I love that this exists

You can’t update your system files with flatpak.

If we Americans can’t sensibly regulate ourselves, seems like the reasonable thing to do.

I sometimes just use the touchscreen to type, when I’m feeling lazy.

I don’t care to look it up, but I would suspect that Valve has a patent on their trackpads in the context of a handheld console. It might be difficult or impossible for anyone else to try to utilize the same concept.

Won’t somebody think of the poor lobbyists‽ /s

But he did it by himself! And he sent it to lots of people! Only we’re allowed to spam…I mean “inform” our constituents! —Politicians, probably

Spin up some VMs. Most distros should work out of the box like that. Then you can see what you’re up against.

When you find something you like, try a Live ISO, if possible. Look for any odd behavior from that when it’s on bare metal. If all is good, back up your data, and go to town!

PIA does not have WireGuard configs available. To get those, you have to use third-party tools to capture and generate the necessary info. Otherwise, you have to use their client, or else no WireGuard.

Users have been asking for years (since 2018, I think), and they’ve never provided them.

Same

It’s good to know what we can do to reduce our own use—we all have to live on this planet, after all—but these kinds of articles pop up and, at the very least, make people think their efforts will have a meaningful impact. They go to sleep thinking they’re solving the problem (barring extreme situations like war-driven scarcity, for example).

But if every household stopped using electricity, many countries would still have a massive energy problem on their hands, because households aren’t really the problem.

Nice chart!

If I could offer an addendum, CachyOS and PikaOS should be included in the gaming distros for non-new users. I love Bazzite, but CachyOS gives people a very good Arch option, and PikaOS gives people a nice Debian (not Ubuntu) option that’s about up to feature parity with CachyOS.

This is actually an excellent use case for AI. Physics and chemistry as scientific disciplines are lots of complex pattern recognition and manipulation. AI is just a pattern recognition and generation engine, despite what the tech bros and apologists like to tell us.

What these engines generate will ultimately be vetted by experts before it even goes to trials. Scientists don’t just take things on blind faith simply because a robot or even another expert comes up with something; their entire deal is to understand their particular field of study in great detail, after all!

You are correct, but who said it would be the Democrats doing the work?

This is one of the things that frustrates me about my current boss. He keeps talking about some future project that uses a new codebase we’re currently writing, at which point we’ll “clean it up and see what works and what doesn’t.” Meanwhile, he complains about my code and how it’s “too Pythonic,” what with my docstrings, functions for code reuse, and type hints.

So I secretly maintain a second codebase with better documentation and optimization.

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That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury. EFF filed public records requests with Johnson County to obtain a more definitive account of events.

At least his side of the story has a happy ending.

The rest of the story is bonkers, though. The headline could not possibly do it justice. This is one you need to sit down and read with a cup of tea.

Politico is center right. Privacy, which is anathema to capitalism and the status quo, is not something their owners are in support of. Efforts to organize people on a large scale to exercise their rights are criminalized, because power for the people means less for the wealthy.

Precisely. The best slogan in support of fascism/authoritarianism is: “It could never happen here.”