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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Most patients began experiencing symptoms recently, from 2018 on, though one is believed to have had them as early as 2013.
What was it that started happening around 2013 but really blew up in 2018, and seems like it makes the brain devastated?
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Making vague statements in the form of questions?
I couldn't be too specific due to category.
So you instead erred in the side of being so generic it's impossible to tell what you're trying to imply
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@Jaloopa doesn't matter, got likes.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat not even close.
Yes, Wayland's still having gross hardware incompatibility problems with many video cards so people are rather cautious about installing it at all. The authors of Wayland seem to have assumed that if they port Gnome to work on it then their job is done; everyone else will do the rest. It's not really worked out like that…
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Most patients began experiencing symptoms recently, from 2018 on, though one is believed to have had them as early as 2013.
What was it that started happening around 2013 but really blew up in 2018, and seems like it makes the brain devastated?
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Making vague statements in the form of questions?
I couldn't be too specific due to category.
I had not idea that systemd is that controversial.
What controversy? It's malware.
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From a couple weeks ago but I don't remember seeing it anywhere here:
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
if they port Gnome to work on it then their job is done
Of course, since Gnome is the only DE
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
if they port Gnome to work on it then their job is done
Of course, since Gnome is the only DE
And GTK is the only GUI toolkit in the world, yes.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
From a couple weeks ago but I don't remember seeing it anywhere here:
an elegant and aesthetically pleasing steel bridge
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
if they port Gnome to work on it then their job is done
Of course, since Gnome is the only DE
And GTK is the only GUI toolkit in the world, yes.
Well, RedHat want to make it so...
And who employs the systemd guys again?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
In Other Doggo News:
Proof that little dogs really are evil little shits.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
He said he had to leave the car at the side of a road, where someone broke in and stole the battery, catalytic converter and exhaust manifold.
But not the radio.
(Because those are all now theft-protected, I guess.)
Because they're all builtin. You want to replace that with a something different?
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
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Proof that little dogs really are evil little shits.
I think of them as brainless violence dots.
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Article @Dragoon linked in In other news today... said:
a 3D-printed metal structure strong enough to handle pedestrian traffic
But for how long, and what capacity?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Article @Dragoon linked in In other news today... said:
a 3D-printed metal structure strong enough to handle pedestrian traffic
But for how long, and what capacity?
It says. Pedestrian. An unsurprising capacity for a time that's nothing to write home about.
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@dcon Though to be fair, the radio nowadays is just a tiny part of the "infotainment" system, and making that whole system replaceable would require quite a lot of work from manufacturers, given how it integrates with everything else in the car.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@dcon Though to be fair, the radio nowadays is just a tiny part of the "infotainment" system, and making that whole system replaceable would require quite a lot of work from manufacturers, given how it integrates with everything else in the car.
That's certainly the kind of thinking that got us soldered in batteries. Maybe they made the cars 0.1mm thinner.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
@dcon Though to be fair, the radio nowadays is just a tiny part of the "infotainment" system, and making that whole system replaceable would require quite a lot of work from manufacturers, given how it integrates with everything else in the car.
That's certainly the kind of thinking that got us soldered in batteries. Maybe they made the cars 0.1mm thinner.
Tesla have that covered…
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
He said he had to leave the car at the side of a road, where someone broke in and stole the battery, catalytic converter and exhaust manifold.
But not the radio.
(Because those are all now theft-protected, I guess.)
Because they're all builtin. You want to replace that with a something different?
:Solved by CarPlay, AndroidAuto and Bluetooth.
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@Rhywden Yes, but no. I've already ranted about it but I've yet to see an app that is as seamlessly integrated with all car systems as the built-in one (which isn't to say that the built-in ones are good, just that they have access to more features).
For example (OK, it's not radio), Android Auto is (seemingly) unable to use the heads-up display of my car, so only the built-in satnav can make use of it, no other app can do that. The built-in satnav can also suggest nearby petrol stations when I'm low, which Android Auto can't do (that I'm aware of).
Again, I'm not saying the built-in satnav is better than all other satnav apps, but it's the only one that uses the HUD or accesses the petrol level.
