The year of the Linux Desktop will always be $CURRENT_YEAR + 1

To me, the year's in the past. I haven't touched Windows since 2017, and nothing bad happened to me.

But you're right, I guess for some people, there will already be a good reason not to use Linux.

What do you call a fallacy where it is implied that the future will be like the past?

Reminds me about schools of thought on rates of change:

  > ## Accelerating Change [One School]
  >
  > Our intuitions about change are linear; we expect roughly
  > as much change as has occurred in the past over our own
  > lifetimes. But technological change feeds on itself, and
  > therefore accelerates. Change today is faster than it was
  > 500 years ago, which in turn is faster than it was 5000
  > years ago. Our recent past is not a reliable guide to how
  > much change we should expect in the future.
  >
  > Strong claim: Technological change follows smooth curves, 
  > typically exponential. Therefore we can predict with fair
  > precision when new technologies will arrive, and when they
  > will cross key thresholds, like the creation of [AI].
  >
  > Advocates: Ray Kurzweil, Alvin Toffler(?), John Smart

  https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools

linear % change implies exponential change in absolute terms

Problem of induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

Maybe similar to boy who cried wolf?

"The future aint what it used to be."

I did the switch in 2013 and haven't missed it. For games I ran vga_passthrough and later VFIO and others until pretty recently (I think right after covid I switched to steam directly on linux)

The year of the Linux Desktop will be powered by fusion.

That won't be easy because Codeberg follows German law.

And German law is more restrictive than U.S. copyright law, with fewer protections for content uploaders and service providers. There is also no concept of fair use that limits copyright.

I want Codeberg to succeed, but running an open code hosting platform (both in the sense that anyone can create an account, and the service source code is publicly available) in the European Union, and especially Germany, is extremely challenging from a legal perspective. Sadly, once they become successful and popular, they will have to implement all kinds of weird stuff, like proprietary scanners for potentially infringing content prior to publishing it.

Germany and the EU will probably kowtow to the US if the DMCA requests or lawsuits are brought by big enough players.

Big money interests rub shoulders with US politicians, US politicians deal with their overseas counterparts. Therefore, big enough DMCA requests will be mentioned behind closed doors in the same breath as international trade and other geopolitical concerns. Money protects money in deals between close enough friends and allies.

If Codeberg were based in Russia or a US geopolitical adversary, on the other hand, such requests would likely be ignored.

A DMCA takedown is targeted at the host and is a pre-lawsuit thing ("we claim X and if you take it down now your host is safe" via the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions). If they escalate to lawsuits then not sure it's significantly different in Germany vs the USA. It's not like Europe is free from things like blocking all of Cloudflare because the football league wants to.

This procedure only applies to copyright-infringing content, not to trafficking in circumvention devices. It seems that in this case, it's the latter.

Complaining about paywalls(or in this case popups) is offtopic on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

This is just delightful. What would make it perfect is the white noise that you get while switching channels.

Ethically sourced Lena: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/

Probably just a guy who really loved his wife.

This one also references the name: https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/antisymmetric.html

What makes you think that? (not defending them, just curious)

The notion link is not accessible

This is what GP was referring to when they said "chaos monkeys"

I love how clumsy and all over the place that video is

It's like one of those "edit Windows Registry to get around the library time restrictions" videos from 2009. The fact that I'm seeing these for Linux is a sign that nature is healing, I think.