I was always proud of the UK government having (a majority of) good online services that are easy to use. And that they were open source.
It’s what governments should do. It is providing for their citizens in 2 different ways: accessible services & open source.

It’s bullshit that they are drawing back from that

Plasma 7 is being renamed Desktop For Plasma365 2027 edition.
Everything is electron apps. Native apps are ran as web assembly inside an electron app.
There will be no UI, only a shitty AI chatbox that is always suggesting results from askjeeves (and takes 5 seconds before it suggests anything from your local machine).
Oh, and it’s a monthly licence now.
And it’s actually just a laggy local UI of the actual desktop that is ran in the cloud on a container with 512mb ram and 1 CPU.

Oh wait, this isn’t microslop.
Good things on Linux (generally) stay the same or get better, not different so “line goes up”.
I think I’m still getting over the windows PTSD

I read it as “pick up support for the FOSS projects” as opposed to user IT support.
So, contributing to the FOSS.
Even sponsorship would be awesome, in a “we can’t do the tech stuff, but here is 10% of what we saved” kinda way

Probably not even mentioned by reform.
They will be anti-immigrant pro-taxcuts “make everything better (without having to explain how)” kinda deal

Fire needs fuel. Glad we figured that out!

But actually, this is about developing a model of wildfire burn.
So, using satellite information gathered before previous large fires, the study reckons they have a 60% accurate model for how a wildfire will burn. (From a quick skim of the article)

It’s a draft spec.
6 is probably finalised and being implemented.
7 is probably late stage finalisation.
So 8 can be started to be drafted.

I guess using an LLM is technically mathematics

Well, no. But then it gets rejected, and further PRs that also fail the check will likely get you banned from contributing.

The human is responsible.
If the code or PR fails, the human has to own that.
If the human fails to own that, the human gets banned

Yeh, AI as an assistant/tool. Not as a replacement

Yeh, JSON will compress well.

Yeh, but it’s serverless! Where else do the private API keys go, other than in the web page?
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This is already possible using an autounattend file.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ is fantastic.
Use Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool to create a windows installer USB, add the XML file to the root of the USB disk, reinstall windows exactly how you want it.

(If you are feeling fancy, download the windows iso, and repack it with the autounattend.xml file in it, then drop it onto a Ventoy USB stick)

Surely you can’t be serious!

When ctrl+v is disabled to “prevent brute force bots” or something ridiculous

Yeh, I have passkeys in bitwarden.
I get it. Once they become ubiquitous, you click “login” your password manager prompts you to select account, and you are in.
No password that can be leaked, incorrectly stored, brute forced.
Corporations can pre-register company service passkeys for new users.
It’s like mTLS, except staged.

Being “anti-drugs” can be a positive position of support for drug users and tackling the root of the problem.
Not just “do drugs = bad guy”. But actually understanding the problem, and addressing it

And then some kid buys a used raspberry pi or wipes an old computer and circumvents it all anyway.

It works out as O(regex^n)

Illegal: the strap on is unlicense

Yeh, but once they have all the big companies complying then they can go after the little guys.
And if, at any point, a little guy becomes problematic then they can fuck them over with compliance violations.

So yes. Just use services that don’t require ages verification.
But once they become large enough or problematic enough, they will get the book thrown at them