2026 will finally be the year of the Haiku desktop!

I wonder what the fine folk of the Phoronix comment section have to say about this!

Let’s check out comment #2:

Does anyone still care, besides maybe Putin? [emphasis mine]

- anarki2

I see…

The researchers in the academic field of machine learning who came up with LLMs are certainly aware of their limitations and are exploring other possibilities, but unfortunately what happened in industry is that people noticed that one particular approach was good enough to look impressive and then everyone jumped on that bandwagon.

By handwriting raw lambda calculus.

The impression that I got from this article is that even the author of imake feels the same way, and is only maintaining it out of consideration for legacy software still using it.

Who would have thought that there would be a context in which GNU Autoconf and Automake were considered the modern way to build software?

I concur, photographic information is already standard for international travel, so this is really not a big deal. I am way more concerned about things like proposed changes to require visitors to list their last five years of social media accounts.

My species uses e as its base because that is proven to be mathematically optimal. In our number system, humans use base 2.3025850… (but written entirely as powers of e using our far superior elegant notation, of course!)

No, scratch that. Even black holes radiate out the information they receive. M-Files doesn’t.

That is an amazing zinger!

Speak for yourself! Personally I feel that it built character to have to click a button every time you wanted to see a different part of an online map, rather than dragging it around.

I was also a bit surprised to see that Vala is so widely adopted, but it is a very natural fit when you consider that it was specifically designed to use GObject as its OOP implementation, making it essentially a “native” speaker in GNOME.

Nah, presumably the developer already has an operating system and just needs a text editor.

At least it’s Not Unix.

I barely trust natural intelligence with anything relating to security.

“Unalive” isn’t being used for political correctness, it is being used because algorithms actively penalize content using the words “kill” and “suicide”, so using “unalive” instead is a way to work around censorship.

I was not going to downvote your comment despite disagreeing with it, but since you are now citing your downvote/upvote ratio as proof that most people support your position, you now get downvotes from me.

That’s why in video games I smash everything in order to be safe.

I think that the problem here is that you are assuming that the wording was carefully crafted to mean something precise when in fact it was just thrown together sloppily. 😆

I do not see the causal connection you are seeing in the meme at all. I just see it pointing out that now is a particularly bad time for Electron apps to be so dominant, which is true.

It may have taken a while, but the Year of the Linux Desktop has finally arrived in 1969!