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These "it's just a shell script" comments show the exact problem with Linux attitudes. Some people seriously think it's some secret club where you're supposed to pain stakingly install Gentoo, configure a tiling window manager and figure out every glitch and nuance by yourself. And if you don't, you haven't earned it.

Well, is it any wonder that distributions like CachyOS or Omarchy, that appeal to normal people over gatekeeping forum trolls, are popping off? A year ago I hadn't heard of either, but apparently they are quite popular with the kids these days.

> - The engineering effort to properly support screen sharing on Linux is a _bit_ more complicated than other platforms as we have many DEs

It didn't have to be this way, but somehow the Wayland clique did not realize - or just dug their head in the sand - that things like screenshots or screen sharing are basic table stakes. Instead, they created an academic replacement for X11 and left it upon the community to plug the most obvious gaps.

Understandably, actual users tend to get kind of pissed when you break their computer without offering any replacement except "just quit your job and don't use Zoom" or "wait 10 years for Gnome to add protocol foobar to support it, but they will force you to use this half baked crap beforehand anyway".

Thankfully Windows and macOS have been doing their darndest to regress. Otherwise desktop Linux wouldn't stand a chance with such harebrained management. Only after a decade of biting teeth Wayland is finally ready for most.

Forward thinking employers should use these limits with a holistic perspective. It's obviously time to take a deserved coffee break if you've token maxxed too much. Maybe take Friday off, AI now allows us to accomplish in four working days what used to take five.

Once Android developer verification rolls out globally, Alphabet Inc. in Mountain View and the US sanctions and export controls list will become the sole arbitrer of accepted software publishers. Only minority platforms like GrapheneOS, Mac OS X, Win32, Linux remain as free general computing operating systems.

Security in the game industry is a sick joke. There are dozens of RCE riddled titles sold on Steam at this moment. For example, many past titles on "Call of Duty" series with CVE-2018-20817 [1].

BTW, I highly encourage all EU citizens to prepare Cyber Resilience Act complaints for September 11, 2026 when the law kicks in ;-)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops2/comments/1v3xowq/just_ent...

Temu was hardly the first online store for cheap Chinese goods of varying or dubious quality either. Does anyone remember DealExtreme.com? They were around before Aliexpress.

The same argument can be made for many Facebook products, such as end to end encryption in WhatsApp. When children's lives are at stake, right?

Android used to be its own kingdom separate from rest of Google. And maybe still is.

Linux evangelists on the internet are some of the most unhelpful and useless people you will ever come across. My condolences in advance for every "ackshually you must pray and wait 10 years that some Debian maintainer to pick it up" reply.

The used algorithms were designed by DJB, not US agencies.

Cloudflare and other WAF blocking is increasingly an issue with RSS feeds, especially if you use a centralized reader.

Well, are those humans Iranian schoolchildren or Russian troops invading Ukraine? Hard to make a judgment without knowing.

It sounds a little implausible at first, but Adform serves like a billion views on European consumer websites. For example, a state gambling monopoly: https://mstdn.social/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social/11701780... The attacker only has to get lucky once

It's Monday morning and you arrive at your comfortable corporate cubicle. You fire up the old Cursor to work on some code and fire off a prompt in "Auto" mode. Without even knowing, the request is routed straight to Cursor Grok 4.5, making you a card carrying member of the nazi party.

It must be tiresome to live life worrying about things like this. Thankfully, the International Criminal Court today does not operate with a terminal case reddit brain.

So, instead of getting upset at the people taking a joyride on the gas guzzling Lamborghini or generating shitty slop memes on TikTok, you're upset the ambulance drivers are racing to help the world out.

Contributors may object to the Hitler AI on their personal ethical grounds, but it's not going to make their buggy and vulnerable code any less so. Because our societies critically depend on projects like Linux, it follows that someone willing to pick up the pieces and do the work will then take their place.

Did these guys miss who they elected for president again? No sane person anywhere else in the world is going to go along with said """governance""".

No, it just means they want to keep the slice of the pie for themselves while they're at the top.

Yet those same Linux geeks have now decided not to take a "stand" against AI, but rather embrace it. Twenty years ago when the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars raged on, did they oppose working with the military contractors at Red Hat or the NSA? No, they focused on the mission.

When even RMS seems like a more level headed political actor, you know you've gone off the deep end.

> I’m willing to believe that the LLM-powered Sashiko code reviews provide a lot of good insights. However, to address just one externality of this tool, consider that AI companies are driving up the price of consumer hardware. An AI powered code review may improve a patch, but that patch won’t be of much use to the increasingly large cohort of people who are being priced out of the hardware they could run Linux on to enjoy the better patch.

The Linux kernel also owes its users the highest degree of security possible. By proposing a hardline stance against valid security reviews generated by AI, the author is ignoring some other very real, possibly even fatal externalities just for the sake of their political purity.

Do you also see your local library hosting Mein Kampf as statement of support for fascism on part of the librarian?

There is no winning with this type of perpetually online activist. It is the moral prerogative of any open source project that wishes to achieve any success in the real world to gatekeep these sort of purity testers out. Thankfully, Mastodon has been invented as a containment zone.

I use Linux every day, where AI coauthored analysis and code has already contributed to harden its security. Like it or not, any project that categorically rejects AI contributions or engages in vague activist type purity spiral testing over "vibe coding" seems like a security liability at best.

Unfortunately the truth is far worse, and some of us have to share a union with these fools ;)

Yes, when you spend decades arguing "nuclear bad" (or "AI bad"), it turns out you get left in the past as Jurassic Park.

Once you look at how German anti-nuclear lobbying set Europe back decades on its energy independence and made us dependent on authoritarian hellholes of the world, it all makes sense. They just want to do the same with AI.

I spent my first 12 hours glued to Minecraft back when it was a Java applet. Probably wouldn't have bothered to install...

Germany is still there.