XMPP is still around! Despite Google’s best efforts to kill it.

Oh wow, they already have a 2.0 prerelease build. That was fast!

I’m in no rush. 1.x has been doing its job without demanding any of my attention since I set it up a year or so ago. Setup was a bit complex, but it was definitely worth learning.

Honestly, I’m amazed how long it’s taken Microsoft to run GitHub into the ground. But let’s be real: enshittification is inevitable. This is Microsoft we’re talking about.

The best time to migrate away from GitHub was 2018. The second-best time is today.

There are interesting and important points being raised here, but the particular programming language used is irrelevant. The author is only undermining himself by focusing so much energy on the tired old holy war between C and Rust proponents.

Also they put a spotlight on the huge energy costs of running an AI

Plus it’s fully in keeping with canon. They mentioned several times in TNG and beyond that holodecks needed isolated power. (And obviously we know the original Enterprise didn’t have a holodeck in a few years’ time.) It’s a nice way for them to have their cake and eat too.

I hope they have another holodeck episode at some point, maybe on a space station.

The “free market” solution is for malpractice suits to be so ruinously expensive that insurance companies will apply sufficient pressure to medical practices to actually do their fucking jobs.

Same in the legal field, plus we should see a wave of disbarments already.

I’m not holding my breath. AI is shaping up to be history’s greatest accountability sink and I’ve yet to see any meaningful pushback.

If you have the bullseye mark, you’re not fine. You need penicillin or you risk borreliosis.

Yeah, I was pretty freaked out. But on that part, I assume they just knew better than I did. To me it looked a lot like tick bite pictures I found on the internet, but I’m certainly no expert. I saw my GP ASAP after that and he didn’t think it was from ticks either. Maybe it was some other kind of bug bite, or an allergic reaction to some other woodsy thing. No way to know, since it all went away on its own in the end.

I’d advocate for erring on the side of caution, but I totally understand why people instead err on the side of not getting fucked over by medical bills.

I’ll tell you why. Because it’s fucking expensive.

I had what looked like a classic “bullseye” tick bite (several, actually). People told me “run, don’t walk, to the ER”. So I did.

The ER doc told me it was probably fine but I should see my doctor. $600. They had the gall to bill me $600 for telling me to go see a doctor. And that’s with “good” insurance.

I still have no idea what caused those marks.

Seems like most mods work fine on Linux, but I’m sure it depends on the game. For games with built-in mod managers like Baldur’s Gate 3, it all just works. For games with manual mods that involve replacing or editing game files, they should generally work since you’re running the same game files to begin with.

I haven’t had any big compatibility problems recently, though again, I’m sure it depends on that game. Proton (built into Steam) works very very well nowadays.

Just a few years ago I found the experience frustrating. It seemed like everything had something wrong with it, even if it wasn’t big. Lots of games had glitchy input, whether using a controller or keyboard/mouse. But somewhere down the line it totally flipped, and everything I play runs great now. I still have a bootable Windows 10 system, but I haven’t actually booted it in…two years, maybe?

Looks cool!

But I gotta ask: what is the deal with your font making all the I’s and L’s bold? :(

I’m not sure that would make much difference. When you control the media companies (including social media), you control what people see and hear. When you control what people see and here, you control what they believe and how they act, to a large extent.

Which is not to say that it wouldn’t be an improvement, just that it wouldn’t solve that particular problem. At least not directly. Perhaps it would make it easier to implement systemic changes we’d need to truly address it.

Jeff Bezos didn’t buy the Washington Post out of a love for journalism, that’s for damned sure.

At this point I might just wait for emulators.

I mean, my PC from 2017 (the same year the Switch came out) could play Switch games better than a Switch. Took a little while for the emulators to get up to snuff, but the turnaround was faster than I’ve ever seen.

I’ve never been so disappointed in a console’s long-term performance as I was with the Switch, with major games like TotK and Pokemon S/V just running like shit. If you can’t build a game within the limitations of the single platform you’re going to release it on, which you’ve had access to for 5+ years, wtf are you doing?!

The Switch 2 is similarly underpowered relative to the competition so I have high hopes for emulators, and low expectations for game performance.

This must depend on country and carrier. My carrier has never removed 4G or 5G bands. They’ve added new ones and they’ve phased out 2G and some 3G but that’s all. My phones from 10 years ago can still connect just fine, although obviously newer ones are faster.

Figures. If these shysters at Colossal had any integrity, they wouldn’t be calling their modified gray wolves “dire wolves” in the first place. Everything Colossal says about their dire wolf project is misleading or just plain bullshit. They’re not “de-extincting” anything. They’re making a larger breed of gray wolf. But that doesn’t sound sexy enough to set them up for a cash-grab IPO.

King Of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite has written to his local MP to air his grievances.

Holy shit. That’s his legal name?!

For King of Ink Land, this is particularly tricky as the system believes he’s wearing a mask – but it’s actually his tattoo-covered face.

So is it first name ‘King of Ink Land’, last name ‘King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite’? Or is there a middle name in there?

The King of Ink Land, who is now considering using a VPN, was attempting to access a live webcam site when the issue arose.

Whoa whoa whoa. “The” King of Ink Land? That’s his name, not a title!

Godspeed, King of Ink Land. I sincerely wish you success in this fight.

All major browser engines are FOSS.

Chrome and Edge are proprietary wrappers around Chromium (BSD license). Firefox and derivatives are FOSS (Mozilla Public License). Safari is built around WebKit (LGPL/BSD).

The problem, however, is governance. These projects are all too big for anyone to realistically fork and maintain independently. So in practice, they are under control of Google, Mozilla, and Apple — all of which have questionable priorities (especially Google).

It would be like taking your compiled machine code and editing it by hand because your compiler sucks.

Just use the right tool from the start.

Maybe so? I mean, I’m exaggerating a little, but those are the two primary ingredients of most of these non-salad “salads” that I would find in a typical diner or supermarket.

Potato salad, egg salad, macaroni salad, and tuna salad are fundamentally mayonnaise, potato/egg/macaroni/tuna, and spices. Probably some chopped onion and herbs as well. They are often nearly-homogenous glop.

I’m sure there are less offensive ways of making these things, and perhaps I would actually consider some of them “salads”. But yes, the glop I described is commonly called “____ salad”. I don’t think it would be reasonable to call them “salads” with no qualifier. These are compound phrases, and it’s best not to get stuck on the etymology.

You can also call a poorly-written headline “word salad”. And yet if I ordered a salad and got a copy of the New York Post, I would be very confused indeed.

The problem here is the assumption that modifiers can be safely ignored.

In the same way that veggie chicken is, obviously, not chicken, a bowl full of potatoes and mayonnaise is not a salad. It is a potato salad, and the word “potato” is doing too much heavy lifting to omit.

If I asked someone to get me a salad, and they came back with a potato salad, I’d assume they were pranking me.

This is why dictionaries list multiple definitions for words.

Perhaps this goes without saying, but if you want to do that, be sure you are installing Firefox through similar means across distros. This will not work with the Flatpak, for example.

Manual installation of Firefox is quite simple, and it self-updates, so that’s always an option.