Audacity was bought by Muse Group and almost immediately implemented a “don’t you rather want to save on our cloud service instead?” pop-up and IIRC telemetry. Tenacity emerged as the most active fork without that shit and they since diverged a lot from Audacity.

OTOH the resources of Muse Group made this huge rewrite possible. The level of pain between using wxWidgets or dismissing pop-ups is higher for wxWidgets for me.

Maybe Tenacity is willing to throw away their homegrown developments to start fresh with the new code base. No idea.

They write down that the current feature set will not be paywalled but mandatory account registration and paywalling future features are absolutely on the table.

Only partially. Apparently Direct2D (which to be clear is different from Direct3D) is very weird and progress is slow.

slopifying his codebase.

He didn’t. That’s the point. The slop code is a self contained dependency only used for the Linux build and not part of the actual paint.net codebase. His core user group (on Windows) will never get in touch with it.

I think everybody, including him, would prefer if there was a working implementation of Direct2D for Wine.

I think the point is that the developers doesn’t want to actually review the code which they can do with a self contained dependency which they then ship on a “take it or leave it” basis.

I kind of get it and I think it’s a more responsible approach than to vibe code the core engine of their application.

Direct link to announcement instead of low effort spam blog: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/for-honor/news-updates/4WKJhG6v6C9sbCOZkFZ6wG/ranked-faq

Relevant part:

Competitive Update

Warriors, we are happy to announce that For Honor’s competitive experience is leveling up with the launch of Ranked Dominion and the rework of Ranked Duel.

The chance to prove yourself on a global level is here!

To reinforce a fair competitive environment, the team is introducing additional player safety measures. We are removing For Honor from the Linux platform to ensure a safer environment for our players as we cannot meaningfully deploy protection on this platform. This means that For Honor will no longer be playable on Steam Deck starting September 10th. We will continue to investigate different ways to improve our anti-cheat with the possibility of reopening the platform in the future.

That hardware requirement is something they could work on for upcoming phones.

That’s gonna require a substantial amount more proof than a philosophical position taken by Linus Torvalds

“Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug” <-- literally spelled out in the headline.

1600 commits contain the word “claude” alone: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux+claude&type=commits

It’s so easy to find out, yet you insist that you are right. Hilarious.

How do you figure that?

It’s literally spelled out in the submitted article as well as https://www.xda-developers.com/linus-torvalds-will-loudly-ignore-anyone-criticising-ai-code-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/ which is prominently linked from that article. Read first, comment later, don’t downvote others just because you are wrong.

Maybe get an M2-series Mac and go all-in on Asahi Linux?

That’s still Linux with Torvalds-approved LLM generated code. If you care about avoiding LLM code, all Linux is now poisoned.

We

Patches welcome

the BSD’s are still a few years behind

As long as many BSD developers (especial at FreeBSD, I think it’s a lesser degree with Net and Open) are Mac users who actively reject using any FOSS BSD on desktops/notebooks and only care about contributing regarding server stuff, this won’t change.

The Brave company is a far right hate group and Brave users are supporters of far right hate.

Fuck Brendan Eich and his henchman and all they stand for.

I think one way is to make people realize that there is a concept in copyright called Threshold of Originality, meaning that because machine generated output in itself is not creative work, it’s not copyrightable. You can do literally anything with it, the licenses attached don’t matter. The GPL is not enforceable and no proprietary EULA is enforceable.

If you really think that FreeBSD whose developers often use Macs on desktop is any different, think again. Maybe OpenBSD but certainly not FreeBSD.

Remember the RPG that defined a generation?

Chrono Trigger? Final Fantasy 7?

ZENONIA is back

Never heard of it but I don’t mind a recommendation for a good unknown game.

Less chance to get shot in prison

If he resigned only now, he didn’t resign before. What is there to check? That is common sense. Linus allowed LLM use and he was fine with Debian building on it. After all, all LLM use is literal fascism in his eyes.

Weird that he didn’t care when Linus Torvalds adopted basically the same policy to the kernel that serves as the foundation of the main Debian distribution. I have an inkling that there is more going on at Debian, not LLM use alone.

Can you suggest an alternative?

Use Firefox, install uBlock Origin and enable all filter lists as well as https://filterlists.com/lists/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter and install Cookie AutoDelete extension to clear number of visits to a website (for “you already read 3 free articles, subscribe now” things).

Doesn’t work everywhere but does work for The Verge and Telegraph.