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Comment Re:Microsoft vs. Customers (Score 1, Informative) 213

LOL you wish. I literally just upgraded from debian 12 to 13 in a VM and guess what? Now my KDE is broken, all apps are disappeared, and open-vm-tools isn't working anymore.

And I've had to work on machines with "ancient" debian versions such as... 10! and guess what? The repos no longer work (they may have been moved to archive.debian.org instead of debian.org), and not even the signing keys have been updated.

So no. you can't just click "upgrade" and linux will magically update itself. Stop spreading this bullshit.

Comment Re:Microsoft vs. Customers (Score 1) 213

Adding to this, in the open source world, there are quite a few people sick with "versionitis". The kind of people who refactor for pure joy. But refactoring means "let's break the API because I don't like the name of this property". Anyone who had to endure JS packages knows this. Even very big and popular packages, such as react-query, suffer from this. Don't let me get started on react-router.

Comment Re:4o is pretty magical (Score 2) 59

I've noticed that GPT-5 is rather confused about languages. I asked it a few questions today, in spanish, and it kept answering like "a spanish speaker that learned by reading things in english on the internet". So it doesn't know the technical word in spanish for the thing. It doesn't sound "academic" anymore (someone who learns in university will tend to use the terms in spanish instead)

Which can be good or bad because I'm a native spanish speaker and I learned by reading things in english on the internet, so very often I don't know the word in spanish for some technical term.

But also it seems since it's spitting things out in "technical spanglish" it starts using english terms more and more as it goes.

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 178

Oh really and you thing e-verify is useful?

Old Orchard Beach Police Chief Elise Chard said the department used E-Verify to hire Officer Jon Luke Evans.

“As part of the hiring process, the Town reviewed multiple forms of identification, including photo identification, and submitted Evans’ I-9 form to the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify Program. The Department of Homeland Security then verified that Evans was authorized to work in the U.S. The form was submitted and approved by DHS on May 12, 2025. Evans would not have been permitted to begin work as a reserve officer until and unless Homeland Security verified his status,” Chard said in a statement on Monday.

"... The Old Orchard Beach Police Department’s reckless reliance on E-Verify to justify arming an illegal alien, Jon Luke Evans violates federal law, and does not absolve them of their failure to conduct basic background checks to verify legal status,” -Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security

Comment Re:500 word blurb without "losing money royalties" (Score 2) 215

The idea that they are doing it because their rights are expiring is completely wrong though.

"Recordings prior to 1923 entered the public domain three years from passage, which equated to January 1, 2022 (see note).[4] Recordings from 1923 to 1956 enter the public domain on January 1 the year after they turn 100 years old. For example, a work published on June 1, 1925, enters the public domain on January 1, 2026. Every January 1 following 2022,[5] works enter the public domain, until the final date occurring on January 1, 2047, which concludes the entire corpus of works published between 1923 and 1946. Following a 10 year break, recordings from 1947 to 1956 will enter every year until the final date occurring on January 1, 2067. All recordings from 1957 to February 14, 1972, will be protected until February 15, 2067."

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