I see, I probably misunderstood what you were saying. Thanks. I’m seriously considering OpenSUSE myself, for both my workstations and home server.

I think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has SELinux enabled now too. I’m not sure what you mean by all over the system, as I’m not that familiar with SELinux yet. I believe that Tumbleweed used to use AppArmor but recently switched to SELinux? I also believe that Leap (the stable version of OpenSUSE) still uses AppArmor.

Flathub not coming preconfigured

Huh, that’s odd. I’ve been test driving different Linux distros lately for my move away from Windows, and Tumbleweed was one of the ones I tried. KDE Discover in Tumbleweed had Flatpak options for software, and I’m pretty sure it was tied to Flathub and not a different repo like Fedora does. Maybe I’m misremembering? Or did you mean that it doesn’t have the Flathub application itself?

I only have a passing interest in metal, but I heard about this Indonesian Muslim all-female metal trio (Voice of Baceprot) a while back and was impressed when I watched the videos of them playing. It’s trippy to see them wearing hijabs and all while kicking ass playing metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4728NJ7B8

Thank you! I was not familiar with this case.

Do you have a citation for that? Honest question as I hadn’t heard this before. Until this point I have always heard that corporations have no legal duty to put shareholder profits over all other considerations. Before anyone wonders, I’m not trying to defend capitalism, which I think is indefensible.

Haha, yes, that’s my plan!

Make Microsoft Windows show filename extensions.

I think Nassim Nicholas Taleb provided strong evidence that there are very few safe havens against black swan events. That was one of the main points of his book “Fooled By Randomness”. He may have expanded on that in his “Black Swan” book but I haven’t read or listened to that one yet.

They may be feeling the pinch of a ton of their subscribers cancelling it after they watched the last episode of Severance.

I’m glad you liked it. Unfortunately, I feel that it’s broader than that and speaks to general human nature. I think the issue becomes when some people weaponize this conviction that they are at just the right level of whatever scale they’re measuring against.

Added to my watchlist, thanks!

Absolutely! If you haven’t watched it yet, Dark Days is also harrowing, if not as much as The Act of Killing.

I do think that you could argue that this is a manifestation of their ideology being predicated not on a fixed ideology or particular material reality, but on an almost gnostic belief in their own position as being simply ‘the right one’ and therefore all others being inherently worthless or even malevolent. It’s essentially the divine right of kings but for self-defined superior wonks.

Here’s a relevant George Carlin joke/quote about this exact psychological concept that has always stuck with me:

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

The WordPress company, as in the developers of WordPress itself.

Thanks for these. Will add them to my list.

I love documentaries. There are so many amazing ones and I regret that they don’t get as much attention as the biggest fiction films, even though I love those too.

Here are two documentaries that immediately spring to mind because they made a big impression on me:

Dark Days (2000)

The Act of Killing (2012)

If people can code better, faster, cheaper, safer (more secure) that will surely apply to open source as well.

I’m not European, but I understand that there’s an old European (German?) saying that basically goes: “If I had wheels, I’d be a trolley.” I understand that it’s been pretty well-established that AI coding tools routinely underperform compare to humans in terms of “better” and “safer”, which indirectly would also lead to it failing at “cheaper” too.

On top of that, there is another major issue with using AI for open-source code: copyright. First, you don’t know if the code that you’re adding through AI may be copying license-incompatible code verbatim. Because everyone has access to open-source code, it would be trivial for anyone to search and find copyright-infringing code to attack projects with. Second, the code that AI produces is also not-copyrightable, so that is another line of attack that this would make open-source projects vulnerable to. These could be used in combination as a one-two punch combination to knock out an open-source project.

I think that using AI-generated code in open-source projects is a uniquely ill-advised idea.

This is almost like a real-world Chewbacca defense?

America’s right has been pretty relentlessly trying to get people out of pensions and into 401Ks for decades

Not just pensions. They’ve also been trying to get rid of Social Security in favor of private retirement accounts invested in the stock market for decades now.