Obviously it's a skill issue but don't you ever make mistakes? If Rust prevents some bugs and makes you more productive, what is not to like? It's a new language and takes time to learn but the benefits seem to outweigh the downsides now and certainly in the long run (compared to C at least).

Maybe Torvalds didn't give in to public opinion but made an informed choice?

The crates are a bit of a problem and I think Rust is a bit overhyped for high-level problems (it still requires manual memory management after all) but those are not principal roadblockers, especially in the kernel.

There are quite a lot of AI-sceptics in this thread. If you compare the situation to 10 years ago, isn't it insane how far we've come since then?

Image generation, video generation, self-driving cars (Level 4 so the driver doesn't need to pay attention at all times), capable text comprehension and generation. Whether it is used for translation, help with writing reports or coding. And to top it all off, we have open source models that are at least in a similar ballpark as the closed ones and those models can be run on consumer hardware.

Obviously AI is not a solved problem yet and there are lots of shortcomings (especially with LLMs and logic where they completely fail for even simple problems) but the progress is astonishing.

There is also AppImage Launcher which works nicely for me. It automatically integrates AppImages into the DE (e.g. search and start menu) and a few other nice things.

https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

It does sound a bit weird. On the other hand, if he can influence the choices positively, he does have a point. If not him, someone else would take the job. I would have drawn the line somewhere else but I can understand where he is coming from.

And the fact that he resigned means that he has and likely had some moral compass guiding him.

The only thing I could find is an old-school keyboard by IBM. I guess that's it and OP just likes the hacker vibes of using that kind of keyboard?

KDE ist eine Desktopumgebung für Linux die aus irgendeinem Grund alle Cs in Name durch Ks ersetzt. Konqueror, Kool Desktop Environment etc. Insofern sollte man vielleicht beim Übersetzen das umzukehren?

Also du fragst nur nach den Zielen, nicht nach den Methoden oder? Die Ziele gehen mir nicht weit genug. Wenn man sich anschaut wie das Klima gerade verrückt spielt und wie der CO2 Ausstoß weltweit trotzdem noch jedes Jahr steigt dann kann eigentlich kein Ziel gut genug sein. Zumindest ist es aber mal ein Anfang und eigentlich finde ich dass die Diskussion darum und die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz für stärkere Maßnahmen das eigentliche Ziel ist.

Die Methoden sehe ich als etwas fragwürdiger an. Ist aber auch eine schwierige Situation und ich wüsste nicht direkt wie ichs besser machen würde.

Also ich bin ein Fan von weniger aber dafür mehr diskutierten Einreichungen. Habe nicht genau darauf geachtet aber gefühlt wurde genau das erreicht? Insofern bin ich damit sehr zufrieden.

I assume you mean casualties? In that case outright deaths would be approximately a third of that.

Well, isn't that sort of mentioned in the article?

If fediverse development slows down e.g. because adoption of inofficial Facebook extensions takes time it will harm the whole platform. Not by directly taking away users but by blocking progress.

I don't think the Fediverse is small enough for this to be a serious concern. Especially once multiple companies (Tumblr?) are invested in the fediverse I don't see this happening anymore.

I absolutely think that the numbers are correct. If Reddit is a habit for you you will not break it immediately (unless you really dislike the changes). This is just time spent, not how much users enjoy it. And if they don't enjoy the content as much because the quality dropped they will start looking for alternatives. But for most that is a long term thing.

Alternatively, they give Reddit one users worth of ads to make Lemmy a better alternative. I think many will continue using Reddit but attempt to reduce the usage (especially once 3PA are blocked). That means once you run out of content on Lemmy, you switch to Reddit. So more content on Lemmy means less time on Reddit.

The simple truth is that there are communities on Reddit that I care more about than about the API changes. And for those I will continue using Reddit until an alternative exists. So it is a gradual change for me and everyone that helps moving the good content to Lemmy helps me indirectly.

I guess it comes down to whether you consider highly upvoted content good content, especially when it comes to memes etc.