Also forgot about this gon

Source: https://xkcd.com/1599/

Oh I’m not complaining that action was taken. The issue is that the tools available to us are antithetical to copyleft. All the takedown means is that nobody gets access to this code, whereas what we need is for everyone to get access to it under the proper license.

We really need a better answer to stuff like this than DMCA takedowns. They make sense for someone who doesn’t want their stuff made available at all, but it’s kinda the opposite of what’s needed for copyleft violations.

I once had an interviewer ask me what happens when you type a domain into your browser and hit enter. “Use as much detail as you want.”

Well, I did…

“For the sake of brevity, I’ll start when the user presses the Enter key. As the key goes down, it makes two contacts connect, passing a current…”

To be fair, Windows has had standby issues forever, so the only thing that’s different here from 20 years ago is that Linux does it reliably.

Relies on awk

Doubly evil given that GPU prices are still ridiculous.

Daily driving Kubuntu 26.04

I think OP is talking about the fact that most new projects use “main” now, so “master” likely indicates an older project.

Yeah there truly is no comparison to Excel (derogatory).

(I’m just bitter because of VBA okay?)

…that’s not what they’re doing though?

Those patches get either pulled from upstream or built in-house and shared to upstream. Just like in Debian, and just like in the regular Ubuntu releases, the package is based on some upstream version and then the deb packaging applies the patch sets as listed in the diff tarball.

Here’s what the latest kernel for Ubuntu 26.04 look like: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/6.17.0-6.6

Those same tarballs are available for any Ubuntu package by running apt source <pkg> as long as you’ve configured the matching deb-src repositories.

You mean things like cloud-init, juju, a ton of work they do directly upstream on openstack, hardware certifications (which include things like getting vendors to upstream their drivers into the mainline kernel — something even Google has struggled with for Android), and making it more feasible for more companies to run Linux by providing the sort of long-term support that the community just doesn’t prioritise?

Red Hat charge for access to the RHEL binaries. That’s literally why CentOS came into existence.

Everything that’s in main gets released to everyone with the security fixes. Canonical’s security team works on those.

The stuff in the universe repo is owned by the Ubuntu community (not by Canonical), so anyone can submit those fixes, but it depends on the Masters of the Universe, who are all volunteers, to get it upstreamed.

The extra Ubuntu Pro updates for the universe repo come from when someone who’s paying for Ubuntu Pro asks Canonical to make a patch. The source is still available to anyone, so someone could take that patch and then submit it to the community who maintains the universe repo.

Once the 5 years of standard support ends, then the only way to get additional fixes is through Ubuntu Pro, but if Canonical writes those fixes they also submit them back upstream (as opposed to if they grab a specific patch from upstream — and even then it’s still available on Launchpad regardless.

The reason nobody’s made a CentOS but for Ubuntu Pro is that it’s way easier to submit the patches through the community (and become part of that community who approves packages) than it is to spin up all the infrastructure that would be needed.

As someone who owns several RISC-V devices the primary thing preventing usable (low end) RISC-V laptops is the GPUs. Most RISC-V silicon has Imagination GPUs, and the current state of the drivers there is “proprietary drivers stuck on an old LTS kernel.”

If someone makes an RVA23 compliant chip with open mainstreamable drivers and a BXS-4-64 GPU (or, better yet, somehow manages to license a GPU from Intel or AMD for it), that’ll be a cash cow.

So this is the thing… Universe is ready for a continuation basically whenever. Here’s how:

Eli got the last pod working and they went into stasis. However, due to the age of the ship, the stasis didn’t keep them from aging. Unfortunately, some of the crew (whose actors didn’t want to come back) died or are stuck in stasis. A side effect of what Eli did to get the last stasis chamber working also used a ton of energy, so the ship had to conserve power getting to the new galaxy (hence the extra time taken). As they’re starting up the ship again in a new galaxy, they discover that it’s been looted. Everything inconvenient to the production (such as the ancient communication stones) has been taken.

If the production wants, Earth has the power now to dial up the Destiny, but since Destiny can’t dial back, any trip is one-way. This way they can get modern tech and stuff (and have video calls with Earth while the Stargate is open), but they’re still decently cut off. (Also, food and stuff are no longer an issue as the SGC can simply send packages through whenever the dial the gate.) This does also allow some new cast members as long as the have a sufficiently compelling “go on a one way trip” story. Maybe one of them even got special dispensation to bring their cat.

If by “WRECK” you mean “improve” yes.

Meanwhile I’m here on Wayland because it does things that x11 doesn’t.

My OS came with an officially packed (by Mozilla) non LTS version of Firefox that gets regular version upgrades.