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> The WHO said many things...and didn't say enough...they too are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world.

WHO were slow in some regards ( e.g. masks, but it's not like it would have made any positive difference when there simply weren't enough masks available even for medical personnel, let alone the general public), and it's their job to fight pandemics, but they're not "responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths". It's a novel virus, vastly more contagious ( even when asymptomatic), and especially due to China's initial botched response information was slow to tricke, and even when the WHO said stuff, issued warnings, gave counsel many countries outright ignored them, with some like the US deciding to withhold funding to fuck with the WHO in the middle of a fucking pandemic instead of listening to them.

> You can literally search for and find videos from exactly the same dates going back to January, February and March to confirm this. The Trump Administration was sounding the alarm. Every time Trump or the team would go on TV politicians from New York, Pelosi and Schummer and others would get in front of a camera to oppose it and tell the public everything was fine.

Are you sure? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eB_xCk5ABw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuVo4fnpLC8 and similar ( you might say those are biased sources, but they show actual footage of him talking nonsense with dates, so if they're wrong, it should be pretty easy to debunk), and my own memory, and everything i've ever seen on the subject was exactly the opposite - Trump desperately trying to sweep it under the rug and saying that everything is fine, everything is under control. He continued to do so well after NY was in pandemic response mode, with makeshift morgues(!) to handle all the dead. Do you recall Cuomo's big speech about how states are bidding against each other for PPE and ventilators, and Trump's and Kushner's response that the federal stockpile is theirs, and they don't buy it that states suddenly need more PPE and ventilators?
Are you comparing yourself to others? That’s the trap I am in, but I’ve tried to turn it into a positive as it drives ambition. Maybe you are an aspiring person and you want to be like Bill or Elon. Most of us will never be. No matter what your salary or position, someone will always be “more successful.”

Use it to drive you and no discourage you.

Now if you are discussing problems with relationships, that’s a whole other website.

Good luck to you!
They're still the two biggest DEs on Linux, and also the flagships for Qt and GTK respectively.
does it have compiz?
There are plenty of alternatives out there. Reddit has become a huge echo chamber for pretty much everything but doubly so for politics.

I abandoned political reddit years go, and now I find myself finding less and less use for technical reddit as well

the last vestige of reddit now seems to be for the lol's and meme's but even for the base level content that started redit it is becoming less funny, and more and more cringe
My preferences aren't religious-strong, but I have enough of a preference that I installed KDE Plasma on Pop! OS instead of the Gnome-base default. And I've struggled to get the network manager working in KDE which has been a nuisance and never a problem on distros who ship KDE as the default - so there's at least some importance in a distro's default, even if others are available. I've been known to pull up a Gnome version of some application in KDE and vice-versa because of individual preferences. But as a desktop / window manager yeah I actually have a strong preference.

The article actually isn't loading for me, so I'm not sure if these are the same design philosophies addressed, but some of the key things are:

* I find Gnome's dock-like things very annoying. I find it easier to get KDE's task bar to take up a very small number of pixels and I feel it stays out of my way more while I'm focusing on other applications. It feels like Gnome takes after Mac and KDE takes after Windows, and I just prefer the latter, UI-wise.

* KDE is far more configurable for keyboard shortcuts. I use the ability to pin a window to the left / right half, or one of the quadrants using they key-binding of my choice all the time. I hadn't been using KDE for very long when I would miss that every time I was on another machine. Even after being back on Gnome for a couple of years I wanted it. There are some third-party add-ons that do it, but they were buggy for me. I'd rather just have KDE out-of-the-box. This is one example, but keyboard shortcuts in general are for more widely used and configurable on KDE.

edit: Clarified a few things, but also have now read the article: yes I like this "completist" philosophy, especially since much of the complexity is hidden away in drop-down menus. I think it's the best of both worlds.
I like that idea, although to me that is kinda the status quo and I'm not sure the folks who want to be able to fake anything at will would be ok with that.
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I am familiar with KDE and years ago when I was in the community I know that most of the apps are just a few unpaid volunteers/developers, in their free time add missing features and fix bugs. There was no big ego designer that had to approve if we add a new menu or feature or any study to decide if a new feature might segfault the brain of some user. Each maintainer decides if a feature makes sense and the design was usually the generic Qt/KDE layouts , no freacking custom widgets that a user can't theme.

I would be interested to hear if there is a major difference between GTK apps that are not part of GNOME and GNOME first apps .
>The non-coding parts of work are necessary on oss projects too.

IME a far greater % is coding. There's also a lot of OSS people involved who don't code who help out with the other stuff.

Moreover, a lot of the stuff that "isn't coding" is a strong quality signal - how the developer interacts with bug reports for instance.

