time for this classic again:

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I recommend TeleSUR’s english-language live stream, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nN3vtMzxTo

Oddly it has only 45 people watching currently, and was under 200 viewers every time I was watching it yesterday 🤔

i thought the photo in this thumbnail looked familiar, and then realized it’s because I just saw a post from her a minute ago - one of many linking to a very old video of a large crowd in Venezuela falsely claiming that it shows people celebrating the US kidnapping Maduro today.

15 minutes of it are available here: https://archive.org/details/insidececot

someone tell Avery Brooks

I can tell you that the GitHub code isn’t the code that’s used

really? given that the license is AGPL and they do have some external contributors, they shouldn’t be running an unpublished branch of the code!

look at their responses in the .ml cross-post,

that post is now deleted, but you can see their modlog here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_advertising#Regulations billboards are banned in several cities and, surprisingly, in four entire states of the US.

the correct spelling is zealand

fair point, i’ll try to refrain from it next time

I doubt it; it would be odd if they were named after a fictional Dutch-American :)

1 reason it’s wrong to me: https://nosystemd.org/

Under “Notable bugs and security issues” there is a big list of issues which were all (afaict) fixed many years ago.

There have been reasonable philosophical objections to systemd, some of which are still relevant, and as that site shows there are still many distros without it, but for the vast majority of desktop users who want something that JustWorks… using a mainstream distro with systemd is the way to go.

This blog post from pmOS covers some of the pain of trying to use KDE or GNOME without it.

Microchess was first commercially available in 1976, but chess software was being published long before that.

See also: https://www.chessprogramming.org/History#Famous_Historic_Computers_and_Programs

It’s because it’s got Roman in the name, isn’t it?

also Calibri is a humanist sans-serif font

Would be easier to know how old a kernel release is without looking it up.

I concur, but it would be much easier to make the major version the current year (as many projects do, and Linux should imo) rather than the whole project’s age at the time of a release.

Linux is only 34 years old, btw.

AI code will likely get to the point where it is just a higher level language

While noobs and managers are excited that the input language to this compiler is English, English is a poor language choice for many reasons.

contradictory to existing laws (eg section 230).

Section 230 is US law; this article is about the EU and GDPR.

Operating in multiple countries often requires dealing with contradictory laws.

But yeah, in this case it also seems unfeasible. As the article says:

There is simply no way to comply with the law under this ruling.

In such a world, the only options are to ignore it, shut down EU operations, or geoblock the EU entirely. I assume most platforms will simply ignore it—and hope that enforcement will be selective enough that they won’t face the full force of this ruling. But that’s a hell of a way to run the internet, where companies just cross their fingers and hope they don’t get picked for an enforcement action that could destroy them.