It’s a program certainly, but “just a program” is a bit misleading because it places it on the same footing as Doom or cat or an Arduino project. Linux is a ring 0 program, which processors give unique treatment.

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If you want a Nazi bar then make your own Lemmy instance for us to defederate.

Don’t ask AI things if you don’t understand them and their limitations.

📺 AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway

Usually whatever the default serif typeface is. What I care more about is flush left (“ragged right”) alignment, ideally with automatic hyphenation. I find justified alignment very distracting.

Problems with justification » Typographic anomalies

Ambiguous title is ambiguous ಠ_ಠ

I must have been asleep the day IBM bought Red Hat six years ago, because I had no idea.

This post is a decade old, so take it with a grain of salt: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/save-power-on-battery-with-udev/2696

The licensing: Free and open source vs. paid, proprietary, and closed source. That really is the core difference, the licensing, and all the differences that come as consequences of that difference.

What separates the Linux kernel from the (Free)BSD kernels is copyleft/reciprocal licensing vs. permissive licensing.

For months (years?) I’ve been installing it on ARM-based Macs by using brew install --no-quarantine.

The commit says something about something being “unsigned.” I suspect that means the LibreWolf artifact is unsigned, so they can’t verify its integrity.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/221666/files#diff-a2f494476a9a3132aa0da63b28d9fa05eb7180e78c32148864c7cdc214df33b9R22

The same thing just happened to Chromium:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/221570/files#diff-7073d00a063da1cbaa54537a0299fc88c89e55c6a7a0e0de2c34e82752d90e3aR13

Edit to add: Perhaps this was done in error, and perhaps it’s related to this issue: Autobump restrictions make opening PRs with bump-cask-pr overly complicated

The corporate algorithms are not on the side of the Palestinians.

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Thirty years later, same shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Yeah, it’s a non sequitur given that those firms have always been constituent parts of the US military-spook-industrial complex.. They DGAF about our actual privacy, though they may prefer that we believe that they care.

Let me Google ChatGPT that for you.

We don’t come to social media for AI copypasta. People who want spicy autocomplete answers can prompt LLMs themselves.

1. Governments have controlled money for millennia, and governments’ central banks have for over a century. There’s nothing new going on there.
2. You’re conflating digital currency and cryptocurrency. All cryptocurrencies are digital, but not all digital currencies are crypto.

You say that as if the majority of currency transactions worldwide weren’t already digital.

but what abt my 386SX tho