> This is also why progress is now stagnating

What? Progress is now stagnating?

> "You can't build a startup training the next cutting-edge LLM model"

Again, what? That's exactly how ChatGPT and Claude were created. And many other startups with targeted models like ElevenLabs.

> once we move beyond our current economic system

If it's one of the other systems tried before, "progress" will not be on the menu.

Twenty years ago, for a brand new web framework written from scratch, and by then they had already fixed it.

Every web framework was trash at the time. And the alternative was custom PHP code probably ridden of SQL injections.

I used TurboGears and restarting your web server with a cron job was a pretty common suggestion to "handle" memory leaks.

If the poster stopped acting like an emo teen from the 90s (“Clownflare”, really?), he would be aware of the why of the late Linux usage spike, but maybe he wouldn’t like it (it is mostly because of “Omarchy”)

I don't see a reason not to call them Clownflare.

If you want an explanation: that kind of name-calling is an attempt to use your authority to diminish someone else's standing. It has up to two effects: it either diminishes that someone's standing, it diminishes yours, or both. I think the effect is decided mostly by how much authority you as writer have in the opinion of the audience.

If you don't have much, you risk a reaction such as "oh, that writer is just another name caller in the peanut gallery".

It could be a lot of "AI Agent" traffic getting detected as GNU/Linux use for all we know.

This was definitely an acqui-hire. I'm glad Adam could find an exit like this.

Because they like their Arch setup? Because installing Omarchy is three to five minutes at most so three to five times faster? XD

It's definitely not why *I* switched away from Windows

You didn't switch away from windows to get superior software?

Also, the statement was valid because it will be true for most. It doesn't matter that you read it and it wasn't true for you, as long as it's true by the numbers, it's true, because it's one-to-many communication not one to one.

My reasons to switch to Linux from Windows were very little about "security" and plenty more about freedom. Sure, it was very nice avoiding running an antivirus, but that was just the cherry on top.

I wanted the freedom to change and "rice" my desktop however I wanted, and the Compiz cube looked awesome. I found Windows condescending and restricting in that regard. Yes, my first reason was the aesthetics, kick me out of the nerds club. (That was also the reason I switched to Mac for 10 years).

My second reason was that I suspected I could learn so much more about computers using Linux full time. And I did.

I was also younger and used to associate Windows with soul-sucking corporate jobs and Linux with new ideas and experimentation. It was us-vs-them. Open Source vs Micro$oft and all that vibe.

While I don't want to discuss the quality of any distro vs Windows, there is a big reason most of us use free software: because it is free. Whether for you it is because of free as in freedom or free as in beer specifically, quality may not have much to do with it.

In EU at least you can almost get free as in beer Windows, you can buy a fully legal 2nd hand (resold) Windows license for about $10, the price of a fancy beer.

Isn't Windows also basically free? Every laptop I buy has a Windows licence stuck to the bottom of it.

which means you paid for it. just because it comes bundled doesn't mean always it's free. https://en.refund4freedom.org/

No, you've been charged for every one of those licenses.

No and you missed the "freedom" part of the adage.

You can also just pirate it.

I'm sure "superior software" is true for most, but that's a much wider goalpost than the people specifically worried about security/vulnerabilities. One of the biggest factors pushing people to Linux lately is the increasing number of ads and annoyances being crammed in to Windows. Security has been moderate for a long time.

> Also, the statement was valid because it will be true for most.

The statement seems more like a preconception than data.

I don't think the worldwide trendings are right. The ones I see (with personalization disabled) are not all in arabic (?)

Must be Wednesday

I got a bug for not remembering it, a couple of years ago: https://jpscaletti.com/p/8/true-false-one-and-zero

Hmm. Having read your post, surely the bug is having a function where

    set(foo, false)

removes foo entirely. What if you want foo to have the value False? Even besides the unintended behaviour where 0 is coerced to a boolean value, this function seems poorly designed.

I don't remember the specifics, it might have been a simplification for the example

its undersea until it arrives to the land it connects to

I doubt there is global data center on that grave

HVDC cables aren't landed at datacentres.

(And even if it were a fibre connection, those usually have dedicated Cable Landing Stations which are mostly concerned with separating the power & data cables and dealing with the power & cooling. Datacentres tend to be further inland)