working on Proton, but also getting paid :)

You’re asking ChatGPT for advice to stop drone attacks? Does that mean people die if it hallucinates a wrong answer and that isn’t caught?

No, I don't need ChatGPT's help for the basics of air defense.

Military technologies are validated before deployed. Nobody can die from a hallucination.

But if I want to understand, say, how a particular Russian drone works, ChatGPT can help me piece together information from English, Russian, and Ukrainian-language sources.

But sometimes ChatGPT's safety filter thinks I want to use the Russian drone instead of stopping it, in which case it doesn't want to help.

This happens in real life too. I’ll never forget an LT walking in and asking a random question (relevant but he shouldn’t have been asking on-duty people) and causing all kinds of shit to go sideways. An AI is probably better than any lieutenant.