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.

I wish nobody used terrible services when the only thing they offer is convenience yet here we are.

I concede there was a window of time where that was true. Too early, and AI had nothing to do with the current methods and tried a more symbolic approach. Too late (i.e. now) and the term has been pushed so hard by corpos (because of the superficial semantic reading “AI” => “intelligence” for marketing hype) and it means for a lot of people, whether you like it or not, “ChatGPT”, and it alienated them.

Unproductive? Probably (and for sure in the context of your work). Pointless? Absolutely disagree when companies force that vision of intelligence on us. This has a social impact.

Now maybe this is pointless to you, and that’s ok, but it’s not to a lot of other people.

Tinfoil hat moment: Altman panicked with all the money hemorrhaging and is trying new inventive ways to get money from the paid subscribers whilst drastically reducing operation costs. He pulled the plug for a bit.

That is mostly because, at the time, in the reduced context of videogames, it was clear that AI was used to describe the behaviour of non playable entities.

And also, I don’t think video game terms were ever taken to have scientific accuracy (at least I hope not) or, more importantly, ever tried to imply that these entities exhibited “intelligence”.

Now an entire subfield of statistics is being called AI by virtue of the fact that we often do linguistic abuses when it comes to talking about computers or code (something that Dijkstra was vehemently against in this fantastic note about teaching compsci). I don’t know why statisticians felt the need to hype up gradient descent by calling it “learning” but here we are.

Now I know I am caricaturing, but the point I am trying to make is that, now that the cat is out of the bag, and that “AI” is not just an academic term but has been willfully used to get money and to sell products with anything and everything, the unfortunate effect is that for a lot of people, AI = LLMs mostly. And I’d say amongst these people, a number, me included, would like it to stop using that term entirely because of that abuse AND because of the suggestion that it exhibits intelligence, in that context.

I get that it sucks for you and you feel attacked if you do anything that has to do with machine learning or deep learning, but again, context is important, and this comm is pretty clearly against the slop generators (and the term AI altogether for the reasons mentioned), not necessarily all modern tools of statistical analysis and pattern recognition.

EDIT: Just saw that Malik already did mention this more succinctly. Please feel free to ignore me.

ORIGINAL COMMENT: The comments here already cover a good bit, esp. with the link to Piotr’s blog post.

However I don’t see anyone reacting to your mention of the snap store.

If you want some details about that, you can read here: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html

But in a few words, distributing software is kinda of a mess in Linux at first glance, for various technical reasons.

To caricature, you used to only install the packages from your distribution (mint for you) repositories, and if a program wasn’t in it, you had to either compile it or jump through other hoops.

Then came other formats which made distributing software across Linux distros easier, with some caveats. Two notable ones are Snap and Flatpak.

Snap was made by the guys behind Ubuntu and mint is an offshoot of Ubuntu that made the willful decision to not do snaps by default after a number of fiascos.

My advice would be: try installing software through the normal mint repositories, ideally the non Flatpak version. If it does not exist there or is buggy or whatever, consider the Flatpak. Only failing that should you look into snap IMO.

User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Damn, I’m sorry to hear. I have seen a couple of your posts around, and yeah, let’s say I know this struggle.

It can get better, I hope it does for you.

Sure, but that is more of a Christian church problem over a US one. There are plenty of cases where I’m from too, and also a few recent scandals with private Catholic school, so I’d tend to shit on the Vatican rather than the US on that particular one.

I just can’t imagine thinking my children could get shot every time they go to school.

That’s convenient, I had just created a “genocide apologists of the year” award, and was not sure who to give it to.