The descriptions and pointers / connectors are all messed up.
The left side should be:
The right side should be:
On one hand, inappropriate use of language like “literally” bugs me too. On the other hand, difficulty understanding other English speakers is an attitude thing.
If you don’t know what a word or a new use of a word means… you should find out.
Trying to assert that language should stay the way it was when you learned it is frankly lazy.
I’d just install debian because that’s what I use so that’s what I can most easily provide support for.
I know you’re joking but with flatpaks and app images you don’t even notice the oldness any more.
Sure ok. These filesystems are certainly superior in the ways you’ve described, but unless you were already considering changing to an fs like that, it’s probably not an appropriate solution to this simple problem.
Lets back up the truck a little.
Sounds like a cool idea, why don’t you set it up?
This sarcastic little witticism required a sarcastic and witty response, which I provided.
Obviously I’m not going to set it up because, as I said in my earlier comments it’s a dreamy idea. I could go on to say, in the absence of such a technological solution, archive.org should still refrain from copyright infringement because they quite obviously aren’t viable with their current stance.
you’re licking the boots of record companies
You’ll have to help me understand how this is so. In my comments I laid out a plan to maintain archive.org’s data for no (or very little) cost or effort, while ensuring that those record company’s receive nothing.
For users, the value of archive.org is the data. However, that data has no value to litigators nor anyone else. You can literally let the existing organisation collapse, and take the data to form a new organisation.
If you want to interpret this plan as doing “nothing at all” then you’re free to do so.
However, and forgive me this final sarcasm, doing nothing at all would be more productive than a change.org petition.
Because I’m not facing a $700m legal claim with a change.org petition as my best defence.
That limits and gatekeeps access
Not necessarily, I wasn’t really proposing to just torrent everything. I was kinda dreaming of a more creative solution that trivialises access while abstracts the actual hosting away from individuals.
this kind of rights violation precisely needs to be normalized
Perhaps, but if so this just isn’t the way to achieve that. IA doesn’t seem sustainable.
There must be a lot of complicated aspects to this that I don’t understand.
The right course of action seems obvious to me…
Firstly spin out a separate organisation to manage the wayback machine. It shouldn’t be part of the pot defending against litigation like this.
Secondly, and I feel silly saying this but… don’t institutionalise the perpetration of rights violations? In the age of distributed databases and the dark web and the block chain and federation surely we can figure out a way to archive media that doesn’t put people or organisations at risk of litigation.
Finally, if the individuals involved with IA are not liable for the debts of IA then the organisation should fold because that’s practically free compared to defending against these litigious assholes.
Pretty much me.
I’ve been daily driving debian for many years. I’m very comfortable here.
In 2025 with docker containers and flatpaks the benefits of an atomic OS don’t feel very compelling.
Oh man. You’re right, of course. I somehow forgot that we were looking at a meme.
So, uh… that’s not the diet of worms this article is referring to.
Yeah I daily drive debian stable.
With flatpaks and docker I never run into problems with my applications being too old or whatever.
Guy, everyone operates off their own limited experience.
LibreOffice has user defined functions that work just fine. You’re just illustrating my point really.
It sounds like you’re talking the ability of ms office products to open documents authored by libreoffice.
Our local library is amazing.
There’s a huge area to sit and read, or work, or for groups et cetera. The view from there down the main street to the harbour is fantastic.
There’s also a separate area which is accessible to students 24 hours. You show them your enrolment and they give you an access card.
Honestly I’m really proud of our local library.
I have no way to evaluate whether these claims are true. Pretty much verbatim what people say about libreoffice.
Can I ask your perspective on the comments here saying that Krita and Inkscape just aren’t comparable to their commercial alternatives?
The reason is… I’m not a professional graphic designer, I have a small consultancy with several staff and work with documents and spreadsheets all day.
Occasionally I encounter similar threads discussing the difference between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, and the comments are all the same. So many people saying LibreOffice just “isn’t there yet”, or that it might be ok for casual use but not for power users.
But as someone who uses LibreOffice extensively with a broad feature set I’ve just never encountered something we couldn’t do. Sure we might work around some rough edges occasionally, but the feature set is clearly comparable.
My strongly held suspicion is that it’s a form of the dunning-kruger effect. People have a lot of experience using software-A so much so that they tend to overlook just how much skill and knowledge they have accumulated with that specific software. Then when they try software-B they misconstrue their lack of knowledge with that specific software as complexity.
Well it makes people feel like they’ve done something.
Am I crazy for thinking these mistakes seem very human and not very AI?
Like some other commenter said, “tain” isn’t nonsense. It’s a typo for rain, t being adjacent to r on the keyboard and all.
The mixed up pointers is really just out of order text boxes. Illustration software manages the flow of text between text boxes, and something misconfigured explains the mixed up connectors. Conversely this doesn’t seem like an AI error given that the intelligence making the image knows what a shoe is.