Firstly, the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.

Sure. Does the Gitlab -> GitHub redirect also long predate the rise in AI scrapers?

I know of no such increase.

If you haven’t been staying up to date, maybe do that before dismissing explanations? The increase in scraping is such a massive issue that it’s been discussed to death again and again, and big parts of the open internet has changed.

You’re basically calling bullshit on a charity having increased fuel prices, because you’re not aware of any Iran conflict!

Ah, and why isn’t it reasonable to assume that the increase in hosting costs which is hitting everyone for the last few months, is also hitting GNOME? Why do you think they are exempt, when even big commercial platforms are struggling with the amount of traffic generated by AI scrapers?

Given that hosting costs have objectively increased across the board due to AI scraping, and the GNOME project just introduced these changes, it is obviously sensible to assume that GNOMEs hosting costs have increased too.

It’s not stupid insofar that it is an additional fingerprintable data point. But it’s obviously still much harder to fingerprint you if many users share the same value that you have, so it is invalid.

You’re approaching this with an everyday definition of “proposal”, but in the industry that term is overloaded with more specific meanings.

If you asked 100 random devs, I have no doubt that the majority would call a PR to be something much more concrete than a proposal.

I feel like most people would also bite far more if they didn’t have opposable thumbs and were walking on all four extremities.

We often forget: for most animals, their mouth fulfills the same function as our hand.

Not righteous at all, bro :(

Oh yeah? And how am I supposed to dry them afterwards, smart guy? With handkerchiefs?!

Oh lawd he comin!!

And yet you’ve done a great job!

Do you even know what any of the words you’re using mean? It doesn’t matter whether the Steam client is running in the runtime, you still want the same containerization to run your games, because that’s how they make sure the games run everywhere.

You’re just angrily flinging shit around without understanding what any of this is about. Don’t you have anything better to do?

Why the fuck is it weird for a client to run inside a runtime environment with well-defined library versions, when that client has to ship that runtime environment anyways to ensure the games can actually run on a broad range of systems?

Oh, sure, it’s so much better if the client relies on system libraries instead. Yes please, I like incompatibilities and issues with debugging. So much better than loading a different set of libraries. Stupid Valve!

a very normal thing for your very functional software to have

What an incredibly weird complaint. I can’t even fathom how one could arrive at this opinion.

This was honestly obvious to anyone who read his many LKML gaffes. There’s no way to maintain a healthy psyche if you constantly butt heads with everyone in your field, while a portion of your “fan base” keeps fueling your non-compromising egocentric views.

Everyone needs a reality check every now and then.

At least that’s usually an honest mistake, instead of some managers trying to juice their numbers through dark patterns.

Unless, of course, you’re using Ubuntu. Then it might also be a manager trying to juice their numbers.

Ah, I see, we are back to absolving Democrats of any agency or responsibility.

No, it simply shows that the Dem strategy of “putting up a turd that doesn’t stink quite as bad as the other one” isn’t enough to actually win when it matters.

We simply know that people are more likely to vote when they are enthusiastic. You can either keep telling people “do better” and keep losing, or you can accept human nature and use it to your advantage by running a candidate that people actually want.

Wouldn’t that be nice.

But if everyone else is looking out for the well being of your group, you can get ahead by only looking out for yourself!