That is true, didn’t even think to check that, thank you!

Sounds pretty neat. I would love if this was available as a built thing and I didn’t have to build myself though.

No, and fuck you for you saying it’s “nonsense” or “people are ignorant”.

I say “it’s bad UX” and you’re saying “people are ignorant”?!? Are you serious?!!

Yes there is standard, distros and maintainers don’t write a UNIFIED documentation for users on how to get things to work, because they lack interest and manpower. There is no unified documentation on how to make a program and then write a desktop file for the different distros and where to put it, because they all do it differently and nobody cares enough to synchronize that.

(also, obviously from this post, there is no enforcement of the standard, because again, nobody cares strongly enough about it)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UnityLaunchersAndDesktopFiles

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries

This doesn’t even mention .desktop files.

https://kubuntu-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

This part of the UX and development of linux is still very much taking baby steps unfortunately. Massive lack of interest and manpower to do these things cleanly and provide good documentation.

I see that requires some more explaining my thinking:

There is only demand and supply.

Previously, we had “high demand” and “limited supply” which is what lead to software dev roles being a very well paid job in silicon valley and some other places.

Now, the promise of AI, making software by itself or increasing productivity, if true, mean that supply increases. That makes software cheaper. Theoretically.

But that’s the supply side.

What you’re talking about is also a “I have so much supply, I can now afford to do projects and software I could not do before, because my time, budget, etc. was limited.” But you already had the idea and the “demand” however low priority, already existed.

What isn’t happening, is that some company sits down and suddenly decides that they need more software than they thought they needed. Even the bit that is “replacing real humans” is replacing humans. It’s meeting a demand that was already there in a new way.

Using a metaphor / example, we currently, as humanity, manage to feed ourselves. Or let’s pretend that we do and nobody is starving. Someone claiming that “the demand for food is going to go up” is talking nonsense. They can say that demand for “cheese” or “meat” or “potatoes” will go up. But not food, because that market is already saturated. Because we’re not starving.

Yes, the fact that the demand is there and that the supply gets cheaper will mean that more software will be produced.

But not because of increased demand. AI doesn’t create it’s own demand.

…at least that’s my thought process and why I wrote what I wrote in the original comment.

1. Software will be built by machines, directed by people.

2. The agentic era multiplies demand for software. As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.

objectively insane.

Governance built into the core.

I still believe that’s not possible, but that’s only my opinion.

That approach seems less insane and more importantly, less evil than what’s currently going on.

If you’re worried about misinformation, the most dangerous places are main stream media and a bad algorithmic selection on youtube or other “endless scroll” websites.

And the main stream media thing not because it’s obvious nonsense, because they having specific wording and focus you don’t really see until you look for it, so it looks balanced and fine and high quality, but you only get a good sense of what’s going on by reading from multiple international sources, even bad ones and noticing the differences in focus and tone and thinking about it.

If you have a source or person you trust implicitly, be sure to check them in depth from time to time. How they report on different topics and such. E.g. is it always pro or contra something.

Yeah, but don’t you think people are just going to sell their houses and move?

If you are ok with factory ish games, I really liked the level based nature of “mindustry”. Factorio is more “you have any space you need, nature bends to your will”. And mindustry does some stuff where it’s similar production chain puzzling, but you are hard restricted by space. Which improves the puzzling, because not all solutions will fit everywhere.

Otherwise I would also recommend against the storm.

https://xkcd.com/1987/

Once again a nightmare of someone’s own making. The python steering council didn’t sit down and dictate that people must use all different distribution methods (in your case gcc) mixed and at once.

Brutal!

As a player myself, I’m genuinely tired of seeing gorgeous trailers and promo images that have zero relationship to the actual game. It’s become almost a meme at this point. When I have real gameplay, real screenshots, real footage that’s when I’ll show something. Authentic over polished-but-fake, every time.

Sure, I get that, but right now what the public can see is just the idea, as written text with like 2 pages. It’s the concept of a game. And it’s a decent concept, but there is nothing else there yet.

go. seed. lord. cum.

😐

“seedlord” is bad enough by itself btw.

Seriously though, I like the approach, but the reason games do that RMT pay to win stuff is because stuff costs money.

I’m not really interested in browser games. The concept with the economy sounds good, but the website is very “bare”, no images, no videos, etc…

A new report

BY THE AI COMPANY “WRITER”

and research firm Workplace Intelligent found a massive portion of workers across the US, UK, and Europe are intentionally trying to sabotage their bosses’ AI initiatives.

Please don’t spread obviously doctored “reports”.

The thing I’m concerned about is not the absolute number when news like this are published, but the magnitude of the error. Not in a “haha, they’re so wrong, lol” way, but in a “if they get it this wrong over x years, I wonder what the error will be in 2x years”.

“Combining observations and climate models suggests a 60% stronger weakening of the Atlantic circulation than using models alone.”

Being off by 60% is massive and then new estimate will have some margin of error as well. Which could go back to the original value, but it could also be worse. We just don’t know.

Scientists are cool and all, but I really hate substack.

Government is excluded from meeting GDPR requirements. ☺️

Money isn’t going to solve the burnout problem

In my opinion, the biggest source of burnout is actually our dayjobs.

Respectfully and meant humorously, WTF are you talking about then.

Yes money can solve it. It can solve FOSS devs needing a day job, it can solve not having enough people to do deal with FOSS related nonsense.

I’m really annoyed when people say that and somehow have “shame” when it comes to demanding, let’s say, $50 million from FANG to maintain their project. Just ask. And then because of that shame, they think “asking for money” is asking a few fellow FOSS enjoyers for $1-5 a month and then that amounts to like $3.50 and then yeah of course that won’t solve any problems.

This is not the answer to your question, but a comment. Sorry, I am aware that it may not be helpful to you.

I don’t think TOS are very hard to read once you’ve read one or two, if you care, you should just read the TOS.

For example, if you’re concerned about EU-US datatransfer, the privacy policy has to outline who data is shared with, so you can skim it and see if they mention sharing data at all, or if they are doing it with specific companies, or just “partners”.

On the internet and social media, you have to transfer the rights to your content to the social media content, because it’s the only way they’re allowed to store, replicate and distribute your comments or post.

That kind of stuff. And those paragraphs mostly look the same.