The Linux, GNU/Linux, and BSD ecosystem in general. Since most applications are portable between distributions, an improvement made by one vendor will eventually propagate through everything. A new feature in KDE Plasma will appear both in EndeavourOS and Kubuntu. A security fix in OpenSSH (which is maintained by OpenBSD) will appear in literally all distributions and even Windows.

(edit) This obviously doesn’t include technically Linux/BSD systems like MacOS and Android. Their existence is sacrilege, and while they are on the council, we do not grant them the rank of Linux or BSD distribution.

Tzeentch convinced the officer to paint the casing instead of the shell.

I love the smell of redistributed ood in the morning.

“Archiving legally purchased content as an insurance against corporate-sanctioned theft”?

You’re having a day-long freakout on the “OK Mate Wanker” community with a banner of beans and tagline of “Obviously satire, dozy wankers”. Take off the clown shoes, you’re bringin shame to the profession.

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Careful, if the Enlightened Centrists discover your post, they might write some spicy comments about how broken the upvote/downvote system is!

“We have conquered the world for spices.”
“Great, should we use them to enhance our cuisine?”
“Absolutely fucking not.”

Nice strawman, bro. I never said a damn thing about screen readers or translators, good or bad. And yes, I’ve read and filled out the entire survey. It doesn’t become a good survey just because it’s biased towards your personal views.

What did he do this time?

Nice assumption, dingus. I filled out the survey (it’s a terribly written survey) and sent it in before even writing that comment.

My question is, who asked?

I have many opinions about machine learning and its current position in technology, but expressed none of it in the comment. In case you missed it, the point I was trying to make is that this is a bullshit survey with obviously loaded questions and foregone conclusions, uninterested in gathering impartial feedback or addressing concerns.

“We’ve decided to focus our efforts on AI and advertising. Please tell us why you think that’s a good idea!”

He’ll just snort two more lines and cartwheel back onto the stage

If something is Nuclear enough it can generate heat

That’s an extreme oversimplification. RTGs don’t use nuclear waste. Spent reactor fuel still emits a large amount of gamma and neutron radiation, but not with enough intensity to be useful in a reactor. The amount of shielding required makes any kind of non-terrestrial application impossible.

The most common RTG fuel is plutonium (²³⁸Pu, usually as PuO₂), which emits mostly alpha and beta particles, and can be used with minimal shielding. It can’t be produced by reprocessing spent reactor fuel. In 2024, only Russia is manufacturing it. Polonium (²¹⁰Po) is also an excellent fuel with a very high energy density, but it has a prohibitively short half-life of just over a hundred days. It also has to be manufactured and can’t be extracted.

⁹⁰Sr (strontium) can be extracted from nuclear fuel, and was used by early Soviet RTGs, but only terrestrially because the gamma emission requires heavy shielding. Strontium is also a very reactive alkaline metal. It isn’t used as RTG fuel today.

the waste it produces is highly problematic.

It’s a solved problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHHbgIy9jU

According to KYM, it’s “Stop Doing Math”.

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/where-did-the-stop-doing-math-meme-originate-ironic-infographics-warning-against-higher-education-explained

It’s all fun and games until somebody mixes up pinus contorta with the ol’ dick twist.

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We’re already past the “spreading awareness” stage. Now it’s time to do something about legally sanctioned robbery.