They are pretty good at summarisation. If I want to catch up with a long review thread on a patch series I’ve just started looking at I occasionally ask Gemini to outline the development so far and the remaining issues.

Do they also insist on a CLA so they can relicense contributions?

What was wrong with working with Godot that made them want to fork?

I guess somewhere between 6 and 7…urm 6/7 👐 (and my kids say I don’t understand memes 😅).

I’ve heard of him from his contributions to Wheel of Time but I don’t think I’ve read any of his other stuff. He sounds quite prolific given this “universe” seems to encompas multiple series of books.

MI5 aren’t a law enforcement agency but a intelligence organisation. They do work with the police though.

somehow I’m angrier about this than you guys.

Perhaps your news sources are giving a slightly biased view of what’s going on in the UK?

It’s certainly not illegal to protest in the UK - but there have always been public safety concerns. The right to protest doesn’t give protesters free reign to cause massive disruption as some of the more controversial tactics of “Extinction Rebellion” had. While Magna Carta was an important document in our history its not an inviolable constitution - for one things most of us are not Baron’s. We’ve always had magistrates and non-jury Judge trails - the current proposals don’t abolish them but do change the boundaries of what will automatically be a jury based trial. We shall see if they get through the legislature unopposed.

I was mostly thinking of things like county lines gangs who exploit our current fragmented police system to fall between the cracks.

I’m upset by the recent PA arrests but i have some sympathy for the police here. They have been put in this situation by the government proscribing the org and they have to enforce the law. The protesters know this of course - almost any other formulation of the words “action”, “support” and “Palestine” would be fine.

I’m not sure who is referring to them as the British FBI - it seems to be an unattributed quote.

I think this is less to do with emulating the US and more to do with dealing with crime that crosses county lines without having to involve London.

If you have ever read the “thought” process on some of the reasoning models you can catch them going into loops of circular reasoning just slowly burning tokens. I’m not even sure this isn’t by design.

I thought they were also blood relations?

Not if the social in social media was actually referring to keeping in contact with friends and mutual support.

I’m ambivalent on social media bans as they seem rather blunt approach to the problem of algorithmic dopamine triggers. My kids don’t have access to tiktok or Instagram but they are starting to get interested in joining discord communities around their interests. Online predators aside this seems a good thing. Having access to the net in the nineties is when I started to see fellow hobbyists from around the world discussing things in newsgroups. It expanded my world view.

I think the OP’s analysis might have made a bit of a jump from overall levels of hobbyist maintainers to what percentage of shipping code is maintained by people in their spare time.

While the experiences of OpenSSL and xz should certainly drive us find better ways of funding underlying infrastructure you do see a higher participation rates of paid maintainers where the returns are more obvious. The silicon vendors get involved in the kernel because it’s in their underlying interests to do so - and the kernel benefits as a result.

I maintain a couple of hobbyist packages on my spare time but it will never be a funded gig because comparatively fewer people use them compared to DAYJOB’s project which can make a difference to companies bottom lines.

The year of Linux on the desktop is whatever year you personally switched over.

Now I’ve read the article it’s unnamed industry analysts and it’s written by an AI. For all I know the AI has hallucinated the number.

I assume microcontrollers. Most of those are invisible to consumers.

Modern machines have TPM so we can do attested boot and validate a system hasn’t been tampered with. They don’t need third party kernel modules to test that.

Well that looks fascinating. The first thing I thought was the Colin Mcray coders night have been ex-demo scene or at least aficionados of it.

Fundamentally the reason they want to use kernel modules is to observe the system for other executables interfering with the game. This is a hacky solution at best

The TPM hardware can support attested boot so you can verify with the hardware nothing but the verified kernel and userspace is running. That gives you the same guarantees but without letting third parties mess with your kernel.