Didn't they already disprove dark matter, they found large webs of hot gas out in the universe between galaxies which are the missing matter. The standard cosmological model fits with the new mass that was found.

I Live in Australia, BYD is everywhere. The cars are popular and we are not heading about defects. There are so many of the cars around we'd be hearing about it. I drive a Mitsubishi Lancer. Japanese cars are still the preferred choice. BMW/Mercedes are still seen as the highest end (outside of ferrari/lambo etc).

I'm making years of progress in minutes, developing tools for open source game development. Asset viewers, asset editors etc. ChatGPT can output a 3D model viewer in seconds when you tell it what API you want to use. My API of choice has been Gtkmm-3.0. I describe the UI I want, usually with a tree view or canvas view. Once I've defined the UI, I define what content I want in it and the system generates it. It is working incredibly well. I've also developed a working Audio control panel for GNUstep that seamlessly integrates into SystemPreferences.app and wrapping pipewire, next will be Network-Manager and and Wayland-randr/X11-Randr Control Panels for monitor setup. It's bringing the dream of a Mac-Like open source desktop closer to reality.

Wrong-think political views being banned is going to destroy the open source community. It's just wrong to ban/censor someone for their speech when they are not being actively offensive over something they wrote at some point in time in the past. I've looked at the xlibre repository. Sure the guy has beef with Redhat, but his repository isn't making hate speech/threats against anyone. You might like vaccines, you might not like vaccines, I had an adverse reaction to Pfizer, do I hate all vaccines, no. But I can certainly understand people who are skeptical of the COVID vaccines since I ended up in hospital with chest pains. Wayland has not delivered enough benefit in my opinion to justify removing X11. eGPU hotplugging without restarting the display server hasn't been working for me under Wayland or X.org. MATE's stable release also isn't ready for Wayland yet, and Debian isn't even shipping mate-wayfire-session. Until these issues are addressed, I'll use whichever display server fits my needs best. I'm currently on Wayland, but I'm considering moving back if xlibre fixes enough stuff.

You die. The copied brain lives on. It's not you, it's a copy. You're still dead. Stupid idea.

Then why does anyone need Microsoft, Google, Autodesk, Adobe? Just use AI to code replacement tools. I leave Apple off the list because they're a hardware/software integrated company.

As if they don't just bring back wordpad, now they have to break notepad. Who the hell is in charge of that clown show? Can't wait for GIMP-3.2 to drop so more people can abandon the slow moving car wreck that is Windows.

Communism is garbage, Capitalism is garbage. We need a re-invigoration of Western Civilisation. Concerted efforts were made in the 1800s-1900s to eliminate poverty in the lower classes. This was done to counteract growing Communist movements in the West. Since Russian Communism was defeated Western governments have been rolling back their equality measures and allowing unfettered Capitalism to run rampant. This is rapidly sending the West back to Dickensian conditions where workers are permanent renters and misery and poverty are exploding. It's time to reign in Capitalism again.

This is so stupid, everyone is going to have to go buy new phones and video conference systems again. Most IP Phones are not designed to rotate SSL Certificates every 50 days.

Ever since the internet was created the government and standards bodies have tried to kill it's openness and it's freedom. The two things that make the internet what it is.

I work with VoIP phone systems, I am self taught, most of the guys with formal education/training don't know programming, automation, etc. I get into the backend APIs and the bulk administration tools and I can deploy in seconds what takes the formally educated guys days. On fixed price projects I am the most profitable/efficient etc. Most of the guys who went to university or got trained by Cisco don't do what I do. There's a lot of truth in the statement that the University educated guys aren't as creative/original as self trained people. Is my code the best code, the most memory safe? No. But in many cases it is glorified scripting, and it never gets deployed as a permanent application. It generates configuration and is never put on the internet.

I said what I said. The economy died in 2008 and it's never coming back. The wealthy are getting a lot wealthier and the poor are becoming destitute. We're heading to developing world conditions where a small minority owns most of everything and the working masses are living in squalor. Australia is going through the exact same thing. It just took a little longer to hit here because we had a budget surplus in 2008. But the government stepped into the market with free money and rammed up the cost of everything. Houses are now 10x wages and not coming down. Government is desperately using migration to keep asset prices high to prevent a financial panic. It's working for now, but the cost is young people have no future anymore and state governments are going broke from infrastructure spending. It's a sad state of affairs when everyone under 30 wants to see the economy burn so they can have a shot at home ownership. We've sold out our future. Assets aren't taxed, income is. Working is pointless because the wages no longer cover the cost of shelter, and asset owners get richer and richer while not contributing to economic growth or productivity. We've taken a civilisation where over 70% of people owned their own house and made it projected to be less than 50% for Gen Z. Our entire retirement system is structured on the idea that 70% of people will own their own home. It's a slow moving economic disaster.

Expecting to see a lot of old software getting migrated to Linux shortly. Should be fun to watch.

MATE is getting a big update in 1.30. Wayland support has been greatly expanded. We're a small team but I'm using 1.28 with my own patches as a daily driver and it's nice.

Europe was always going to be screwed by the language barrier. Any company wanting to sell to all of Europe has to translate to 40 languages, imagine a company in Poland wanting to sell globally, if they're developing in their native language they have to get enough sales in their own country to pay for the translations, and they have to compete with much larger companies with much deeper pockets who can pay a team to handle the Polish translation. Any company wanting to sell to all of USA just writes in English so there's a huge bucket of money available to pay for later translations to other languages. Any company shipping to all of China ships in Chinese. It's pretty simple. Lack of government backing/funding is another huge issue that rarely gets talked about. The US spending on defense/nuclear/space technologies act as a free prop up to the domestic software industry. Many companies that wouldn't be viable without government money got trillions in funding and then were able to diversify into mass-market applications.