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It's a common requirement. Chinese models in general, regardless of where they're hosted. The fear is backdoors, time bombs, or other unexpected behavior.

And these aren't technical discussions really, more of a risk management / political requirement thing.

I want to see your 2-3 package managers :-) Unless you count apt, aptitude, apt-get etc separately.

One saving grace with Linux distros is that usually the maintainers package versions that are compatible with each other. So if you stay with the default repos things work.

But yeah once you install newer versions from non-distro repos it might be fine (e.g. git) or things will break in subtle ways.

I can't believe how this opinion got so popular, because I disagree completely with the Bash bashing.

I totally get it for people who only ever used .BAT files (our entire IT department at work). It must feel like a godsend to them. Bash of course never worked for these people; running it on Windows via MinGW/Cygwin is just a bad experience.

But the relentless bashing of Bash itself and the longstanding Linux (and Unix) ecosystem alternatives in general is unjustified in my opinion.

Bash itself is elegant, powerful and concise, and just works on Linux. You can write spaghetti code, but you don't have to. Readable scripts are just as easy. "Skill issue" if you will.

And yes, Bash-isms exist, and I got reminded of that fact when Ubuntu shipped Dash as the default /bin/sh shell for a while or when I'm on macOS. But it's really not a huge deal: just use the real !#/bin/bash and ignore the "um actually in Posix..." complainers on the internet.

I do appreciate that Windows finally has a capable scripting language, and while I don't like the lengthy syntax / cmdlets, I also see some benefits. But Bash is still great nonetheless.

I recently generated a "plain English" document out of a huge technical spec, and steering this process was the main time sink.

Opus 5.5 will make broad changes in meaning and scope, but subtly. A human copy editor would at least pause before making claims unsupported by evidence (unless they're marketing); an LLM will happily fill in the gaps. Adversarial checks are helpful but have limits.

Unfortunately, I believe most people's command of written language is simply limited (including their native tongue), so they genuinely don't notice or care.

Using a copy editor in the way you describe is sensible, but I suspect many people will just do one pass and blindly apply every suggestion.

"Height-adjustable gear lever", lol.

Zero info about the engine on the page - or is it electric? The page doesn't really say.

For a sports car, that sort of info is kinda important?

tzdata routinely issues historical corrections in newer versions.

So while the political time zones don't change retroactively, the technical rules used in computers can.

Sometimes it won't even do a search if the query is too detailed or too long - in my case GTIN/EAN numbers.

No, I actually want to search for that whole string, it's not gibberish!

It was so much faster you could not believe it. It was a revelation and even though "degoogling" was already a thing, Chrome was so much better than the rest that you just had to use it. Tabs actually worked without crashing your PC.

The risks were clear from day one but Google and Chrome were great to both users and devs, and it stayed like that for a long time.