Actually, you make a pretty good point there.

Whence the skepticism?

Ok i doubt anyone is going to be willing to have this discussion, but here i am.

You’re right; here I was enjoying a silly comic–written in 2011–about computers turning programming into human daycare, and someone had to turn it into yet another excuse to start talking about AI, as if we didn’t have enough of that!

What did you think it stood for?

You missed the part where the reason why they are doing this is because the person who started XLibre had previously committed so much bad code to XOrg that needed to be rolled back that the git history is now a mess that is hindering forward progress. The goal of the new release is to start over from 2024 and cherry-pick the commits they want to keep in order to clean the history up.

Yeah, at that point they gave up on getting the emu to have the correct number of toes and decided to go ahead and ship it.

My favorite part is how this meme itself consists entirely of plain text plus a little styling.

I wonder what the fine folk of the Phoronix comment section have to say about this!

Let’s check out comment #2:

Does anyone still care, besides maybe Putin? [emphasis mine]

- anarki2

I see…

By handwriting raw lambda calculus.

The impression that I got from this article is that even the author of imake feels the same way, and is only maintaining it out of consideration for legacy software still using it.

Who would have thought that there would be a context in which GNU Autoconf and Automake were considered the modern way to build software?

My species uses e as its base because that is proven to be mathematically optimal. In our number system, humans use base 2.3025850… (but written entirely as powers of e using our far superior elegant notation, of course!)

No, scratch that. Even black holes radiate out the information they receive. M-Files doesn’t.

That is an amazing zinger!

I was also a bit surprised to see that Vala is so widely adopted, but it is a very natural fit when you consider that it was specifically designed to use GObject as its OOP implementation, making it essentially a “native” speaker in GNOME.

Nah, presumably the developer already has an operating system and just needs a text editor.

And what is the best tool for the job? The best tool for the job.

At least it’s Not Unix.

I barely trust natural intelligence with anything relating to security.

Yeah, in my opinion they should not have been obsessing over getting COSMIC to work before releasing 24.04.

“Unalive” isn’t being used for political correctness, it is being used because algorithms actively penalize content using the words “kill” and “suicide”, so using “unalive” instead is a way to work around censorship.