nyan 20h ago • 100%
Hmmm. I wonder who is making so much money off this that the project is willing to push them into forking it . . . ?
nyan 20h ago • 100%
Seeing the word "smart" in a device description has become a warning flag.
nyan 3d ago • 100%
The question is, is Tesla FSD's record better, worse, or about the same on average as a human driver under the same conditions? If it's worse than the average human, it needs to be taken off the road. There are some accident statistics available, but you have to practically use a decoder ring to make sure you're comparing like to like even when whoever's providing the numbers has no incentive to fudge them. And I trust Tesla about as far as I could throw a Model 3.
On the other hand, the average human driver sucks too.
nyan 3d ago • 100%
It's Complicated. The short version is, acute care (hospitalization and such) is covered by the government. Chronic care is not covered. Traveling to another location for treatment that isn't available locally effectively isn't covered (Ontario has a joke of a reimbursement system that will give you back maybe 10% of what you spent if you're lucky, not sure about other provinces). Medication is covered only for some segments of the population (now starting to expand to the entire population for certain types of drugs). Dental is now covered for some segments of the population, but not all. Vision care has never been covered, except for the elderly. Prosthetics and assistive devices are mostly not covered (some of the most basic things may be, but not, for instance, powered wheelchairs). And there's some variation from province to province, because health care is a provincial responsibility.
You can be bankrupted by needing to travel for care or needing expensive meds, in other words, but you won't have to pay if you're in a car accident and get taken to the local hospital.
nyan 4d ago • 100%
Moved to www-apps/jellyfin-bin
, per this commit to the main Gentoo repo, associated with Gentoo bug 915346.
nyan 4d ago • 100%
So your excuse is, "War crimes committed in the past in other places like Afghanistan and Korea were not called 'genocide' or properly prosecuted, so we should ignore these ones too and not call a spade a spade?" That's . . . pretty sad. Some of us would actually like the international community to learn from mistakes made in other conflicts.
nyan 4d ago • 100%
Dude. Indiscriminate murder of, and depraved indifference to the survival of, civilians is a bad look no matter what word you use for it. It's pretty clear at this point that the current government of Israel would like to see all Palestinians dead, and is willing to act on that desire whenever they think they can get away with it. That's what makes it (attempted) genocide. The fact that they're currently not attacking the West Bank and not making sure they get 100% kill count in Gaza is not the point and has more to do with plausible deniability than anything.
nyan 7d ago • 87%
Whether never being born is or is not better than a brief and miserable life is the kind of thing philosophers like to argue about—a question to which there is no generally accepted answer.
nyan 1w ago • 100%
In my experience, that's a good way to overextend yourself and end up becoming nothing to no one as a result.
This too shall pass. Granted, it might take a while, though.
nyan 1w ago • 100%
According to TFA, "a marine ecologist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada" said it "contains no biological material", which would rule out the most usual globster suspects (rotting whale chunks), and presumably most foodstuffs (so it isn't actually dough). Someone else tested it and discovered that it was not a congealed petroleum-based lubricant or fuel. That leaves a lot of possible suspects. My guess at this point would be a chemical product that was jettisoned by some dishonest corp as being contaminated or unfit for purpose, and broke up into chunks in the water. 🤔
nyan 1w ago • 100%
There are many more, too, although the number of pages they index is widely variable. Here's a list.
nyan 1w ago • 100%
I guess he wasn't naked at the time (camera was hijacked too, according to the article).
And people wonder why I go out of my way to obtain equipment that doesn't have a bloody app or connect to anything.
nyan 1w ago • 100%
Taiwan has urged its citizens to “avoid non-essential travel” to the mainland as well as Hong Kong and Macau after China unveiled guidelines in June detailing criminal punishments for what Beijing described as diehard “Taiwan independence” separatists.
I'm surprised that hasn't always been the recommendation—it isn't like Taiwan has had a good relationship with China since the establishment of the two countries' current governmental setups.
nyan 2w ago • 100%
The issue is that the animals there may not have the leisure to wait for the completion of a proper probe. The balance between due diligence and alleviating the suffering of these animals may be tilted in the wrong direction in this particular case.
nyan 2w ago • 100%
Linux users are hard for using a terminal when they could just open a document in a text editor.
