OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because it’s very up to date yet reliable, package management doesn’t require me to get my head around anything complicated, automatic btrfs snapshots allow me to rollback if I mess anything up, and I like KDE Plasma and the YaST utilities.

Never depend on anything Google.

They could have replaced the Google Assistant with their new Gemini thing on these waches (since I think they basically just relay voice to and from the phone). But, being Google, they prefer just to remove features people already paid for.

“Oh shit, this is bikers against child abuse? Sorry, I’m in the wrong room.”

I’m sure it could, but no one thinks it’s worth their time when Git is right there and does the same job.

Being shouted at in a mailing-list for fixing a bug doesn’t sound like fun.

What’s that a reference to?

And damn, is it expensive. Sold in 2ml bottles.

Canadians have always traveled to the USA to to a bit of sneaky bargain hunting. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this start going the other way.

I am astonished how vicious the hoi polloi is

Maybe if you weren’t consistently snooty and rude while promoting your scientific conspiracy theories, people would be more tolerant. But the theories still wouldn’t be good.

Or whether they have problems with the bacteria the digestive system needs to function properly.

It’s hard to generalize because it differs by age range and location, but figures for how many people identify as transgender tend to hover around 0.5% to 1%, so a bit more than you suggest.

I hope cis people are prepared to actually fight for trans people’s rights, because in the current climate we need to show some solidarity and stand up for each other.

Krasnov knows where his loyalties lie.

Good luck. I hope it goes well for you. You might want to find a different therapist.

Also, in Windows when you finally do run the program it just hangs with “Not responding”.

I install Linux on many machines each year, and I can’t even remember the last time I had a problematic installation. Your experience sounds quite unusual. Are you using some obscure distro?

Thank you. That is helpful and clear.

I’m pretty ignorant of physics, but isn’t it only certain kinds of ways of acting on the first particle that “affect” the other, namely actions that measure a property of one particle that is correlated with the same property’s value on the other? At first you don’t know the value of either but you know they’re correlated; but then when you measure and collapse the wave function on one and discovered a value for the property, you have automatically collapsed the wave function on the other too, yielding a predictably correlated value. If it were just any kind of action that affects the other particle, you’d be able to use it to sent information instantaneously, which you can’t do. So it’s not quite like how people imagine voodoo dolls: do something to the doll (make a change to it) and the person feels the effect. But perhaps someone who studies this stuff can help clarify.

Sounds like Voyager confused them. I didn’t find it intuitive either. I tried a bunch of apps and then came back to the regular web UI.

“No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense,” Cloudflare explains. “Any visitor that does is very likely to be a bot, so this gives us a brand-new tool to identify and fingerprint bad bots.”

It sounds like there may be a plan to block known bots once they have used this tool to identify them. Over time this would reduce the amount of AI slop they need to generate for the AI trap, since bots already fingerprinted would not be served it. Since AI generators are expensive to run, it would be in Cloudflare’s interests to do this. So while your concern is well placed, in this particular case there may be a surge of energy and water usage at first that tails off once more bots are fingerprinted.

Some of these LLMs introduce very subtle statistical patterns into their output so it can be recognized as such. So it is possible in principle (not sure how computationally feasible when crawling) to avoid ingesting whatever has these patterns. But there will also be plenty of AI content that is not deliberately marked in this way, which would be harder to filter out.

Are you talking about Teams in Teams for Home or Teams for Work and School, and is it Teams or New Teams you mean?