That was probably not on WeDistribute, who mostly write about the Fediverse.

What’s that? Can’t hear you over the din of volunteers trying to get all of the Internet Archive back online.

That’s the difference, isn’t it? People can use “AI” to make simple little things easier. Corporations want it to replace and automate the jobs of swathes of the workforce. It’s the latter that is the “growth market”, and the one that eats the most power.

“Wherever it’s needed” is the operative term here, isn’t it? Looking at how it’s already being implemented, nobody seems to bother asking whether “AI” is really needed.

Came here to say that a 95% reduction in energy consumption will only greenwash a corresponding or larger increase in usage — but yours is of course the correct response! 👏👏👏

Hopefully not. They’re clearly batting down the hatches and trying to centralise the market around WP.org — at least as far as The Verge calls ACF a “WP Engine plug-in”, and (although I’m not sure how accurate that is) Mullenweg shares that impression.

This all feels like an odd subversion of open source software, where maybe the commercial branches of WP are spread thin financially and need to play hardball with rivals to corner the market? I honestly don’t know, but Mullenweg’s belligerent rhetoric re WP Engine seems desperate and over the top.

I’m reminded of that other time a happy-go-lucky FLOSS founder turned monopolist, although Moxie Marlinspike wasn’t suing and being countersued when he personally shut down a third party Signal client in Github comments…

Lemmy and Debian are not the same.

Specifically Lemmy is exactly the same — a direct namedrop in tribute of a known musician or band. It’s really no weirder than a band naming itself after archduke Franz Ferdinand, or after Nikolai Gogol 🤷

“He”, not “they” — if I understand correctly this was way back when Eugene Rochko was the sole developer — but yes. Same as Lemmy being named after Lemmy Kilmister, and Debian major versions after Toy story characters.

I don’t see what’s “rich” about that, it’s just developers having personal tastes outside of coding.

That’s how filters work, yes. Follow a few hashtags of interest to find people who post about stuff you care about, it’ll fill back in.

I can co-sign that. I had several low grade laptops in a row that would choke on KDE and the like, almost as bad as on Windows. So I just went for a light window manager instead of the big memory hogs.

Now I have a fairly current, capable machine, and guess what? The light WM is still outperforming any DE, and I never bothered changing that habit.

you don’t sell a novel tech named after an extinct animal

They didn’t, Mastodon is named after the metal band (which is named after the extinct animal) 🙂

Either way, back in 2008 I bet people were making fun of Twitter for being named after bird sounds, so.

The first rule of Mastodon is “filter the term ‘Mastodon’”.

While you’re at it, filter out mentions of any other social media you can think of. All of that metadiscourse is apparently important for people to get off their chests, buy it’s numbing to read.

I’m fairly happy using Mastodon, but the lack of algorithms made it necessary to curate my feed very strictly. I turned off boosts/reposts in my app, too, and I now have a slow-moving, low-drama newsfeed that doesn’t stress me out just opening it.

Honestly, when you say

are these distributions doing anything beyond repackaging the latest software?

— I have to wonder what you think is so trivial about keeping your system current with latest bug fixes and security updates?

I don’t need or want a distro to radically reinvent itself with every release. I had enough of that fuckery with Windows, way back when — incidentally, also a direct reason I quit that OS. And seeing “big changes” like Ubuntu deciding to functionally deprecate deb packages is… unappealing to me as well.

There are probably sexier updates going on in DEs, but (insofar as a distro isn’t wedded to one particular desktop environment) I’m fine to let them hog that glamour.

If Zuckerberg wanted to simply takeover the control of ActivityPub, they could just

Gah, don’t give them ideas! 😨

No, never.

I believe in the importance of strong opinions, loosely held.

For a generally positive and motivational resignation post, I’m pretty sure Mullenweg felt the burn of that from across San Francisco.

Different strokes, dude. Don’t get that on your shoes.

It’s… a website, they’re fairly widely supported. Fill the URL into your iOS browser of choice, it should open.

I haven’t actually used it either, just came upon it as a possible replacement for Libreelec/Kodi. It looks interesting, but a full Linux DE might be too much for my home theatre needs.

There’s Plasma Bigscreen if you’re into the whole KDE experience, specifically for TV usage.