The command line is always there and always has the same basic tools, assuming the system is bootable at all. You can't guarantee that a given system has a working GUI—it may be broken, inaccessable, or never installed. Having some kind of TUI editor installed is usual on non-embedded systems, but you can't guarantee which one or that it's fit for purpose (coaching a newbie through a vi
session isn't something anyone wants to do). That means that the generic instructions that get passed around because they're fit for most systems (regardless of distro or purpose) use the command line tools.
So there is method to the madness, but if you're coming from a "GUI or bust!" OS it can take a while to get used to.
nyan 2w ago • 81%
I cannot imagine a less welcoming and beginner friendly community
You have very little imagination, then.
nyan 2w ago • 100%
There's no "may" about it. The Ars Technica article indicates that the Internet Archive's front page was (briefly) altered in addition to the account data being stolen.
nyan 2w ago • 93%
It's a cat. It got curious about the inner workings of a satellite and stayed there past liftoff to investigate. And now it's acting silly in front of the camera in the hope that the servant monkeys back on the ground can figure out how to send it a zero-G litterbox and a bag of Cat Chow.
(/s, of course.)
nyan 2w ago • 100%
Experiencing a bit of plane envy here, since the only one I inherited was trash and yours looks very nice indeed.
nyan 2w ago • 100%
Let's face it, an age gap of 5-6 years would be unremarkable if they were in their 30s. The problem is anyone, of any age, making the moves on a prepubescent girl. That's where the ick is coming from. I was willing to tolerate it as long as it was just infatuation from a distrance, but the let's-pretend-this-isn't-a-kiss was a bridge too far. I don't think I would be comfortable with it even if they were both 10 or whatever age she said she was.
Overprotective male relatives are doing a piss-poor job of actually protecting her.
It's the "silently" part that's the issue. I acknowledge that lemmy.cafe is entitled to defederate from whatever servers the administration pleases, but lemmy.ml still houses some of the largest communities in the Lemmyverse on some topics, and a heads-up that it was being blocked would have been appreciated.
There are definite reasons why people who step up behind me and take a look at my computer screen either flinch or look at me funny (sometimes both), and I expect people here will have some . . . interesting takes on this as well 😅. The colour choices may make more sense if you know that I'm usually in a low-light environment, so even some "dark" themes seem fairly bright to me, and anything with a white background is like a slap in the face. Trinity Desktop Environment 14.1.0 on Gentoo, homemade theme. For those not familiar with TDE, it is a fork of KDE 3, from the days before indexing daemons and other such CPU-eaters, so this looks old-fashioned because it *is*. The wallpaper is [Digital Blasphemy's "Tropical Moon of Thetis"](https://beta.digitalblasphemy.com/sec/thetismoon/), and yes, the font is the dreaded Times New Roman, presented here in all its jagged glory because I prefer to keep hinting and antialiasing switched off. The system monitor text on the left is from conky. On the right, TDE versions of konsole and konqueror (as file manager). (And just to clear up one piece of misinformation about TDE that comes up regrettably often: the development team forked QT3 along with the desktop and is maintaining it. So: unsupported widgetset no, QT3 more-or-less yes, if you find a bug please file it, if you don't know of any bugs please don't spread FUD.)
I have an ancient and rather ugly office chair which I love to pieces. Unfortunately, on Thursday morning, the chair attempted to make that literal, as I sat down and heard a nasty splintering sound. Now, I got this thing secondhand, and it's always had a vertical split up one wooden leg. My brother had run four large carriage bolts through it in an attempt to hold it together, which in hidsight turned out to be a bad idea, as one half of the leg had split in the opposite direction along the line of the first two bolts. ☹️ Removing the bolts, applying a rather considerable amount of wood glue and some dowels, then clamping it, letting it dry, and cleaning up got me to the point shown in the picture (larger version [here](https://i.postimg.cc/mgqfJCxN/composite.jpg) ) What I need to know is, is there anything I can do to structurally reinforce this thing any further, short of replacing either that leg (beyond my skill level at the moment) or the entire base (a new one would have to be shipped up from the US)? In particular, would "splinting" it with a piece of new wood along the damaged side (or pieces along both sides) help keep it from tearing itself apart? Or should I just redrill the hole for the castor further away from the end, put a couple of C-clamps on, and hope it holds long enough for a new base to arrive? I want my chair back. 😭
. . . busy re-emerging @world or untangling a QT5 slot-dependency rat's nest or something and has no time to talk? ;)