I see many comments here about Claude and I get the same feeling I get when I see comments about MacOS: it's nice that you're content with it, but I don't trust Apple/Anthropic for a fraction of an angstrom.

Wake me when we have ethically trained, open source models that run locally. Preferably high-quality ones.

The term you're looking for is 'instant gratification'.

Someone I know who works at a telco (no idea if Vodafone is a thing in Belgium, but whatever: not Vodafone) was talking about a number someone has: 0411 11 11 11, and they got over a hundred operator messages every day.

I mean, anyone capable of accessing YouTube can listen to S.O.D.'s Kill Yourself, so at some point it's a question of who is responsible when a vulnerable user gets into contact with potentially harmful content.

It's a culture fit question. When the culture is 'make everything ourselves' you're not a great culture fit. When the culture is 'just solve the problem', you fit in perfectly well.

I've been happy enough with my Ubuntu phone. Music works, I can send SMS messages and use the phone, timers and alarms work, and it takes pictures well enough. There's even a LibreWolf clone so I can see when my bus/train arrives.

Better link to Itch (<https://maddymakesgamesinc.itch.io/celeste>) than Steam, Itch by default only takes a 10% cut instead of 30%.

> (C is of course orders of magnitude more influential, the only language more influential is probably COBOL?)

Lisp. Which coincidentally solved memory management over a decade before C was created.

I also think ALGOL was more influential than COBOL, but measuring influence can be tricky.

Apart from NixOS and GuixSD there's also Arkane Linux (<https://www.arkanelinux.org/>), which seems kind of interesting, but I don't like various decisions it makes.

> absolute lightweight

> eMacs

I love Emacs, but I don't see how a Lisp platform with a web browser, a Tetris implementation, and 4 terminal emulators (shell, term, ansi-term, eshell) can be considered 'lightweight'.

As the old saying goes, "emacs is an operating system lacking only a decent text editor".

Not so. Evil mode is a great text editor.

Ha, fair. Lightweight in this context is relative to Notepad or any modern Windows application.

Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes

Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs

It is right by definition. Link emacs to those controls, shed some statically linked weight, and it will also become lighter!

To be fair you can say that of anything with a scripting engine, you could have all that in vim or stripped down emacs

Anything with a scripting engine isn't lightweight compared to (classic) Notepad!

(Also, a lot of that stuff comes bundled with Emacs out-of-the-box, further disqualifying it. Having a scripting engine is one thing, but having a scripting engine along with the whole rest of the jet is something else entirely!)