Oh god.

We had a 2 hours blackout and the -80 freezer got warm.

I hope you got some backups of your backup.

To be fair, at this point any distro is beginner friendly.

Just stay away from Gentoo, and from arch if you don’t want the maintenance burden.

Excuse the ignorance, what is the point of this service?

Leave ssh root access open with no password. Attackers will try to escalate privileges as their default strategy, when that fails they’ll add your IP to their unhackable blacklist.

git config --global alias.lsd '!f(){ p(){ awk '\''BEGIN{srand()}{a[NR]=$0}END{print a[int(rand()*NR)+1]}'\''; }; git reset --hard -q; git clean -fdq; if [ "$(awk '\''BEGIN{srand();print int(rand()*2)}'\'')" = 0 ]; then c=$(git rev-list --first-parent HEAD|sed "$d"|p); git reset --hard "$(git rev-parse "$c^")"; else c=$(git rev-list --all|grep -v "^$(git rev-parse HEAD)$"|p); git reset --hard "$(git commit-tree "$c^{tree}" -p HEAD -C "$c")"; fi; }; f'

You’re welcome.

One espresso.

I’m sorry, we are out of coffee; would you like some canned tomatoes? We are running an offer today: 50 cans of tomato for just 60$.

All your examples are either false or interventions to prevent genocide.

No, they are not.

You are being dishonest and you are propagandizing against the interest of truth.

I am European and I am critical of certain decisions taken by my government. Those are valid examples.

I have no interest in spreading false information.

We were allies of Gaddafi, we broke our pact, attacked him and allowed his murder. He may not have been the best ruler, but the country was stable. Look at Libya now and tell me whether they are doing better than before.

They were not in civil war; they had protests and the government had strongly repressed the protests killing people. Protestants formed and uprising and there intervened EU countries.

This was not against international law, but we did attack an ally of ours, which does not speak very well about the reliability of European countries.

European countries bombed Sarajevo, against UN rulings not to intervene into the war.

European countries attacked and bombed Libya and allowed the murder of Gaddafi.

European countries attacked Syria with no UN authorization.

European countries currently sell weapons to Israel, not against international law but quite morally difficult to support.

European countries pay Libya and turkey to keep migrants in detention centers and not allow them into the EU.

In general not too bad for that many countries, but definitely not completely free from guilt.

Love the background writing.

Btw have you ever been to electric ladyland?

Just think of how long it takes to craft a skeuomorphic icon compared to a symbolic monochrome one.

About the same time.

To be fair I’m not too fond of extremely colorful icons. They do have their place, but in most interfaces I do prefer flat or slightly shadowed icons.

I value more the UX of the interface than the design of the icons, tough the icons are indeed important. Painting icons over KDE does not really change how you interact with KDE.

I don’t particularly like KDE, but have not found a better DE anyway.

Saint Elbakyan, please redeem us. Give us our daily papers and don’t lead us to paid open access.

Would be great! Fuck Elsevier, may that company burn in hell.

If I have to pick a side, I’d go for meta in this case. Elsevier has no rights to defend their ownership of research conducted with public investment.

You overestimate the amount of people who actually use a computer.

I guess this could be a cool solution to having to make several usernames on different gitlab instances.

Still, I’m not sure if this is really worth it: if I want to self host I’ll just self host a git repository and that’ll be incredibly easy to setup.

The main advantage of GitHub is that it’s completely free and I don’t have to bother about self hosting it and maintaining the software.

I do see some advantage, but I’m not sure it compensates the added maintainance work.

The pipes were running just nearby the data centre, free real estate

A very useful thing I found is the following: take a couple hours thinking about interesting research ideas. Work out with chatgpt existing solutions and identify key publications. Use Claude code to modify existing software to do something new. In one day of work you got a proof of concept of whether your idea may work. Of course from there on you have to work it out and make it good, but having a confirmation quickly completely changes the fact that you normally have to go through dozens of papers and take several months to review existing publications on the topic.

They just told me, you should be ashamed

Not really, my browser should happily comply if a webpage I want to use needs 7 GB.

No way YouTube needs 7 GB.