*snorts coffee*

Yes, in my case the *English* civil war.

And, FWIW, for those people who *like* the ribbon, LibreOffice has both menu (default) and ribbon (a couple of clicks away) interfaces. The LO version is called the 'tabbed interface' which may have led to some ribbon fans missing it.

Wake up grandad! Don't you know the world has moved on to Zip drives now? And I hear *writable CDs* are coming soon, though I'm very sceptical about that. What, are we going to have our own mini disc-pressing plants? ;)

+1 for Privacy Badger, it's not perfect but at least coming from the EFF it's not going to be sold to some evil malware-producer tomorrow.

FWIW, The previous blocking function was more comprehensive but the heuristics broke important stuff, e.g. like 'Verified by Visa', causing online transactions to fail at checkout (by default, this wasn't due to manual selection).
I hit this issue a few years ago, eventually removed the extension, but reinstated it once it changed to verified trackers only.

Linux has an even smaller window for support than windows.

Windows 10 will have 10 years of support.
Several Linux distros have 10 years support.

Yep, I've got both AlmaLinux and Rocky running at present; both installed OK**, both seem fine, nothing significant to report really (which is a good thing).

For those who need it, AlmaLinux has got secure boot sorted out; Rocky is still working on it but shouldn't be long.

**Rocky produced a few weird errors during the initial boot including one service failing to start, but this all went away after going through the 'first run setup' stuff and rebooting.

My 11 year old Linux PC is fine with 20-50 tabs in Firefox - with 4Gb RAM.
My 4Gb RAM Chromebook (which I'm posting on now) has 70+ tabs open, is fast and responsive - and is also running the Debian Linux container which shows 2.7Gb RAM available.

Yet you get loads of people saying their 16Gb PC is crawling when just browsing with the same number of tabs. I just don't get it. What *are* they doing? Are there some popular websites which I don't use that just eat RAM constantly?

This is where the *real* cost to the kernel team comes in. They will have to carefully review all 190 patches, maybe reverting and replacing them if there's the slightest doubt. They can't just assume that only three of the patches are bogus, even though that is probably the case - they *have* to check.
This could waste hundreds of hours of the kernel team's time.
No wonder they're pissed off.

Yes, from the binary compatibility with RHEL point of view there will be nothing to choose between Alma and Rocky, so the differences will lie in areas like financial stability and the ability to track new RHEL releases in a timely fashion.

I'm running Almalinux on one of my systems, and it seems fine so far. Literally nothing worth reporting, which is a good thing in this case.

I don't trust Google. I do trust the Linux kernel team who approve or reject fixes. If you don't trust them, you shouldn't be using Linux anyhow, regardless of what Google does.

It sounds like they are going to mostly ignore the ruling in effect.
Their argument is that this ruling only applies to a particular group of drivers who had certain contracts; they will have to compensate those drivers, but apart from that they say the contracts have been changed since to give the drivers more autonomy.
So it would require another court case to determine if under the new contract drivers are employees.
In other words, business as usual for now.

However, if the courts find this was just a cosmetic exercise to ignore the ruling, they will probably take a very dim view of this.

Thanks for that, I just realised I had a (never used) Facebook app on my Moto G7, and uninstalled it.

Almalinux beta isos are now available at almalinux.org.

I might be old but I'm not clueless; I get a convenient package of high speed rock solid uncapped cable internet, nearly all TV channels (including some premium sports), load of on-demand services, landline rental with unlimited calls, a 4K Tivo box and a decent WiFi Cable modem, with the hardware regularly upgraded every few years and replaced without question if it fails (e.g. "Hello, my cable TV remote is broken, I've changed the battery but it's still not working" (20 seconds pass) "OK sir, a new one will be dispatched immediately, is there anything else?").

I only have to deal with one company so there's no buck passing and it all costs GBP100 including all taxes, fees, whatever. The price hasn't even increased in line with inflation over the last five years.
I could probably get a better deal from multiple companies but frankly my time is more valuable than that.

Right wingers are perfectly free to point out any instances of IP address fraud involving left-wing sites.

If they can find any.

If the registrars selectively enforce when violations are pointed out, *that* is a problem. But there's no evidence of that.

But this whole argument is stupid. If DDOS-guard just *stops committing fraud*, this issue will *never* arise.