I remember watching the weekly x-files episode. My and my colleagues would discuss it the next day at work with great enthusiasm. In those days you had time to absorb tv shows like this, something that doesn't really seem to exist anymore today. The 90s where a great time.

> I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of for-sale software.

We're seeing the end of "simple" for-sale software. Like OPs CRUD app, a UI front-end on-top of a database, of which there are a gazillion examples so some AI can easily synthesize some approximation of whatever requested variation.

The selling of software was always in the "moat", not how fast you were able to churn out CRUD apps. We used offshore that to a more viable economy, but now we're offshoring that to an automated process.

We're not seeing the end of for-sale software, we're seeing the beginning of the end-to-end solo founder.

Elections for executive leadership doesn't sound all that crazy to me. With 30+ years in the business I have witnessed my fair share of executive whackos that wouldn't have passed a basic sniff test if they had convince workers that they should be the one leading them.

Do you mean employment in a collective or as part of a union?

Also I don't understand what market share has to do with democracy. Is that some sort of voting scheme?

Is this a crypto thing?

This is actually important to understand. What are the dependencies of your dependencies? I.e. if your goal is to be sovereign than knowing how far the turtles go, and who the turtles are, is quite important.

As depressing as it sounds, this seems to pretty much sum up the objective of the 2nd Trump admin.

I remember playing this on my families Olivetti M24. It was very difficult. Maybe because the game was speed sensitive and the M24 was an 8086 running 8Mhz. Good times nonetheless.

But once you unmute, there is no way back...

Once you unmute, your browser should display a speaker icon for that tab, which you can use to mute the tab again.

> Video unavailable > The uploader has not made this video available in your country

I'd love to watch this but unfortunately. My country being AU.

This YouTube video is just a trailer for the documentary, it does look amazing. It looks like the entire documentary is available on some free streaming sites, here's one: https://play.xumo.com/free-movies/it-s-quieter-in-the-twilig...

If that doesn't work, try using a VPN set to the US as country.

https://www.itsquieterfilm.com/trailer is the official site.

I think I watched it on Amazon Prime in the USA. I don't know if Oz has Prime or what rights they have.

I checked the usual sites on the high seas and it is available for instant download there too :)

Why do some uploaders make it unavailable in certain countries?

licensing probably

But for an advert?

You can rent videos from YouTube, wouldn't you just make the video available but charge for it?

Licensing rarely makes sense

> A 19k lines-of-code Pull Request was opened in January, 2026.

Such a PR should be rejected simply because of the shear size of it, regardless of AI use. Seriously, who submits a 19k line PR? Just make many small ones.

The PR touched a lot of internals, including module code and mirrors the fs APIs. So, yes it was big, but the commit history was largely clean and followed a development story, and it was tested. The code quality was decent too. I didn't review all of it because I don't have a personal stake in this though.

I suggest EVERYONE in this thread go read the the GitHub PR in question. There's some good arguments for and against AI, and what it means for FOSS... But good lord you will have to sift through the virtue signalling bullshit and have patience for the constant moving of goalposts

How would you go about breaking up this particular set of functionality into smaller PRs, exactly? It's meant to introduce a virtualized file system... the size is dictated by the feature itself.

Also, no mention at all regarding the test coverage, or impact if any on existing code paths specifically.

There's multiple features, not just VFS.

So, like a 17.5k line change just for VFS? That'd be so much smaller and easier to reason with.

Unfortunately you're flawed to think that rational and evidence based thinking plays a role in the final decision making.