As best I can gather the point of a stablecoin is to obtain the benefits of cryptocurrency* while removing the speculative instability that regular cryptocurrencies attract. As people buy into the coin, the coin manager theoretically stores the dollars as backing**.

* The main, intended benefit being the ability to make online payments without being beholden to credit card companies, governments or other large, financial gatekeepers. Hmmm...

** Only a complete cynic would suggest this sounds like a way to get people's real money to invest without needing to pay them a share of the returns.

Have used Vim from my first year at uni on a green-text Unix terminal, where as a student not paying attention I couldn't figure out how to type any code let alone exit.

Now I seem to be a moderately advanced user and other editors frustrate me. I use the VsVim extension in Visual Studio and only recently stopped wearing my Vim polos as being too tatty to show in the office even for a dev. As a small honour, this post was written in GVim before pasting into the browser.

Thanks Bram, what a wonderful legacy.

That's not a headline, it's a tagline for a B-grade movie.

This seems very over-stated. Your linked article claims just over 200 deaths linked to hypothermia. There is no mention of a link to being in their homes and having heating systems they could not power. The most likely explanation is that most of these were either homeless, people caught outside or with homes damaged by the storm. Unless you own no winter clothes and no blankets, it seems difficult to freeze inside an unpowered house.

Wikipedia, which mentions the same article, attributes some deaths to carbon monoxide poisoning. These actually are linked to the blackouts (and ignorance), of people running cars and generators inside. It also mentions a handful of reports of potential hyopthermia deaths within homes, sadly one a young boy in a poorly insulated trailer home.

They've ruined the login experience for Minecraft, and they've pushed it harder towards the Windows 10 'app' version and away from the Java edition, although that direction may have been inevitable. Were I head of the FTC I'd approve the merge if they promised to never require a Microsoft account for Activision games.

I'm not denying your experience, and my package management understanding is surface level, but that hasn't happened for me. According to my notes I set the mozillateam PPA to priority 501 and the Ubuntu one to -1 (disabled). Ten months later, Synaptic reports two available versions, 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 and 114.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.041~mt1, and shows the installed version to be the latter. A cat /proc/<firefox pid>/cmdline shows /usr/lib/firefox/firefox, and snap list has bare, core, snap-store etc., nothing related to firefox. You're making me paranoid though!

This reminds me of another reason I switched. In prior releases I had carefully set my Firefox profile and cache to be on a non-SSD, backed-up directory. The snap version imported my profile but ignored those settings and was hammering my home area.

The hatred could be overblown, but this is my list and understanding;

• * Bad desktop integration. I couldn't save files from Firefox to my home area because snap ran as some virtual user. They had to be saved to /tmp and manually moved. This particular problem is probably fixed now, but I've heard claims that the isolation inherently stops it adhering to general desktop standards.
• * Forced/nagging updates. Probably something that can be turned off but in particular on my media/projector machine it would frequently overlay a notification "Firefox must be updated in the next 9 days to avoid something" while watching Netflix. I want to be presented with updates and choose to do them on my own timetable.
• * High memory usage and slow startup. I never noticed this but many have reported it. I run with a lot of tabs and any performance problem I can avoid is a path I'll take. Actually I did have an old desktop with boot issues last week that, when I turned off the splash, showed it hanging for 30 seconds on some snap daemon.
• * Flatpak is considered technologically superior, I can't give details.
• * Philosophical objections - the purpose is to make the devs' lives easier for packaging and to function as a sandbox to give better security. Both of these things break the purity of the Linux model. Instead of a clean set of shared packages, everyone copies their own version in for simplicity. The motivation to move towards the phone/tablet OS model for security is understandable but I don't want it Linux dumbed down. It creates more of a mess and if we want this better to redesign the whole system.

That doesn't sound right, are you suggesting there is special code to give the Canonical version higher priority than a user can give? Either way, I use the PPA Firefox on 22.04 and still have snapd running, but it has no snaps besides the admin ones.

After the X-ray scanner you pass through the 'brown note' gates, located just before the bathrooms.

That's the secret to restaurant quality food - salt, sugar and butter (the latter not necessarily being unhealthy). Eating out is a special occasion for most people so the focus tips towards tastiness rather than health.

There are also a lot of epigenetic factors. If the current younger generation grew up eating like people in the 50s they still wouldn't look like people from the 50s. Not going to cite references here...

It's not a precise comparison because the Corolla has loads more competition and equivalent models for people in its target demographic to choose from. The Tesla is one of a handful in its class. What this statistic does show, however, is that EVs are extremely desirable to the market and the Model Y is an outstanding product.

Yes there are still two sets of settings, but they are working on cluttering the new set and making it harder to find what you want to do. They have completed work on the change to restrict the task bar to the bottom.

I agree with this assessment. Not having heard her before I listened to a handful of songs. Her song structures are definitely more creative than most chart pop, but her voice is so heavily processed that the overall effect is ethereal. Plenty of people seem to enjoy her music, for me it lacks character and relistenability.

Sadly this was an April Fool's joke. Even if it were true they'd probably shift to Flatpak

If the speed of your text messaging program is noticeable you've got it very wrong.

Maybe the on-demand loading for scrolled history is now twice as fast, so when you're searching for the context around that message 6 months ago it only takes 20 minutes to get there?

Seriously, having read a few links the speed improvement is in how they render the multiple incoming webcams during a meeting. Not a bad thing but something I'm unlikely to notice.