They ruled that for copyright to apply, a human must have authored the work.

Now if an AI spits out code that’s a duplicate of a humans authored work. Then you could argue the author is actually the original human. And this it would be covered by their original copyright

Fedora, I think, is pretty good for a normal user.

Yeah, I imagine there’s some QT bits for implementing a lot of it, if it detects them being available. Not being massively familiar with QT or how those two apps make use of it, I can’t assume they’d be making use of the components that’d implement KDEs custom extensions. So you know shrugs

I mean many Wayland compositors is kinda like old browsers at the moment. They all implement a common spec and then implement a bunch of their own extensions to get features the spec doesn’t allow for. And apps have to be aware of these custom extensions to make use of them. So in the KDE case, I imagine a lot of their apps are aware of KDEs own extensions to Wayland. But it doesn’t mean all of them are.

People who find success can, sometimes, become arrogant and become blind to other factors contributing to their success. Just enough failure can keep you humble. Pretty typical human reactions.

Does it, if you can work on the normal application code, there’s no reason you can’t work on the lower levels of applications. It’s all just code. Ramp up might take a bit more time, but I wouldn’t expect horrendously so. As long as your patterns make sense and what is there is written well enough and is not a spaghetti monster in the making, any one should be able to pick it up.

Time to go back to email lists. Anyone can come along sure. But it’s only going to be the most determined.

Fair enough. I don’t tend to use it all that much. But it is there. I tend to find I don’t really need to see the graph all that much. Maybe because I’m mostly working in small teams. It’s just not that important to my understanding of what’s going on.

git log --all --graph

I would have thought that you fix it locally, git commit, and regenerate the patch set again. Maybe with optional squashing of commits so each patch set doesn’t keep growing.

I don’t think the code is the problem they are cleaning up. I think they just want to remove the contributor from the history.

I mean it should. It’ll have a steam os installed on the device itself. It’d be a pretty silly oversight to not work with a computer running Linux.

It is. Relatively so. This smells of Mozilla wanting to package things in there that Linux distro maintainers wouldn’t package in themselves.

You may say I’m being overtly cynical and as much as I love Firefox, I can’t say I trust Mozilla’s intentions

I think it’s a script they added to do some sort of check with rustfmt.

Does GCC support pluggable backends? I feel when something like this comes up, the real answer should be, for those that make sense to drop from the core, it’d make sense to make them pluggable and separate them out, so that those that need them can pick them up if they need.

Can’t libre office’s calc work with Excel files?

Yeah. I had this problem. I ended up switching out the WiFi module for one with better Linux support. (In my laptop it’s just a little m.2 thing).

The simplest and slowest way when you need to use something from the system clipboard:

Copying: Enter visual mode (v) Highlight the text I want to copy then enter in command mode "+y which basically means “Use a register for following command (”) make it the external clipboard register (+) and yank/copy (y)"

Pasting Move to where I want to paste then enter in command mode "+p to paste after the current position or "+P to paste before the current position

If I don’t need to copy/paste stuff to applications outside of vim, then I can skip the "+ register setting part, and just use the default internal register.

Well, being open minded doesn’t mean you won’t reject something, just that you won’t reject something without mulling it over first. I’m sure their desire to not want to create account is not a flippant remark and a position they arrived at over time.

Another alternative, I’ve been looking at is radicle. It’s private repository stuff is rough, but public repository stuff, much less so. Seems to be early days but I really like what the project is doing.