I'd rather see that happening today than tomorrow. Yes please, pretty please with cream on top :-)

Welcome back to the 80s in "cold war" era Germany, where daily sonic booms by Luftwaffe, RAF and USAF fighter jets were the norm rather than the exception :-P

CygnusEd ("ced") on the Amiga is still my favourite editor of all time, it was simply amazing what one could do with a few lines of AREXX (for instance, sending emails over DNET using a modem connection to our uni dialin server)... very cool, but I guess I should be more than happy with emacs as a replacement (though ced looked way cooler with its smooth scrolling etc :-))

All the best

Uwe

agreed! Does midwinter still exist?

Cheers, Uwe

or some similar crap I'm sure.

As the Scots have it: "There are two kinds of whisky: good and very good." They're laughing their kilts off every time some poor s*cker pays exorbitant prices for a bottle of Scotch, and I'm certain it's quite similar with wine.

I'm still using clementine, it has all the features I need / look for in a music player and then some.

https://www.clementine-player....

All the best,

Uwe

I use those messengers mostly on the desktop or in a browser on Linux, the signal app is horrible and the threema web interface is even worse.

The best compromise I've found is telegram which has an awesome standalone desktop client available on all major platforms, and yes I'm aware the unencrypted stuff resides on their servers (where else?) but that's exactly what I mean by "best compromise". It's a godsend for sharing files, group communication and as of latest, video calls as well.

About 95% of my contacts are now on telegram as well and many are beginning to see the light about WA / FB "integration". Let's hope this trend continues. Telegram has been getting a lot of flak lately here in Germany, describing it as a cesspool / meeting place for qanon folks and other pond dwellers, but strangely enough people complaining about it are still using the internet for some reason I don't quite understand which is also used freely the exact same people.

While I still have WA installed I only use it for our local ornithology groups and check them maybe once a day, often less. The reduced amount of messenger noise by having turned off notifications in WA, Signal and Threema also helps with keeping one's sanity.

Fancy & fantastic graphics yep, but the weather isn't properly simulated it seems when a prop plane can fly through 250mph winds without being affected by them all that much.

https://youtu.be/QqqUiXztuws

While I read /. still on a daily basis, I haven't bothered to post in a long while, but whenever this idea from the "Matrix" crops up I feel the need to reply because

a) it's wrong

  and b) it gets repeated again and again in modern "pop / postmodernist" culture and leaves us hopeless, thinking "humanity is genetically flawed" and other such BS that leaves us with nothing we could possibly do about it except for staring into that abyss of doom our genes have dug for us.

Obvious link to "Ishmael" by the late Dan Quinn: We are not humanity. We're in the majority by all the looks of it, but that wasn't always the case until some of our ancestors decided that we were beyond the ABC laws of ecology some 10,000 years ago.

Thousands of cultures have come and gone; humanity and its progenitors has survived for 2,000,000 years; but only our culture has blown up to a planetary scale because of our concept of totalitarian agriculture (a hard concept to beat to be sure as no other form provides growth "to the max") and two others.

Needless to say any other culture that works or worked locally for thousands or years would turn into a perversion the moment it was blown up to a global scale, forcing everyone to live by their cultural values and "memes" as it's called these days. Sadly (or luckily for us), only one has managed this so far.

https://www.ishmael.org/

Good starting point for people new to Dan Quinn's ideas:

https://www.ishmael.org/daniel...

All the best,

hoover

in no particular order:

o fighter pilot podcast
o ubuntu podcast
o in our time (bbc)
o the life scientific (bbc)
o infinite monkey cage (bbc)
o omega tau
o no such thing as a fish
o more or less (bbc)
o smart enough to know better
o Hollywood Babble-on
o inside science (bbc)
o physics world
o astronomy podcast
o bad voltage

Cheers & happy holidays to all!

Nearly my entire physics graduation year (degree in 1996) ended up in IT. Higher pay, better job security and a better life / job balance made the decision a no-brainer at the time as companies (both corporate and start-ups) were hiring left, right and center at the time.

I've kept astronomy as a hobby on the side. I decided in favour of IT when I discovered that the researchers at the uni were not working for a "common good" but the atmosphere was just like in any other company... so much for the myth of the ivory tower.

way before it was labelled "e-sports" I regularly went for a jog to help keep my concentration up during our hour-long online simracing events (mostly Grand Prix Legends back then, now rFactor2).

No idea if you're on about German, but in German "the stallion" == "der Hengst", which is as male as it gets (unless you're talking about a different meaning of "stallion" that evades me).

Greek is also quite interesting in this regard, both "the boy" ("to agori") and "the girl" ("to koritsi") are neutral gender ("to") in this language.

All the best, Uwe

I run cbpp on a few notebooks with similar specs (less RAM though) and it works quite nicely.

I mostly use WINE for Falcon BMS (I hope to migrate it to Linux fully once win7 support ends) and for running some GOG.com stuff, and most of the stuff works out of the box. Maybe your screen is fscked upon exit but that's no biggie really as you can reset it just fine using the display settings (wine staging in Mint 18.2).

The biggest failure was trying to get some software provided by our daughter's school to run... wouda thunk given it was "just" some VB atrocity?