LPT: instead of throwing your playstation away after each game, try turning it off and on again to choose a new game.

Make your MIT-licensed library big enough that the corpos use it, then switch it to AGPL just before you add a really important and tricky feature they've been waiting for.

https://xkcd.com/963/ (October 2011)

[Mouseover text] Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.

I'll be the old stodger voice and mention that taking 5 minutes from time to time to not be stimulated is good for mental health, and apparently creativity too.

... And then I'll put in my vote for Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. (In F-droid as Puzzles, app by Chris Boyle)

A province in the Netherlands. Lots of sea there; translates "sea land".

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

Just, um, don't invite that guy who helped out with the xz tools...

* cracks knuckles * Time to roll out a federated, truly open source generative AI and use it to ((checks notes)) mock Disney.

Daemons Unleashed

In this case, "it looks like we received it" sounds like typical AI choosing a response that sounds right with no attention to its meaning.

The title assumes we know this Dirk guy, but might not have heard of Linus...

And we need some people to step up and become contributors and maintainers.

Some various answers here; but for me, it came from w/o as a shorthand for 'without', then I started sometimes writing w/ for 'with' and wondering if that's okay!

Nonconsensual nudity only hurts people.

Copyright violation hurts profits.

common animals

Royalty

"And here on your left you will see a prime example of the common European prince. No longer afforded a natural habitat, the nation of Britain has built special reserves for these princelings and other royalty, called palaces. On certain days you can observe royals being transported in specially equipped vehicles from one palace to another to encourage mating."

"No, no, we only cheated that one time, it's in the past. Let it go. We've had our one lie, now we're perfectly honest!"

Someone very rich who doesn't feel the need to get arbitrarily richer.

So no one.

You want hotel? Yes. I take you. My brother hotel, very good. Very clean. No worry booking, you cancel. Brother hotel best. Good area. Lots of shops. Good for tourist.

First you need food, no? I take you restaurant. My cousin work. Very good, very cheap. No one know, can't find unless you with me, I know. Very popular. Very good, very close to hotel. Less than one hour. Few minutes only.

...

"Is this the way to your cousin's restaurant?"

Before eat must visit orphanage. Poor, starving, hungry orphans. Very sad if you not come. You come and see. Very happy children, you happy. Very poor. Think car like this rich! Haha! Think phone like you have very rich ha! But no worry, they not steal. Very good orphan. My uncle teach very good. Best behave. Very nice children, but very poor. No food every week. No parents.

Enough has been said - sense and nonsense - about the facts and particulars of this. I just want to add one thing:

The image, taken by Alex Brandon of the Associated Press

Let's go, Brandon.

Endless Sky.

It's an open world 2D spacefaring game, with a good core story and more being added by the surprisingly-active dev community.

Not without its flaws, but anyway I think it's a fantastic game in its own right. And it's both "finishable" and under continued development & expansion.

Alt text: Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.

Of course there's an xkcd for this

https://xkcd.com/245

Sounds like a crazy idea to me. Next you'll be saying, end a TV show before the ratings have plummeted to zero.

I hear rumours that cast doubt on its veracity

As an LLM, I don't truly understand the notion of sharing, but I can point you to a few resources that may help you understand more. It's important to remember that human interaction is complex and varied, and different people will have different opinions.

Here are some ideas to get you started.

1. "Sharing is Caring". "Sharing is Caring" is a popular phrase to explain the meaning of sharing. If you really care about your secret, that way you are sharing it with the loved ones in your life.
2. Valuable things, such as companies, are often divided into shares. If you divide your secret and sell parts of it to different people on the internet, it becomes a shared secret.
3. "A problem shared is a problem halved." This is another popular phrase, showing that if you halve your secret, i.e. make it smaller, or less secret, then you are sharing it.

Overall, humans value both secrets and sharing as a way to build and strengthen community. A shared secret is the ultimate expression of humanity in community.

I hope that answers your question. If there's anything else I can help you with, please let me know.

Spread equality! Beat up your husband today!

...ah, did I get the wrong take on this?

For real, though, men generally have more ability (and more propensity afaik?) to cause serious physical harm to women then vice versa, and, especially in many cultures, the woman is more likely to feel she has no option but submit and accept abuse.

At the same time, though, arguments are normal in relationship, and it's well worth both sides learning to understand what's upsetting their partner and how to talk/act differently and how to process the struggles together in a healthy way.

I mean, that's pretty bad in itself. You'd think for a national election someone could find programmers able to make formats match and catch errors properly.

What were you guys voting on anyway? MySpace bands?

It just looks so sad there. Poor envelope.

So, I read something on this a little while ago. It has to do with the moon's weaker gravity making time progress at a different rate, so the lunar time zone gives a precise reference for sub-second (nanosecond I guess?) precision manoeuvres and such like.

Nah, because when you write it it's just C, but when you come back later to check your code it's gotten bigger and more obfuscated.

I think something on the UK's NHS implied the risk is primarily for mothers with various kinds of problems (including drug or alcohol abuse). Made me wonder if it's largely recommended for everyone to cover the many people who are at risk but don't want to think they are.

Step one: email must be much easier, I'll just make an email server instead.

Step two: screw this, I'm writing letters and posting them.

I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago

Ah the sweet smell of, "your computer is not ready for Windows 11. Find out what you can do."

My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore.

Aww.

If you love it, set it free!

It does seem to me that complaining about gendered language in source code is about as stupid as a moral panic over daemons in systemd, or vulgarities in source code comments. There is some place for it... but not much

On top of that, 'he'/etc has been effectively gender ambivalent for a long time. I understand the desire to change that, but it's still a normal thing in English language. Similar to 'master' in git repositories and IDE connections, though those are both much more recent and arguably referencing much worse.

If a dev insists on 'she' everywhere, or 'they' in places that read awkwardly, should we flame and blame? In fact, why not go and convince Firefox to use exclusively feminine language in their source, to balance things out. It sounds more sensible than taking up a political fight over this!

Also while you're at it, ethical hacking is now done only by natural-human-skin-colour-hat hackers; background process on your computer are called abstract beings; your computer does not boot[strap], ('pull itself up by its bootstraps'), it has affirmative action from the motherboard to get it started; and when I saw the article headline, I thought the issue would be bigger ... that's what they said.

Asylum? We have the electric chair for this.

Yes, the old Internet was absolutely full of good-natured, kind, helpful people.

It wasn't until my boomer grandchildren got hold of Facebook that I got tricked into rm -rf, and called dirty words for believing a stranger

... Luckily I use Windows so it didn't hurt me.

Now I use Hurd, btw

Wouldn't it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

The whole point of computers, as far as I can tell, is to be that abusive relationship we never could perfect with humans. Linux is no exception, it's just more passive-aggressive and better with gaslighting.

"You see, if only you'd installed this dependency, which I showed you so clearly in the error logs all along - and I categorised them so nicely - but you never like to look there, do you? - I mean, I understand, and that's why I mentioned it - not too strongly, because I didn't want to upset you more - in the terminal output..."

Yes and no. Ownership is valuable. But the flexibility to live and move with less responsibility is also valuable.

Ever since the scandal where they changed the root certificate to enable inserting ads into Https - and worse still, IIRC made them the same (?) meaning anyone who figured it out could intercept any other affected-laptop-user's Https - I've felt some caution about Lenovo laptops.

Really? I assumed FF was 'fast fourier'.