h4n1

If they run enough nodes to deanonymize users, it's a dagger through the heart of other intelligence services, but an absolute blessing for the NSA

I'm not a programmer either. I just started running Linux out of curiosity, followed a few "copy-paste this into your terminal" guides, eventually got the hang of it and now I do almost everything in it.

It both is and isn't "a whole language". Most commands just execute a single program with options and/or arguments, except you don't have the overhead of opening a GUI, finding the right dropdown menu, etc. You quickly start to pick it up like you would a spoken language, remembering the "words" for actions, and it becomes a very natural way to think.

IMO the biggest stumbling block is just learning how to type efficiently. This includes knowing about tab completion, history search, putting stuff in your .bashrc and so on.

If pdftk can't do it, then inkscape scripts probably can.

/ʒif/

If all that matters is to recognize the best team, then why bother with a knockoit stage, or even a world cup tournament? Just collate stats. The point is to play the game, and if both teams are evenly matched in regular play, to move to an acceptable tiebreaker so that someone wins. France has still come a very close 2nd place, which the tournament does reflect.

I would not want to go to the hospital for a mild ear infection and hear the AI start blasting death metal.

The Ukrainian г is a voiced glottal fricative, IPA /ɦ/. This is as the English /h/ sound but voiced. Southern Russian dialects use /ɣ/, a voiced velar fricative, which is pronounced like /ɦ/ but further forward in the throat. East Slavic dialects turn Proto-Slavic /ɡ/ more into /ɦ/ the further south you go.

Another reason police unions are entirely different, even from other public sector unions, is that the police are used to break strikes. They're structurally antagonistic to every other part of the labour movement.

Isn't Valve known for letting employees work on whatever they want? I'd imagine they already had a bone to pick with MS and wanted to be able to play games on Linux. Before that, things like the controller also seemed like "scratch your own itch" projects. They're good at making pieces that naturally fall into place.

How much are two hundred million microphones in earshot of private conversations worth?

Latin is "older" than English because Latin has been fossilized for over a thousand years due to having no native speakers. A better example would be French and English. Neither is "older" than the other since both are spoken and learned anew every day.

Of course languages known to us only from a certain time period are associated with that time period. They're a snapshot of that linguistic tradition. Living language traditions don't really permit comparisons of age, because they exist in the present.

Since Classical Chinese is ancestral to kanji, you might be interested in https://wy-lang.org/

Regurgitating old critiques of terrible, homogeneous design, then holding up as counterexamples two of the most embarrassingly bad designs of the last few years. I suppose this is appropriate for a marketer to write, since Tesla and "Liquid Death" are just marketing departments with other afterthoughts attached.

I agree with VR being obstructive and awkward, but what percentage of the population would be okay with hooking a computer directly into their brains, let alone a facebook-controlled computer?

I recently added a similar feature to the absolutely terrible code I've hacked together for controlling my smart lights[0]. I used python's astral package to get the highest and lowest sun elevations for the day, then define the lights' warmth at both, and at elevation == 0. Every 15 min a cron job sets the lights' warmth accordingly.

This is for a room with very little natural light, where the lights are on most of the day. Having them respond to the position of the sun lets me still feel the rhythm of the day outside.

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~h4n1/z2m-scripts

This is a great font! It feels to me almost like a 'handwritten' version of the font I use, [Julia Mono](https://juliamono.netlify.app/)

I stopped actively keeping up with any sort of serious news a long time ago. There's a few RSS feeds I'll check once a month or so but most of the news I get is filtered through whatever jokes are being made on twitter (UK govt chaos, Brazil election) or whatever people irl bring up in conversation.

Most news isn't relevant to my life, and if it is, I usually can't do anything about it. This month, there was an election in my city I didn't follow at all because the incumbent's victory was guaranteed from the start.

If it's important it'll make itself known to me.

"all it is, is a little prick in the arm. Quite literally. Nothing more than that."

Alright then, I'll just poke myself with a sewing needle and you can count that as a vaccination, if that's quite literally all it is.

ArriveCAN was quite stupid, but at least it was fairly simple and the mobile app was just a convenient wrapper around the web app. It could have been so much worse.

And Instagram and Twitter and all the other domestically-produced mind-addling time-vampires? I understand looking for "real motives" but getting people addicted to stupid things is a very common business model everywhere under our economic model.

In my experience the only Americans who use WhatsApp have family outside the US/Canada. There's a very large proportion of the population living entirely inside the Apple ecosystem.

How do you learn to play the piano without real physical feedback when pressing the keys? The "experiences" you can have through sight and sound alone are quite limited. A glove to emulate something as simple as piano keypresses would be a very complicated device.

- It was not being used anyway and was less likely to be used every single day

Once EU countries found themselves paying >5x what they're used to paying to keep their houses warm in a month or so, they might well have decided to pinch their noses and start buying Russian gas again. Russia would very much have liked this, non-European NATO countries would not. Now it's not even a question.

- The attack happened one day after the opening of the Baltic pipe from Scandinavia to Poland. Could be a way of putting NATO on notice that their infrastructure is vulnerable, without actually attacking it. Like a veiled threat.

Shooting yourself in the foot is a strange way to demonstrate that you have a gun.

On the other hand the Ukrainians have always hated Nord Stream because it meant a loss of transit fees for them. Somehow I don't think this is their biggest worry right now though. And I doubt they'd want to risk agitating NATO counties which own half of it.

I don't think Ukraine would have been involved in it either, but they stand to benefit in the short-term from anything which would isolate Russia further. In terms of agitating European NATO states, they've already gone through the initial shock of cutting off cheap gas, the damage of permanently losing access to it isn't as politically costly.

It wouldn't be the first linear city. The idea was popular in the early 20th century for industrial settlements. Magnitogorsk was orginally planned as such. None of the planned linear cities have stayed linear, to my knowledge. It only makes sense for when the whole point of living there is to operate a massive production line.

Why on earth would Russia blow up one of their own most important sources of both income and leverage over Europe?

The 19-year metonic cycle (of the Jewish and Chinese calendars) has always struck me as clever but inconvenient - how do you quickly calculate if we'll have an extra month in x years from now? The Gregorian calendar's algorithm - every 4 years, except if divisible by 100, except if also divisible by 400 - is both clever and elegant.

That's the point. You can travel to the other side of the earth and all you'll get is the same experience as you would at home, but there's other brands of beer and different stuff in the museums. This isn't a diverse world, this is just reskins of the same template.