t’s Monday, which means more places are open. Our anniversary was Friday and we decided to go out and travel the following Monday, not the weekend. Trafford Centre isn’t too far away, there are nice places in the east too, and the weather today is fairly good.

Linux has a new RC and Linus (Torvalds) complains about the size, as usual, whilst also taking note of LLMs in the last paragraph. This is becoming a big problem and the press does not talk about it (or talks about this as a positive/benign thing).

I plan to dig deeper into this.

There are many “Big Issues” to cover. If the media turns a blind eye to them, then we can ‘plug the gap’.

‘ve just returned from the park and stadium (which we went past twice ahead of Enzo’s first cup match for this club). They play music there and the staff outnumbers the spectators at these early hours.

Despite unpredictable weather we went to feed the flock of 70+ birds and it was fantastic. There were some sunny spells too and the ducks joined in.

Tonight we eat popcorn with cheese and tomorrow we have an exceptional schedule, including card exchange.

I am still eagerly awaiting the birthday of GNU. GNU/Linux is going mainstream this year.

t has been over 5 years since its release and Vista 11 is pegged at measly 15.6% in the US, whereas GNU/Linux grows a lot.

In North America, GNU/Linux is exceptionally dominant (more so than other continents). I wonder why.

Earlier this month: Calling People “Nazis”

n the feeble mind of Garrett, everything that he does not agree with is instantaneously labeled something truly awful. He seems to not understand that when he does so he may be defaming people, in effect associating them with banned expressions/activities. Some of them respond to that today:

Their opinion, not mine.

Despite being facetious and tongue-in-cheek (and rude by default), he makes it sound like 1) he needs a million bucks and 2) he’s looking for a job now.

Fake security is already breaking systems running GNU/Linux

ore complexity means more problems. Newer code means more bugs (e.g. Rust rewrites).

Fake security means catastrophe for no actual gain/s.

As noted by several sites [1, 2], linking to a bug report, kneeling to Microsoft came at a high cost:

TPM? Who asked for TPM in Linux? GAFAM? But who am I to even mention the principal culprits? I have degrees in computing, not in genetics.

could not help but notice the wordings of Torvalds, as uttered in writing this past Sunday. This is not the first time he expresses (apprehensively, his boss is the Linux Foundation, bribed by the slop industry) concerns about Linux slipping out of developers’ control only to become a bloated pig that few people understand.

Linux is becoming orphaned, devalued and diluted by GAFAM slop.

I am a Linux advocate, not slop advocate.

reat! So statCounter altered what it is measuring and thus, overnight, it puts Windows like 10-15% higher than days ago. Maybe it’s time to rely on Clownflare’s data more. At least it’s more consistent over time.

Or maybe… wait a few more days for statCounter to sort out the data and make things more consistent.

oday the new statistics from statCounter should come out. Maybe hours from now. I am very interested in them. I am eager to see if there’s an upward trend in GNU/Linux usage as seen by the data they collect.

We’re going through an important transitionary period.

rowth of IRC space was noted earlier today in Techrights and I’ve joined the IRC network of linux.org.

Unlike the site linux.com, this one has nothing to do with the Linux Foundation and years ago in IRC I spoke to the person who ran linux.org.

The address for the network is irc.linux.org with default port numbers.

rowth of GNU/Linux has accelerated this summer and tomorrow at around 10AM statCounter will produce more evidence of that.

I plan to stay home around that time to check the latest data. I also to examine trends in Cloudflare Rader.