>That is nowhere near guaranteed and more likely to not be true. In particular, if you focus on maintaining the same software.

It'll still be different to what you do at your day job and will necessitate picking up a different set of skills and a different perspective.
I too agree, but I think there is a hidden "fight" going on. I believe RMS is the only person around that can prevent a full corporate take over of Linux.

All ready people are creating non-GPL tools in hopes of replacing their GPL cousins. And in most cases, one cannot use Linux on many devices without using closed source blobs. Right now it "seems" these blobs do not impact user privacy, but what is to stop these blobs from phoning home in the future.

Unless someone steps up to continue RMS FSF policies, he is very much needed.
I turned GME's closing prices over the last year into “music”
Shout out to https://github.com/datavized/twotone for making this possible.
There's a common wisdom iI learned from english.stackexchange comments that English is one of the easiest languages to learn, but one of the toughest to master. Which strikes a fair ballance. It relates for example to the relatively strict word order.

There are a number of (well sourced) posts on linguistics.stackexchange dealing with a different question, if language complexity varies, i.e. if a language could be simpler per se, which is chiefly denied. Any simplification in one part of the grammar will lead to an increase of complexity in another part.

In other words, I believe the grandparent comment cited common wisdom with a bit of folk believe. There is just no way to measure this precisely, since it is of course subjective.
I get why you would make the assumption, but markets are not always perfectly rational.

Big brands might not want to take the risk, small brands might not gain the traction as it's not enough of a determinant to make people buy something completely unfamiliar or associated in their minds with quality/good fit etc.

(The women complaining about this are probably still buying jeans, so it's also not clear that money is actually being left on the table, they're just dissatisfied with what they are still buying.)
LOL. You've been reading Roman letters for so long you've forgotten that A and a don't look even remotely alike.
Plenty of the more fundamental religious believe in creationism. And many more do not actually believe in natural selection element of evolution, more evolution guided by the hand of god (at least in my experience of talking to others).
Indeed. Time to rewrite all of my code that used hacks to work around this limitation.
> Yes, strange people say socially uncomfortable stuff and behave weirdly. Often they say stuff that is not socially acceptable. We can manage this, I hope. Especially considering his real contribution to changing computing as we know it.

Sure, but I'd also rather not have a person like this represent the community I'm a part of. I also don't think we should discriminate against blind people, and we should go out of our way to accommodate them when we can (by making accessible websites for example). But I'd rather not be chauffeured by a blind person.

Stallman is a person like all of us: with his strengths and weaknesses. You can accept him as a person as he is, "warts and all" so to speak, while also declaring he's not a good person to do a particular job.
podman-machine is deprecated and Vagrant is recommended instead.
"I can't think of anyone I know who has a car that needs to phone home. "

As others point out, it's almost impossible to get a new car these days that isn't connected. Anything in the last five years in particular. It's pretty disgusting and one of the reasons I'm in no hurry to own anything new. I have a '97, '02 and '10 and they all work quite well for me and I intend to run them into the ground. And if I'm diligent they should last me until I am no longer fit to drive.
> Why give such a person a platform?

It did lead to the Unabomber's arrest. But in that case of course the newspapers only published the manifesto at the request of the FBI.
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I am opinionated. To each their own, here are my opinions:

KDE is near Windows defaults, maximum configuration (you can even emulate Mac OS X if you want.)

Gnome 2 was Windows-like and somewhat customizable.

Gnome 3 is Mac-like and harder to customize.

Unity is Mac-like and unnecessary hard to customize.

Elementary looks Mac-like but isn't rage-inducing in the same way for me as they have a working application switcher.
The author uses the words "theogony," "cosmogony" and "philanthropy" because these are all high-minded topics whose aims in practice are to explain and justify things as they are; Byron is ironically suggesting that morality in this world is confined to academic discourse, without any application in real life, where things remain dog-eat-dog.
Per your suggestion, I spammed pretty much anyone involved with mmsd (the Authors, the ofono mailing list again, and the linux-netdev list).

I also did the RFS email.

Thank you for your help. I really do hope my package and my patches get somewhere.
Are you allowed to use the VS Code name and logo?
I can give that a try - willing to try anything at this point haha :) Mixing caffeine and decaf beans to make a low-caff actually tastes decent.

I always drink it with food. Glad you were able to reintroduce it!
Yes, they absolutely do. You have to see it to believe it.

The language is full of homonyms, for instance.

Misunderstandings occur and then there is a back and forth along the pattern of "No, I don't mean the GENSHI (原子, atom) of GENBAKU (原爆, atom bomb). I mean GENSHI (原資, capital) as in SHIKIN (資金, funds). Okane no koto (having to do with money)." "Aaa... naruhodo".

