There's growing evidence for a ninth planet.* https://www.skyatnightmagazine... (real stuff at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.172...)

I've seen some vastly speculative bullshit (including still today "what if it's a micro black hole!?!!??!!?" which is fantastically unlikely, but the evidence does seem to be accumulating about a substantial TNO 500-700 au out.

*assuming the IAU doesn't again set up a bullshit scam-vote after nearly everyone left the conference to deprecate this one too.

It's been a decade and a half. Just because a person knows how to compile a kernel doesn't mean they can't also be a Luddite at the same time.

Well that escalated quickly.

Sad to hear about Brave. I like the idea.

The enshittening proceeds.

This puerile crap passes as +5 insightful on slashdot now.
Great.

Instead of just calling you a politically-motivated retard, I'll quote Mr Bill Clinton, who lobbied aggressively for and then signed the Helium Privatization Act in 1995:
"...We propose to cut $130 billion in spending by shrinking departments, extending our freeze on domestic spending, cutting 60 public housing programs down to 3, getting rid of over 100 programs we do not need, like the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Helium Reserve Program...."
(https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-the-congress-the-state-the-union-11)

This is a reasonably literate and intelligent forum. Or it used to be.

Can we at LEAST recognize the blatant idiocy involved in presenting as equivalent:

"some things that have been declared harmless turned out to be harmful"
and
"things that are harmless will likely actually be harmful"

I don't know what retards will buy that* but it is such a very internet-flavored-argument it makes me recoil.

*that's actually a lie: I know *EXACTLY* what sort of retards will cheerfully gobble such nonsense up and likely chase off to reddit, tiktok, and twitter to spread it among their legions of co-retards.

You're not wrong, there is an aversion to change.

The reality too is that using "the one they're familiar with" is what gets work done.

Nobody wants to climb another fucking learning curve unless it ACTUALLY benefits them (and even then, there's a cost-benefit calculation to the time-to-payoff).
Microsoft - and more and more SAAS bullshit companies - keeps just *changing* shit for no reason (cf the 'start button in the middle of the bar' in Win11). MAYBE they add some teensy feature but imo 95%+ users could be using Word 2.0 and it would perfectly serve their daily needs.

So what users are seeing now is a constant fluffery of 'change for change's sake*". Is it surprising they are resistant?

*we all know it's just so MS can sell some more and CIOs KEEP ACCEPTING IT. Why? Honestly, if Corel just built a bulletproof basic-featured 1990 version of Wordperfect and sold it AS IS in totality today, no 'web awareness' no 'AI collab feature' no constant tweaky updates...hell, it might rise from the dead as a real competitor.

Who needs more than 3 min of porn?
(Excluding the time it took to download the video, in the "good old days" ofc)

Sounds like ff was carefully tuned to it's audience's needs.

I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it.

But he's arrogant. You can't make anyone actually believe it. You can just make them plapper it for loyalty purposes - which is what you're doing now.

Genuine question: what browser is better? I like Firefox but am frustrated by a lot of the 'features' you mention. That said, it's about as marginally functional - read: there are still a shitton of sites out there that "this doesn't work on FF, sorry!" (generally because "this" is a security risk, but that now includes things like tracing containers on Hapag Lloyd - which forever has worked with anything, or Followmyhealth, my medical providers dashboard/website, which "works" but doesn't accept passwords entered in FF so that's not much help).

Are there better browsers out there that are at least as functional as FF but better userwise? I tried Brave, like a lot about it but even LESS compatible. Zen has some nice ideas but even less finished (beta, afaik).

Only for contractors, and that's the choice you make becoming one.

I work for a large multinational and had a lovely package that didn't cost me a dime...until, oh yeah, it was President OBAMA who fucked that up by determining that nice health plans were now taxable in his Socialist Paradise Vision.

So of course, companies stopped offering them. Now that's government working for the people.

They're independently funded in much the same way the Nobel peace prize is politically independent. Of course the prize sometimes goes to a deserving candidate still. And sometimes Guardian publishes something good.

Just, as David Graeber reminded us, never, ever forget their ratfucking of Jeremy Corbyn. And remember it's things like that they will spend their carefully built up goodwill on.

It says something that even though Lula is fairly close to Russia and China (the whole BRICS thing), and was endorsed by his close friend Julian Assange in a rare public statement, even US democrats can't feel bad about Trump's and Facebook's preferred candidate losing.

It appears to have everything to do with an impressive push for voter turnout in the 2nd round and getting former no-shows to the polls and they strongly (some will inevitably say suspiciously) toward Lula.

https://www.latintimes.com/bra...

"Brazil Set a Modern Confounding Democratic Record on Oct. 25 â" and Produced Polling Data No One Can Fully Explain
A 3-to-1 mobilization gap, four endorsements that backfired, two consecutive polling misfires, and a contested court order: how Brazil's 2026 runoff became a statistical event without precedent."

"Lula gained more than 10.3 million votes between the first round and the runoff while FlÃvio Bolsonaro added fewer than 3.8 million â" a mobilization gap approaching 3 to 1 that turned a 2.2-million-vote first-round deficit into a 4.4-million-vote win.

Four eliminated first-round candidates collectively worth more than five percentage points all endorsed FlÃvio before the runoff, yet the bulk of their voters appear to have broken toward Lula â" a transfer pattern that defies conventional political math and that analysts have no precedent to explain.

A last-minute two-hour voting extension ordered by a Supreme Court justice who previously served as Lula's personal defense attorney disrupted the count and handed FlÃvio's camp a potential legal argument; any formal challenge will go to a court whose current president was appointed by Jair Bolsonaro."

Yes, Reddiit-mods, let the hate flow through you: demonstrate AGAIN & AGAIN that this is a heavily, heavily moderated community where the mods are utterly unanswerable & unresponsive, and whatever they feel happens to be important today they'll whimsically change the rules and aggressively edit, purge, ban basically on their biorhythms.

Show your puny users how much power and authority you wield. Flex those mod-muscles!

Certainly the legal framework around AI is indeterminate. But without getting into Platonic hairsplitting, I think the 'cloud of concepts' that orbit the concept of OPEN SOURCE are best served by acknowledging and recognizing it, making it MORE transparent not banning the subject entirely (the point about linux is absolutely relevant).

Maybe it would be more reasonable to offer an "AI-gen" tag (if they don't already have one) and note in the FAQ the uncertain context of AI today, warning users that AI generated code / whatever may at some point be deemed NOT compliant with some or all of the 'open source' categories thus anything with that flag should be recognized as 'not clearly open source by the most rigorous definition today' or something?
. ...nah I'm kidding. Reasonability be damned. You kids go ahead and ban/block/delete away. Better the readers understand clearly upon whose sufferance they're posting.