My face, screaming in horror, but in words instead. I've only really worked with projects in homogenous languages on the application side, so hadn't considered that. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

It depends, I think. If it's a scurrilous, untrue rumour about your sexual habits, then it will be preserved indefinitely. If it's some critical information, that is only published in one place, and you need to cite it for a paper, then it's either gone or modified beyond recognition.

Not a big one. In my 20s, asleep in bedroom, girlfriend asleep next to me. I wake up and see dancing, glowing blue filaments, about 20cm long, moving through the bedroom. No sound, bedroom is otherwise completely dark. It was a similar glow to Cherenkov Radiation, but at a much smaller scale, and clearly defined, glowing threads.

Wake girlfriend who grumpily agrees they exist before falling asleep again.

5 minutes later they just stop and I never see them again.

We were the only people in the house, in a room with blackout curtains and with all electrical items turned off at the wall (UK plugs rule).

Still no explanation to this day.

God-tier joke, bravo.

One of the critical differences between FOSS and commercial software is that FOSS projects don't need to drive sales and consequently also don't need to immediately jump onto technology trends in order to not look like they're lagging behind the competition.

What I've consistently seen from FOSS over the 30 years I've been using it, is that if a technology choice is a good fit for the problem, then it will be adopted into projects where relevant.

I believe that there are use cases where LLM processing is absolutely a good fit, and the projects that need that functionality will use it. What you're less likely to see is 'AI' added to everything, because it isn't generally a good solution to most problems in it's current form.

As an aside, you may be less likely to get good faith interaction with your question while using the term 'luddite' as it is quite pejorative.

Certainly on the jetty, near the jeach

Vampire iPhone, stake through the CPU

It's Hugh Jass

If you're all ears, how would you propose to use the soap?

I don't get the RCS hype. I already have apps for rich messaging and RCS offers nothing for me over those apps. What I do appreciate is SMS, which is posed to be killed-off by RCS. I can rely on SMS even when there is no data signal, can't say that for RCS. I wish I had a way to permanently disable RCS on my Pixel 6a, instead I have to keep rejecting the 'upgrade to RCS' dialog.

It's this not the kind of scenario the founding fathers foresaw when drafting the second amendment?

Jean-Luc Picard, of the Jeanterprise, NCC-1701D(enim)

So, can we now make investment bankers redundant?

Who's out there putting hands on the rim of toilet bowls? 'fess up.

Bwahahahahaaa. No.

Too bad, how sad. Turn it into housing.

I read the whole article, yet in my head it was being narrated by Adam Curtis. Same vibes.

I hope you also have a t-shirt that says, 'stop staring at my face, the citation is down here'

Oh good! We don't have anywhere near enough of those.

This comment deserves to be immortalised on a plaque

There is an IETF standard for UUIDs? Do we need an IETF standard for UUIDs? I've been coding since the '90s and never thought a UUID to be complicated or contentious enough to need a standard. I guess it makes for a pretty unique icebreaker to say you've contributed to an IETF standard, if you get invited to those sort of parties.