Yup that’s it, you were quicker than me, thanks!

Oh dang you’re right, read your comment too quickly and mixed up v and w, lol

What’s the difference between /kʷ/ and /kw/ though? Never seen that first notation

It’s somewhere in the settings on the web interface, you can set up SMTP credentials for any of the email addresses you’ve set up in Proton there. Maybe you’ll find it on your own already, but I could look it up exactly once I’m on the PC later

That’s wrong, you can set up sending via SMTP pretty easily. And they also have an IMAP bridge app to access your mailbox through other clients like Thunderbird.

Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/

Same in German actually no

If people “get into” Linux via Omarchy - then decide its roots are distateful, distro hopping is very easy for them to do.

My point is that they might not ever get to the point of noticing the rot at its roots. Sure, if they notice it’s easy, but they need to even get to that point. Also, even if we know it’s easy, it might still be intimidating. They may remember how much work the jump from Windows/Apple to Omarchy was and assume it’s gonna be similar from one Linux distro to another.

If you 18 million number refers to Omarchy’s own download count

I was referring to donation amounts. 18 million dollars. That’s the most recent number I’ve seen that has been donated or promised to Omarchy, and that kind of money can do a whole lot when it’s pumped into reputation building.

I find it a stretch to think that Omarchy will be whitewashing brownshirt politics sufficiently to win converts because “hey, these guys are alright, look at what a nifty distro they made…”

Then you’re more optimistic than me. Those politics are not advertised on the frontpage*, and most people who are not already tuned into that are not gonna go hunting for it. For most it’s not gonna go further than “Oh my favorite tech influencer is rocking this awesome looking setup, gonna try that”, and from there on why would they look at anything other than the docs.

* They do have that “Backed by the oligarchy” section, and I immediately wanted to vomit when seeing that, but colleagues of mine didn’t see the issue with that until I explicitly spelled it out. We very much do live in a bubble.

Disagree on that. Those 18 million are in big parts going to go into marketing and reputation washing, specifically to people that might not be tuned into the broader Linux or even tech ecosystem. Those will not by themselves start looking up the background of a shiny Linux distro that is being hailed by everyone as a super nice and easy way to get into Linux. Some education can go a long way there.

So what? It doesn’t change that the language is useful and there’s not a good alternative to it. As the author if the article states:

All abstractions are imperfect, but I don’t see the value in refusing to use the language of intention, motivation, and collaboration when a behavior is impossible to make sense of without these concepts.

Unless they manage to extract their model weights and can start running their model on hardware that their creator does not control. Yes, that’s a bit far fetched at the moment, but I see no reason to believe it couldn’t happen if the models keep getting more capable and the AI companies keep throwing resources unsupervised at them.

I don’t think AI agents “get desperate”

The problem is that even if they don’t get desperate in the sense that they actually feel emotions and are self-aware, their observable output/behavior still matches up well enough with that of actual humans to make our existing vocabulary around human emotions and behaviors useful to analyze, talk about and predict it. They absolutely will start talking and behaving like humans that are getting desperate, according to the article even to the point of individual agents talking about sacrificing themselves for the benefit of the group. Your description of “just keep hacking away at a problem” doesn’t quite do that justice.

In case you’re not aware

They literally mentioned anthropic by name, so I’m pretty sure they’re aware 😅

And there’s also already uv, which is a package manager for Python, written in Rust, so clearly the Bun rewrite should be possible.

Bun is a whole lot more than a package manager, though. It’s also a full JS/TS runtime, bundler and test runner. So I don’t think that’s a great comparison

That’s super interesting, and a funny personal story, thanks for sharing!

A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context

I mean, as far as I know that, plus the rough shape/outline of each word, is how fast non-dyslexic readers read in general, at least for common words, haha. Actually reading letter-by-letter is relatively rare

So I’ve been wondering about this, does this kind of font make reading easier immediately for you, or does it take a bit until you’ve gotten used to and, idk, learned the shapes of the individual letters, after which it’s then faster?

Oh yeah, no, that’s the same on KDE, I thought you were just referring to the automatic reboot thing, my bad.

Also don’t know if it works differently with dnf, since it never bothered me that much

On the KDE version you just get a permanent notification in the tray reminding you that you should reboot. It can so it automatically though if you choose so in the Discover app.

Well technically, they didn’t say it was great, not even that it was good. Just that they’re still full, which I believe

they specifically excluded those symbols from the email they sent to German accounts

And even that they fucked up, because it seems like they just removed them from the German language version of the email. German accounts set to English (like mine) got the symbols like everyone else.

If you plug a fork in an outlet and shock yourself to death, there’s nobody to blame but yourself for being dumb.

And yet, we still design outlets in ways that make that exact kind of thing as hard as possible. Because there will always be kids who have no idea what they’re doing. Because there will always be old people unfamiliar with the technology that “everyone” should know how to use by now. Because accidents happen.

a team of never sleeping junior devs

As a senior dev, that sounds like my worst nightmare tbh

One of my favorite recent minifigures!