It looks like your opinions about Linux are outdated and need an update.

Okay then. Thank you for resolving the dilemma of remaining ignorant or having “wolf erotica” in my search history.

Indeed. But cups-browsed isn’t necessary in order to be able to print things, it’s for automatically discovering new printers on the network.

cups-browsed <= 2.0.1 binds on UDP INADDR_ANY:631 trusting any packet from any source

Well that would explain why I didn’t have it installed (although I did have other parts of cups until jwz coincidentally reminded us two days ago that it can all be removed if you don’t have a printer.) I clear out anything that opens ports I don’t need to be open. A practice I would recommend to anyone.

It’s the “always will” where I disagree. This society we’ve built isn’t anything close to sustainable no matter how much lip service is given to the idea that it should be. What can’t go on forever, won’t.

It’s amazing how much of 21st-century politics consists of badly-disguised attempts to reconstitute fascism. Maybe that’s why people like Elon Musk are so quick to accuse everyone else of “communism” — they’re still living in the ideology of 1939 and so they naturally assume that everyone else must be doing the same.

Fucking garbage article and headline.

You got me to read the thing, just to see what could possibly be so offensive about it. It’s a pretty good summary of the situation for an audience that might not be too familiar with Canadian politics. Don’t blame the messenger.

It’s still operating for now, right? Because if I look at random government pages in a browser that profile that doesn’t block the social media widgets I can see links to facebook, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, youtube, and threema. There seems to be no mention anywhere that a mastodon server exists.

They’re complaining about the low number of users. Did they bother to tell people that it exists?

The consequences for users of this thing in itself are fairly minimal for now. It’s the consequences for Mozilla which are something of a disaster.

I am fine with that.

Okay, but I imagine that you being fine with it will have very little bearing on the decision of the Data Protection Authority as to whether or not it violates articles 5, 6, 12, and 13 of the GDPR.

Maybe some day after we’re done replacing X11 people will collectively find the will to do something about systemd before it gets too much worse. I wonder which will be easier: Throw it all out and start again, or split it up into parts of more manageable size with well-defined interfaces between them.

I’m expecting the alien space ships to land within 400 million seconds. We’ll see which gets here first.

Dogshit, yes. Authoritarian, no. Word choice matters.

As I’ve only just recently written here, blog comments are not social media, and I think such things should remain separate.

So it’s definitely not social media but it is the social web? I don’t see any comments section at all over there. Some of these “indieweb” guys are pretty weird.

https://www.newegg.com/kensington-k72436am-usb-wired/p/N82E16823155065

“more sympathetic” to conservative values than Europe

Oh look, it’s another foreign land that hasn’t yet developed any immunity to the infectious diseases coming out of Europe.

Where is it? It’s in the 1970s. Tempted by Lucifer to get brighter and brighter, we collectively chose to leave it behind.

Horse experts: “Realism and Practicality”

Skyrim:

Not many rocks don’t have some oxygen atoms in them, so I chose to include all the astronomical “metals” in my estimate. Interesting to see how little difference it makes.

Most of the sun is hydrogen and helium, which is not the kind of stuff that rocks are made of. Wikipedia says that 0.0122 of it is heavier elements, which might more often be found in rocks, so if we imagine it’d be possible to make one big rock out of all that somehow, its mass would be 1.2% that of the sun = 2.4 * 10^28 kg, or 4000 times more than Earth.