No, Facebook and Twitter are still useful for the status quo.

Fox News isn’t rallying people to support Palestine.

Thanks AIPAC, for protecting Americans from foreign misinformation campaigns.

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Ozzy the man was already in from Black Sabbath. But Ozzy Osbourne the band is in now. Their first six albums (through No More Tears) are as good as any other band in metal.

I assume this means Randy, Zakk, Jake E. Lee, etc are in.

Curious to see what they do about the bassist and drummer who sued and were subsequently removed from the reissue of Blizzard of Oz and Diary.

EDIT: Looks like Randy has been in the hall of fame on his own since 2021. TIL.

Play Minetest.

I remember the last few versions of Netscape Communicator had a “Shop” button.

This was the sign that Netscape had lost the browser war and was giving up.

I’m still on a Fairphone 4 – in fact, in December it surpassed all my previous smartphones as the one I’ve owned and used the longest since smartphones became a thing. However, I’m on CalyxOS and have always used a GCam port for taking photos. So I’m not sure if I will get this camera software update or if I have to move back to the (buggy) stock Fairphone OS to see the changes.

I mean licensing comes in here. The FOSS licenses allow this. Microsoft EULA and copyright almost certainly does not. But yes, I get the sentiment.

It’s almost as if all of the FAANG/Magnificent 7 market outperformance the past 15 years was built on the backs of the free labor provided by the FOSS movement. But then they will turn around and claim that non-western companies steal IP, etc and have US intervene to ban competition, or sue in courts. Kind of funny.

Back to the tech discussion, I’ve been using doas for a few years now instead of sudo. Even on my GNU/Linux machines. It’s a lot simpler to setup for desktop workflow machines.

Good post, my favorite Sabbath song and album.

I’m happy for them.

Was this the best metal album of 2023? Not by a long shot.

Was it the best Metallica album in 25 years? Absolutely. They tried new things and pulled it off well.

The Grammys have very narrow criteria. Basically you are going to get top 40 radio friendly songs and they choose from that. Looking at the list of nominees, they were the only metal band actually nominated in this category. The rest of the nominees are what people who drive in to “easy listening soft hits” think metal sounds like. 2023 was a pretty weak year for metal anyway.

In my 30s, I’ve come back around to appreciating Metallica. We don’t have many years left of them being around. Enjoy them for the time that we still can. One of these days, soon, they will play Master of Puppets for the last time.

And at least Babymetal didn’t win.

Fantastic version. I didn’t know it had so many verses.

It’s kind of terrible now. Since late 2023, when I go to search technical specs of hardware, I am presented with a view that looks like browsing an online shopping catalog. It’s weird and unwanted. For personal use, I went back to DDG.

Man locks the front door to his house after refusing to answer the question, “Why do you beat your wife?”

Looks like Meta is using some of the stock price increase from the past few months to fund their media marketing campaign again.

It’s an election year. We are going to hear more about this and omg China.

Just remember that unlike Insta and FB the far right doesn’t go viral on TikTok. The platform that supported insurrection, the company that has allowed the far right to flourish and led to a direct assault on representative democracy, remains unpunished and is bigger today than 2020.

Something comforting and nostalgic about putting a CD into your car 6 disc changer.

It’s still higher quality than many streaming services especially when you take Bluetooth into account.

I really wish music DVDs would have taken off. The few albums that came out, you could adjust the equalizer settings of each individual track.

The truth is that a lot of loyal customers are boycotting Starbucks right now over unionization and their stance on Palestine. So Starbucks is trying to bring them back physically into the stores and are using the balance on their cards as leverage. Starbucks has already uncharacteristically been running several promotions to get people back to their stores, with the red cup and the Stanley thing.

If Starbucks has to return the customers’ unused balance without bringing them into the stores, then they may have lost those customers for good.

Whatever system76 decides it will be, I guess. That’s really the unexplored area of my keyboard because it’s so wildly inconsistent from one laptop manufacturer to another.

I do, however, recognize Microsoft’s leveraging power over laptop manufacturers. They are the reason we got the Windows/Super key to start with (although ThinkPads held out until 2007) and later why everyone was forced to go to 6 row chiclet keyboards in 2013. So I’m certain the community will standardize this key for something useful across all distributions.

I would love a drop-in electric drivetrain for my vehicle when the gas engine finally dies.

Or maybe a classic car from before computers with a drop in electric drivetrain.

For a slightly different take: I want a car that runs on free software, that doesn’t spy on me.

Until then, I can bike, or continue driving my now fifteen year old sedan that I bought with 5% of my annual salary, used.

Maybe that season deserves another watch then. I had different expectations going in, 4 years ago when it was aired, so maybe my disappointment stems from the show being not what I wanted or expected at the time. I should take the time during the upcoming winter break and give it another watch.

I was expecting TNG but 25 years after the Dominion War. They delivered that in Season 3 and it was terrible. Thanks for your thoughts.