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  • It was front page on the BBC as well.

  • The problem that I see is that all of these alternatives still rely on YouTube at the end of the day.

    And the cost of setting up a new video hosting site that's free to consume content from is ridiculous.

  • There's definitely still plenty of utility here. Most technical people agree that they're generally just very good at googling things but what if you don't know what to search for? An AI can take your poorly worded question, make some kind of sense of it and spit something out.

    Whereas anyone who knows how and what to Google will probably find the right answer faster. So it at least levels the playing field a bit.

    Maybe.

  • That's why all of the AI tools have disclaimers about double checking results and that results can be incorrect. That's the liability waiver.

  • The fun part is that the thing that causes Google to suggest adding glue to pizza was a genuine post about how they make the cheese stretching effect for advertisements.

    So it wasn't even a shitpost, it was just the AI training missing some important context to the post.

  • It's entirely possible that 24,000 VM's didn't count as "large" by VMWare standards.

  • Statistically, the best properties to have are the ones just after jail. Everyone who passes go still has to pass them, while those who get sent to jail also have I pass them. The organge properties are the best, because the average dice roll is 7 and from jail that lands you right on them.

  • Sure, but Microsoft has since contributed a lot to Linux and other open source projects. That's not me saying "oh they've changed!", that's me saying they've made it significantly harder on themselves to bring legal action against because they've publicly endorsed and supported the project for so long.

    Whatever legal arguments they tried in the past that failed are even weaker now.

  • It's incredibly difficult to read the captions on this meme, there's not enough contrast with the white text on the light backgrounds.

  • I'm old enough to remember the SVN days (he'll, even the CVS and....dare I say it.... source safe days).

    Git is fantastic. It's pretty universally uses because it's the best dvcs out there and it's free. It wipes the pants with the likes of mercurial.

    In certain industries (such as gaming) there's still a strong hold by perforce but we can ignore that as it's proprietary and a bit specialised.

    Anyway, as great as git is for making things easier and cleaner when dealing with distributed development, it by no means makes something impossible "possible" - it just makes it a hell of a lot easier.

    The Linux kernel on the other hand enabled a lot of impossible things. Remember back in the day there wasn't anything free and open source in the operating system world, it was all proprietary and licensed. If you wanted to create your own operating system, you basically had no option but to spend a fortune either writing your own kernel or licensing someone else's (and the licensing part means you cannot distribute it for free).

    The fact that the FSF has always wanted to write their own OS and never been able to achieve it without the Linux Kernel, in spite of them essentially writing "everything else" that makes up an operating system, shows just how nontrivial this is.

  • I'm pretty sure Warrington's bus service is owned by the council and it's dire. Expensive, infrequent and the buses are old.

  • It didn't require using arcane commands just to sign up and log in. I love IRC and will always remember it fondly, but it wasn't easy for a novice to use and that's why things like slack and discord took off.

  • It looks like the spaceport from Total Recall (the Arnie one).

  • If the game is good I'll buy it, if it's shit I won't. I don't see how these NPC's will make the game good and I haven't personally bought an Ubisoft game in several years.

  • Another recommendation for tdarr, set it up in January and let it transcode away, going to h265 for all my media - saved me over 40TB of space so far and I haven't noticed a massive drop In quality or had any playback issues.

  • It looks like he's smoking a load of meat, given the smoke and the dangle of temp proves at the bottom. It's not likely for the BBQ to be that hot, relatively speaking - maybe 250F but probably lower.

  • And yet no actual contributor to openssl is losing sleep over this.

  • Your analogy would fit if the deprecated methods didn't have a higher barrier to entry than using GitHub.

    This is less like removing the wheelchair ramps and more like removing the steps at the back of the building.

  • I doubt many of the commentators here used any of the deprecated methods to contribute to openssl.

    It's one thing to talk about what's good for open source, it's quite another to practice it.

  • Those keybindings are prevalent outside of windows though, Ctrl+C is almost universally copy and Ctrl+V is almost universally paste - it might have been popularised by windows at some point in history but it's well beyond that.

    There's an argument for consistency, especially with basic functions.