I’m deeply proud of Python for standing by its community and making the right decision.

It might be a bubble, but bubbles can last a long time. Here are some famous quotes to illustrate the problem:

“Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." – A. Gary Shilling, twice named Wall Street’s top economist.

“Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” – Peter Lynch, American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist.

We know evaluations are high. We know that AI has not delivered on its promises at least not yet. Investor confidence remains high, but for how long? Nobody knows.

Personally, I think any correction will swiftly bounce because the government will print money to make sure there’s a speedy recovery. We have seen a push to boosting the economy through intensive money printing instead of allowing valuations to crash properly. The Fed loves to kick the can down the road more than anything.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s Linux meme community.

You’re not wrong there. This model doesn’t scale, but there are solutions to this that can help us rebuild that I believe will get people back to a network eventually.

I participate in monthly exercises where we use a repeater system to relay messages in emergencies somewhat like how the telegraph system worked. In this way, we can re-use the limited bandwidth geographically. HF works at the current load but for higher bandwidth needs we can move to regional (say, a 10-meter net of which I know of one regional) or even local repeater systems at higher frequencies and find that much more usable bandwidth becomes available. Several US states have wide repeater networks fully operational at this moment.

In a total collapse situation we could start with HF and form new communities that can scale in much the same way that people scale to form social groups when shouting in a large room isn’t working anymore. In fact, most areas already have multiple local repeaters and sometimes an emergency net. It can happen if the demand is there in an Internet collapse situation.

I’m a Ham and we send digital messages including a form of electronic email over the air. I’ve exchanged the equivalent of emails across continents with no intermediary. There will always be connection where there is a will. There will be some kind of network, but it might not be the one we have today.

I can’t believe they’re fighting over who gets access to my shitposts. I wouldn’t trust an AI trained on the bullshit I made up.

I use it and I have not encountered this. You’re referring to the desktop GUI maybe?

I’ll take a risk and say Fedora KDE Plasma flavor. Rolling release so highly current drivers, and it’s done a great job with my games.

I will continue to enjoy my incredibly straightforward and to the point Linux desktop that’s somehow gained a new AI-free feature by doing nothing.

WOO looking forward to it. KDE Plasma is the most advanced Linux desktop.

This will soon be required viewing as part of an American education.

Point taken!

Looks like they just made it in before the big AI crash.

Is this satire? If I have to ask, it’s lame.

KDE Plasma is perhaps the best, most advanced graphical Linux desktop environment. I’m proud to use it every day!

Are there actually enough users that I can stumble upon others in radio mesh range?

This country is pathetic.

You’re right here, building it with us!

Unfortunately, the money has already been pocketed.

A 1.6 in a car that light isn’t all that slow. That’s what, nine seconds? Not a race car, but cars used to be so much slower.

That’s probably not a good sign.