Linux

running, Jeff? Okay, so most of what I do ends up being in Google Docs because that's what my clients use.

But when I need to do something on my own, that's like deep into the Microsoft Office world, I'm probably doing it on my MacBook Air running Linux using LibreOffice.

Okay,

okay.

They just completely dropped the ball on over a decade worth of computer development and And then, you know, you start seeing some issues with Chrome and there's some talk about like antitrust and is this anti-competitive business practices? And, you know, Chrome is kind of getting out of their control.

You don't want to talk up Chrome OS's support for Linux too much because you want people to be using web apps, the Chrome browser, Google apps, better support for Android.

You want that walled garden.

If Apple can have a walled garden, we can have a walled garden too.

And again, I'm being really cynical here.

One, they want even tighter control.

They don't want you easily turning to Linux apps.

They want you locked in on Google apps and services.

They're banning people left and right, and they're really acting on it.

And the funny thing about this, to me, is I'm not sure if the people who created this rule actually thought it through because the rule applies to Linux.

The Linux kernel is at least 20% of the current code over the course of the last several months, it was written by AI, which means under the new rules of the open source subreddit, you can't post or even talk about Linux or you'll get banned.

So I posted this up on X because it's stupid, because it's ridiculous, because it's utterly preposterous.

And people were already in the comment section of the post talking about it.

However, the moderator who posted the new guidelines stated in a separate comment that the overwhelmingly negative response is due to, quote, some guy on Twitter claiming to be alternative news, end quote, who posted an opinionated editorial pointing hundreds of people to the thread.

Hundreds of people.

Now, given the timing of when the thread was posted, alongside the fact that the X post in question mentions the Linux kernel in quotes, they are presumably referring to this post by the Lunduk Journal, where they link to the post I just showed you.

They've been actually doing this for about three weeks now of just nonstop upgrade scenarios.

Linux has historically had a difficult time, and Linux is not alone in this, but Linux has had a hard time with major system upgrades.

And so I'm trying to utilize as many tools that are at my disposal as possible to make that not the case, or at least less the case for Elkaz.

So moving from 0.9.5 or 0.9.6 of Elkaz to the 1.0 should be a fully smooth process.

You're not going to find too many.

Most likely this system is really rockin solid or provide financial support and financial support goes extensively towards hardware requirements for hardware testing, because my goodness, there is a lot of hardware out there.

And holy heavens, does Linux out of the box? work rather funcally on a lot of it.

So it requires a great deal of fine tuning and testing to make sure it works as well as humanly possible on a wide range of hardware.

Previously, we couldn't do mathematical proofs.

So conventional testing leaves a lot of bugs, and they're hard to catch, and it We have in Linux, there was lots of bugs operating in there we didn't know about, and the conventional testing didn't catch them.

So the goodness of this process is it catches the bugs, it fixes them, and it can tell you there's no failures in there according to your spec.

But if the spec is right, then you can guarantee that there are no failures.

And now to basically know that that person is doing it and try to outlaw it, you'd have to have incredible and very scary amounts of surveillance, which I think is a bigger downside than any of the downsides that people are worried about.

And so I hope people will be reasonable and just like with other open source projects and Linux or cryptography and so on, realize that it doesn't make sense to outlaw intelligence.

That's ultimately what a lot of that regulation boils down to.

I think it absolutely makes sense to regulate applications of intelligence but not intelligence itself.

Wow, it took me a bit.

But using Python, Linux, my Raspberry Pi, and Arduino, I connected all these things to monitor my router.

And it was really fun, but it was a bit of work.

But nonetheless, so cool.

Okay, I really like that and I can actually, because I'm going through this myself with my own podcast for a very long time, I have been doing my own local transcriptions, taking it down, dropping it.

I've got a Linux box set up here and I just drop it onto that little script that says, go and process this.

It gives me my outputs, moves it back into the folders.

That's what the script does.

So they can't patch?

Unless an organization is paying a premium for a custom backported fix from a specific enterprise Linux vendor, those version 7 sites have no patch available.

They are sitting ducks.

Absolutely.