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In 2014, the Debian project cited accessibility [1] as a main reason to offer Gnome as the default desktop. Since that was over 9 years ago, a lot could have changed. However, observing that Gnome is generally the most well funded Linux desktop, and is sponsored by/the default for Red Hat Enterprise Linux [2] that has large incentives to meet government accessibility regulations, there's a good chance it is still ahead.

[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/commit/dce... (they cited systemd integration too, but that situation has probably changed a lot since then)

[2]: It is also the default on other enterprise Linux vendors, such as Ubuntu (albeit customized) and even major KDE supporter SUSE uses Gnome Classic mode as the default for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
I’ve read that page, and I see the part where a third-party will upload their own data to google so that google can target ads more precisely; but I missed the part where a third-party gets access to a user’s data
"Improved" fire suppression systems contain hydrofluorocarbon gases which when burned decompose into HF gas. What could possibly go wrong?

Do NOT stay in the server room (or armored personnel carrier) when the fire suppression system goes off.
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/177/1/108/4345530
>anything that is super nutrient dense works really at helping me feel at 110%

Can you explain to us what it feels like to "feel at 110%"?

>then I'd get 10x the micro nutrients

10x some micro nutrients, and 0x others.
With your whole chest, think of the corporations! Let them use dark patterns! It's not their fault they didn't read carefully! It's not illegal, but it's deceptive! Also, buy my crypto AI course, it's totally legit.
Because its not running off of repeated explosions.

Have you compared your electric vacuum to your gas powered one?
> The USA gets a whooole lot of soft power from its military hegemony

Definition of soft-power: Soft power is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power).

* looks up list of foreign intervention by the US over the last 60 years *

I think you might want to rethink your argument.
The big telcos ignored us so we took it into our own hands. Had it been a bigger market I’m sure they would have lobbied our local ISP out of existence. They still do some questionable marketing around here.
I had Wayland issues on KDE.

KDE recently switched everyone on Arch to Wayland (the new default), making it my first brush with Wayland, and maaan... I'm impressed with how performant Wayland is (it's as smooth with composition and no screen tearing as X11 is without composition and with screen tearing -- and the key input latency is palpably less than in X11), but there's been one little problem: total system freezes periodically. Mouse, keyboard, sound, everything. A totalitarian kind of freeze -- the kind only possible with Wayland's design. :p And the periods were once every day. Then, after a few days, twice every day. Then once every 15 minutes! Then once every 5 minutes!! As I tried to look up how to switch it back to X11, as though angry with me and wanting to stop me, it started crashing faster!!! (I figured out it was the little gear icon at the sign-in screen that allows you to switch KDE back to X11.)

So I'm sticking with X11 for now. :p I'm also exploring WMs like dwm and OpenBox to see if I can have something leaner that won't threaten to kick me off of X11 anytime soon.
I don't use KDE (anymore), but I do use Konsole and gave Kate another shot about a year ago.

Konsole is the best multitabbed terminal in my experience on Linux. I tried more "modern" or fashionable ones, but Konsole works great all of the time on all of my systems and it supports all the features I want (including graphical output using sixel, which is something I use in my own prototype tools all the time).

Kate is fine now that it has LSP integration, but it still can't compete with something like the VSCode ecosystem for plugins and first-party support from software frameworks and programming language teams. So I've since gone back to using VS Codium.
Makes me wonder if they intentionally kept some noise to combat consumer perception that it was weaker than gas models.
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As much as I'm a KDE fan, saying "developer advice" was to wait for 4.3 is very unhelpful (not to call it something else)

It would have been much better if 4.3 was called 4.0 as it was supposed to be
It was the other way around. It was GTK/Gnome with the LGPL licensing, while Qt's open source edition was initially GPL-only, before LGPL was added later on.

LGPL means you can write closed source software against the open source toolkit, and yes I think it's fair to say this was a big driver for commercial adoption of GTK in the late 90s to early 00s as it seemed like the better ticket for "serious" closed source software on the Linux software.

