It won’t load for me, but I assume this will link to Monty Python’s “Every Sperm is Sacred”?

Wha-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow?!

Nice. I also like how Kristen Bell never gets to be Princess Anna (who she voiced) on Halloween, because one year her daughter wanted to be Anna and didn’t want to match, and another year her daughter wanted to be Elsa, and demanded that they match.

To offer some perspective. The Linux kernel will now stop supporting a CPU from 1989.

Lol. Yes. I’m going to add even more perspective on how ludicrous the difference is.

TL;DR for below: A thing we can’t physically do anyway will become less convenient in the next Limux Kernel, but still will not actually be impossible (at least on the software side). It will still be impossible on the proprietary hardware, anyway, so it is a moot point. Which is why the software support is being archived.

Specifically, it will not be possible (from a software perspective) to install a 486 CPU from 1989 into a motherboard built next year, without copying and recompiling the available source code.

So it will still be possible (from a software perspective), but it will be much less convenient.

What’s that? Installing a 486 CPU hasn’t been physically possible on proprietary motherboard hardware for many years already? Fair enough.

What’s that also? Almost no one wants to slot a CPU from 1998, into modern hardware.

But the open source nature of the code does still keep our options open, in case that changes next year.

Some Lemmy users are clueless, and it feels like we’re short on moderator volunteers right now. Best to block the user.

That explains so much.

Estimated net worth of 3.3 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

There are no ethical billionaires.

Whoever they arrested, they were with me at the time.

Yes. They should have told their AI to make it able to support 31 open tabs.

The wall is to keep us in.

The US government is not a democracy or even a republic at this point. It can’t be any more obvious.

The important thing is that Intuit’s right to enforce a complex expensive tax code is weighed fairly against all rational citizens who would prefer to simply receive their refund check automatically.

Imagine how Intuit would feel in a true democracy.

I’m really glad I thought of that first, and then I used the machine to go back in time and invent intellectual property law and secured the first patent.

I mean, I’m actually not the first, but I’m the first who thought to tell Claude “no changes or take backs”

Edit: I also had to tell it to make it unhackable, of course. Obviously.

Lol. Nice.

And for others just catching up on this, like I am, some highlights from the article:

He’s a short guy, he has a higher voice, and a lot of trans men can probably identify with these or other traits of his.

And

I think it’s ultimately about embodying a kind of masculinity that doesn’t conform to society’s standards but is still able to be very strong and successful,”

Article seems to be at: https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/columbo-tumblr-queer-fandom-poker-face.html

To add my reaction - this is pretty great, all around. Cool thing to be a fan of, and a neat way to be that fan.

It seems clear to me in Peter Falk’s delivery that he intended to cast just such a wide inclusive net of gentle strength. It’s cool to see that continuing to benefit folks.

Let them fight.

Yes. It was speedy enough to merit a “Turbo” button to slow it down to a reasonable speed!

They could, but they wouldn’t be able to trap that functionality behind a paywall, so they’re not interested.

It can get done by anyone with an open model in way less than a year, using the approach you’ve described.

Oh. Of course they would. Federation respects freedom and privacy!

“Worst bot ever.”

(In the voice of comic shop guy.)

(I’m not complaining. You gave the best answer here to the question asked!)

Holy shit! 486 support was still in there? Damn. Wow. Nice.

I don’t want to lose support for classic machines, but it’s not like the previous versions of Linux will stop being available to put on old hardware. If we were purging archive copies of old Linux kernels, then I would be alarmed.

Edit: for some context - my grandma isn’t going to get burned by this. She doesn’t own enough 3.5" disks to fit a Linux Mint install onto, anyway.

Anyone (me probably, I love this shit), who wants to install Linux on a 486 today is probably going to do some research first, anyway.

Yes. Exactly. I’ve no idea how many people have blocked me for overall silliness, but I imagine it is too damn high.

Or just right, really.

”Si, senor. You have a plethora.”