If you’re primary interface to your computer is a shell, then why not do this in a shell too? You likely already have your DE setup to handle shells. It fits within all your styling (no weridness between qt, gtk, etc).

A better question might be, why run it in a GUI? What are you actually gaining from doing that?

Lots of neat uncomfortable questions arise though. At what point is it conscious? If it never experienced autonomy, life, locomotion, or social human interaction, is it torture or just its natural state of being?

Dark humor becomes a coping mechanism. “Fix it, fork it, f*ck off” becomes the phrase of choice.

oooo, I like that.

Not thermoelectrics, but sterling engines. But fair point about the heat.

In the UK, large stocks of civil nuclear waste contain significant quantities of americium-241. That makes the fuel not only long-lasting but also readily accessible. Instead of building new reactors to produce plutonium, agencies can extract Americium from existing waste, a form of recycling at a planetary scale.

Using it seems way more preferable to just letting it sit in casks.

Traditional RTGs utilize thermoelectrics, which are reliable but inefficient, often achieving only five percent efficiency. Stirling engines can convert heat to electricity with an efficiency of 25 percent or more. […] Stirling engines introduce moving parts, which also raises reliability concerns in space. However, Americium’s steady heat output enables RTG designs with multiple Stirling converters operating in tandem. If one fails, the others compensate, preserving power output.

That seems a little ridiculous though. All that friction requires a lube that’ll last “generations.” In space, without gravity, and at incredibly low temperatures.

There is a reason nearly every software corporation out there is allergic to GPL code, and similarly why they love MIT/BSD/Apache code. I urge you to consider why that is.

I’m well aware. Are you assuming that people using permissive licenses are somehow incapable of understanding the implication of their license choice?

Licenses do affect how software is used, that is literally the purpose of them.

You implied that I would be “contributing to something” I would object to. I’m left to fill in the gaps. Maybe be more direct in your comments.

My labor is done. I’ve already made the product. I have nothing to protect it from. Someone copying the product deprives me of nothing.

Also, you seem to be moving into another topic of controlling how software is used which is rarely ever addressed in licenses.

I’m going to continue releasing my software with a license that I deem appropriate.

For things I’m building only for myself or that I have no interest in building a community around, I couldn’t give a shit what people do with it or if they contribute back. My efforts have nothing to do with them. I’m releasing it for the remote chance someone finds it useful, either commercially or personally. Partially because I’ve benefited from others doing the same thing.

I’m not anti-copyleft, but the only time I actually care to use something like the GPL is for projects that would be obviously beneficial to have community contributions. Things that require more effort than I can put in, or that needs diverse points of views.

I use permissive licenses not because I’m a pushover, but because I really don’t care what you do with it.

I used to do order picking in a large warehouse. We used headphones that told you were to go.

It’s a some “trouble” to install, but it’s worth it. I spend like 2-3 days getting every little thing the way I like and then I’m set for basically the life of the hardware.

Yeah but like, if humans aren’t dying there’s no stakes. Eventually one robot army must chew through the other to get to the human soldiers or civilians. Then you just eventually just have a robot army massacring a populous with no internal morality.

It’s my Super key. It’s used for like everything in my DE (Hyprland).

In a statement shared with The Hacker News, a GitHub spokesperson said the identified packages were part of a “tightly controlled exercise” conducted by GitHub’s Red Team.

“GitHub takes security seriously and regularly tests its security posture through rigorous, realistic Red Team exercises to ensure resilience against current threat actor techniques. At no point were GitHub systems or data at risk,” the spokesperson added.

The bill text of SB-212 seems pretty reasonable. Basically just says the government needs a good reason to create regulations on computation.

It even explicitly mentions good reasons may include things like fraud, deepfakes, and public nuisances of datacenters.

As a Montanan, I’m cool with it. Guess we’ll see how it’s used.

I’d rather be a free and open society than win any kind of industrial race.

It’s a real article.

Honestly one of the surprisingly good things I’ve gotten.

That said, I have one of the dumb ones. It doesn’t map my house and upload it to the cloud.

Disposable electronics.

Maybe like a Great Firewall. Seems like a great idea.

At that level why not just build your own?