Reminds me of this:

https://xkcd.com/1685

The “generative AI” mention in the grant is badly worded corporate buzzspeak, and doesn’t accurately reflect anything that will be used here - disregard any association to what you normally expect from those words

That sounds particularly suspect, coming with no answer as to what it does mean.

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Aw, cheer up; someone will apply you in thirty to forty years.

The real problem these days is with intensive almond farming. Almond tastes better from free range almonds, with space to graze in peace and calm between the bushes.

Have you heard of “bitter almonds”? Turns up in mystery novels. It’s what you get from caged almonds raised on steroids.

Cabbages are actually tree trunks

Raspberries are actually tubers

Wheat is actually a berry

And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.

I recommend grating cheese over your fries before warming them up!

Meanwhile women are hand-coding in assembly, like God intended.

Oh yes please. But not JavaScript. I use Rust frameworks to avoid all three!

I can’t see from this article whether “could cost” means there are lawsuits ongoing/pending, or just the author has speculated what the fine could be if there were a lawsuit?

If you want snarky AI, can I recommend Portal.

Though that doesn’t really count as indie.

Umbrella is for UnrealScript

Van is for VimScript

Water is for Webassembly

Xylophone is for Xod

Yacht is for YASS

Zulu is for Zig

Okay, I had to consult Wikipedia’s list of programming languages for some of those.

Jigsaw is for Java

King is for Kotlin

Lion is for LUA

Monkey is for …

Apple is for ADA

Ball is for BASH

Crab is for C

Dog is for D

Elephant is for Ecsmascript

Fox is for F#

Goat is for Go

House is for Haskell

Igloo is for

…okay I got stuck there.

News at Ten: Borrowed Data Escapes Outside of Associated Function

Shills or no shills, using Debian does not reduce your reliance on Red Hat software all that much

Maybe, but if, based on one loud mouth in a Lemmy thread I began a whole intensive programme of de-redhatting my life, that would be a bit dumb ;-)

But veering a little more away from using Redhat or Fedora, seems a proportionate response to finally feeling there really is bad faith shilling and genuine red flags. My inflammatory language was perhaps just an emotional expression of that.

Does your distro use systemd? … If so, Red Hat has a lot of influence on the evolution of your distro

And that was part of the controversy, wasn’t it? And part of why, if vague memory serves, Debian resisted it at first. Perhaps your comment vindicates them!

I also think not being idiotic means acknowledging facts.

Sounds like a pretty sensible policy :) Thanks

Normally I sit back from this sort of drama: there are certainly bad actors and bad attitudes in various places, but in the end, for most purposes, it’s just another distribution?

But one commenter here, by looking so strongly like an idiotic shill, has now turned me against RH and Fedora. Hopefully the sour taste will fade soon and I’ll forget, but for now: Use Debian-based or Arch-based, people! Or SUSE! (I know they had their controversial moment, but AFAIK all is forgiven.) Or another! But keep control and consolidation out of Red’s hat.

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https://xkcd.com/1425

Alt text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they’d have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we’re still working on it.

Edit: seems I’m the third person to comment this! :')