This seems relevant:

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

Is it just me, or does that seem … abrupt?

How do you determine what the “real problems” are?

Charging him with a crime sounds like a good start … though I doubt that will happen anytime soon.

So … the US Congress can just summon a citizen from a different country … and the citizen is compelled to … do what exactly?

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/04/07/billionaires-wealth-2025/

ProTip: the Ubuntu version number includes the year and month of release. 26.04 will be released in April 2026. 26.10 in October 2026.

What they’ll do when they hit 2100 is left as a rollover issue for the next poor sod.

You don’t think that 3,028 people holding 99% of global wealth is extreme?

That’s an interesting observation.

Given the 3,028 billionaires among the 8 billion people on Earth, that’s the definition of extreme.

Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.

ProTip: push your knee(s) against the sink for extra support. Initially you’ll feel a little weird, but you won’t care after your back stops hurting. You can also use this when brushing your teeth and washing your hands.

Source: Taught to me by a physiotherapist who specialises in pain management.

Given the massive layoffs happening under the Assumed Intelligence banner, the answer has always been: “cheaper labour”

Apparently people who actually know how to do their ICT job are too expensive, right until the shit hits the fan, at which point it’s “drop everything and help me, now!”

Organisations are no longer run by Founders, instead they’re run by accountants and lawyers who only care about shareholder value, not the societal or environmental impact.

When the bubble finally explodes we’re going to be looking at an altered economic and technology landscape, if we don’t self ignite before that.

When I did events, I’d wear two pairs of socks, thin pair against my feet, then thick pair over the top of that.

I’ve also used moulded sole inserts from time to time.

Yes. Look up LOGO.

In other news, Aussie Influencer discovers that the UK has an even stricter social media ban…

I’ve been washing clothes for many decades and although I was also taught to turn some clothes inside out, I’ve never noticed any difference if I didn’t and these days I’ll often wash with them oriented normally, mainly because that’s how I prefer to hang them in the cupboard or fold them into drawers and turning them when wet or after taking them off the line or out of the drier makes the whole process even more tedious than it already is.

In the vast majority of operating systems the person who installs the system is by default the highest privileged user, in the case of some of those systems, that user is called root.

However, the word root is also used to describe the basis of several file systems.

No.

Secure boot is about trusting which (signed) software is running.

On a positive note, a Dev responded to that post indicating that the behaviour of the platform is being reviewed.

See: https://lemmy.radio/post/10006706

Which counties voted what and what was their voting record over the last 33 years on the issue condemning the USA blockade of Cuba?