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The same that happened when Sun died: it gets bought by someone else.

> Software as a list of requirements and that's it. [...] a document specifying hardware, interfaces, and requirements [...] For that, you'd want the list of requirements and hardw…

> maintain and keep your fork of software with the changes you want or need Then you'll have the same problem everyone who forks a piece of software ends up having, sooner or later…

> It's absolutely irrelevant to compare these two languages. Calling the former "Javascript" was just a marketing trick. Playing devil's advocate: back when you still could use Jav…

> I wish Codeberg were more forward-looking here: willing to host the Open Source software of tomorrow, not only software made in the ways its community approves of today. Is "vibe…

Since nobody seems to have posted it yet, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/416/

> The real nightmare scenario is the AI using its abilities to copy itself to new locations. [...] it could effectively self sustain itself as long as it is able to find work. [...…

As a less extreme example: consider how many non-USA hosts say they follow the DMCA.

Didn't Chrome also come bundled with other software like torrent clients? That is, unless you unchecked a checkbox in the installer for these software, you ended up with Chrome ins…

> The reality is that each update is its own potential security issue Even beyond security issues: each update is a new opportunity for breakage, not only from bugs in the third-pa…

I saw plenty of mechanical typewriters by the 80s/90s, when I learned typing at school. A relative of mine also taught a typewriter course, with several different mechanical typewr…

> Fill the room with typewriters. Playing devil's advocate: one reason I'm good at typing on computers is that I learned on typewriters, which need much more force for each key pre…

> Realtek makes some pretty affordable networking chips but their Linux drivers can be a real gamble. Either it works out of the box or you're in for years of messing around. And t…

> nobody else should ever be using my machines in the first place, and if they are, I'm going to have larger issues than what OS they decide to try to boot. The threat model secure…

> You could've changed the setting that puts the button back on the lower left corner and saved your relative the trouble. Nice, I didn't know that was possible; I expected it to b…

> There is an assumption that by now everyone knows what the menu in the bottom left corner does Except that... it's no longer in the bottom left corner! Recently, I had to help a …

> their proposal usually begins by proposing that it "should" be possible to just compile Linux as C++ software That has already been done in the past. Quoting the FAQ: "[...] the …

> It’s fairly easy to build your own kernel packages from vanilla sources in Debian. IIRC, Debian has a command called "make-kpkg" which does nearly all the work for you, ending up…

> You have to run coal feeders, blowers, and water pumps for an hour before you can spin the generator. That's probably the reason most grid black start facilities in my country (B…

> Magnifica Humanitas is that rarest of treats, a 40,000-odd word AI policy document written in Latin. I stopped reading at this sentence. If you go to the source ( https://www.vat…

> Rust does not bring more performance. Just more safety. Though more safety can in some cases bring a bit more performance. For instance, with Rust you can often avoid "defensive …

> That's unfortunate, because it's precisely why things like this will keep happening. I have the opposite opinion. Its use being rare means CPU designers have less need to optimiz…

> I wouldn't have problems with AI-generated code, but LLMs are not AIs, they are random sentence generators. AI includes a lot of technologies, LLMs being just one of them. Severa…

> people who grew up in developing countries or even in extremely rural areas of Western countries who grew up with water unsafe to drink before boiling it off will be even more sk…

No, Web 3.0 was the Semantic Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web