Well, the blog is literally called “climatehopium”, so, eeeh…

There are certainly some major challenges for a transition to clean energy ahead. The majority still seems to not see the necessity, or at least not don’t see why they should change anything.

Also, as a nitpick, with 8 billion people on the earth, even a scenario where 1 or 2 billion people die, either from lack of food or water or from the resulting struggles for the remaining resources, is technically not “truly apocalyptic”.

I can’t tell if the stuff between the yellow cheese and the bacon and chicken nuggets is raisins or coffee beans.

Could be funnier if the resolution was high enough to actually recognize everything. As it is, for some of these, I can only guess.

Interesting that they clearly know that doing that would be undesirable to the laptop owner.

Any further “helpful” information in that error message would be a security issue.

What kind of camera did you use there?

I used to say, if you are not a “computer person” at all, just pick Ubuntu. If you are a bit more demanding and don’t mentally freeze up in front of computers, yet still want a fairly normal and hassle-free experience, choose Fedora.

These days, I’m not so sure about Ubuntu anymore. They have been disappointing in the recent past.

Maybe I should give Linux Mint a try one of these days.

I hope you realize how much more expensive USB mass storage devices have become in the last three months.

Literacy rates in medieval times were not what they are today, but they’re still routinely underestimated. Most places, including peasant villages, would have had some people around who could read.

Then again, it also depends heavily in what part of the middle ages you are talking about. Early, high and late middle ages were almost different worlds in many regards.

What would happen the next day is the main reason why we don’t have purge nights.

Add another square at the bottom left of the grid that breaks out of the grid on both directions and contains OpenBSD.

To me, the whole BCacheFS thing feels like ReiserFS all over again. Including the borderline insane, self-proclaimed genius lead developer with an out-of-control ego, the massive over-presentation of how important this filesystem, or even filesystems in general are to Linux as a whole, the complete refusal to work within established structures, both in terms of process and in terms architectural structures in the software or to even have a mature discussion about how these ought to be like, and even the ludicrous claims about how Linux will be hopelessly outcompeted if it doesn’t put his genius front-and-center before anything else.

At least Overstreet has not murdered anybody.

There’s also the whole selective perception about software stability. You cannot claim at one point that your fs is completely ready for production use, everyone saying otherwise is a hater, and marking the thing as experimental in the config is basically slander against your person, and then shortly later demand that Linux merge some particularly complex and hard to review several-thousand lines patch in a minor bugfix release because your users could experience horrible data loss otherwise. Those are two things that cannot be true at the same time.

Note, filesystems really are hugely important to an OS like Linux. Even so, both Reiser and Overstreet managed to overstate that to an outright comical degree.

I will never vote for SPD again. Bunch of rotten traitors.

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It’s even worse: It answers the questions correctly enough that most people cannot tell the difference – but still not reliably correctly. Meaning you get answer that sound very convincing, but could easily still be dead wrong.

Have you tried to actually use GNU/Hurd?

So I guess I’m both “Chad” and “Schizo” at the same time.

And also “Cool And Good” on the side. (I run Fedora on a few machines. It’s a relatively hassle-free no-nonsense distro that usually works for what i need.)

Spoken like someone who never accidentally typed something into the wrong terminal or accidentally used the wrong keyboard.

Funny thing about that one, gnuplot is not under GPL and has nothing to do with GNU.

I appreciate what he’s done for VR and retro gaming.

He took money from a lot of donors, used that money to get patents for his company, then sold that company, including the patents, to Facebook (now Meta).

I do not appreciate what he did there.