Read the book, "The Poison Squad", by Deborah Blum. It tells of the thirty year battle against food adulteration & misleading labeling fought by Dr. Harvey Wiley at the end of the nineteenth century. Bottles of whiskey on store shelves which contained no whiskey at all, milk laced with formaldehyde, even some packages of spices like black pepper had ground, toasted coconut shells added.

Anyway, proper, truthful food labeling is a fight that goes back further than most folks realize.

Librarians have a list of books in print: if someone asks for one that isn't in print, they can say "it's out of print if it exists", and/or "it hasn't been printed yet", ditto.. Followed by "did chatgpt tell you about it? If it did, you need to tell it to not to tell you fibs". (:-))

The "minimum" spec is specified to run the game at 1080p low at 30 fps with upscaling.

The "recommended" spec is specified to run the game at 1400p medium at 60 fps with upscaling.

30 FPS isn't playable. It hasn't been for a decade. And at 1080p? What a clusterfuck.

Even unobservant parents don't deserve to have a child commit suicide, no matter how much you feel the right to judge them.

For those with an interest the book, "The Lunatic Express", by Charles Miller tells the saga of the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria railway. If you saw the movie, "The Ghost and the Darkness", that bridge they were building was one small piece of the Mombasa... railway. An interesting book of engineering, rail history, and British imperialism.

If you search for the book don't confuse it with another book of the same title by Carl Hoffman (which is also an excellent book, btw).

Well, there was United Linux, a project with the goal of becoming the standard Linux distro. That was way back just after the turn of the century. That project fractured & died pretty quickly. I always liked their logo, though.

Your question is a good one, and valid. Red Hat have had the chance to become the "Standard Linux" (see the history of Scientific Linux & Centos for examples) more than once but, judging by their behavior, that's not what they want to be.

Admittedly a bit late now but you might have a look at the Debian 13 release notes.

https://www.debian.org/release...

Debian 13 Trixie released today.

Thanks, Debian people.

That can't happen

The SailGP sailboat racing teams run identical boats. The F50s are even all made in the same shop. That sets them apart from other racing games. In addition, all of the telemetry (and there's a lot) of each boat is available to all teams.

The goal is to distill everything as much as possible so that only the skill of the sailors makes the difference.

If you saw the movie, "Tenet", the sailing scene took place onboard an F50. With only a three person crew but, hey, it's a movie...

Anyway... enough about sailboat racing - and now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

Debian unstable is no less stable than any other rolling release, and I've been running the same installation (disk moved between machines and cloned a couple of times) since 2004 with no catastrophic failures.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1123/...

Having a couple of binaries in the git tree would be a kind act: I often do that with (much smaller!) project of mine to make it easy of people to try and use them. Of course, to create MRs, you'll still need to build and debug it yourself.

Let's make programming more fun by making it harder!

Yup, same as the feedback loops in "cold readings"

Charlie Stross(@cstross@wandering.shop) wrote, in Mastadon:
The LLMentalist effect: Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms used by (fake) psychics to gull their victims: https://softwarecrisis.dev/let...

The title of the paper is "The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con"