Btw this happened in February 2020 nearly 6 years ago.

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If I were in the middle of the ocean I couldn't find my location within 100 nautical miles without GPS so I'm pretty impressed

Yep, or you can pay for the commercial version that has that feature built in. It's up to you if you want to do the right thing or not.

Yeah but now the meaning of the word AI has changed in most people's minds to mean generative ai and mostly LLMs.

Except they didn't relicence to AGPL initially, they switched to dual licensing under the RSALv2 (a proprietary licence) and SSPLv1 (a non open source, non-free licence). So essentially they made it proprietary, that's what everyone was annoyed about. If they went straight to AGPL I'm sure there would've been some people who were annoyed, but most developers would understand why and I doubt there would have been the valkey fork.

This kind of election interference speculation erodes trust in democracy and is part of what led to the January 6th thing. Not saying that's what you're trying to do, just that it's a precursor to that kind of stuff.

But only if you say you're using them to train an AI

I think they just meant precedent, like it sets an example of how they treat copyright infringement.

Okay, so it's as good as an experienced navigator, that seems pretty good to me!

The give aways: starting paragraphs with a punchy sentence in bold with a colon.

Plus they used the "it's not X it's Y" thing.

It's in this repo.

No, it uses Google and Brave search.

Depends on what you mean by a DE's "look", if you just mean the theme and layout then you can theme something like xfce or lxqt to look similarly modern.

I've not tried it, but you could try cosmic? Or switch to a tiling WM or a scroller like Niri which would be even lighter (with the caveat that it's lighter because it does less stuff for you by default).

they can even keep it proprietary if they wanted to.

Yes, with the caveat that it would have to be an internal piece of software, or if it's a public facing tool then it would have to be under a non-copyleft licence. But yeah, for 99% of use cases they could have a proprietary fork.

Bunch of right wing stuff, some anti vax stuff, the usual

It's just the current hot thing in Linux, the last one was CachyOS, and before that Bazzite, it's normal.

Guix! Nah just kidding, it's gotta be the snowflake one

Ironic considering C# was supposed to be very similar to Java

Indigenous Taiwanese, from the area now called Tainan. From what I can tell the name Taiwan comes from the Sirayan language.