They also often cannot read the names of people and places. It is simply not possible. If you don't know, the best you can do is form several plausible hypotheses, all of which could be incorrect due to some semi-arbitrary assignment.
Before the pandemic I'd have 2-3 cups of espresso a day. Once we started working from home though, I went down basically immediately to 1 cup of regular coffee with an occasional second cup if the post lunch nap vibes hit too hard.
Yes

1 The overhead cost of employing the union administrators (union dues)

You have the skills and knowledge to goto court? and some times you need to have an external person to be tough with the employer.

2 Gatekeeping and time-wasting via official tests and grooming processes

What is this tests @ grooming M&P unions are not medieval guilds or the IEEE

3 Could make it harder for workers to break off and start their own competing companies, leading to the biggest companies monopolizing the workforce"

Why ? and the number that do that is miniscule

And pensions sorry you absolutely need pensions and you need pensions taken away from employers direct control and run by trustees
>Just put up a list somewhere with all the opinions that should be banned from polite society

You betcha, I'll get you started:

- Do not advocate for rape
Both of these vulnerabilities are problematic, though it’s some comfort that only one of them exists with the default OpenSSL configuration.

DoS attacks are problematic, though I’m wondering what creative uses attackers will find for buggy certificate chain verification.
They’re rental slaves. Anyone living paycheque to paycheque is. If your employer didn’t pay you anything but provided you with everything you and your family needed, with nothing left over so you have nothing to support you if you quit, that would be slavery. This is the same thing. Does it make you feel better to pretend it’s not true?
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Just bear in mind that "decaf" coffee does still contain caffeine—roughly 5-10% of the amount in regular coffee, as I understand it.
> Cargo's New Feature Resolver

This couldn't come sooner! I had to fork a particular dependency because Cargo was pulling the wrong dependencies. It drove me a bit crazy before I figured out the dependencies causing the issues.

[1]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/cargo-build-failing-when-combi...
> An OpenSSL TLS server may crash if sent a maliciously crafted renegotiation
ClientHello message from a client. If a TLSv1.2 renegotiation ClientHello omits
the signature_algorithms extension (where it was present in the initial
ClientHello), but includes a signature_algorithms_cert extension then a NULL
pointer dereference will result, leading to a crash and a denial of service
attack.

> A server is only vulnerable if it has TLSv1.2 and renegotiation enabled (which
is the default configuration). OpenSSL TLS clients are not impacted by this
issue.

TLS Renegotiation strikes again!

One of the best parts of TLS 1.3 is that they completely scrapped it. So, IIUC, if you're running only TLS 1.3 then the NULL deference for the (enabled by default) feature in TLS 1.2 will not impact you.

Also a lot of end user facing software such as nginx has renegotiation explicitly disabled so hopefully this won't be particularly far reaching.
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You could just lump this under the umbrella of cancel culture and it would be reasonable.

I think the difference is that in my mind cancel culture is "we need to remove this person because they did/said/think something I don't like" whereas this is "we need to remove this person because they might pose a very real danger in this position based on their past behavior"

Cancel culture is indiscriminate. It punishes people for having the wrong ideas or saying the wrong things regardless of whether or not people are in any situation to cause harm with those things. People get fired from jobs as a waiter at Denny's because of cancel culture. It is a punitive measure meant to punish the transgression.

As a society we already have an understanding that some positions are important, they contain authority that makes them open for abuse. Things like elected office, teaching, anything where you have authority over more vulnerable populations. We also have an understanding that there are things that disqualify you from those sorts of positions.

We also understand that sometimes people who should have been disqualified end up in those positions. When their disqualifiers are brought to light, we tend to agree it is reasonable to remove them from those positions, essentially disqualifying them retroactively. This approach is preventative not punitive and I think it's distinct from cancel culture in that regard.

I would argue that this is a case of the latter. She should never have been hired.

On the surface it looks like cancel culture because the outrage mob looks the same. Maybe some people are just motivated to cancel her. I think that's misguided, but calling for her removal is justified in this case not to punish past transgressions but to prevent future possible abuse.
Oh, this isn't about sitting at home in isolation like we are doing during covid, this is about being out with people who actually care to have a healthy relationship. Working with people who inspire creativity, challenge your assumptions and actually get to know you as a person - things that are often difficult with direct peers because of corporate policies, competition for positions, hierarchy and career status nonsense...

I think your math actually suggests our way of life is actually extremely unhealthy with the assumption we should develop social systems at our places of employment that absolutely don't exist for any such activity.

We need those relationships - but the office way of work certainly isn't a healthy way to achieve them. People get fired, laid of, move to new orgs, get moved around, corporate policy is dictated from top down without regard to human experiences but rather bottom dollar value line.

