yes, I get that and it’s a bad default, but not RCE like the post says

That does not allow remote code execution. An attacker still needs a vector like an SSH session to be able to control kitty. And at that point, if they already have a shell session, they don’t need kitty to do damage.

edit: giving access to other programs is not remote execution, but obviously not a good default.

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled to check everything enabled that you might want to disable

as for running as root, AFAIK all systemd services run as root, unless they’re defined at the user-level; but IME setting services at the user level usually means a more involved setup to make sure PATH and env vars are correct.

They don’t need to teach “windows” or “excel”. Working with an “operating system” and a “spreadsheet” is the real value. One can quickly pick up any equivalent technogy as they need to. There’s no good reason to stick to the company that happens to have a monopoly at the time. In fact, it’s better for society that they don’t.

As for photoshop or any media editing program, I’ve never learned that in school anyway. That was just not a thing in any school around where I grew up. Maybe I missed out, but I’d say that elementary and high school curriculums are already pretty busy to focus too much on that kind of work. IME teenagers usually get into that kind of software at their own time and interest. I was into video editing and 3d modeling, but that was never in the curriculum.

Unpopular opinion, but most of that is duplicated information that makes sense to be duplicated because I’m not a machine that can scan the whole page and instantly get what I need.

Top right are action buttons, fork and stars on the center right let you see who else starred and forked the repo.

License information just makes sense to be in a repo summary, and it just happens that most license files are at the root and visible in the file tree.

I don’t see the top level stuff, you probably see that because you’re not authenticated, so github tries to “sell” itself for you.

I agree “releases” should be at the top though (it used to, and I use GitHub refined to bring it back), but having the latest one at a glance is nice and saved me a click many times.

No point in messing with swappiness settings, trust me. You want to address the reason this happens in the first place, not disable or reduce swap.

I’ve had a nearly identical scenario at work. The reason? A data verification process that went through 100s of thousands of files to run their checksums and check integrity. This was working as intended, but the system alerts were firing because of that high buffer/cache utilization. So check which processes have highest IO and you might find the answer. Swap is just a side effect.

disk destroyer? I prefer just formatting and rsync-ing things. Unless I care about preserving metadata.

it’s weird (perhaps convenient) that their explanation is “bots” but they don’t mention bot metrics from StatCounter themselves: according to StatCounter numbers, bot traffic share increased 0.37% in July 2026, while Linux Desktop grew 1.92% in the same month.

set it up with wrong address/credentials to see it failing, if it succeeds, it’s not using your relay server

I’ve seen the login warning above, but I don’t self host it myself, so I just logged in

well, you didn’t link any and you’re the one generalizing it, so the proof is on you to provide. I doubt their conclusions are like you’re making them sound.

Are those studies in the context of software development? What are the tasks at hand? Do they evaluate critical thinking on matters that people actually care about or on chores? Were they instructed to use LLMs in a particular way that is equivalent to their personal preference?

You can’t pull a wildcard saying something like that because it’s too broad of a conclusion.

Only if you don’t care about your own cognitive decline

That sounds like Socrates’ argument that writing would weaken people’s memories.

And absolutely, people will probably forget the syntax by heart if they don’t type it as frequently. Personally, knowing syntax is not very valuable to me, as it’s just a means to an end. And whether that leads to cognitive decline or not, is really up to who’s using the tool.

Saying it leads to cognitive decline is saying you can’t use an LLM and have critical thinking, which I can’t agree with.

I’m sure he included himself in that group

Right, like I mentioned, it’s a scale problem and how people feel about generated code. Abandonware have always been the majority of repos, because people don’t have time or interest to maintain most things they create. We just have more things being created now (whether they’re any good/usable or not).

Disagree. Most projects are never “done”. Whether that is defined by the user or by the users, there are nearly always things to work on. Maintainers just lose interest or don’t bother. This is as old as open source and it has nothing to do with LLMs, it’s only aggravated by it.

Hardly an issue with generated code. You could say the same about projects before LLMs were widely used for code generation: “most projects are abandoned within months of release”. The difference now is the scale and how some people feel about it.

I was reading this yesterday

https://tailscale.com/docs/reference/faq/other-vpns

I probably won’t do it myself, but maybe it works for you

at this point “prism” must be one of the most overused project names, there’s no hope for any seo using that name

yeah, I know of two other tools with that name just from my workplace, both probably suggested by ai

GitHub is good enough to people keep using it. With the exception of the AI-induced downtimes last month, other platforms have as many problems as GH does, but GH gets the bad rep because it’s the one everyone uses and has an opinion about.

Despite old problems that still annoy me, they actually have an impressive and unmatched set of features too, so one can’t move away without some compromise. For the most part, you might find Forgejo/Codeberg and others to meet your needs, but it’s going to take a long time to match GitHub’s maturity in some things like code search.