I see, thanks, I didn’t know the details. I just had a faint recollection that they had switched from AppArmor to SELinux.

I see, I probably misunderstood what you were saying. Thanks. I’m seriously considering OpenSUSE myself, for both my workstations and home server.

I think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has SELinux enabled now too. I’m not sure what you mean by all over the system, as I’m not that familiar with SELinux yet. I believe that Tumbleweed used to use AppArmor but recently switched to SELinux? I also believe that Leap (the stable version of OpenSUSE) still uses AppArmor.

Flathub not coming preconfigured

Huh, that’s odd. I’ve been test driving different Linux distros lately for my move away from Windows, and Tumbleweed was one of the ones I tried. KDE Discover in Tumbleweed had Flatpak options for software, and I’m pretty sure it was tied to Flathub and not a different repo like Fedora does. Maybe I’m misremembering? Or did you mean that it doesn’t have the Flathub application itself?

Haha, yes, that’s my plan!

Make Microsoft Windows show filename extensions.

I think Nassim Nicholas Taleb provided strong evidence that there are very few safe havens against black swan events. That was one of the main points of his book “Fooled By Randomness”. He may have expanded on that in his “Black Swan” book but I haven’t read or listened to that one yet.

Added to my watchlist, thanks!

Absolutely! If you haven’t watched it yet, Dark Days is also harrowing, if not as much as The Act of Killing.

The WordPress company, as in the developers of WordPress itself.

Thanks for these. Will add them to my list.

I love documentaries. There are so many amazing ones and I regret that they don’t get as much attention as the biggest fiction films, even though I love those too.

Here are two documentaries that immediately spring to mind because they made a big impression on me:

Dark Days (2000)

The Act of Killing (2012)

If people can code better, faster, cheaper, safer (more secure) that will surely apply to open source as well.

I’m not European, but I understand that there’s an old European (German?) saying that basically goes: “If I had wheels, I’d be a trolley.” I understand that it’s been pretty well-established that AI coding tools routinely underperform compare to humans in terms of “better” and “safer”, which indirectly would also lead to it failing at “cheaper” too.

On top of that, there is another major issue with using AI for open-source code: copyright. First, you don’t know if the code that you’re adding through AI may be copying license-incompatible code verbatim. Because everyone has access to open-source code, it would be trivial for anyone to search and find copyright-infringing code to attack projects with. Second, the code that AI produces is also not-copyrightable, so that is another line of attack that this would make open-source projects vulnerable to. These could be used in combination as a one-two punch combination to knock out an open-source project.

I think that using AI-generated code in open-source projects is a uniquely ill-advised idea.

This is almost like a real-world Chewbacca defense?

Thanks for your thoughtful reply! I feel similarly about mean replies online, which is why I usually try not to contribute to that trend. If nothing else, I at least try not to escalate arguments.

Regarding programming languages’ efficiency, it’s a pretty interesting topic to consider in this time of climate change. There can be trade-offs like for example in the case of Python vs. Rust, while you gain a lot in terms of performance and resource utilization with Rust, you lose a lot in terms of development speed, from what I understand (I have not programmed with Rust yet, nor any large projects with Python). I hope that more programmers begin to consider these factors when picking a language to develop with.

Take care.

I didn’t look at the details of those three communities before posting them. I was just pointing out what I had found on a search. I don’t mind lemmy.ml. and prefer it over lemmy.world, but I can understand that some people don’t like .ml. I’m glad that you and others are creating alternatives to .world communities anyway.

I figure that Mbin is not too bad, since PHP seems to be quite a bit faster than Python too.

There is also:

• !fediverse@lemmy.ml
• !fediverse@midwest.social
• !fediverse@lemmy.zip

I’m not too keen on Piefed because it’s written in Python, which is multiple times less than Rust (what Lemmy is written in) for a server back-end application. It just seems like a waste of electricity or adding more carbon to the atmosphere than it should, for a widely-used server application.

Edit: “less [performant]” - missed a word there.

I hear you!

It looks like this is already in the plans: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/doctors-recruitment-1.7480911

You’re welcome! :) I’m glad that you have someone to help. It’s always useful to have a second set of eyes review papers.