The irony is of course that today, far more "serious" software (e.g. your Autodesks, Mathematicas, Abletons, etc.) with Linux releases has been developed with Qt and little or perhaps none with GTK since that earlier wave (where maybe the most complex app was Acrobat PDF Reader).
Noise is proof that you're working. Which means that the boss/parent/supervisor won't come over and yell at you for not working.

So there is that antianxiety effect. Ingrained from an early age.

My friend in the trade explained it thus.
I grew up around a lot of Seventh Day Adventists who are mostly vegetarian and they had lots of healthy people but _also_ a good few morbidly obese people who had diets with a lot of dairy and carbs. I suspect the latter might have benefited from being able to satisfy cravings for savory with things like lean chicken breast, etc.

I like a plant-based diet myself and have been on and off them over life, but the one habit that seems to keep me healthier than others is avoiding bread, pasta, and cheese.
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I should have better hinted at my psuedo-sarcasm. I do find meaningful in-person interaction and collaboration are valuable for personal, professional, and mental reasons. However, the real beneficial interactions seem to happen only infrequently, and when they do I don't think that what we have to give up for the slight chance to realize those moments to happen a small percentage of the time are worth the squeeze (work/life balance, commute times, etc.). Hybrid situations in my experience only end up providing the worst of both worlds as everyone isn't in-person at the same time.
How can someone get so close to seeing the problem and not take the final logical step?

If your app is just addictive adtech, it has no moral, political, or even economic right to exist.

Once upon a time apps provided useful services. Many still do.

But the gamification/addiction plague is an absolute horror and needs to be shut down. It's the psychological equivalent of tobacco, alcohol, opioid, sugar, oil, and money addiction.

All of these things are incredibly toxic and cause astounding levels of social and individual harm.

"But money..." is the least credible argument for any of them.
It's nice to see things other than just asphalt and brick.
I have seen people riding loudest lawn mowers wearing noise cancellation headphones. Probably they just want to torcher neighbors.
Ha ha, this is both hilarious and so true!
> Excess deaths actually seem to line up better with the vaccine rollout than with the initial viral outbreak.

This seems to be a bizarre statement. I can't speak to other countries, but at least in England the widespread rollout of vaccines (just beginning in January 2021) only started at the end of the final major spike in excess deaths.

It's simply not possible for excess deaths to line up better with vaccine rollout than with the initial outbreak, because both major spikes in excess deaths were before mass vaccination rollout.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/excess-mortality-wi...
The accessibility features are also useful for automated UI testing.

>They’ll make features like this because it’s the right thing to do

While the positivity is great to see -- I'd temper that expectation they're simply doing the right thing and definitely acting in their perceived interest. People can and often do the right thing -- large companies rarely do.
Given the (AFAIK) questionable copyrightability of LLM-generated code (a number of jurisdictions do not allow assignment of copyright to non-humans nevermind the derivative work question of its inputs), these proclamations (Arch and Debian have had similar discussions) sound, to me, like it is mostly a clarification of already-disallowed activities (where copyright must be able to be attributed or otherwise traceable).

Basically, if you're using Copilot and making constructive[1] contributions, there's likely some human element involved where copyright can be applied. If you're just slapping together a pipeline to generate and submit patches without oversight, this just says "don't do that" more strongly than already exists for "don't contribute crap please". I see it as a way to help stem the flow of an LLM-generated
deluge of contributions that flood the review queue with sub-par work that just ends up wasting precious reviewer time. If this discourages LLM-script-kiddies from flooding FreeBSD with such things and instead doing it for other projects, it seems like a win for FreeBSD to me.

[1] https://xkcd.com/810/
You're "supposed to" use string resources. There's support for having a different resource pack per languages. It's not exactly frictionless, though.

