I was diplomatically explaining to an older family member just the other day that the top “result” in Google now is a bloody AI summary, and to not trust it, especially for medical advice after they’d sent us a worrying screenshot of it…

I can’t wait for the next conversation.

Nearly 20 years ago, first year of uni, living on my own in a big city.

I was riding a metro back home, messaging my then gf, when some dude grabbed and pocketed my phone. He had a friend with him. I asked him politely to give it back to me, he told me to go fuck my mum, so I started swinging.

I landed a few punches to each one before they started kicking me into a corner. They stopped and jumped out the metro at the next station and I did not dare give chase.

There were a few people in the metro who had seen everything, and no one had come to my help. In the heat of the moment, I may or may not have shouted a bunch of abuse at them which was very stupid and I regret.

I made peace with this once I realised even people at the very “top” of their fields (whatever that means) often still felt that way.

Nobody stays awake like me. Nobody. I am tremendous at it. Everyone says it. Even the fake news people. Some people say I am the best in the world at staying awake. I have millions and millions of awake hours, and the greatest stamina.

And that’s not all, but I wanted to keep it short. The “her life” section on Wikipedia is actually hilarious, I’ll paste it here.

Her paternal great-grandfather, J. J. Thomson, was awarded a Nobel prize for the discovery of the electron. Her grandfather, GP Thomson, was awarded the Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the wave properties of the electron. Her maternal great-grandfather, William Henry Bragg, was awarded, together with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, a Nobel prize for Physics for the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-ray. Alice along with her husband live at Chevithorne Barton, an estate in Devon, which houses the Plant Heritage National Oak collection.

“She has 4 nobel prizes (one joint one) in her family, and she… Has a big house.”

For signal, you can add their PPA As explained here

For Godot, their website has an AppImage. This is a case where I’d say it makes sense not to have it being automatically updated, because if you work on a video game for the kind of time frame that they usually require, you want to decide when to upgrade your game engine (or not to at all) as it may break your current project. But you know your needs, just thought I’d explain the rationale for that particular one.

For Blender… Yeah if the version is outdated and you want automatic upgrades then Snap works. Maybe someone could chime in with another recommendation but that sounds sensible to me.

I also find KDE to be a real mixed bag. Every time I have tried it, thinking “maybe it got better”, it has ranged from being a bit buggy to “holy shit this is well broken”. I may just have been really unlucky but I have been burned too many times and now avoid it altogether.

Yeah, I am quite firmly against “AI” as is being pushed on the consumer by the big corporations and OpenAI and so on, but these headlines tend to annoy me. I agree with you there.

Every time something new comes out, there is a similar moral panic going on, and it’s rarely, if ever, justified (rock and roll makes you a satanist, video games make you violent and so on).

If anything, I think it detracts from a bunch of other very valid points one can argue against the current generative AI, and makes the people who are reticent or opposed to it look a lot less credible when associated with this.

That being said, as time passes and more and more serious studies about it come out, maybe a scientific consensus will emerge and will agree with this, in which case I’ll be happy to eat crow and add this to my long list of reasons why I don’t like these technologies. Until then, I’ll remain somewhat skeptical of those claims.

She is the great granddaughter of J. J. Thomson who got the Nobel prize for the discovery of the electron.

Can you imagine how fucking mediocre one has to be to start their life surrounded by such knowledge, with such an advantage, and not manage to be anything better than a little capitalist lapdog scribbling propaganda in bullshit newspaper .

I always assumed they went straight to Linus Torvalds, and that he’d personally revoke your Linux license and flame you publicly after receiving too many.

And he’s also the best fucking programmer of all time.

That sounds like quite the combo, hope you’re doing alright. I’ll probably pass on calling you schizo though if that’s ok. I had just assumed you were shitposting tbh, but whatever floats your boat. Hope you enjoy the community and the Linux experience

Terry Davis.

Welp, here’s sincerely hoping this is not a bad omen.

Let’s skip all intermediate quotes and directly jump to the xkcd reference: I only program with butterflies. Of course, there is an Emacs command for that: good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly

You’re going to feel right at home with TempleOS.

The real level up is bare-metal Emacs.

Shame this OS does not come with a solid text editor.

Not if you are a 1337 H4x0r like the badass you’re answering to.

Good ol’ CS flashbang PTSD.

Oh I did not mean to appear combative or being a contrarian. I don’t even care about Zig or LLVM to be honest. I just thought that that clarification was sort of necessary seeing as the GitHub thing is a reaction to MS bullshit, whereas the LLVM thing at least seemed to me like it wasn’t (initially) from some drama or a secret or anything.

Still, this is assuming I’m not just hallucinating what I am claiming.

IIRC, the difference here is that Zig’s plan had always been to make their own compiler, but had to use LLVM to get started and, more cynically, to try and get some LLVM contributors interested in the project so they could essentially poach them.

I am pretty sure I have seen a video interview of Andrew Kelley transparently saying that ages ago but I’ll try and find it to link it here.

Put down the pipe-weed Gandalf.