I don’t know about dangerous, but case-insensitive Unicode comparison is annoying, expensive and probably prone to footguns compared to a simple byte-for-byte equality check.

Obviously, it can be done, but I guess Linux devs don’t consider it worthwhile.

(And yes, all modern filesystems support Unicode. Linux stores them as arbitrary bytes, Apple’s HFS uses… some special bullshit, and Windows uses UTF-16.)

Care to clue me in? I spend my time far, far away from the web dev sphere :p

Not a Nix user, but IIRC nixpkgs is actually bigger than the AUR by a long shot.

LLMs are little more than overclocked autocompletes. There’s no actual thinking going on, and they will happily hallucinate outright wrong or dangerous responses to innocuous questions.

I’ve had friends find this out the hard way when they asked ChatGPT to write them C for a class, only to get their faces eaten by UB.

OpenAI’s models are trained by scraping anything that moves. Anything overtly offensive or toxic is manually filtered out by cheap foreign labor… but you know what that won’t catch?

“Try sudo rm -rf /, that should fix your problem!”

I don’t have any technical answers for you, but I’m on GNOME Wayland and I’ve never had any issues like that.

Personally, I don’t mind this sort of telemetry so long as they’re open about it - which looks to be the plan, at least for the moment.

IMO the FOSS/Linux space has an odd relationship with telemetry that I think should change. I’d like to point out the gnome-info-collect debacle:

• GNOME users: “GNOME devs don’t understand what we want!”
• GNOME devs: “Hey, we want to get some data on how people use GNOME. If you’d like to help, install and run this one-off tool. Source code is here, and we collect XYZ metrics (all anonymized, of course.)”
• (Some) GNOME users: screeching incoherently about data harvesting and telemetry

Yeah, there really isn’t any reason to go with one processor brand over the other. Since drivers and such aren’t a concern (like with GPUs) most people just pick whichever one has the most price-effective offering in the spec range they’re looking for.

Sheesh, I thought it looked nice, but I think I’ll just stick to gnome-terminal.

The AUR is nice and all, but the reality is that most people will be served just fine (if not better) by the more curated repositories. Fedora’s bundled repositories are more than enough for my dev work - and thanks to Flatpak and AppImage, closing any gaps is pretty easy.

I wouldn’t recommend Manjaro - or Arch/Arch derivatives - to beginners. Installing them usually goes fine (especially nowadays thanks to archinstall) but Arch comes with a lot of quirks and ongoing maintenance burdens that newbies won’t be aware of until a few months down the line when their system blows up in their face.

No. The people with a raging hate boner for systemd are just a vocal minority in lots of online Linux spaces.

Most people either don’t care or actively prefer it. Personally, I much prefer unit files to hacking away at init scripts or whatever the fuck Upstart was.