medem

Outside the more pragmatic and conceivable city-state, the very concept of nationality in the modern sense is pretty useless.

What on earth does the GNU Compiler Collection have to do with Uncle Sam’s newest aggression war?

Wexit.

I understand that BSD see closed source as something cool ‘You understand’? Where did you get that idea? The argument is not, and was never, that closed source is cool. The argument is that strong copyleft, while based on a noble goal, ends up hindering development: Here’s OpenBSD’s take on it. (CTRL+F for GPL).

Pretty much sums up my life rn...

Not necessarily ‘lying’, but always ‘defending their own interests’. If your country’s interests align with them, that’s little more than a nice side effect. If not, well, that’s that.

Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn’t make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.

Sounds familiar: didn’t the AWS outage last month also nuke 3,000+ USD ‘smart beds’?