I thought of a good metaphor even though this thread is basically dead.

I used to smoke cigarettes. In the State I lived in at the time, Oregon, they taxed cigarettes, but not tobacco. So I learned to roll my own & would make around 80 cigarettes for the equivalent price of a single pack of prefabs.

Now, because lawmakers aren’t generally smokers, this flew under their radar for years. Until it didn’t. Then they sewed that loophole up tight pretty quickly.

Right now Linux is vital to our infrastructure, but I don’t think Lawmakers (& Oligarchs) really know that. I guess I’m a little concerned about what happens if they find out.

That’s true.

But Android getting more & more locked down as time goes on is a good example of what I’m afraid of might start happening once there are too many cooks in the kitchen.

I’m just speculating out of nowhere.

I’m not sure. I envision a lot of regulatory stuff happening around the kernel as it becomes more popular & vital to infrastructure. As that happens, the direction of it becomes more controlled and eventually maybe becomes unrecognizable.

But maybe the fact it’s open source flat out prevents that?

I really don’t know, I’m not a futurists, I was just internet speculating.

Would it even be a good thing if Linux became super main stream? Maybe we should be careful what we wish for.

Pretty sure the success of Linux will not ride or die on the Charisma stat of its users.

The “L” stands for Winner

Because it’s a maze. And lab rats run in mazes. But they don’t deliver pizzas!

Oh New Yorker, you’ve done it again!

Google used to have a Linux tab :(

Back in the day it was worth maybe two rentals, which I’m pretty sure equals an emulation with inflation factored in.

Eh, treat yourself. It’s the Holidays.

Chof God!

There’s an entire sub-genre in comics that’s just Garfield riffs and I am the hugest of fans.

Happy Spooky Season! Be sure to read the manual.

Lol yeah, guess I was lost.

So, screaming at him all night didn’t work?

Sleep easy OP, this is likely some bullshit.

Hexbear is way worse, imo. Those folks will straight up harass dissenters. Stay away or maybe just stick to your gaming sub if you’re happy there.

Well said.

I’d like to add that the biggest problem, imo, is the closed source nature of the models. Corporations who used our collective knowledge, without permission, to create AI to sell back to us is unethical at best. All AI models should be open source for public access, sort of like libraries. Corpos are thrilled we’re fighting about copyright pennies instead, I’m sure.

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God, this fucking debate has been going on for decades with you nerds. Bieb or Hannah there’s no right answer, use whichever works best for you!

You’re blaming the wrong people. Being sensitive of triggers is a good thing, advertisers are the problem.

If you look into the history of radio & television, you’ll see the same pattern. Like the internet, at first they were an awesome medium anyone could use and all kinds of badass stuff happened. Over time everything became consolidated & advertisers insisted on censoring for maximum efficiency.