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• Did they finally boot him off the project? Or is most of the rails community still ignoring the problem?

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• Syncthing is great, but can be a bit of a pain in the ass to set up. I wish they’d make that process easier, and maybe also support sharing the ignore file between the hosts…

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• We’re not talking about the average clueless vibe coder here. Programming involves a lot more than just writing code. What Torvalds did was essentially “AI assisted coding”. As i understand it, he used it to narrow down the position of the bug in the code and then fixed it himself with a one-liner because apparently AI couldn’t find a solution on its own:

  And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I’d like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it. I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am. But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed. So credit where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message above. This is basically a one-liner fixing a bogus “round_up()” to a “round_down()”, but there were 24 patches adding more and more debug information to this, and 18 kernel boot to finally narrow it down to this. - Linus

  github.com/…/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520…>

  That’s basically how AI should be used. To speed up things that are technically easy to do, but still very time consuming.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Check if the “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” option is enabled. That’s usually the issue.

  on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• It’s an optional update. It doesn’t automatically install without activating the option to do so.

  on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• I had to use bypass to get around the network part. Because for some reason it wouldn’t let me go past that step, and it also doesn’t offer static ip settings. We don’t have dhcp for our main network.

  It’s even worse for notebooks. I had several new machines where Windows Setup didn’t even have the required network drivers.

  on The fact that you can’t run through Windows setup w/o internet and an online account is absolute bullshit in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• I’m rather thinking that hey want to make their slop machines the single source of truth. Much easier to get control over information, when all information is located in your own house.

  on World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• It can be moderated, it’s just not profitable for them

  on Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• It’s somewhat decent on touch screens. I use it on an old convertible Lenovo. But on my main system i still prefer KDE.

  on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• zypper dup

  on In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026