It’s glorified autocorrect (/predictive text).

People fight me on this every time I say it but it’s literally doing the same thing just with much further lookbehind.

In fact, there’s probably a paper to be written about how LLMs are just lossily compressed Markov chains.

Sloppysoft or Microslop?

Debating which word to add to my lexicon this year.

Great source of protein crawling there across the ground, it’d be a shame if someone wasn’t there to eat it

Why would you bring up C# in a thread about kernel programming?

You go ahead and write an OS kernel in C# then.

Because Rust lets you choose when something is unsafe vs writing all unsafe in code all the time:

Note the other 159 kernel CVEs issued today for fixes in the C portion of the codebase

That “780,000 Windows users” number is just made up for the title as clickbait.

That number is never mentioned in the original blog post.

All they said is they have a million downloads and “over 78% of these downloads came from Windows”. At no fucking point did they imply that means 780k unique users. There’s no reason to assume that everyone who downloaded the ISO actually went on to install it.

They also want $48 for their Pro version which comes with a “professional-grade creative suite” consisting of… GIMP, Blender, Inkscape, Kdenlive, and… Audacity (?), going off the screenshots they show:

They’re shamelessly reselling free software as some sort of comprehensive package, and it’s not even their own distro. They’re just piggybacking on Ubuntu.

And their premium support only covers… installation?

But hey, they support this edition with updates until 2029!

Of course, pay no attention to the coincidence that the Ubuntu LTS version it’s based on also hits end-of-life around then:

So I’m not really sure what you’re actually getting out of this purchase besides some extra themes and some really formulaic desktop wallpapers, and a couple proprietary apps. They say they “contribute to upstream Open Source projects” but offer zero evidence; their site doesn’t even have any Github/Gitlab links.