Ooh! Has anyone managed to do this with Majel Barrett’s (the Enterprise computer) voice yet?

I see this meme a lot, but no one seems to point out that this “communist architecture” was built this way less out of ideology and more through necessity. They needed a lot of housing quickly, so that’s what was done.

Capitalists build what’s cheap and will fetch the highest profit, but a state can (and often does) choose to prioritise beauty and community benefit.

As an example, I often point to what the (leftist) government of British Columbia did when financing the construction of the SkyTrain expansion in Vancouver. Rather than build a series of generic, near-identical stations, they hired different architects for various stations, a decision that netted considerable criticism from the opposition.

But they did it anyway, and the results are gorgeous. Here’s a spread of four of them designed by two firms.

This has to be the standard response to these sorts of claims. I would love to see a Labour MP try to respond to this on Question Time for example.

Basically the IP stops responding to any traffic. At one point I set up a constant ping, and every once in a while I got something like “destination host unreachable”. It doesn’t happen often enough for me to move the service onto a physical device though. That’s work and I’m tired like, a lot.

16: I’ve had more headaches getting multiple monitors to work in Windows than I ever have in Linux. Try connecting 2 monitors of wildly different resolutions in Windows and witness the abject failure of windows to handle that elegantly. Your mouse can slip off into a “void” where no monitor exists, and yet your content can just disappear to, dragging the mouse between monitors slips the cursor way off and to the right, screenshots are a mess, etc. etc.

17: I only play games in Linux and I never use emulators… unless it’s for things like SNES.

18: I don’t know what you’re getting at with this one. Software is way more shareable in Linux. You just say “it’s in your package manager” or “install this Flatpak”. Windows and Mac on the other hand have half-assed app stores and a culture of "just go to ${URL} and click “download, ok, ok, ok” which inevitably leads to stuff breaking and no discernible way to determine what failed 'cause your machine is full of rando installations.

19: This is fair, though most high-profile stuff like CrowdStrike works for Linux now.

20: I cannot begin to tell you how much Windows and Mac don’t work. Like, at all. Just today I spent an hour on a call with another developer stuck in Windows trying to get a JDBC driver to work. The constant ambiguous error messages, useless documentation directing you to "just go to ${RANDOM_SITE} and install some-cryptically-named-executable.msi that craps out with error messages about missing runtimes… the whole operating system is hot garbage and that’s before you factor in the missing keyboard shortcuts, flaky monitor support, creeping AI, and ads shooting into your eyeballs. The only way Windows “Just Works™” is if you redefine “works” entirely.

#3 is what does it for me. There are few things more enraging than something I own refusing to do what I’m instructing it to do.

I installed a Pi-Hole largely to serve as a local DNS, but enabled the ad-blocking 'cause it seemed silly not to. My wife got very upset. Apparently she likes the ads.

With that aside though, it seems to work quite well. Just make sure to (a) use a reasonably-powered device (my Pi Zero appears to be taxed by it) and you should probably use an Ethernet connection 'cause my Pi Zero regularly flakes out so DNS requests fail due to the IP being “unreachable” for a half second.

Actually, that’s a pretty good strategy. I quite like cycling around in heavy traffic for exactly this reason.

What’s the recommended VPN for a case like this?

As much as I love a good Ten Minutes Hate directed at some carbrain too lazy to walk 4km, it seems I’m going to have to be the one to point out that it’s entirely possible that this person’s route to work is far too dangerous to walk, let alone cycle.

Just look at that strip of paint some of you are calling a bike lane. Maybe you would be willing to risk your life squeezing amongst the monster trucks on a bike, but I certainly wouldn’t. And walk? Breathing all those tailpipe fumes for 30-60min? Hell no. This person may well be looking at 4km of car-exclusive road to get to work.

So instead of ripping into this poor soul for being lazy, maybe we should be considering the very real possibility that their options are limited by poor infrastructure/planning/politics.

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.

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

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!

“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.

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!

Jesus, the discrepancy between the Green vote among the young and old is… horrifying.