It’s dated June 17, so it’s not an April Fool’s Day article.
EDIT: I was gonna say that Linux Journal has been around for a while, and I’ve seen material from them over the years, so they should be reputable. It does look like they were purchased a couple years ago…but by Slashdot, of all places.
Linux Journal (LJ) is an American monthly technology magazine originally published by Specialized System Consultants, Inc. (SSC) in Seattle, Washington since 1994.[1] In December 2006 the publisher changed to Belltown Media, Inc. in Houston, Texas. Since 2017, the publisher was Linux Journal, LLC. located in Denver, Colorado. The magazine focused specifically on Linux, allowing the content to be a highly specialized source of information for open source enthusiasts.[2] The magazine was published from March 1994 to August 2019, over 25 years,[3][4] before being bought by Slashdot Media in 2020.[5]
I wouldn’t expect Slashdot to be putting out incorrect material either.
shrugs
Maybe the site was compromised and someone decided to put up a joke article?
Yeah lol. There are definitely some oddities going on that I find hard to wrap my head around.
For example, last week this article was published on the same website and attributed to the same author. In the article, the author talks about the release of Fedora 41. The thing is, however, that Fedora 41 was released last October. Heck, Fedora 42 has been released for two months now. Like, why wouldn’t they want to talk about Fedora 42 instead?
Maybe they’re trying to do LLM-generated articles and are screwing up?
Problem is, some of the text doesn’t seem like something that an AI would come up with. I mean, I can get minor errors, but describing an entire nonexistent init system without some kind of directive in that direction?
but describing an entire nonexistent init system without some kind of directive in that direction?
Someone else, i.e. the user called “notabot”, had already made the following interesting observations:
rye is software that actually exists and is found within the repos
rye is written in rust
rye has an init command; rye init
I don’t think it’s too far-fetched to think that an LLM is aware of the above. But, it failed to understand what rye actually is and how its init command isn’t competing with systemd.
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It’s dated June 17, so it’s not an April Fool’s Day article.
EDIT: I was gonna say that Linux Journal has been around for a while, and I’ve seen material from them over the years, so they should be reputable. It does look like they were purchased a couple years ago…but by Slashdot, of all places.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Journal
I wouldn’t expect Slashdot to be putting out incorrect material either.
shrugs
Maybe the site was compromised and someone decided to put up a joke article?
Look at the other articles on the site. They are all just AI garbage.
Yeah lol. There are definitely some oddities going on that I find hard to wrap my head around.
For example, last week this article was published on the same website and attributed to the same author. In the article, the author talks about the release of Fedora 41. The thing is, however, that Fedora 41 was released last October. Heck, Fedora 42 has been released for two months now. Like, why wouldn’t they want to talk about Fedora 42 instead?
Hmm.
Maybe they’re trying to do LLM-generated articles and are screwing up?
Problem is, some of the text doesn’t seem like something that an AI would come up with. I mean, I can get minor errors, but describing an entire nonexistent init system without some kind of directive in that direction?
Someone else, i.e. the user called “notabot”, had already made the following interesting observations:
ryeis software that actually exists and is found within the reposryeis written in rustryehas an init command;rye initI don’t think it’s too far-fetched to think that an LLM is aware of the above. But, it failed to understand what
ryeactually is and how its init command isn’t competing with systemd.