I'm convinced that Linux' mere presence has already stymied the development of the worst possible technocractic nightmare. I shudder to think of the thick tech-chains that would bind us if there was not an anchor/reference point... or if there was not even the small contingent that knows what it is like to use a liberating platform.
Sounds ripe for a legal challenge, but neo-ownership of digital-goods is already so fragile.
A fine on existing.
I'm surprised how well this works. Well, erm... visually, anyway.
This is my attempt to recreate an image from one of my friends who is an artist. After generating the image, I modified it in gimp to better capture the feel of the original artwork.
dall-e 3 prompt: A pale human figure abstraction sits atop one of the floating islands hugging his knees facing right. The islands have round tops, crumbling dirt below, green grass on the top, and they float in a spacial void of black, blue, and purple. Some of the other floating islands are also flat-topped with grass, but some are just lifeless asteroids. There are no planets and no sun.
dall-e 3; prompt: "The Linux computer system that every nerd can only dream of owning."
Did the finger come off when the charger exploded?
dall-e 3; prompt: "Photorealistic. A futuristic alien stands before you holding a spear-like weapon in a non-threatening manner."
Workflow: I asked gpt-3.5 to describe in meticulous visual detail a single panel from "BLAME!" where Killy is firing his gravitational beam emitter (GBE) in only one paragraph. I think I used the phrase "as if to a blind person" because it kept wanting to give me a narrative. I then handed that paragraph to dall-e-3 and got this image.
dall-e 2; prompt: A homeless cyberpunk is scavanging parts from his pile of broken robots. A futuristic male police officer walks past him disinterested.
dall-e 3; prompt: Inside a parking garage where many of the slots have been converted into permanent dwellings, even alongside the vehicle ramps.
Prompt: Sisyphus pushing the world up a hill. The Earth looks photo realistic as it would be seen from space, and resting on the slope. The sky is pitch black with many stars and galaxies. The mountain slope is a constant incline.
Did you read more than the first two words of my post? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MPRIS
Also, that same logic would "prove" that p2p has no value b/c you can do just as well with fixed servers and http.
I wonder if that backdo... ermmm... i mean... undocumented feature... will be useful for ios jailbreaking.
Such a sketchy domain name.
This is the experience of a senior developer using genai. A junior or non-dev might not leave the "AI is magic" high until they have a repo full of garbage that doesn't work.