netvor

That sounds really evil, esp. if you already have low expectations and it's not like I'm going to defend ol'Bill, but...

Do we know what he used the patents for?

Acquiring patent sounds like you want to use it as a gold mine by manufacturing the product for "best" price, which is pretty heinous, especially when it's in conflict with saving lives. But in principle it could be the opposite. One could, entirely for altruistic reasons acquire a patent from someone with the intent to make the cure more affordable.

I mean, I don't like Bill but let's be honest, he's no RFK Jr.

Damn the clickbaitines of those video titles could make an old cowboy cry.

...but "don't judge the book by the cover", they say...

Use as $meta in my .i3/config, so .. lots of things.

...but .. but according to background, the bug photo comes from a different log than you were looking at.

please make sure to report the bug to the correct team.

closed/wontfix! 🤡

I think they don't need logrotate, they need the exact opposite: logdontrotate

OT, but I feel like ~_{I keep seeing more of these "foo 1.2.3 released" announcements here on this channel.}~

Is it on topic, though? Shouldn't the channel be more about Linux specific topics, rather than place for people to discuss updates of arbitrary selection of apps which just share the fact that they also run on Linux?

Edit: Technically the "I feel like" part was true but looking at the topic post .. factually I'm totally wrong; it's like 1 in 20 at most.

Man I'm 45 and I don't blame the youth for any problems now. But maybe I'm just charging my blame lasers so that I can go even harder when I'm 65. Like, "when I was younger I never blamed the youths for problems but NOW, with YOU it's justified!".

Cats and dogs have more in common than you think.

For example, did you know that both cats and dogs have four legs? Yeah... There's even more similarities, I hear...

Not acting "for free" does not mean zero-sum game.

I am no expert but I don't think nations need to (or do, in general) operate on a zero-sum game. Actions can benefit both sides.

I call it a (wo...)manmade organised dogmatic religion. Sure, it might be just with a member of one (which is kinda cool and all and probably makes the organizing part a little bit easier) but it's still kind of the same thing..

But seriously, it really depends on the details on such belief. It might be anything from harmless cope to superstition to delusion to paranoia. Or a first brave step in escaping a cult--which I would genuinely applaud.

It loosely reminds everyone of everything because "other planes of existence" is an all-encompassing meaningless term.

Just about every religion or fiction fits this, because they can--and do-- say "oh but it's in oThEr pLaNeS oF eXiStEnCe!". Which is a silly excuse because just about only concrete property that "other plane of existence" implies is that things on beings on it can't affect things or beings on this plane of existence, so any theory (as in "has to make useful, verifiable predictions") involving interactions between planes of existence is kind of dead on arrival.

Someone has to teach those little gangstas how extortion is done.

Well at least you tried...

I see, So that's what the jack-o-lanterns are for?

So they are actually not lanterns but temporary toilets, but then someone got an idea to put candles in them so that it at least makes the "trick" part kind of uncomfortable. Right?

I usually dry inside and I make sure to turn stuff inside out before hanging it on the rack but I do it because I believe it dries better when things like pockets can be stretched out.

UV is a great point, I never realized that.

So it looks like I've been doing it all wrong all the time. Especially with hoodies, there's always a t-shirt under them, so the "dirtier" side of the hoodie is more likely to be the outside.

With jeans it's kind of the same, assuming not too much sweating (and proper underwear turnaround).

Just about the only thing I remember was that my mom always said that one should zip them up and not leave the zipper open -- specifically so that it does not clank around and perhaps scratch the washing machine drum or get its tiny teeth brush and the moving part tangled with other, softer garments.

Turning the hoodie inside out might mitigate that a little bit more, but not much...

...or any inanimate objects, really.

LOL next time I wait for tram I'll just imagine meaningless alien symbol arrive instead of it. :D

But really, I think the abstraction is kind of fascinating. The "closeness" of a route 34 to route 36 means nothing. Or the number of "34" in route 34 has nothing to do with gate 34 on an airport. So much is kind of obvious to most adult humans. (I think--and I suppose there might be interesting cases with neurodiversity.)

Now what if instead of numbers it was happy cartoon-like animal symbols like they use in day cares. Again, I can state the obvious: duck is a bird and hen is a bird, but the "duck route" and "hen route" don't need to have anything to do with each other. And sure, duck route and duck airport terminal have nothing to do with each other as well. Again, sort of obvious, right?

Then if it's alien symbols: sure, now I can't do the connections like "32 vs 34" or "duck vs hen" anymore, can't I? Well .. no matter meaning in any other context, as long as I can recognize difference between two symbols I can also recognize similarity between other potential pair of symbols. Eg. if two alien symbols had a dominant vertical line then I could still have the same space for connections.

My point is that this need of separating the abstraction from concretion is inevitable, regardless of whether the symbol has a conflicting meaning used elsewhere. As long as we attach some understanding to the symbols, there are still some relations we might want to attach to them. That's even if we did not use the same symbols elsewhere, which we do.

The next stage of the thought experiment: what if it's not symbols but just the real things. Can I recognize a tram from another one? (Literally one physical vehicle from another?) Well it would be really hard but actually also counter-productive in the modern world, because the whole point of the abstraction in those arbitrary numbers is that they represent the route -- which is also completely abstract concept. Ie. it does not have to be the same vehicle, and the same vehicle could be re-assigned to another route.

I don't know where on this axis would the radio frequencies mentioned in OP be placed, though. Frequencies exist in range(s) so a certain frequency currently on your radio receiver being higher or lower than the target one does tell you how to twist the knob. (Yeah, I'm 45 years old so I have used analog radio, although it was like 30 years ago...) There must be at least one other axis to it.

honestly with drawings like that I half expected at least one panel be involving bloodletting

wow, so Trump is doing "Liberatem resigno" ("I give up my freedom") but with rubber shackles.

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The PowerShell Manifesto Radicalized Me

Intro to nftables: Protecting Incoming Traffic

What you do with your windows button on your keyboard?

I wish debugging looked like this

I wish debugging looked like this

Firefox 145.0 released

How do middle aged family men handle it?

A hotdog should be the opposite of a cool cat, but it's not.

Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?

What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?

What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?

When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick?

When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick?

When washing, should I turn garments inside out?

When washing, should I turn garments inside out?

When washing, should I turn garments inside out?

When washing, should I turn garments inside out?

A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class.

If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers.

Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?

Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?

So what the boink is Bazzite "cloud native" blah?

Who benefits from the "X Min Read" estimates popping up everywhere?

In January, is it winter in Australia?

When you are on a videocall do you also keep looking at your own thumbnail video?

cautionary tale with OwnCube (nextcloud hosting)

Time tracking on GNU/Linux

Why do we want to know why?

How do you deal with endless cookies dialogues?

Going out of comfort zone is good because it can help catch our "inner demons" at work