Comment Re:You'll drive your (Score 1) 54
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
LOL, classic.
Comment Ok, fine. I'll comment first on this one. (Score 2) 5
Hey Oura: If you want people to care, open-source the API, or at least don't require a subscription-fee lock-in service for people to use it.
Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 1) 155
That's more along the lines of what I was thinking. They can't give it back because they've already spent it, or given it away.
Comment Re:Solid code name (Score 1) 60
"MicrosoftDeck"
Comment Request for missing info: (Score 1) 15
Is there a full list of the games posted somewhere? Missing from both articles and the best Google seems to be able to come up with is a "partial, curated" list.
Comment Re:Less enshittification (Score 1) 89
I was just thinking of this actually while recently re-watching the Lucasfilm updated versions of the "original" Star Wars trilogy recently and thinking that it would be nice to have DVD copies of the actual original versions.
Comment Re:Erm (Score 1) 55
I'm certain they're being paid by the competition to do this.
Comment Re:awesome (Score 1) 55
Hah, I was just thinking the same thing about my Titanium Powerbook (G4) with the ATI Mach 64. These people are doing God's own work.
Comment Re: As long as there is no meaningful penalty! (Score 1) 37
Yea, but that's purely academic if you can't tell who is doing it because their identity is being shielded from you by the giant megacorp that owns the AI actually sending all the trash your way.
Submission + - CIA, Pentagon investigated secret 'Havana syndrome' device in Norway (seattletimes.com)
93 Escort Wagon writes: The Washington Post (via the Seattle Times) reports on an interesting twist in the "Havana Syndrome" saga:
"Working in strict secrecy, a government scientist in Norway built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy and, in an effort to prove such devices are harmless to humans, in 2024 tested it on himself. He suffered neurological symptoms similar to those of “Havana syndrome,” the unexplained malady that has struck hundreds of U.S. spies and diplomats around the world.
The bizarre story, described by four people familiar with the events, is the latest wrinkle in the decade-long quest to find the causes of Havana syndrome, whose sufferers experience long-lasting effects including cognitive challenges, dizziness and nausea. The U.S. government calls the events Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs)."
"The Trump administration took office promising to pursue the AHI issue aggressively. But there has been little apparent movement. A review ordered by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is expected to focus mostly on the Biden administration’s handling of the issue, and its release has been delayed, people familiar with the issue said."
I suspect Gabbard's report has been delayed because they can't come up with a "blame Biden" narrative.
"Working in strict secrecy, a government scientist in Norway built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy and, in an effort to prove such devices are harmless to humans, in 2024 tested it on himself. He suffered neurological symptoms similar to those of “Havana syndrome,” the unexplained malady that has struck hundreds of U.S. spies and diplomats around the world.
The bizarre story, described by four people familiar with the events, is the latest wrinkle in the decade-long quest to find the causes of Havana syndrome, whose sufferers experience long-lasting effects including cognitive challenges, dizziness and nausea. The U.S. government calls the events Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs)."
"The Trump administration took office promising to pursue the AHI issue aggressively. But there has been little apparent movement. A review ordered by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is expected to focus mostly on the Biden administration’s handling of the issue, and its release has been delayed, people familiar with the issue said."
I suspect Gabbard's report has been delayed because they can't come up with a "blame Biden" narrative.
Submission + - KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd (9to5linux.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "After using the KDE/Plasma desktop environment by default for more than 12 years since its initial release under the name of KdeOS, the KaOS Linux distribution will no longer ship with its unique Plasma desktop setup, as the devs do not want to use the systemd init system anymore in the distro," reports Linux news site 9to5Linux.
"The KaOS Linux devs explain that dropping KDE Plasma to escape systemd was necessary because they can no longer build a usable ISO with recent versions of systemd, such as 257, as full support for a split /usr setup like KaOS is using is no longer there. The devs now consider moving to the Dinit init system."
"Everything is built on the latest Qt 6.10.2 open-source application framework, as KaOS aims to stay a Qt-focused distribution. To complete this setup, the devs also added options like cliphist, seatd, ddcutil, pavucontrol-qt, qt6ct, and xwayland-satellite, and I have to admit that the result is amazing and fast!"
"The KaOS Linux devs explain that dropping KDE Plasma to escape systemd was necessary because they can no longer build a usable ISO with recent versions of systemd, such as 257, as full support for a split
"Everything is built on the latest Qt 6.10.2 open-source application framework, as KaOS aims to stay a Qt-focused distribution. To complete this setup, the devs also added options like cliphist, seatd, ddcutil, pavucontrol-qt, qt6ct, and xwayland-satellite, and I have to admit that the result is amazing and fast!"
Comment Re:Tracking Irrelevance. (Score 1) 187
What's next? TIOBE trading cards?
Stop that. You're going to give them ideas.
Comment Re:Honestly, after 25+ years, I've had it with Lin (Score 1) 197
BSD is a fine option, but to be fair you don't have to switch all the way to BSD, you just have to switch to a distro that's not trying to cram systemd, network-manager, and pulseaudio and/or pipewire down your throat. If you avoid all the software that's essentially a commercial power grab by a megacorp, you'll avoid most the drama with it.
Comment Re:Fabbing for ARM64? (Score 1) 24
Personally I'm guessing it's parts for Nvidia and the architecture of whatever they go in will be only tangentially relevant.
Comment Re: hectares (Score 1) 39
*yawn*
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