Not saying it can't be done - but again - think back on all your working years - were many of your work relationships meaningful or just convenient? Do they know your family? kids? spouse? significant other? Do they wish you a happy birthday? did they call you during covid to see how your doing?
Brazilian institutions used to love FORTRAN and Matlab. Maybe Julia was more familiar to their teams somehow.
At least with cigarettes, it takes 2 - 4 years to really cement your addiction.

Plenty of younger people (well I guess it's with juuls now) tell themselves they can quit whenever they want, and take break during a week of family vacation. No problem, so they keep on smoking.

5 years later when they try to quit they realize that maybe they weren't as bulletproof as they thought. I know for sure it happened to me.

Of course caffeine could be totally different addiction wise, and thankfully not nearly as deadly, but just some food for thought.
1) They're usually the best-supported by major distros,,

2) Most other solutions don't present as much system-config stuff as well as they (or Windows, or macOS) do in the GUI, so you're in for more mucking about in config files, writing scripts, et c. with any of the many window managers (not "desktop environments" like Gnome or MATE or KDE)
> Comments are closed.

So the one time you posted something controversial on your blog, you immediately and preventively shut down any kind of discourse. So much for credibility.
Perhaps its worth taking the time to clue yourself up about the relevant laws so that you can make this assessment for yourself.
I upvote humour for this reason, and down vote posts that are anti-fun. Believing all writing should be dull is a characteristic of people who can't write well.
Matcha is not terribly common in the US. You can find it, but you have to go out of your way to
Thanks, I agree, going to look into this.
For HN terminal app comparison would be nice. I am only familiar with Konsole and I am happy with it.
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Hector Martin - a guy on the literal front lines of freeing up locked-down and undocumented hardware - has this to say about the FSF: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1374613757268140033

I find it way more understandable than the massive rant we're all talking about and it makes a way more coherent argument to boot.

My personal opinion is that the best solution (if I specifically had the power to alter history such that CONTU's 1978 final recommendation was different) would have been to establish a sui generis right for software distribution monopolies that lasted 10 years and required source-code escrow. This is cribbed from the existing sui generis right for IC designs. Copyright would be explicitly barred from covering software, but it would still cover embedded creative works within the software.

Under this regime, a videogame would have it's engine code covered by software-rights, but it's art assets covered by ordinary copyright. This would mean that, for example, old videogames would be freed from the constraints of having to relicense middleware and engines. We wouldn't have massive preservation hazards like, say, Adobe Flash Player that wind up rendering entire art scenes inaccessible until manually remade by their copyright holders. By the time the software is abandoned, anything a decade older would be free to preserve and adapt.

(If you're wondering: this is the licensing model id took with their old game engines: once the engine was no longer being licensed, they just dropped GPL'd source code. You still needed to buy DooM if you wanted to play DooM, as the source drop didn't come with any levels or models, but if you just wanted to play with the game engine or build your own game with it, you were free to do so.)

Video codecs are one of the few areas of software where patents are preferred over copyright protection; or at least they were until H.265's three patent pools broke the licensing model and everyone fled to AOM AV1. MPEG is also trying their hand at another royalty-free codec (even though ISO's patent disclosure policies make it difficult to do so). So I wouldn't be surprised if the standard shifts to Free software implementations of unpatented codecs with widespread hardware implementations.

Part of the apprehensiveness people have over patents is that they're much broader. This is also why creative works are born copyrighted (you only need to register to sue) but inventions aren't born patented. You have to apply for patents and prove to multiple countries' patent offices that your invention is novel. But patent offices do a terrible job at this; their incentive is to approve everything so they can collect filing fees and let the victims of patent trolls bear the burden of proving obviousness to a court. That's why I would really prefer some kind of "copyright-lite" to a patents-based approach.
I do not feel strongly about any of this but i've found myself happier with KDE over the years.

Gnome seems to combine the worst aspects of OSX and windows with some things in side panel, some persistent menu bars, some applications with double menu bars... it's annoying is all.

KDE tends to stick to what i understand and what i want is usually where i expect it to be.

I would disagree with you in that the differences are substantive.
Yes, it's that easy. And prices of commodity food staples only cause unrest in very poor nations where food inputs constitute a large % of their income.

Wheat costs about $200/ton and peaked around $450/ton during the arab spring period. A ton of wheat (with a few supplements) is enough to for 500g/day for 5 people for a year if half your calories come from wheat. Even at $500/ton, that's about $100/yr/person for the wheat itself. Wholesale raw foods are quite cheap from the perspective of someone in a rich nation. Can be quite expensive for the very poor. The solution is to help people in poor nations industrialize so that they are less poor.
> There are plenty of alternatives out there.

Can you please provide a few of the best alternatives?