Lots of organizations have a “ooh scary Linux” server or two that they rely on, but failed to retain the talent needed to maintain it. If you’ve been running desktop Linux, and know some basic command line tools, you’re way ahead of most people they will interview for the role.

The downside is that they might feel that they can maybe just keep ignoring their problem for another year, and some will.

I run Linux at a workplace that is mostly Windows and some Mac.

Nobody notices or cares.

Everything I need runs in a browser now.

But why does everyone bring up AutoCAD? Lemmy seems to be full of AutoCAD professionals.

I sling code and documents. Linux is better for code and uses Office 365 as well as any other OS.

Wild. I will keep that in mind if I ever have a drink with either of them at a politcal fund-raising party.

That guy is clearly an expert.

History suggests you would want a very competent head of security, because some rich nepo babies wouldn’t like what you were doing.

What an incendiary thing to say!

Can someone tell me what Jack Black said? I bet it was provocative!

Edit: Oh - Was Jack blacklisted for associating with Kyle?

Well, I guess those boys finally fell from the political good graces they so carefully maintained for so long.

Still, if Jack said anything rude about anyone powerful, I would like to hear it so that I can consider it in my future judgments.

Linux, MacOS and Windows have been completely rewritten multiple times across their existence.

So it’s not like the original decisions are all still in play.

Windows and Mac OS were rewritten under some particular weird duresses of closed source profit driven engineering; so it has been a mix of improvements and seemingly illogical setbacks.

Linux developers still need to eat, so some of the same (corporate) influences are there.

But the average engineer who sets out to create a brand new completely modern operating system - usually decides to reuse any components of Linux that they don’t have any concerns with…

Which usually gives us yet another cool new Linux variant.

But sometimes we get…

Strictly speaking, we only have to govern the billionaires if we don’t just eat them…so it’s kind of a run-off between how easy to govern they decide to be, and how they taste…

(This is solely meant to humorous, officer, your honor.)

Somehow it’s difficult for me to remember what I like?

I used to have mini-panic attacks when asked what I prefer.

Now, I just have memorized good enough responses that I won’t be unhappy with later.

Is that strange?

I’m told it’s not usual. So I guess so?

Does that make me non-human?

Nah. Human experience is much more varied than most people ever realize.

It does make you interesting.

I think a lack of enthusiasm has been kinda the default for me for as long as I remember

I’ve had life phases like that.

It doesn’t bother me as much, today, as it did, in the past.

Now, I focus on the things worth avoiding while I wait for my enthusiasm to return.

For me, enthusiasm returns, in bursts, eventually.

I had not heard of that. Fascinating! Thanks!

I mean, they kind of did. It’s called Windows Subsystem for Linux, and it can run Linux programs on Windows, for anyone willing to coax it into working.

It’s not awful, but it cannot even do graphical programs yet. Wine is a decade or two ahead of it.

Edit: I would have bet it was proprietary, but it is MIT License. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

Soap box time:

Mythos is a clever algorithm, but it won’t make it into the history books.

The people getting excited have no fucking clue what is going on.

Claude Mythos is a VW Beetle - genuinely interesting design with an advertising budget larger than some counties, decorating a solution that isn’t remotely a good use of the money being spent on it.

I would be pissed at these headlines, if this were my work.

I, an expert, used the latest bullshit brute force libraries in a novel way to move human knowledge forward.

Headline: “Latest bullshit brute force library makes discovery!”

Human readable test code.

This sounds a lot like gripes that older generations have always had about younger generations.

But this younger generation is the youngest one yet!

Some very rich people who depend on others’ continued oil dependency to remain very rich own many media companies.

Thank you for your wisdom, Comrade Shark Fucker.

I guess if that’s the society you live in, you would never realise it until you travelled.

We know our food is shit. We know our “leaders” are shit, too.