It was a fascist march. 110,000 fascists vs 5,000 anti-fascists - what a sad day for the country.

The retired general told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week that more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is notable as it is close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda, though the ministry figures have been deemed reliable by international humanitarian agencies.

Looks like the IDF have been lying about the extent of their genocide all along. What a surprise.

Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.

Preferring to avoid the mouse is a pretty common attitude among Linux users, just because keeping your hands on the keyboard is quicker.

Are they saying it might make them start treating Palestinians badly, killing them and stealing their land? What is this threat of “unilateral decisions” supposed to be that Israel hasn’t done or doesn’t plan to do anyway?

Seems like an after-the-fact “look who you made me genocide!”

Well, only the base OS in /usr is immutable; /etc is writable for making system-level config changes, and your entire home folder is of course yours to do what you want with, including installing software into it. So that’s what you do: use Discover to get software, mostly from Flathub at this point in time, but Snap is also technically supported and you can use snap in a terminal window (support in Discover may arrive later).

That’s fine for apps in Flathub and the Snap Store, but what about software not available there? What about CLI tools and development libraries?

Containers offer a modern approach: essentially you download a tiny tiny Linux-based OS into a container, and then you can install whatever that OS’s own package management system provides into the container. KDE Linux ships with support for Distrobox and Toolbx.

It sounds like more work for the user than a single system-wide package manager. And in my experience there are some applications that are not designed for sandboxed installations, where you have to fiddle around with the sandbox settings to get things to work. I’ve become frustrated by this in the past and ended up going back to system-level, unsandboxed packages. Likewise, managing containers for CLI applications can be great or it can be a pain for similar reasons. Some things are just easiest when fully integrated with the OS, though it brings security and stability risks. So I haven’t been won over by immutable distros yet but I’ll be interested to see whether KDE Linux can soften some of these hard edges for the user. It sounds like they do want it to be viable for non-experts coming from Windows.

I disabled all animations in Android after the recent announcement of a vulnerability in which invisible animations could be used to trick users into unwitting actions. The sudden transitions without animation were a bit odd at first, but I was surprised how much faster and more responsive the phone feels with animations turned off. I like it better this way and feel no need to turn them back on.

The ethics of sabotaging AI are even less murky than the ethics of what Luigi did. We need tech Luigis.

They’re fine if they make money for the right billionaires.

Yes, I hang on to a number of old devices for this reason. Almost anything from the last 10-15 years can still be pretty useful if it isn’t broken. And when you install an appropriate Linux distro you see how fast the old device can go.

Cory Doctorow warned in 2011 of “the coming war on general-purpose computation.” Ordinary people being able to control their electronic devices is a threat to entrenched power, both governmental and corporate. Since he gave this speech we’ve been on a continual trajectory of all the major tech corporations giving users less and less control over the devices they use, both in hardware and in software. It’s only a matter of time before there’s an attempt to make it impractical to run Linux on a device of your choice.

This is one reason open-source hardware is so important. We need it so there’s always some kind of computing device we can run Linux on and tinker with. Otherwise we could be locked out completely in the end.

He’s one of the most honest, straight talking and unpretentious politicians I’ve ever seen. It’s a real shame the UK missed its chance to change direction with him.

It’s disturbing when you hear the idiot techbro billionaires fantasizing about engineering their own immortality, but it’s really disappointing that the most powerful world leaders are also this detached from reality. All the most powerful people are utterly delusional sociopaths.

The land now known as Israel, including Gaza and the West Bank, is their homeland. These people are refugees because they were driven out of their homes during the violent formation of Israel in 1948 and many of those who survived ended up in refugee camps in Gaza. Gaza is one small corner of their homeland. Over the course of 70 years or so, these refugee camps became entire cities because these people had nowhere else to live, for generations. So they were refugees in a small corner of the country that was once theirs. Then Israel destroyed even these cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

He said the code that came out was slow, but Rust always ranks within the top handful of languages for speed, so I’m taking that comment with a big pinch of salt. Among popular systems languages only C and C++ really beat Rust for speed. So you get better memory safety for the price of a pretty small decrease in speed and a steeper learning curve for the compiler’s picky rules (though the compiler gives you lots of clear help). Rust programmers know this.

Big Balls. Can’t be punched if you’re at home on the computer.

Yes, you just need to keep the higher payouts to more bereaved relatives below the cost savings from making a bunch of pilots unemployed, and Bob’s your uncle. Simple soulless capitalist logic.

I don’t have your experience but I have watched a lot of airplane accident/near accident videos on YouTube, so I’m the worst kind of non-expert, and even I can see that having a pilot flying and another pilot monitoring is absolutely essential. It helps prevent either pilot getting overloaded with work and going to pieces, it provides company and a sanity check on every decision and flip of a switch, and there’s no fix for a pilot being incapacitated through sudden illness except having another person there to take over. I wouldn’t want to fly on a plane driven by a single lonely and stressed pilot, and I doubt many pilots would want to be doing long-haul flights all alone every day.

I’ve had good luck with Antix on very old machines.

The priority is to move people safely from point a to point b. The priority is NOT to make a tiny select few rich people even richer

Clearly you haven’t been paying attention for the last 40 years. The priorities for all services and industries have changed.