Just on this point:
The "PO" metadata creation and modification date and time are in the UTC+10 time zone. If the PO had been created in February 2011, the correct date and time would be UTC+11 time zone.

Was Craig located in Brisbane (where he comes from, according to Wikipedia) or Sydney at this time? Because if he was in Brisbane then it would indeed be UTC+10 because Queensland does not have DST.

OK, if you're pretty sure then it'd be easy to google up some examples right? Easy there tiger.
Actual word on the street is that Republican groups are preparing to launch their own ballot harvesting operations in states where it is legal, because they recognize that they were beat fair and square when it came to this particular tactic in the last election. But you'd only know that if you consumed any news outside your little bubble. So, with this in mind the issue of mail-in voting is diminished somewhat - even though they still represent election security issue.

Besides, we all know that Democrats always accept the results of elections - just ask Hillary. Democrats accepted the results of the 2016 election and didn't relentlessly attack the results with lawfare for over four years with claims that were always found to be false and frankly frivolous? And they are definitely never do anything that doesn't amount to serious election interference, right? They'd never worked to ban alternate slates of electors after they'd previously used them. They never arrested the legal counsel of their opposition on the flimsiest of excuses. They never worked with major media and communications providers to censor legitimate news that polling suggested would have majorly changed the election results? They never covered up interference in another country's legal system, or threatened to withhold aid authorised by the senate? They never accepted insecure storage and handling of documents regardless of whether they had been declassified by the president or not? They never accuse the Republicans of doing what they themselves have been doing over and over again?

You have to be a special sort of idiot to think that there's a squeaky clean "good" side of politics and a clearly evil "bad" side. Your favourite drink would surely be cool-aid because you've drunk so much of it.

You can run Edge on Linux. Strangely enough, there's a Linux version. (I've never used it though)

Year of the Linux Desktop has already happened!

I'm not forced to use anything other than Linux and that's been the case for years now. Everything I've needed in the last few years has just worked out of the box. I just started a new job and I'm the only developer to not choose a Macbook and nobody cares because it just doesn't matter. I'm too lazy to jump through Windows or macOS hoops. All the business applications work on Linux so it's a complete non-issue.

The only negative I see occasionally is sub-optimal power-saving or suspend behaviour. Occasionally some games have annoying anti-cheat that only works on Windows.

It's worth noting that Windows is starting to catch up to Linux. I can feasibly use WSL2 and Docker to somewhat comfortably do most of what I need. I find the Windows UI cumbersome and the non-free/gratis software support severely lacking but with a few tweaks but I can hobble my way around. At least it's not the god-awful macOS.

I stopped reading OSnews years ago when they started posting woke stuff. No wonder they're bitter. I just wanted articles about operating systems and F/OSS software.

I strongly prefer manual for ICE cars, to the disappointment of all the American slashdotters who cry "but modern automatic transmissions!" and completely miss the point that even modern automatic transmissions still do not offer what manual does beyond just "engagement" (which most people don't care much about).

Manual just seems wrong for electric. It doesn't serve any real purpose so it just seems like a stupid game that I would immediately disable. Honestly, playing snake would be a better use of those controls than pretending to drive with them. It reeks of the boomer notion of asking a computer to do something and saying "please" to trigger the execution.

If you are not thinking one-step ahead and you have no hustle, then you probably won't notice much except in the case where it does not downshift. Maybe if you live somewhere without much traffi and with nice straight grid-pattern of roads and no hills you will get the impression that the transmission is more capable than it is.

If you are thinking 1 step ahead (that is to say actually paying attention to what is coming up) then an auto is often two steps behind because it is not doing what it should at the current moment and it is also not prepared for what will be coming up in the next moment. The experience is the feeling of control you get when the car is always doing what you want and not playing catch-up.

So when you want to take a corner without stomping on a brake and exit the corner efficiently, in control and on power then you can easily do that on a manual but an auto transmission. An auto transmission will be fucking around changing gears in some arbitary way because it has no idea what it should do in the next second, only the current second. Not having the correct gearing around corners is not only unsafe in-part because you do not have full control over your entry speed (granted, brakes can get the job done most of the time) but you also do not have control over your exit speed. You are put in a position where you are invited to use your brakes and risk locking up your wheels when things start going wrong (maybe there is sand, gravel or ice involved) and end up in the ditch or into a tree. You might also just cross your fingers and hope ABS to gets you out of trouble.

It's also very unsatisfying to take a corner slow and/or clumsily.

No shit Sherlock.
I'll edit my comment in 20 yeas when I can finally afford an electric vehicle.

I really should have included the caveat that automatic transmissions with manual overrides (eg. A DCT) get a begrudging pass from me - still not the same but a mild improvement over the old slush box.

If you stop to think for a second about how these transmissions actually work and how people use them it should be obvious that auto does not offer the same control and experience as manual.

With a manual you can keep the engine and transmission in the appropriate state for what you intend on doing and for the road conditions and terrain you are in. With auto the system is always playing catch-up and so it is often in an incorrect state, and so it feels (and is) unresponsive to the driver. Having proper control at the right time results in more responsive and often *safer* driving experience because the car does what you tell it to do. Without super advanced computer vison and AI (that doesn't yet exist) auto can't even come close to offering the same experience to the driver.

I'm not necessarily against civil disobedience or an uprising per-se - it's more that they're afraid that if people (as opposed to the authorities) saw what they got up to they would lose support. In fact, that's what did happen with BLM when you look at the polling over time and more recent media narrative about re-funding the police.

Of course a show celebrating pervasive surveillance and normalising that in culture is distasteful... But why would you want to equate your own activists with rioters? Why would you be afraid to show what your activists were doing? I don't buy the dog-whistle theory especially when a lot of the 2020 uprising (riots) were crowds of white activists.

I for one welcome our superworm overlords.

Yes, I agree with where you are coming from. However, even Benjamin Boyce said he was very happy with their English program... So the idea can be applied well if the intentions are focused towards optimising the real technical skills of the student and not other factors.

I'd argue that in some STEM subjects it could be used too as some things are not completely binary. Coding is probably a perfect example. Bad code that gets the correct answers is not as good as good code that gets the right answers - and even if code has bugs but is otherwise good, you may also want to grade how they react to fixing the issue. I am concerned that while we are in an all-time-low level of trust in institutions this style of grading will be abused and/or mistrusted.