Its gonna get a lot of people angry and sweaty, but this is probably a good idea, long overdue. GIMP is just just not a professional sounding name.
I gather Wilbur is the name of the mascot, so WLBR makes sense.
Missing the LLM developer with billions of tokens to burn.
"Effectively kill piracy" - Sure guys, this time it'll work.
My favourite one is:
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Remember that in online spaces (and IRL in reality), there are astro-turf/sock puppet accounts that will make claims to sway public opinions.
Its only a genocide if it comes from the third reich. Anything else is just sparkling ethnic cleansing.
To be fair, we only know of this one. There may well be other open source backdoors floating around with no detection. Was heartbleed really an accident?
That kinda sounds reasonable. Especially if it can prevent someone going down that rabbithole? Good job PH.
Im not a lawyer, but is this really good news? Isnt this just setting a precedent that Nintendo can shake down any emulator developer for ~2.4m any time they feel like it? So small developers are basically screwed?
It is actually a boot failure. Normally the kernel reads some config from the initrd (the bootloader loads initrd and passes it to the kernel - thanks dan) and then does a bunch of setup stuff, and then it mounts the actual root filesystem, and then switches to using that. In this case, the root filesystem has failed to mount.
Hardware failure is most likely the cause, but misconfiguration can also make this happen. Probably hardware though.
If its misconfiguration, an admin can reattempt to mount the root drive on /new_root, and then ctrl-d to get the init system to try again
ELI5: couldnt open C:/ drive
Edit: clarified what loads the initrd - as per dans comment.
I think its better to think of it like a president or prime minister. He might set the plan and direction and making the big decisions, but there are thousands of others supporting and making the plan actually happen.
In the past he has delegated the release to others as well.
So if the worst would happen, the linux project would continue operating fairly seamlessly.
Free market!
Unless the payment is insanely high, this is still a stupid business decision, its throwing away any first mover advantage to anyone who doesnt take the bribe. When the bribes run out, theyll be competing against established wind and solar farms that have already paid down their upfront costs.