In that case there are alternatives for each component, most often more than one, though they may lack here and there some feature you believe to be indispensable.

There isn’t “an alternative” to systemd because nobody who hasn’t drunk the kool-aid believes that anything like it should exist. The syslog, the cron daemon, the dns config, the log rotation, the ntp server, and even the init system should not all be part of one giant tangled mess of a project.

That’s a fine illustration of the problem, whatever it’s properly called.

Having paused to search the web I find that “ablation” according to wikipedia is a term used in AI since 1974. Arxiv.org has a recent paper talking specifically about “semantic ablation” which phrase it uses to describe an operation deliberately removing semantic information from an LLM’s representation of a sentence in an attempt to see what purely syntactical information is left over afterwards, or something like that.

I’m not sure if that writer gets all the details right when it comes to how it works, but I do like “semantic ablation.” It’s good to finally have a name for that after we’ve already seen so much of it.

I like how the “FAQ” answers questions nobody was asking and accuses opponents of truth, freedom, and systemd of “decontextualising comments on merge requests” without mentioning what was actually said by whom in those merge requests so we could judge for ourselves. As a PR move to put out the flame war (which itself does seem really pointless) it seems counterproductive. But it looks like it’s just another reddit post, not an official KDE policy statement or anything.

Have you thought of trying MCTS? It’s a pretty easy algorithm to understand and was good enough to get computers playing Go up to the level where they could offer beginner to intermediate human players a satisfying game.

Doubtful, even if it’s not from far enough in the future that it’s after the Butlerian Jihad.

I think the temperature of your shower might need adjusting.

Actually, if you’re planning to murder someone with a car it’s probably better not to exceed the speed limit while you do it.

Perhaps the contemporary high school student knows fewer things that are untrue, and certainly they have a few vague ideas about principles that were entirely unknown in the 19th century, but even so I’ll bet they know much less overall.

That’s one more excuse for collecting all the data about you they can get and running it through the analytics — not that they needed another excuse for such a fair and reasonable business practice.

He’s the Senior Director of Corporate Communications. “Teams” is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests more than that he occasionally uses it reluctantly when someone insists on it.

Red Hat and Canonical also get mentioned. Consider my inclination to stick with Debian once again reinforced.

Much more fewer people know why to think.

Reported: December 9, 2025
Issued: February 12, 2026

Does this mean it took two full months from the time some obvious “typosquat” packages got added and immediately reported before they were removed? That’s for the “finch” ones, looks like they got the others right away. Maybe they were not so obvious?

As you seem to appreciate, 95% of the time matrix is exactly what’s needed. People seem to hate it because it’s slightly different than discord, but anything that isn’t discord is going to have that problem. It also has other problems, but at least it’s not as bad as fucking discord.

I don’t know, you’re probably more likely to find Akkoma instances these days. It’s pretty similar.

According to radio weather reports in Canada -5° usually “feels like” about -20 according to the elaborate calculations of the wind chill experts, so that checks out.

If God wills it the real odds were 100%, so double that can only mean we get two Jesus at once! Hallelujah!

I sure hope this is the end of Discord. Maybe only 10% of people will rage quit rather than show their ID, but if every group has one in 10 people they invite say “nah, that’s not happening” and everyone has to admit they’re probably in the right, it might make some difference.

Okay fine, guess I really do need to learn (the rest of) Rust now.