Oh hi, this is me too. Since 1.0alpha ;)

Must be Canada. They’re sort of threading the legal loopholes for drug advertising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

That’s not a lot. Three to five F35 equivalents, depending on configuration.

It’s too bad we don’t have details about the other company involved that they were targeting. Seems like the sort of thing that could rapidly escalated – blinding all of your competitors birds on purpose. If those birds are in Geosynch, you don’t even need to be in the country to do it – just same longitude, approximately.

Good for gaming, good for linux, good for a lot of the other open source projects involved. It’s so close to being critical mass :)

You are clever. I like you.

Based on the bark debris around it this morning, she is definitely using it immediately.

Glass has a side effect of requiring the top to be actually flat. I used the rotary sander to chew down enough of the surface to get rid of the chainsaw marks (60 grit, then 220), but it certainly isn’t level or flat.

Good suggestion though. If we end up doing a version two. Probably could go with a narrower log and centre mount a wider flat glass surface. Make it removable so we could replace the log after the cat shreds it up too much…

He doesn’t. He is lower density after transformation. Basically inflated. Also, he doubles as a life raft.

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Pool. Floating dock. Strapped on scissor lift. Definitely in the SOP binder ;)

This is definitely unstable – a lever arm that long is going to sway like hell.

Additionally, normally when working at heights you should be harnessed and clipped on. But if this thing tips over, you’d spend precious moments trying to unclip while underwater. A conundrum to be sure.

This is an experiment – if she prefers this over the couch, we may strategically locate a few before re-covering the couch. But ideally they double as end tables, so the top should be “finished” somehow.

https://opennebula.io/

Their website speaks corporatese. Not immediately clear what their business model is.

The great red spot is so fascinating. It’s a vortex that has been spinning for hundreds of years. Like someone pushed a giant canoe paddle through Jupiter and the whorls, larger than the earth, just keep turning. You look at this and go: holy fuck there’s a lot of energy in this system.

This is like some sort of black mirror ad

Alright. I’m a huge supporter of Ukraine here. But the west has been collectively providing Ukraine with a metric fucktonne of weapons. Russia is clearly the aggressor, at fault, and fucking evil. But if we can send weapons to Ukraine, Russia acquiring weapons elsewhere is probably fair game. That doesn’t mean we can’t apply economic or political pressure.

In many ways, this war dragging on for a long time is actually in Chinese interests, as far as I can tell. It makes the west war-weary making it less likely we can sustain another conflict should China decide to engage over Taiwan or similar. And it increases Russian reliance on China in the longer term. The only thing China is likely unhappy about here is NK’s increasingly large role (moving into Russian sphere of influence).

But unless we’re willing to actually sanction China, the west will just complain and do nothing.

If the device was a nuclear clock in the same reference frame, maybe.

Resting judge face

The list is great! But it doesn’t really tell us which ones are actively developed. Running historical DEs is fun sometimes. For example, LXDE doesn’t really see a lot of development compared to its successor, LXQt. But once again shows the the Arch Wiki is the best ;)

I guess people do occasionally compile KDE 1.x just to see if it still runs on modern systems (it does, but obviously some underlying things have changed over the years, like the audio and graphics stacks). But that isn’t the same as being actively developed :)

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