But… “states’ rights!”

I keep waiting for Republicans to revolt, but then I remember they’re Republicans.

I suspect it’s because they allowed users to select multiple, 'cause if you add all the personal Linuxes together, you get 61% on their own.

Regardless, it’s actually looking really good for Team Free Software.

“Israel: what a cuntry”

Witty. I like it.

Toph! Yay!

What is(was?) Crimeflare? It’s a great name.

Well now I’m curious and don’t trust myself to find the correct answer. Why do we have this naming scheme?

I am terribly jealous. Congratulations on finding a company with a (somewhat) sensible IT policy.

If possible I would avoid being anywhere densely populated in the Netherlands over New Years. The whole country loses their fucking minds, handing explosives to children as young as ten with the advice: “Go have fun in the street, kid”. Strangers shoot fireworks in every direction, at buildings, into the canals, at random strangers just trying to get to shelter.

When I lived there, my girlfriend and I would always book a holiday well out of town on NYE. It’s insane, and not in a fun way.

Have a look at this short video of some streets “before and after”. Hidalgo (the mayor) has given Paris a complete makeover. People are swimming in the Siene again!

As a persistent Green supporter voting in his riding, I’d be hard pressed not to vote for him.

“My Time at Portia”: it’s not exactly the best-coded game ive ever played (weird geometry and animation bugs, and some of the plots feel half-assed) but the world is big, and complicated, and there’s lots of crafting and relationships, and overall Good Vibes. I built a bus stop last night and married a nice girl who sells flowers. I recommend.

It’s currently on sale on GOG for €3.

This is nowhere near the average Debian update experience. Debian is favoured precisely for its stability and simplicity, so if youre getting stuff like this, it’s far from average.

Those errors look like file corruption. Maybe they were partially downloaded or written to a flakey disk, it’s hard to say. I’d also echo the other comment or that Kali (and honestly Debian) are not well suited for gaming due to the distro preference for Freely-licenced software and favouring stability vs quick releases.

It’s fine if you want to experiment and “swim against the current” to do a thing with a tool for which it’s not designed, but turn around and complain as if this is normal behaviour is either dishonest or outs you as someone who doesn’t have the experience required to make such a statement.

Your story kinda reminds me of this comic.

Multiple disks with many moving parts, containing 80TB of data on magnetic platters flying at high altitude where they’ll be subjected to far more physical impacts, radiation, and cosmic rays than at sea level.

Yeah, it’s a risk.

Here’s a really amazing Radiolab episode about bit flips!

Here’s the link to the actual article. I get that you’re trying to do users a favour to bypass tracking at the original URL, but the Internet Archive is a Free service that shouldn’t be abused for link cleaning as it costs a lot of money to store and serve all this stuff and it’s meant as an “archive”, not an ad-blocking proxy.

I’m posting this in part because currently clicking that link errors it with a “too many requests” error. Let’s try to be a little kinder to the good guys, shall we?

If users wasnt a cleaner/safer/faster browsing experience, I recommend ditching Chrome for Firefox and getting the standard set of extensions: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc.

mainly due to the cost of fighting the summer’s wildfires.

When people say “we can’t afford to do X to combat global warming” what they’re really saying is that “doing X will be expensive for me. Let everyone else pay for it.”

Climate inaction is yet another case of socialising costs to benefit short-term profits for the few and we need to start talking about it like this.

Carney’s new pipeline plan is a classic case. He’s just racking up the cost of survival in the future so his rich friends can get richer right now. It’s theft.

Do you know how common it is for Israelis to conflate criticism of Israel with racism while they commit war crimes?

Conflating Jews with the IDF is a horrible, one might even argue antisemitic thing to do. They’re murderers and genociders and you shouldn’t be so quick to throw your lot in with them.

They should all be in prison.

Canadian in the UK here. It’s a disaster.

The NHS is treated like “medical for the poors”. If you can afford it, you get private cover and get treated faster by the same doctors sometimes even in the same hospitals.

So you get the same American bullshit: “sorry, that hospital is out of network” and “if your insurance deems this scan to be uncovered, you’ll be liable for a £12k fee. Sign here.” with the added bonus that tonnes of public money is sunk into a national system that’s being parasitised by private interests.

That alone would be bad enough, but the above model also ensures that support for spending on the NHS isn’t as politically attractive, because those with the money have a “fuck you, I got mine” mentality thanks to the private option.

If you want a healthy national health care system, the rich and upper class need to be standing in line with the poor for their health care.

And whose fault is that?