(With the new "source generator" work it should be relatively straightforward to implement a gettext-style source scan if that's what you want.)
Previous discussion from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128
Yeah, fair; there's something nice about the fact that the Raspberry Pi is "just Linux"; it's not some attempt at an embedded version of POSIX.

You have the full Linux kernel and packages to play with, the GPIO stuff (if performance isn't a huge deal) can easily be controlled by simply writing to files, meaning that you can do quasi-embedded stuff in basically any language you want, or at least any language that has an ARM port to Linux, which is basically everything nowadays.

Still, I'm quite partial to the ESP32 with NodeMCU just because the power consumption is so ridiculously low and NodeMCU + Lua is pretty easy since it has full GC and gives you a node.js-style callbacks that I think are generally easier to work with than doing it myself in C. Most of my embedded projects have moved to the ESP32 as a result.
If anything we (and by we I mean the CIA) learned how not to mind-control people, and moved on to more effective and subtle means of manipulation through the media.
friendlyfire.tech is pretty much dormant :)

The benefit of being bootstrapped, of course, is that it's designed with costs in mind, so I don't spend more on hosting than I do on my Netflix subscription.
>> That’s an awfully uncharitable projection.

I took this to mean my father-in-law, but not a paid business or situation where these things are a necessity. He is a lawyer who's worked remote since 2000 only leaves home for necessities and outside hobbies, but has all kinds of equipment including a tractor and snow plow. Of course, he has a ride-on mower and enough other equipment to start a landscaping business.
In recent years, a huge amount of effort went into UI polish, simplification and bug fixing for KDE Plasma.

Nate Graham championed community goals such as "usability and productivity", "consistency", while also focusing developers on high-priority bugs and blogging weekly about the progress: https://pointieststick.com/category/this-week-in-kde/
When I use Copilot I make sure code it writes matches my own style. If it doesn’t I modify the output to what I would have written. I never accept more than a few lines at a time unless it’s something completely boilerplaty. The result is my Copilot-assisted code is byte by byte identical to the code I would produce without it. I challenge you to SynthID that.

I know there are people who don’t give a shit about code quality as long as it runs, which I suppose is why we’re seeing all these “ChatGPT-written” Show HNs. But that’s far from everyone.
It's a combination of factors most likely. A lot of the blue zones also have strong communities and that's another impact. The way a lot of meat-eaters eat is not overly balanced as well, our farming is likely problematic at the industrial scale.

A lot of the problems with seafood have nothing to do with the animals and everything to do with the way we're trashing our planet.
Not really, and this is what I meant by having an order of magnitude improvement is very exciting to the researcher even if in practice there are still 29 to go, but it doesn't make a big impact. Even something as simple as the borrow checker -- that only brings you to about where most of software, with all its bugs, already is -- comes at the cost of only being able to use memory in certain ways. I.e. to make the property inductive, it had to be made more coarse (indeed, that is what is always done when looking for inductive properties [1]) which requires more effort on behalf of the user.

As I've written above, over the past two or three decades we've only learned the theory that things are more difficult than we thought, and at the same time the capabilities of sound verification have fallen further away from the needs of mainstream software. The trajectory of both the theory and practice of sound methods has been negative. All the while, we've made some nice strides in unsound methods. Tony Hoare started recognising it in the nineties (which somehow shifted his 70s view on the subject), and the trend has continued: Yes, there are improvements in sound methods, but the problems become harder faster than those improvements, and the improvements in unsound methods is also faster.

[1]: That is seen very elegantly in TLA+, but I digress.
What we care about is all causes mortality, or old age quality of life (I'm not even sure how you would measure this). Heart attacks and cancer are the two largest killers, but there are lots of others and so trading a big one for a lesser one at the same age isn't interesting (in fact it could be a negative as the big ones get more research).
I think that's because FFI is only a small (and rather easily automatable in other means) portion of making a usable binding for the target language.
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Yeah, it's called gardening, a different, curated expression of life. Wilderness can exist elsewhere.

