@sahil I also thought that that was waaay to generous. But still, getting some free public IPs as a ham is a nice perk.
TIL 44net - if you're a radio amateur, you can get up to a whole /24 of real public internet addresses! Not sure when I'm doing my exam, still sorting life out, but this is a little bit of a motivator.
https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Main_Page
Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering".
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
@fluor There are different motives, but for many, the idea is that many contribute to a collective that everyone can benefit of. With proprietary software, it's more and more the case that the consumer is seen as something that just has to be exploited for the benefit of the owner of the software. So, as long as there are people who believe, work for, and benefit from the collective work, there will be open source in some form.
@mattl Perhaps that's how they get you? You have to donate for AI slop, and then some more to make it stop again?
These honest error messages are just one of the reasons I enjoy using Linux so much.
@znoteer I see that often. When we held DebConf16 in Cape Town, it was election year, and many people were amused by all the "Vote EFF" posters on the sign posts.
Wow the Rhamaphosa / Trump meeting is off the rockers, insane that Trump played EFF clips of Malema in the White House, as insane as that house is, never expected that.
@danie10 I was going to write my exam on Saturday but have just been overwhelmed by work to study for it :(
@phoronix I've been using GNOME 48 with Wayland on Debian testing and it's been solid. I think it is time.
How fucking petty must you be to deny funding to any university with any kind of DEI policy? Trump is trash and so is anyone who shows any support for him.