What systemd really needs is a Doom-based UI, so I can run up to named and kick it when necessary, and track down systemd-resolved to exterminate it.

So the normal “I just want to watch netflix” price has gone from $8 to $18. A 125% increase.

the way that it should be

From each according to his wealth, to each according to his payment.

Mine’s more of a databivouac.

Damn, can’t believe I missed the guitar pedal raffle.

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Well, it’s one problem. It does seem clear that the privacy and security of users are not really the problems the people who want to ban TikTok care about.

Quick, somebody give that man $350000

“It’s not tied to Gnome”

        ID                                            Branch               Op           Remote            Download
 1.     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.08                i            flathub           < 156.3 MB
 2.     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default           24.08extra           i            flathub           < 156.3 MB
 3.     org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264             2.4.1                i            flathub           < 976.5 kB
 4.     org.gnome.Decibels.Locale                     stable               i            flathub            < 25.9 kB (partial)
 5.     org.gnome.Platform.Locale                     47                   i            flathub           < 386.5 MB (partial)
 6.     org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Greybird                    3.22                 i            flathub            < 91.8 kB
 7.     org.gnome.Platform                            47                   i            flathub           < 384.1 MB
 8.     org.gnome.Decibels                            stable               i            flathub           < 144.2 kB

Proceed with these changes to the user installation? [Y/n]: 

That’s a lot of megabytes for a simple audio player.

Personally I’d put a higher priority on stamping out that use of “porn”.

I’m sure it’s very nice but tying an audio player app, or a text editor, an rss reader, or any other such tool to one specific desktop environment is an unbearably stupid idea and makes me think that both Gnome and KDE have made a seriously wrong turn somewhere.

I am retaliating by redirecting all links to meta to /dev/null

For one thing the “AppView” as I believe it’s called. When I looked at the whole system a month or two ago the documentation wasn’t great at giving a clear high-level overview and the details are hazy in my memory. It’s at least as hard to figure out as the constellation of protocols used in conjuction with ActivityPub. Among other potential problems the protocol layer that would allow it to be fully decentralized is just missing. If it was there, I think it might look something like ActivityPub added on top of what already exists.

From my browser history here’s one attempt to sum it up: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

I’m sure someone will come up with a link, but if anyone wants a more general solution: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

The more I learn about it, the more I start to suspect that even if the bluesky protocol somehow outlives Bluesky Incorporated it will remain a trap created by a billionaire which by design will never fail to be mostly centralised in its operation. Will this new organization see the danger and make their version federate properly? I’ll believe it when I see it.

As a casual git user I imagine the process normally goes something like this:

1. Development happens.
2. New feature makes it into the release version of git.
3. New version makes it into the various linux distro repositories.
4. People who run big git repos install the update.
5. Serious nerds hear about it and use the feature.
6. Many years pass.
7. I learn about it, if it’s widely used enough.

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The vast majority of papers that make serious errors and draw the wrong conclusions are never retracted. The sort of people needing to be told to check whether a paper was retracted before citing it are not likely to produce much that’s of value even if they do so.

Apologies if my initial comment somehow reinforced your misconception that the linked video was all about the difficulty of finding the specs for the file format.

The thing that’s wanted is not one link to the official protocol specification document along with a dozen links to SEO-optimized AI-generated time-wasting nonsense. It’s a large set of links to diverse interesting sources discussing the topic searched for and things adjacent to it. The web was never perfect, but we were much closer to that ideal ten years ago than we are today.

Someone’s complaining about the war and you’ve come along with a pair of earplugs saying wear these, you won’t even hear the bombs.