But leafblowers are mainly just antisocial technology.
On TV and Radio (ie Broadcast Media) in most countries in the world, there are rules on how many ads (or limit on total duration) broadcasters can show per period of time.

Big tech bypassed those rules claiming the internet has so much choice unlike in the past were Broadcasters were few. But it never mattered that the internet has more choice cause Total Available Attention of the consumer is still the same. And if a significant amount of that Attention bandwidth is dominated by Advertising/Influence Ops its very easy to manipulate people. Not just kids.
It just is. You don't need a theoretical explanation, just go turn on a gas leaf blower and a battery operated one and see for yourself. The internal cumbustion engine is much louder than the actual blower mechanism.
I don't know why I have to commute 90 minutes just to open AWS consoles, terminal tabs, Microsoft teams and Outlook. Then any communication I have with my team members and leaders must be written before I can do anything anyways.

Do I just have to sacrifice 5% of my lifetime to corporate gods? Because I gladly sacrifice more, and there is an opportunity to negotiate for better mutual terms.
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Keep in mind; in some towns a truck comes around and collects the leaves from the street with a vacuum (although I guess your town doesn't?).

I have seen (predominately contractors) blow leaves into a tarp to take away on a truck though.
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It seems like it should hallucinate less, as it directly quates, but nope, it still halucinates just as much and then gives a quote that directly contradicts its statement.
Do you have any evidence that plant-based diets are more "health conscious", and that that by itself explains why they are healthier?

I'm personally vegan for ethical reasons, not health reasons. I wonder how many people actually go plant-based for health reasons, I doubt it's the majority.
makes sense, thx!
You just aren't looking at the full set of options available then. The Stihl electric line is used by contractors and cities all around the world, and are incredibly reliable / strong.
I agree that Konsole is an unsung hero and is a great workhorse.

The best thing about Konsole is it's a framework to begin with. So tools like Yakuake can just import Konsole as a "unit" and build upon it.

I don't expect KATE to compete with VSCod{ium,e}. I expect it to be a code and git aware text editor and it fills that role perfectly.

As a funny side note, at least for Golang, KATE's LSP integration works way better than more expensive tools like BBEdit.

For bigger projects I skip this free-looking-proprietary-Microsoft-thing and use Eclipse IDE instead.
In other news: smoking weed and drinking alcohol cures depression for good. Try it today!
Just to clarify. The reason I didn't respond to this one:

> "5C warmer" doesn't mean a uniform increase in temperature of 5 degrees at all times.

Is because I thought it was completely obvious that this is correct. I've seen that several responses thought I ignored and argued that 5C warming would be the same everywhere, while what I meant by "5C warming" was "the effect of a global 5C warming".

What I DID think was the main message was this one:

> It means "5 * the thermal mass of the earth's biosphere" worth of extra energy in an extremely chaotic system that is currently in a local stable point, but doesn't have to stay there.

While I agree that a "5C global warming scenario" may mean that the average temperature in Lyon, and even that the VARIANCE of the temperature IN LYON may go up quite a lot, I did have objections with the hypothesis that the chaos would be the main factor leading to variations in temperature.

While, for the global average, increased energy in the atmosphere may lead to SOME increase in the variation in temperature, I don't think that variations in temperature depends nearly as much on the energy in the atmosphere as other types of extreme weather, such as hurricanes, heavy rain, hail storms etc. (And effects of those, such as destroyed crops, damage to property or flooding).

Changes in humidity seems to be a much greater factor in the variability of temperature than this extra energy has.

If you check the IPCC projections for changes in precipitation patters, maximum and minimum yearly temperatures, you will find that in areas where precipitation is expected to increase, the minimum yearly temperature goes up a LOT more than the maximum yearly temperature goes up, especially so in the sub-arctic part of Eurasia (like Siberia).

