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Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • But if the guy who created the FOSS movement says something gross, then they and everything they stand for should apparently be shunned.

    They might mean that, but they didn't say it. I don't think they did mean it. I think they just don't want people to forget the "problematic" aspects of someone before we go all worship mode on him.

    It's like how my partner will interject--he's canadian!--if I mention some actor. Like she just doesn't want me to forget that context, but other than that, I can carry on.

    Maybe they did mean that, though and I'm missing some context from somewhere else in this thread.

    I don't care if it's a verbal tick, if someone shows to my party with a flamethrower, I will assume they are here to burn witches.
    It does not matter to me if they really are witches or not, you show up with a flamethrower, I will do to you what is the traditionally reserved fate to those carrying flamethrowers on the battlefield. And I will even not be "asking questions later" about it.

  • Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books

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    Depending on the type of bankruptcy, the business can still operate, all their profits would just be going towards paying off their depts.
  • Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR

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    Read again. I quoted something along the lines of "just as much a development decision as a marketing one" and I said, it wasn't a development decision, so what's left? Firefox released just as frequently before, just that they didn’t increase the major version that often. This does not appear to be true. Why don't you take a look at the version history instead of some marketing blog post? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/ Version 2 had 20 releases within 730 days, averaging one release every 36.5 days. Version 3 had 19 releases within 622 days, averaging 32.7 days per release. But these releases were unscheduled, so they were released when they were done. Now they are on a fixed 90-day schedule, no matter if anything worthwhile was complete or not, plus hotfix releases whenever they are necessary. That's not faster, but instead scheduled, and also they are incrementing the major version even if no major change was included. That's what the blog post was alluding to. In the before times, a major version number increase indicated major changes. Now it doesn't anymore, which means sysadmins still need to consider each release a major release, even if it doesn't contain major changes because it might contain them and the version name doesn't say anything about whether it does or not. It's nothing but a marketing change, moving from "version numbering means something" to "big number go up".
  • Pope Leo urges politicians to respond to challenges posed by AI

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    Also fair
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    reminds me of the time when something with Amazon was Indian employees
  • Tiny LEDs May Power Future AI Inteconnects

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  • [paper] Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI

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    vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksV
    I'm specifically talking about toil when it comes to my job as a software developer. I already know I need an if statement and a for loop all wrapped in a try catch. Rather then spending a couple minutes coding that I have cursor do it for me instantly then fill out the actual code. Or, ive written something in python and it needs to be converted to JavaScript. I can ask Claude to convert it one to one for me and test it, which comes back with either no errors or a very simple error I need to fix. It takes a minute. Instead I could have taken 15min to rewrite it myself and maybe make more mistakes that take longer.
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    I deleted the snapchat now.