Valve is paying for FOSS support https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

Cached version, while Cloudflare is down: https://archive.is/20251024040409/https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/

They, as far as I’m aware, are not reselling like private equity would. They actually take over operations and get ROI through profits.

Thanks. Yeah, increasing revenue generation by increasing monetization is definitely part of their MO.

Can you explain more what and how they ruined something for you? So far I haven’t heard of any real negative change to the applications themselves.

Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?

Don’t have a link to the thread on Mastodon, but it was only in Singapore. So it is likely a troll or some glitch.

I know this is the wrong place to say this, but I really like the Windows Explorer. Dolphin is a good replacement, but it would be one of the few things I’d like to keep on Linux.

It definitely is/was. Most user facing software these days is a web app, or native application using JS anyways. The event loop and async programming is also ubiquitous nowadays in most languages, especially server side.

The true turing test

Nothing about what they are doing is open source. There is no training code, let alone training data. They’re sharing blobs. That’s not open source.

As of a few weeks ago, a lot of ChatGpt logs got leaked via search indexing. So privacy was never really a concern for OpenAI, let’s be real.

And it doesn’t matter what they think what type of platform they run. Altman himself talks about it replacing therapy and how it can do everything. So in a reasonable world he’d have ungodly, personal liability for this shit. But let’s see were it will go.

And that human would go to jail

Seems a bit jaded tbh. Safari devs were giving tentative support, iirc Mozilla was also down to deprecate further. If you always listened to every user you’d drown in tech debt. Some stuff just isn’t worth it even if 0.5% love that feature.

No, just how Debian LTS versioning works https://wiki.debian.org/DebianOldOldStable. So Bullseye is still fully supported with security updates, but now you really should have a plan to update 🙂