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That doesn't actually answer the original poster's commentary, however.

Humans have left Twitter, its all propaganda and spam bots just spamming and propagandizing each other.

José Valim needs to move to either Bluesky (if he prefers to stay within the corporate ecosystem) or Mastodon (which is where the entirety of the FOSS universe went).


Humans are still on twitter. Maybe the people José Valim wants to reach are on twitter and not those other platforms.

> José Valim needs to move to either Bluesky (if he prefers to stay within the corporate ecosystem) or Mastodon (which is where the entirety of the FOSS universe went).

Personally, I am not particularly on X so much as much as I am on bluesky, and I would really appreciate Jose joining bluesky.

But at the end of the day, I might take critique with the idea of needs

Nobody needs to do anything. It's his freedom and I just searched and Jose is literally on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6h6jhmuogujxac24oilywd45 but his account is inactive since last message of 11 months ago.

So I think that he's open to new platforms and old habits die hard perhaps. I don't wish to defend X because I don't particularly like it, but being honest, it is what it is.

> Humans have left Twitter, its all propaganda and spam bots just spamming and propagandizing each other.

Can't say about all but I can indeed confirm that when I tried to make a new account and post something, I was literally recommended tweets basically saying "like this tweet/follow us to get 1000 followers or buy these followers" when I had posted a video for an product.


Not surprised.

Anthropic dogfoods their own product, and, unfortunately, this is what their product produces sometimes.


Plan 9's Glenda crossed with a Peep?

Unfortunately, there seems to be no proof he actually won the popular vote.

Trump has admitted openly that he won due to mass tampering with voting machines, and thanked Elon Musk for his help.

Your analogy falls apart.


Citation needed. You lot elected him before, seems likely you elected him again. Pretended he won by cheating instead of because your democracy is in dire need of a refit will do little but alloallow the next facists to win as well.

Not OP. I believe it is from folks like this. It is compelling but it can also difficult to pin down the exact details. They rely mostly on statistics based oddities.

I do appreciate that they are not interested in over throwing the 2024 election, just ensure that any possible gaps are covered for future elections.

> The Election Truth Alliance is initiating a call for hand counts of paper voting records associated with the 2024 U.S. General Election, and is advocating for full hand counts prior to certification for all future U.S. elections.

https://electiontruthalliance.org/


They don't sell you your OS, that's the big surface area that companies like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc have to swallow.

They also don't make these computers and are at the whim of their ODM, so unless you opt for Coreboot/Libreboot, there wouldn't be a possibility for that.

https://doc.coreboot.org/mainboard/starlabs/starfighter_mtl.... The previous version is already upstreamed, apparently.


I love how they just butcher that article.

I remember when it came out a little over a year ago, and its just as wrong as it is today as it was then.


To be fair: You should refer to these as Type-C cables, as they carry things that are not USB protocol.

The sole exception should be made for "charge only" cables, which can, and should, be referred to as "wired for USB 2.0". These cables "shouldn't" exist, but I also don't want to buy a $30 cable just to charge my phone.


Most support Intel HDA.

The problem is that people don't use onboard audio anymore (because its incredibly and audibly noisy). They use USB or Bluetooth.

Bluetooth absolutely isn't standardized and is a mess, and USB miiiiiiight be okay if you limit to a subset of EHCI and USB Audio Class 1.0 devices.

At this point, its easier to just use Linux and run your game as pid 1.


Regarding onboard audio:

About 10 years ago, it became "common knowledge" about mainboards that onboard sound has become good enough for almost anybody. It has never been true for me, maybe because my recent mainboards have been lower middle class (AMD B350 / B650) largely chosen for good CPU power converters.

Because my two (PC) laptops since 2020 have both had really damn good headphone outputs, I can believe that some good / expensive mainboards have it, too. It's not exotic technology anymore. Meanwhile, my desktop PC has a 20+ years old M-Audio prosumer card that also sounds great. (Now rigged with a PCIe -> PCI converter card off AliExpress)


This common knowledge is still incorrect.

Good news, though, there are a lot of inexpensive good external DACs out there. Over the past decade, an entire industry grew up to fix this problem.


Between these DACs and / or Chi-Fi class D amps (some of them with built-in DACs), nowadays you can spend 90% of the Hi-Fi budget on speakers. It's incredible how good electronics you can get for how cheap these days.


Bluetooth sucks against the raw codec of a soundcard. If you want lossy music, that's it.

But given autotune trends and how genz-ers grew up with shitty early smartphone loudspeakers and not much better BT ones they aren't used to proper music and their tastes are rot forever.


I refuse to use Bluetooth, too.

But, unfortunately, people keep buying that trash. We're kinda forced to support their mistakes.


You can strip down Linux significantly as well: no multi-user, no extra syscalls, no FS support beyond initramfs/tmpfs, etc.


Why did Google bother?

They're a music store, they sell music, both to own, but also renting their vast library out.

Google should learn not to shit where they eat.


big tech companies are 50 companies in a trench coat, there isn't some great aligning directive. Feels like some random side project some employees felt like making.


Because of ads and background music for YouTube.


Welcome to 2026's reality, most new music is already AI-generated. I don't like it, but it is what it is. YT Music is already full of AI slop, those tools aren't changing that.

If anything it gives Google control of the entire production->sale->delivery process.

I'm honestly not seeing a downside for Google here, can you elaborate?


Most new music by what definition? I'm certain more stuff is being churned out by these automated tools than genuine human creativity, but that doesn't make it economically relevant if the only use it's seeing is random high school kids' YouTube channels. It's not seeing streams on services, it's not bringing in revenue once created.


I just keep reporting AI slop videos (incl music) on YT, and sometimes the videos or even entire channel vanish. I hope I'm contributing to this process to keep YT safe, but I'm just one guy, and they probably have a much bigger effort internally.

The downside for Google is, ultimately, the death of the company. Nobody wants AI slop, and go out of their way to actively avoid it and punish companies that promote it. Google already is running a huge risk by pushing Gemini into every service, and permanently burning customers and users with it.

Microsoft is already seeing the downside of trying to Copilot everything. Their software is now partly slop, shit randomly breaks, companies cancel Azure/Office subscriptions and move to on-prem, FOSS, etc. They've pumped their brakes quite a lot, but the damage may be too great to mitigate now.

If Google wants to lose money in the long run, then by all means, please continue.


The people in charge here don’t give a fuck about the long term. Reap as much profits for yourself as you can before everything inevitably collapses - that’s the prevailing current trend. Let the lizard brain take over and just feel good in the moment, why worry about the future.


Unfortunately, this is probably true for Google.

Once you have that particular brand of cancer, its too late to save the company without drastic measures.



As the paper mentions, this particular routine was the work of Alexei Sibidanov, though Zimmermann seems to have been maintaining it since it was contributed. (Sibidanov doesn't work for Red Hat either, though.)


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