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kbal

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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • What AI do you pay for, if any?

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  • Not much. But I did pay actual money for Sid Meier's CivilizationⓇ VI, which includes AI that controls the computer players. That's the one that comes to mind just because its performance was so amazingly weak.

  • TIL that Ayatollah Khamenei built a secret organization called BAYT. This organization is more powerful than the government and employs 40,000 people. The goal was to make sure killing him is useless

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  • Which is the more powerful meat, fish or chicken?

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  • The fish, having the greater ratio of acceleration to mass as compared to the chicken, must therefore also be the more powerful.

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  • The linux kernel. All the software I need, I'll just key in the syscalls I want to make in binary.

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    Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Rarely Talk About

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  • The western world has also had evidence about these adverse effects for a long time.

    The Buddhist world has had evidence for a much longer time about all the crazy shit that can happen along the way as you begin to discover mindfulness. You might want to talk to some people at the temple about it before you spend too many hours sitting zazen style.

  • Connected cars can be hacked, research finds

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  • A car is pretty much the last thing you'd want to have a network connection. I'd sooner hook up my refrigerator and let it send analytics data to Frigidaire.

  • Looking for YouTube channel recommendations that do video essays on religions, spiritually and mythology etc .... in an empathic and appreciative way.

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  • KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

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  • Apparently there have been attempts to make a free OS based on Apple's kernel, but wikipedia mostly talks about them in the past tense. Too bad, it would've been good to have such an option.

  • What do you think life will be like in the future?

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  • My bold prediction for the near future: I will soon have my second cup of tea for the day.

  • KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

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  • Like many, back when it was fashionable I was open to the possibility of that idea being correct and I guess it's still best to keep an open mind, but the results thus far suggest otherwise. Using Hurd is somewhat difficult for most purposes. Using cron rather than systemd timers on the other hand is much more pleasant and easy.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • Lemmings have always been well-known for running in herds.

  • KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

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  • In that case there are alternatives for each component, most often more than one, though they may lack here and there some feature you believe to be indispensable.

  • KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

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  • There isn't "an alternative" to systemd because nobody who hasn't drunk the kool-aid believes that anything like it should exist. The syslog, the cron daemon, the dns config, the log rotation, the ntp server, and even the init system should not all be part of one giant tangled mess of a project.

  • KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

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  • I like how the "FAQ" answers questions nobody was asking and accuses opponents of truth, freedom, and systemd of "decontextualising comments on merge requests" without mentioning what was actually said by whom in those merge requests so we could judge for ourselves. As a PR move to put out the flame war (which itself does seem really pointless) it seems counterproductive. But it looks like it's just another reddit post, not an official KDE policy statement or anything.

  • Community feedback request regarding Rule 6: "No Politics"

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  • It's possible to imagine people having good questions about US politics, e.g. something like "I'm considering running for this public office in this state, what do I need to know about x?" but good luck crafting a rule that allows that and not the worthless noise.

  • What's the thing you have deep knowledge of but never find a place to bring it up?

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  • The Principia Discordia. Just kidding, I bring it up like every five minutes.

  • What do y’all think about Cloudflare?

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  • What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?

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  • Damn it lemmy I ain't tellin' you that, but let's just say it includes jumping off a moving railway car.

  • SUSE exec blurts that the company uses Teams

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  • He's the Senior Director of Corporate Communications. "Teams" is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests more than that he occasionally uses it reluctantly when someone insists on it.

    Red Hat and Canonical also get mentioned. Consider my inclination to stick with Debian once again reinforced.