Meanwhile, in areas that are expected to get dryer (including Spain, France and Italy), the minimum yearly temperature hardly increases at all, while the maximum temperature goes up a lot more than the global average.

Basically this means that some vineyards in France, Italy and Spain may have to move to more robust crops, like maybe olives. But it also means that new areas open up that may become more favorable to vineyards, for instance in Germany, Poland or even southern Sweden.
Ah yes, I've definitely struggled personally with a deep love of cheese and pasta. It's not and can never be a silver bullet. It still requires dilligence. Eating well is such a hassle. SO SO much easier to eat badly.

Edit: it's also statistical, not everyone is going to be healthier.
There are parts of NY that are getting 8 gig fiber apparently, but it doesn't appear that Brooklyn is one of those parts, which annoys me. 2 gigabits if fine, at least for now, but it would be nice to be able to increase the number of concurrent downloads I could have.
Why singling out male loneliness?

Are females less lonely?

Could it help with both?

Genuinely asking, I don’t know much on the topic.
I see this sentiment expressed frequently here, and I find it distressing. It's not a woman, it's a simulation of a human, designed to hack your brain into experiencing emotions that are fundamentally false. A true relationship with a woman, that you can't shut off, or tweak parameters of, or upgrade, or fundamentally control like a toy is much more rewarding and challenging, even if you sometimes experience things that suck like rejection and heartbreak.

This seems obvious to the vast majority of the human population, but here you get called a luddite for saying this fundamental truth.
Cool invention. Will the students get paid royalties or is the university and private company taking all of the royalties/profits?
Moving hundreds of pounds of leaves each season is backbreaking and time consuming work. The game changer is to rake the edges in and mulch them with a mower. Not quiet but it's quick.
I read that in their manifesto(yes I do read the fine articles). It's my earnestly held opinion that math is discovered not created, and I feel like code is the same. I believe taint in code is about as real as the evil bit for TCP(for what it's worth, I'm also strongly against current copyright laws in the information age).
Elon Musk at one point once suggested Tesla would make a quiet leaf blower - due specifically to the noise.

I wonder if Tesla perhaps has a whole bunch of technologies they're developing incognito in the background - or if he's perhaps being limited for some artificial reasons?

It may just be a market size issue - and cities passing bylaws to disallow gas powered, only allow electric under a certain dBs is the fix; and for some reason aren't caught under existing noise pollution-nuisance laws.
There doesn't seem to be anything in today's society even remotely hinting at that.
I still have this 90s' feeling that the internet connects me to the world, news, science and culture. I really miss it when I don't have it. But I never use social media, so maybe that's why I'm so positive.
Not convinced it is better than nothing. It’s a crutch that might reduce the drive to find real connection
If you tried KDE a while ago and found it too buggy or unstable, I suggest you give it another try now that Plasma 6 is out. A ton of work went into visual design, usability, consistency and productivity.
You can change your name and address, you cannot change your irises.
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This is cool. Kudos to the team too - I feel like this is what engineerings all about.
A whole hour of runtime would be mean 1C discharge. 80V (which is likely 72V, but in the US it's ok to label the max voltage rather than the actual one) is made of 20 Li-Ion batteries in series. Lets say 2 in parallel, so total 40 batteries. I'd go with 3Ah per battery (could be more for 21700) and around 2Kgs weight. For 1h work that's ~430W of power which is rather under powered.

That fast charger (say 30min to charge) for this thing would be quite a thing to witness with over a kW of power draw.

About Stihl, it uses a 36V battery, so 10 Li-Ion in series. Which is half as powerful. I can't see a capacity higher than 36V/6Ah from Stihl. Now, it possibly uses multiple batteries, however, the issue with charging still remains the same.

Running a generator would be louder than the device, so imo that's a moot point. I'd consider using a massive power bank and/or lots of pre-charged batteries to carry the day but not an inverter.Taking enough batteries to swap and charging them in off-hours seems the only sensible approach (albeit not cheap)