Or the book burnings in 1930s Germany by the Nazi party. The historical parallels with 1930s Germany and the fall of the Wiemar Republic are quite striking.

Not everything was actually repair-able in the past either. My beloved HP 48G calculator is starting to have problems after 30 years, but fixing it right is very difficult if not impossible. I think iFixit rated the HP-48 calculators as the worst they'd ever seen for repair-ability. And they've looked at a lot of products over the years. Apple looks good by comparison. Everything is plastic welded shut. If you do manage to open it (I have managed to do this without destroying anything or pealing off the metal front), you have to break every one of the plastic heat stakes. And the keyboard itself is held in by about 20 little heat stakes. For a premium product of the day they sure made the thing as cheap as they could. And that was HP of 30 years ago when they actually built quality printers.

As far as I know recipes aren't copyright-able. Plus most of them are not original creations anyway. They are variations on hundreds-of-years old recipes passed down in families. I have some sympathy for bloggers wanting to make a few pennies from advertising, but there are easier ways to get rich.

Absolutely. I even hate it that people post STLs only on sites like thingiverse. Often I find myself manually recreating the object from the STL just to have a modifiable solid to work with. It's astounding to me how many people use mesh mixers to mixup STLs. I simultaneously cringe and admire them.

Occasionally electronics component makers release STEP files with their data sheets. For things like electrical plugs this is awesome to make sure you really are getting what you think you are. And I've been known to 3D print them in a pinch to make up a quick and dirty connector.

Guess I should have just looked. There are a whole host of add-ons to quickly extract recipes from common recipe sites. I'll have to give it a try!

A hundred times this. I'd have welcomed Google's feature. Maybe there's a firefox add-on to remove the cruft and just show the recipe plus the basic instructions. If I want the cooking channel experience I'll watch the cooking channel.

If it does get made into a movie finally I don't have very high hopes. The entire story revolves around nothing but the thrill of exploration and mystery behind Rama which is left unknown in the book. Fantastic story, fantastic read. A product of the time. Not sure it would make a popular movie though. No doubt they'd have to add pointless interpersonal conflict like they did in the later Rama books, which weren't nearly as good. Also as the explanation behind Rama was revealed in the books, it was kind of a disappointment to me. I remember the first book fondly. The second and third books I hardly remember at all.

Trump is the dictator of the proletariat.

The white-collar bourgeoisie is not happy.

It's not turning out like Marx predicted.

When you combine continuing layoffs by profitable companies over the last few years, AI displacing workers, and this beautiful spending bill that cuts services to millions while codifying tax breaks for the 1% and increasing the deficit by 4 trillion, the future looks bright indeed.

They sell access to an online service that lets you mock up and prototype user interfaces, such as a phone or tablet. I assume they can also prototype desktop-type UI layouts. I think they were one of the earliest on-line, web-delivered tools of this type. Now there are quite a few others. And there are even some open source ones.

I wouldn't call gasoline tax a sin tax.

As far as actual sin taxes go, the people most addicted to cigarettes are also the poorest, with the least amount of support to quit smoking, and they will bear the brunt of this tax. It's easy to say "just quit" but much harder to do in practice. So increasing the sin tax is devastating to these people who are already coming at life with a disadvantage.

Whereas taxing electric vehicles is an arguably progressive tax. Just not sure how to best implement such a tax. Could be as part of registration. Or it could be a tax on the electricity used, but that would require special meters for home chargers.

And yet the post you're responding to was specifically talking about "ssh -X," claiming it does not work when it definitely *does* work, and that alone fulfills 90% of people's remoting needs, at least the traditional kind of remoting.

I admit it's kind of neat to fire up X2Go and grab a full desktop on another machine, but ssh -X is far more useful to me, and I suspect to most users. In fact when people complain about the lack of remoting in wayland they often point to ssh forwarding. And for native wayland apps that is lacking still. But any GTK or Qt app currently will run under either remote X11 forwarding, or local native wayland.

Yes it does. I'm running stock KDE on wayland right now on Fedora 40 (so it's even old now) and XWayland is running by default and DISPLAY is set. I am running a mix of wayland and X11 apps, and I ssh -X every day to remote machines. Gnome is the same way.

Why do you say it doesn't work when it clearly does?

And where they go, we follow. Just look at the crazy stuff happening in Alberta now.