I bet people will still be saying “streets ahead”

Blackbeard burying his treasure.

I assume that scheme is part of a long-term effort from Google to reinforce the idea that nobody but them should be allowed to have root on their phones, and is therefore working as intended.

My best kitchen thing is a small hand-cranked coffee grinder. I don’t drink coffee any more, but I still use it for grinding things such as flaxseed.

https://noise.getoto.net/feed/

They decided to take a vote on whether or not to “Ban LLM contributions” where the proposed policy wasn’t all that well thought out, and ended up settling on a subsequent proposal which was even worse, enshrining in official policy the standard that LLM contributions are just fine actually and don’t even need to be disclosed. The governance system, in this case, failed spectacularly. The contributors they will lose as a result of this are in my view likely to be more valuable ones than those they’d have lost had the vote gone the opposite way. It’s substantially worse than having done nothing at all. It does not inspire confidence in the future of Debian, and is enough to have many of us looking around to see what alternatives might exist.

They just recently did something bad.

Damn it I was just asking myself the same question. I don’t expect it to be easy to find one that’s anywhere near as good as Debian but without that one problem. I think a lot of them won’t have any firm policies yet.

Well, he was. I think maybe he gave it up to become a professional right-wing grifter before dropping out of public life. Not only did he have a tenured position at a big university, he was also among the ringleaders of what they called the “intellectual dark web”. That brand is pretty much defunct by now, but it was big a few years ago and its function was indeed to bring attention to rabid right-wing lunatics in academia.

Perhaps Jordan Peterson can give you some tips about where to find rabid right-wing lunatics in academia.

What do you mean? Everyone knows that protein comes from salamanders.

That’s a month old. The voting period for Debian ends tonight, so check back tomorrow to see the news.

… I dunno, maybe it just needed a firmware update.

I have shirts that have gone in and out of style three times, according to people who pay attention to such things.

What with the growing population world-wide it is not unusual to meet a human when you’re out walking. Remember it’s probably just as scared as you are. Try to keep your cool. Don’t try to feed them, don’t stare at them, don’t photograph them. Don’t run, or they might think you’re prey. It’s often best to just keep going and pretend you don’t see them.

relevant xkcd

Even in Europe where they’re more serious about such things they are approaching the idea only very slowly. Governments in Canada are so comfy in that prison that they’ve forgotten the outside world even exists. Couldn’t hurt to try and remind them I guess, but don’t expect them to believe you.

Hundreds of years of burning coal has spread mercury compounds all over the land, so that quite often when they build a new dam for hydroelectric power it’s dissolved into the water and ends up concentrated in fishes that people eat.

Assuming the 120 people have access to existing world history I’d hope they manage to arrange things such that they never get into that kind of trouble.

No, it’s just the invisible hand of the market—each politician is guided by his own ambition to be well-regarded by the crew of sycophants and lobbyists that accumulates around him, each lawyer is guided by her own greed, instinct, or morality, and the magic of the system means that despite everyone’s selfish intentions the billionaires keep getting richer.