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BrideOfLinux

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Writer about all things open source, as well as music and politics. Host of The Sixties in 60 on TheBarrelofRock.com.

Publisher, editor, & writer at FOSS Force, Alternative Approaches, and If This Be Treason.

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Here's an article from the FreeBSD Foundation making the case for why you might consider using FreeBSD in your enterprise: FreeBSD 14.1- What’s new, and how did we get here? | FreeBSD Foundation https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-14-1-whats-new-and-how-did-we-get-here/

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Looking for work?: AMD Hiring To Improve Their Linux Driver/ROCm Installation Process Across Distributions - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Unified-Linux-Jobs

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I'm wanting to like this, but since it's Mozilla I figure its just another case of Mozilla overreach. I still want to know how much the new CEO is making, and how much Mitchell Baker continues to take home as chairperson: Building open, private AI with the Mozilla Builders Accelerator https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-builders-accelerator/

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@sjvn I think Google effectively removed Mozilla as competition many years ago simply by handing them hundreds of millions of dollars on an ongoing basis. They completely lost their focus, since they now seemed to have an endless supply of money.

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@researchbuzz @sjvn Yup. And they also quit focusing on Firefox, their crown jewels and whole reason for existing, to the point where it became just another browser. As they say, they had one thing to do...

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@researchbuzz @sjvn The fact that Mitchell Baker was taking home nearly $7 million a year as CEO is shenanigans enough for me. There's no way that I can see to justify that kind of robbery.

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@researchbuzz @sjvn Yeah. But even if CEO pay is crazy across the board, this was above and beyond "reasonable," even by that measure. The less money Mozilla realized from Google, by far its chief source of income, the more money she got paid.In 2018 she was paid $2.4 million. In 2022, $6.9 million.

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@researchbuzz @sjvn Getting pretty darn close to 3X. I don't know what she made in 2023, but I'm betting it was up again.

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When I started using Linux, it was much more difficult for beginners to use than Windows. For well over a decade now, the opposite has been the case: There Has Never Been A Better Time To Switch To Linux https://fosspost.org/there-has-never-been-a-better-time-to-switch-to-linux

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Uncle Goog says he getting the bugs worked out: Google explains why AI Overviews currently sucks https://betanews.com/2024/05/30/google-ai-overviews-sucks/

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Son calls police to report his father missing, who then gets tortured into confessing that he killed him. Turns out, dad was alive and well the whole time: City Pays $900k To Man Tortured Into Confessing Committing A Murder That Never Happened https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/28/city-pays-900k-to-man-tortured-into-confessing-committing-a-murder-that-never-happened/

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Here’s a breakdown of what each of the five units of the EU’s AI Office will focus on: With the EU AI Act incoming this summer, the bloc lays out its plan for AI governance | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/29/with-the-eu-ai-act-incoming-this-summer-the-bloc-lays-out-its-plan-for-ai-governance/

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If memory serves, RHEL 8 was the last edition of RHEL before IBM took Red Hat's reins: RHEL 8.10 Released as the Last Update in the 8th Series https://linuxiac.com/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-10/

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"Normally, to deploy an AI app locally, you need to go through a decent amount of mumbo jumbo instructions, and with that method, an end-result is not guaranteed. Pinokio describes itself as an 'AI Browser' and utilizes 1-click scripts to install and configure AI-powered apps or chatbots on your computer. It stores them in a single folder, and lets you customize some of it after you install it": I Installed AI Apps in a Single Click on My Linux System With Pinokio https://itsfoss.com/install-ai-apps-pinokio-linux/

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How to break your addiction to overpriced garbage: Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple's Products - LinuxLinks https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-apple-products/

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Since about 2014 I've been paying to subscribe to WaPo. I've never thought I was getting my money's worth, and now with the association with News Corp and this AI news (if true), has me just about convinced that my association with the paper is just about finished: The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI https://futurism.com/washington-post-pivot-ai

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It’s been a while since Hans Reiser was in the news. That’s because it’s been 16 years since he was sentenced to spend 15 years to life as a guest of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for murdering his wife. Before that he was an important part of the Linux and open-source scene, as the creator of the ReiserFS filesystem: In a Feel Good Moment, Linux 6.10 Makes One Last Change to ReiserFS - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2024/05/in-a-feel-good-moment-linux-6-10-makes-one-last-change-to-reiserfs/

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This came down the pike four hours ago, so I don't know whether it's still true: Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT's web search feature down too | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing-is-down-bringing-duckduckgo-and-ecosia-down-too/

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"Last week at Google IO, Google made it clear that they’re moving forward with what it calls 'AI overviews,' in which Google’s own Gemini AI tech will try to generate answers at the top of search pages": Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/21/decentralized-systems-will-be-necessary-to-stop-google-from-putting-the-web-into-managed-decline/

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Great idea if it doesn't end up going bust and costing immigrants a bunch of money (article not written by me, but by another writer who shares my name): Immigrant banking platform Majority secures $20M following 3x revenue growth | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/majority-immigrant-banking-20m/

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Krishna spoke about "source available" and other fauxpen licenses.

“'They’re using the term open just for marketing purposes,' Krishna said.

"Krishna explained that real open-source is critical to enable contributions and growth for a technology.

“'If you want people to contribute, it has to be clearly open-source, it cannot actually just be open-source marketing,' he said: IBM CEO praises real open source for enterprise gen AI, new efforts emerge at Think 2024 https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-ceo-praises-real-open-source-for-enterprise-gen-ai-as-new-efforts-emerge-at-think-2024/

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To paraphrase Walt Kelly, "We have seen the future and we know it sucks": New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

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"Surge Engine is a 2D retro game engine with an included Sonic-like game (Surge the Rabbit) for anyone who wants to make their own platformers like classic Sonic. The developers just released a big new version": Surge Engine, the open source Sonic-like game engine (and game) gets upgraded https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/surge-engine-the-open-source-sonic-like-game-engine-and-game-gets-upgraded/

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It's not "Artificial Intelligence," it's "Plagiarism Software."

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I'm trying to remember how much data you could cram on the dual floppies that came with the IBM XT, which was my first desktop: Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-are-floppy-disks-today-planes-trains-and-all-these-other-places/

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