They decided to take a vote on whether or not to “Ban LLM contributions” where the proposed policy wasn’t all that well thought out, and ended up settling on a subsequent proposal which was even worse, enshrining in official policy the standard that LLM contributions are just fine actually and don’t even need to be disclosed. The governance system, in this case, failed spectacularly. The contributors they will lose as a result of this are in my view likely to be more valuable ones than those they’d have lost had the vote gone the opposite way. It’s substantially worse than having done nothing at all. It does not inspire confidence in the future of Debian, and is enough to have many of us looking around to see what alternatives might exist.

They just recently did something bad.

Damn it I was just asking myself the same question. I don’t expect it to be easy to find one that’s anywhere near as good as Debian but without that one problem. I think a lot of them won’t have any firm policies yet.

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Your first ever download?

That’s a month old. The voting period for Debian ends tonight, so check back tomorrow to see the news.

Surprisingly little anime is set in Siberia.

… I dunno, maybe it just needed a firmware update.

Traditionally in my family it’s called the Excited States of Hysteria.

I mean… by now probably millions of people have done it. I’m one of them, started in 1997. It was easier then in that for example nobody used “Teams” (it’s still the case that nobody should) and it was harder in that Wine was not as good.

People need to understand how data is used

No. People need to learn to refuse to have their ID scanned at bars and restaurants and every other place that has no business scanning their ID.

There should be a public consensus that having your ID scanned on demand for no reason is unacceptable. It would’ve been obvious to the people of thirty years ago. There ought to be public service announcements telling people why it’s wrong, if for some reason the practice can’t simply be prohibited completely.

I too had a ghetto blaster, which must sound pretty weird to people young enough to have never heard of them.

Neat. But it’s not pre social media. Social media has been around since the 1980s.

The fediverse has become the central hub for it all due to its nature. Any forums or whatever which want to join in and be a part of it are free to do so. It could perhaps be made easier, but that depends on the technical details of the protocols involved which are still hard to understand.

Even in Europe where they’re more serious about such things they are approaching the idea only very slowly. Governments in Canada are so comfy in that prison that they’ve forgotten the outside world even exists. Couldn’t hurt to try and remind them I guess, but don’t expect them to believe you.

We’ve long been in need of a new—or freshly revitalized—brand for people interested in making things better to organize around, and it seems like we’ve finally got one democratic socialism.

Or is he one of those rare politicians who listens to the people of the country

Ha! Unless he’s been replaced by the pod people in the past couple of weeks I do not think that is likely. I would be betting on Trump doing what he always does rather than Carney doing what he always doesn’t.

True. Enough movies have been made, enough books written. There’s no need for more. Stop creating stuff, everyone — unless you really need to, in which case you might be an artist or a writer.

Hopefully it won’t matter too much in practical terms. More distributions have lately started using very new kernel versions and substantial numbers of people might therefore be hit by it. But the volume of patches to amdgpu is so high that I have no idea if whatever the problem might be was fixed already by someone. If it was as obvious to others as it seemed to me then it should very likely be fixed for 7.2.1.

You appear to have misunderstood what I said there. It was not in rc7.

If you have a patch to fix it the lkml or whichever related list is devoted to amdgpu would probably like to hear from you, otherwise I’m not sure — possibly the freedesktop issues page would be appropriate.

I’m still not yet sure if people other than me are affected, but I guess so? If it’s still there in a couple of weeks maybe I’ll find the strength to do some more testing.

rc7 was the final release candidate build for 7.2, the seventh in the usual series of them. They’re meant to fix bugs, not introduce new ones. I often run them, for fun and testing. One expects bugs like this — assuming it is a bug — in the rc builds but normally they’re meant to be fixed before the final release which happened this week.

Switching back to a working kernel is what I did for today, yeah. I have no particular reason to need 7.2 right now and don’t have time to try and track down the bug.