Recent content by uc50ic4more

I am still skeptical about these horseless carriages and those odd flying machines. Electric ice boxes?! PFFFFT.

1) They are strongly encouraged to do this. This is the central crux of the Attention Economy where engagement rules. People engage most strongly with their sense of self, and opinions are expressions of that. 2) People feel better about themselves when they put others down. Most opinions...

Sounds like a mutually agreed upon contract to me.

Filling in on drums in this band would probably be akin to filling in on lead guitar for a reformed Van Halen. This is quite literally the most fearsome seat in all of rock music. The fact that she had to do this with as much skepticism as she's faced since coming on board makes how well she did...

The first Ubuntu (which has always been under Canonical's oversight) was in 2004 (4.10). I picked up the next release 5.04 and have been using it in some capacity since; although my server network and personal workstations and personal computers at home are all Debian Stable. Mark Shuttleworth...

Somewhere on the other side of the world there are people doubled over laughing at this, high-fiving their team. EVERYONE thinks *they're* the ones who see through the propaganda and the manipulation; the others are the stupid ones falling for "it", whatever "it" is.

You ain't kidding: https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

I thought there was an old John Wayne quote; something to the effect of "I know money can't buy happiness; but I'd rather cry in a Mercedes".

I always do when I can; and if possible I try to make sure someone is watching me when I do it; preferably kids: I'd like to normalize the idea. Sometimes I organize neighbourhood cleanups, too, which are supported by our local Neighbourhood Watch program. Same deal: I make sure we'll all in...

Tracking or no tracking, I would expect that any self-respecting criminal would choose an older vehicle anyhow, like an early '70s Charger, for example. Who wants to be a criminal in a Honda Accord? Are we rolling up to our gangland meeting in our Prius?!

AI's reach is about as sophisticated now as a "horseless carriage" and its associated manufacturing was 100 years ago. More and more and more and more will be built to accommodate more and more and more demand. This is just the tiny tip of the iceberg; it's still awkward and cumbersome and...

There were a few expose pieces up here north of the border on this garbage; now at least the CBC is no longer playing along: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-kars4kids-ads-pulled-9.7204937

Oh, I wish that was even reasonably effective with some legacy applications. Even NVIDIA cards needed x11 to run properly up until just about a year or two ago. I still have to use it on Debian Stable for Zoom. And RealVNC, if I am not mistaken. My screen capture app needs x11. I feel like we're...

LOTS of applications, though, still need X11 sessions. Usually apps not native to either Gnome or KDE. I don't know about Brave. EDIT: I don't hear "Fedora" and "Stable" used together a lot!

My first and best guess is that someone correctly has your username and password. 2FA is saving the day, here.