Valve is paying for FOSS support https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

Cached version, while Cloudflare is down: https://archive.is/20251024040409/https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/

string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

TL;DW: it never was a good theory and the majority of physicists stopped caring about a long time ago because of that

Had the opposite situation with a colleague. Told us his car was a mess, expected this. But he had the cleanest, most pristine, old Mercedes I have ever seen.

They, as far as I’m aware, are not reselling like private equity would. They actually take over operations and get ROI through profits.

Thanks. Yeah, increasing revenue generation by increasing monetization is definitely part of their MO.

Can you explain more what and how they ruined something for you? So far I haven’t heard of any real negative change to the applications themselves.

I think you are thinking to hard about stories that aren’t meant to be thought about a lot. Whether you half the population or double the resources it is just a temporary “fix” anyways. It’s just a plot device for creating conflict and killing off fan favorites without actually killing off fan favorites in the end.

Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?

I think anyone is allowed to develop a KDE app. You have to go through a process to get accepted for the branding I think. But it not like they spent paid employee time on this afaik.

You cannot fix society with technology, the end.

A good friend has one, also only for one ear. People don’t really notice, I’d say. I don’t think it really restored a lot of hearing but he still wears it usually as it is still better than nothing. He got it pretty quickly after his hearing loss, so no idea how that would be after 20 years. He got them for free through standard health care as far as I know. I don’t think he’d be willing to pay a lot for it if he had to. But I never asked that directly. Not aure if that helps. If you want I can try to ask him some specific questions if I remember to do so.

Don’t have a link to the thread on Mastodon, but it was only in Singapore. So it is likely a troll or some glitch.

I know this is the wrong place to say this, but I really like the Windows Explorer. Dolphin is a good replacement, but it would be one of the few things I’d like to keep on Linux.

Support for overthrowing the government you say. Hmmmm let me think 🤔🤔 Who. Who could that be?

It definitely is/was. Most user facing software these days is a web app, or native application using JS anyways. The event loop and async programming is also ubiquitous nowadays in most languages, especially server side.

The true turing test

Anyone in Metal Gear Rising: Revengance of course!

Check out Hitler’s paintings. He didn’t get into art school, sure, but they aren’t awful. It is certainly beyond anything the average person could just draw without practice. This is just garbage.

I mean pedo shit aside, that’s a way shittier card and drawing than I imagined. A second grader could draw something more artistic, damn.