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I long for the day I can cargo build and cargo run the linux kernel.

Phoronix commentors will be furious.

The Linux Foundation seems to have Linux as a hobby nowadays.

Every version is stable in linux means no version breaks userspace. Semver's major version literally breaks the contract. It's what it's for.

And even if we literally meant stable as in "this is expected to work", no, that is nowhere near normal in my experience. There are countless projects and companies with "test in production" mentalities. Then there are distros like Ubuntu and nixos that always have an unstable and/or a testing release, which is by definition not stable.

So, no, every version is stable is definitely not the norm in my experience.

"Every version is stable" is definitely not "just like every other branched model". Why not just have an increasing number or date as a version number if everything is stable? The major and minor numbers don't make in this way if "everything is stable".

Good on Nick. Do what you want buddy, you had a good run. Go have some fun doing what you love.

Now it's time for a corporate user of libxml2 to donate resources for maintenance and bug fixing or forking it. It doesn't always have to be on the shoulders of unpaid maintainers.

"Simple". That's not simple.

Because Microsoft

Extremely. The constant purity checks of "this is not opensource because this org said so" is like bible thumping. "The good book of Christ says this is how the world is made and it is sacrilege to claim otherwise".

This researchxxl person then also released a new version Synthing-Lite on fdroid.

I'm so confused by this situation. Updates to syncthing-fork have been disabled. Doesn't seem trustworthy at the moment.

I like the brand but what are they doing? Intel + NVIDIA is not the hardware combination that comes to mind when building a Linux laptop.

AOC is a programmer?

Why make your own phone? Why not partner with Fairphone? Fairphone seems to be the only vendor out there that sells phones with an alternative ROM (/e/ OS), they might very well be open to an alternative OS like Sailfish.

I content that the questions I quoted in my first part of the response are logically not answerable. It's not a matter of being unanswerable by physicalism.

There are other questions you posed in the second part that are answerable and they are answerable I the realm of physicalism without adding any other realms.

Does an LLM have subjective experience? The characters in The Sims -- or the game itself? A thermostat? An ant colony, collectively -- separate from its individual ants? The entire country of, say, Honduras, collectively? A corporation? A database? Bacteria? A human skin cell? A tumor, independent of its host? A traffic jam? Grains of sand in an hour glass? A tree? A flea? A dog?

You are asking questions that seem unanswerable. In order to know whether something is having an experience, you'd have to first define what an experience is. Is it possible to define something that fundamental like that from the perspective of a biological machine for everything including non biological machines and everything in between? It's much easier to define particles than such fuzzy things.

Once you define them, you will have to conceive experiments to test whether those definitions are wrong.

Why is my perception of the color red the way that it is?

You are different from other beings. You are an amalgamation of mutations of your parents, your environment, your upbringing, your place in time and space, the contents of body, and everything else. There is no need to invoke something extra-physicalist to explain that.

Of course it can. We are biological machines. Not every machine is perfect copy of another. Differences in the organs that perceive the world will lead to subjective experiences. There's no "mystery".

Actual value creator probably earns less than somebody working at some surveillance tech company invading people's privacy.

Will it involve coming in contact with the owner of the social media accounts? Because that dude is way too agro.

Really final version v3.jpg

Dutch government shows interest in Forgejo

The Dutch government has expressed interest in using Forgejo for its national code platform. Currently, they rely on GitHub, but they are looking for alternatives for storing, collaborating and building government code. This is part of the Open Source Program Office (OSPo)‘s efforts to regain digital sovereignty. Throughout the month, a call also took place between a representative from the office and some Forgejo contributors.

Moreover, it is pleasing to hear that the office expressed interest in exploring ways to contribute back to the project.

Now this, this I like. If the dutch government also invests in federation, that would be amazing. First they have to tie the knot of course...