A local here; what interests us in this story is not the fact that those three specimens could arrive to Iceland - there's a big industrial port on the opposite coast in this fjord AND there's a company cultivating and importing plants in the vicinity already culpable of importing other foreign species into the country - but what intrigues us the most is how the beasts have managed to stay alive until October - and that's related to climate changes. We'll know more next spring.

"Sono Pazzi Questi Romani" is a frequent phrase uttered by Obelix, translated to Italian.

Most of the companies I know of in my line of work that have been taken hostage by ransomware, are in the CAD/CAM business. One of them was fortunate enough to keep a separate Linux-box with copies of all the settings, while the others had serious downtime.

To me it seems that the turning point came after the 1973 energy crisis; American products (cars, appliances, etc.) continued to be big, energy inefficient and unprogressive, while mostly Japanese and then South-Korean products took over the European market (and elsewhere). Reduced shipping costs and assembly plants nearer to the markets became the norm.

"Yeah, the government investing in this would so totally be "big brother watching" heh...." But right now corporations are investing in this and it's totally "unaccountable big brother watching", hmm...

Everyone should know that liver-oil from sharks is much better and gives crisper light.

This should also be an incentive for the government/politicians to create lots of well paid jobs to maximize the number of people managing to pay up the loans, right?

And it happened to the romans too...

Sorry, but one of the first stats we learned from the pandemic, was that quantity did matter; more exposure, higher number of viruses lead to more severe symptoms. Don't think this has been refuted.

My father-in-law is 92yrs old now and using Linux Mint Cinnamon as his daily environment. For a long time I maintained Win2000 up to Win8 for him; as a former exec, he was totally dependent on Outlook, which was the only serious barrier from using Linux. Other software was much less of a hassle. Anyway, the Windows he was used to in his work has nothing in common with the platform called Windows today. So when the Lightning calendar got integrated (and stabilized) in Thunderbird, we migrated to TBird on Mint. Firefox, Libreoffice, etc. were much easier to handle.

"example I just looked up Inkscape ubuntu repo,tells me every other package available but fucking inkscape" First hit in your search is the main Inkscape package?

Agree with your arguments - but unfortunately I've seen that there's another narrative:

"Here is an explanation of the situation. TDF has as a member of its Advisory Board another organisation, FSF. That organisation had an incident two years ago that led to the resignation of its former leader from the board of directors. TDF fully expected FSF to correct the portions of its governance rules that had allowed the situation to arise, and modernise its processes so that the problem could not arise again. On that basis, TDF allowed FSF to remain an Advisory Board member. In the last week, FSF unexpectedly demonstrated that it had not in fact corrected its procedures in any way. That has led TDF to suspend FSF's membership of the Advisory Board temporarily until TDF can be sure FSF has in fact put in place governance rules that will ensure it has the authority to advose TDF on future matters. None of this is a political matter, or an activism matter, regardless of whether people attempt to project their issues and preferences onto it. When people do so, you can be sure they have not properly understood the matter." - Simon Phipps

So, I'm tempted to think it boils down to RMS announcing his return without consulting anyone, not even the FSF. Unfortunately the reactions to such non-transparent and/or dubious governance are riding on the back of a wild discrediting campaign.

It did move your butt - just a bit. This geological event (seismic activity + eruption) moved apart the American and Eurasian tectonic plates, ~20cm in the exact area, much less globally, but still some.

... but wiener sausages. I have just in front of me a picture of my father-in-law picnicking with his youngsters besides a smoking hot lava stream in 1976, near Krafla in NE-Iceland. They're all BBQ-ing wieners, guess you'd call it Hot Dogs. Later that summer it was hot enough for scrambled eggs. Retrospectively, perhaps not the ideal environment for a family picnick...

More than 9/11 every day...