That “article” is obviously AI generated; that whole page should be blocked from this community.

You should read the original article, or even his mail on LKML, because that is not what he is saying. He is not endorsing AI in any way; instead, he is concerned that the latest linux release candidate has so much changes, because everyone and their mother is using some AI tool to create and send “little small” fixes; obviously he has no control over how volunteers work.

Furthermore, he stated that the security mailing list has become unusable due to the influx of AI generated entries.

I think that Kevin and Tony probably don’t even think about this, they lived their entire live that way. They don’t know any better.

Here in Germany, if you want to move a sofa, you have three options:

1. Rent a transporter (no one here has a truck), park it illegally in front of the house while onloading the sofa, transport the sofa, park the car again illegally while unloading it. If the police catches you or a neighbor files a complain, you may have to pay a fee.

2. File a form so that someone puts up traffic signs for that day that no one except you may park in front of the two houses. Costs around 90 € and takes 3 weeks. Rent car, proceed as usual. Someone will see that you park in a “no parking” zone and does not know that you requested that zone, so he will file a report. Therefore, later, fill some more forms to battle that claim.

3. Do 1) at night where no one sees you or cares.

(This is of course highly exaggerated. Parking is not such a problem in every city.)

I did want to add rotation to the map, but unfortunately with the art style it’s just not possible :-/

Just for the record, another GPS game, “Resources”, also never implemented a rotating map; possible for similar reasons.

Why is this so badly written?

Thank you for the detailed explanation, now I get it.

I still don’t get it.

Why do you pipe stderr of du into /dev/null?

apple is scummy just like the other big tech companies but it’s one of the least scummy out there, especially wrt open source.

Maybe with regard to open source, because that benefits them as a company - let others fix their bugs for free. But definitely not with regard to free software.

The FreeBSD desktop exists, it is called “Mac OS”.

Linus Torvalds used the GPL for his kernel, forcing companies to release the source code if they improve it and distribute it. The main userland was a lot of GPL licensed GNU software for a very long time, with a similar effect.

The BSD folks, on the other hand, decided to give everything away, by using much more “liberal” licenses. Apple took the BSD base, bolted their UI on top of it and gave almost nothing back. That would not have happened if BSD was GPL licensed.

Thank you for providing that link.

I think I know about kotaku for 15 years now, but I can’t remember any instance where they published an article that was worth reading. It is another instance of wasted resources that can only exist because not enough people are using adblock.

Has AI really atrophied their tech skills that much?

These people never had any skill to begin with. They only have a codebase now because of AI.

How is he misinformed when he does not have problems? I had NVIDIA cards for more than 15 years, never an issue with the linux drivers. Then I got an AMD and the driver occasionally crashes, bringing the whole desktop down.

tldr: LLMs are Dunning-Kruger detectors / Reverse Turing Tests on people, and a whole lot of people are significantly more stupid than I guess we otherwise previously realized.

That is the absolute best way to put it.

Your comparison of Linux fanboyism and veganism is on-point (I am a Linux user since 2001). However, regarding “converting” them - this picture is a joke, not really to be taken seriously.

I see that you are an expert in literature and a connoisseur when it comes to these things.

No way this is real

Thank you!

A quality disc can last 10 years or more. At a company I used to work at the backups were burned to discs coated with gold. They had 15 year old discs that still worked.