minorninth @ minorninth @lemmy.world

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GNU gets credit for the GPL, and for being the first major project to start to create a free Unix operating system. So it's true that when the Linux kernel was first released, the fact that you could boot a usable operating system on top of it was due to GNU.

But...the success of what most of us just call "Linux" since then is due to thousands of individuals and organizations other than GNU. The vast majority of free software running on top of a Linux operating system has nothing to do with GNU and is not licensed under the GPL.

Let's say I'm running Linux on a server, for a small app running the MERN stack. Literally none of the MERN stack is GNU.

Let's say I'm running Linux on a desktop. I'm depending on Wayland, KDE, Chromium, VSCodium, and a dozen other tools, none of which are GNU.

However, the fact that I can use the same OS to run a tiny embedded device or a superpowered server, that's due to the Linux kernel and the thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies who have made it into the most efficient and versatile operating system kernel in the world, period.

So to me, I have no problems at all calling the operating system "Linux".

What happened? Was this at work or home?

I think there's a huge range of stuff that's legal but that many people might want to filter out because it's gross or disgusting.

The tag "NSFL" may have been created for the most egregious pictures (that might be illegal in some cases), but it was generally applied to a much wider range of stuff in practice.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

Chromium and Android really are open-source. There are hundreds of products like Electron and Fire OS built on top of them without any involvement or consent from Google.

Just because Google Chrome and Pixel phones have some proprietary code doesn't mean that Android and Chromium aren't open.

Ha ha!

At first glance none of the critics we're fans of the original TV show so they thought the adaptation waa harmless fun. Reviewers who we're fans of the original show hates it.

Actually, just changing the file name doesn't change the format. If it works, it's because whatever place you uploaded to already supported webp.

If you download a webp file and you really want jpg, you need to actually convert it, not just slap .jpg on the end.

It's also just an open file format. Anyone could implement it, and in fact I found dozens of completely independent implementations of webp decoders on GitHub in various languages.

There really is no secret ulterior motive in this case.

Man, when things get tough, you need someone you can really count on to do the right thing.

Someone who won't let you down.

A Rock.

Rotten Tomatoes has both a critic score and an audience score.

If your pick has a low critic score but high audience score, that means it was formulaic or unoriginal but probably lots of fun.

Movies with a high critic score and low audience score are usually more artsy, film-festival stuff.

Yes, anyone can write a book! If you have an idea, write it!

If your only goal is to finish a book, check out https://nanowrimo.org/ for inspiration and support just for to force yourself to write and keep writing!

If you want to publish it, self-publishing is surprisingly cheap, if you're happy if you only sell a few hundred copies, many just to friends and family.

If you want to publish a real novel that appears in bookstores and gets featured and advertised, you need to submit it to publishers...and be prepared for LOTS of rejection. Some of the BEST novelists I know write 10 books for every 1 they get published. Now imagine the worst writers!

The difference between the M2 and M1 was small for real-world applications, compared to the difference between Intel and M1, which was stunning.

Go to the MacRumors buyer's guide (https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/) and avoid buying a model when it's very late in its release cycle, but otherwise it's silly to keep waiting for a new model.

The name is confusing, kind of like "defund the police". If you take it at face value, you can misunderstand.

Look at https://lemmy.ml/c/antiwork 's sidebar:

We’re trying to improving working conditions and pay.

We’re trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

The plan to deprecate Chrome V2 extensions has been constantly postponed again and again for years now. There is NO SCHEDULED DATE for this to happen currently, and when it is announced it will be more than 6 months out.

Source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ?pli=1

If Google really wanted to kill ad blockers, they would have done this years ago.

They don't. They want to force ad blockers and other similar extensions to use more efficient APIs that don't slow down the web. Extension developers overall (not just ad blockers) aren't happy with the changes, so they're still working on the APIs.

OK, let's say you've got a bunch of regexes in a source repository that need to get modified frequently. It can be difficult to code-review complex regexes, and even harder to code-review changes to an existing regex.

Something like this might actually help. A change to a complex regex might actually produce a more clear diff of a subset of lines.

Also, I think being able to comment in the middle of a regex would be super handy for that type of code.

The only problem with it is that reimbursement rates are so low that a lot of private practice doctors just won't take it.

Everyone can agree with the statement that government spending needs to be curtailed in the abstract. That's not useful if you're not willing to say specifically what you think should be cut.

Medicare is about 12% of the budget. Do you think it should be cut, do you think the government should spend less on that?

Social Security is the largest part of the budget. Do you think it should be cut? What about the fact that its income comes entirely from payroll taxes - not general income taxes - and it still has a huge surplus?

After medicare, social security, and debt interest, the next largest category is defense spending. Do you think that should be cut? If so, how would you do that responsibly?

I'd love to see the defense budget cut, but I think it's tricky, because most of that money goes to pay for the salaries of people. The money that doesn't go to U.S. government employees (pentagon, armed services, etc.) go to contractors who employ lots of people. Cut the budget dramatically and millions of people lose their jobs, which could devastate the economy. Again, I'm not saying we shouldn't do it - just that it isn't quite so simple as just cutting the budget and being done with it. There are consequences.

Apple has added a lot of stuff from iOS over the years (and vice versa).

Some I like, some I don't.

So far they've never taken away something I like about macOS, so as long as that's the case I'm happy.

My prediction: verified video will start to become a thing.

Phones will be able to encode a digital signature with a video that certifies the date, time, and location where the video was captured. Modifying the video in any way will invalidate it.

Same for photos.

People will stop believing photos and video that don't have a verifiable signature. Social networks and news organizations will automatically verify the signatures of all photos and videos they display.

Technically this is already possible today, it just needs to become mainstream and the default.

That hasn't happened yet. Most likely they quantized GPT-4 more. It's still based on the same training data.

I'd create a GitHub issue and discuss it with the developers first. As long as users can opt out it might be reasonable.

But having a lot of people use the extension in the meantime would prove the demand.