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@remi Well, if you're talking about such highly integrated systems I'm not sure what you're expecting there. You want "easily replacable" and also "highly integrated". In my experience, those two never go hand in hand.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@dcon Though to be fair, the radio nowadays is just a tiny part of the "infotainment" system, and making that whole system replaceable would require quite a lot of work from manufacturers, given how it integrates with everything else in the car.
Not really, although it depends on the specific car. Most of the information shuffled around a car is on a CAN bus or similar, which the infotainment system taps into. And unless some of the controls go through the infotainment display unit, like in a Tesla, ripping out the infotainment system does not affect anything else.
And then there's cars like my Note, in which the radio is connected to absolutely nothing. I have to set the dashboard clock and radio clock separately.
And some Dacia models are sold without a radio entirely.
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@acrow I should probably also mention that there are strict standards for software security and reliability in equipment like cars, planes and medical equipment. And the only practical way to manage them with a large can of SOUP like the infotainment system is to decouple entertainment and graphics to the highest extent possible from the crucial parts that actually manage the engine and brakes.
Easiest way to do that is a read-only tap to the CAN bus, or a similar arrangement, which drops the criticality rating of the infotainment system from "must be shown to work absolutely correctly" to "nobody cares if it crashes".
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@remi Well, if you're talking about such highly integrated systems I'm not sure what you're expecting there. You want "easily replacable" and also "highly integrated". In my experience, those two never go hand in hand.
Thank you for making the exact point that I was initially making.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
@dcon Though to be fair, the radio nowadays is just a tiny part of the "infotainment" system, and making that whole system replaceable would require quite a lot of work from manufacturers, given how it integrates with everything else in the car.
That's certainly the kind of thinking that got us soldered in batteries. Maybe they made the cars 0.1mm thinner.
Tesla have that covered…
But not by their body panels; those have huge gaps all over the place
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
But not by their body panels; those have huge gaps all over the place
Only the ones that don't fall off.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
built-in satnav
On a bit of a tangent, my car is just a bit too old for Android Auto, and doesn't have its own satnav, but works ok with my phone on bluetooth. It connects automatically and I can either play whatever audio the car natively supports, or switch to BT Audio to play audio from my phone. Regardless of which mode I'm in, and even when the car's audio is turned off, if I get or make a phone call it'll go over the car speakers and dashboard mic (or wherever the mic is located). If I'm listening to something, it'll pause the track or mute the radio, and come back when the call is done.
When I'm using BT audio, I can have the music player and Waze/GMaps/other navigation software running at the same time, and Android is similarly intelligent enough to pause/quiet the audio while the nav gives directions. What I wish I could do is to listen to the car audio, but be able to use navigation on my phone and have it come through the car speakers. There shouldn't be any technical reason that that wouldn't work, but it's not supported.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@remi Well, if you're talking about such highly integrated systems I'm not sure what you're expecting there. You want "easily replacable" and also "highly integrated". In my experience, those two never go hand in hand.
See development of
intent
concept in UX. It stalled and went sideways BUT, was a bridge.
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A girl was walking down a street. A big truck passed by. The truck caught a phone cable that was hanging unusually low over the road, pulling down two utility poles. The girl is now missing a leg.
No article in English about it, unfortunately.
Prosecution is hard at work trying to pin the blame on the driver somehow.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
A girl was walking down a street. A big truck passed by. The truck caught a phone cable that was hanging unusually low over the road, pulling down two utility poles. The girl is now missing a leg.
No article in English about it, unfortunately.
Prosecution is hard at work trying to pin the blame on the driver somehow.
Damn, that's some solid regulatory capture.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Prosecution is hard at work trying to pin the blame on the driver somehow.
As opposed to city utilities maintenance?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Prosecution is hard at work trying to pin the blame on the driver somehow.
As opposed to city utilities maintenance?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Prosecution is hard at work trying to pin the blame on the driver somehow.
As opposed to city utilities maintenance?
As opposed to the telecom company that put the cable 3.5m above ground when the minimum is 4m. Fun fact: those two poles did get pulled before for the same reason a few years ago. But nobody was hurt then so nobody cared.
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First thought: "MTV turns 40? Happy Birthday!"
Second thought: "Wait, it's still around?"
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
MTV turns 40
Looking back at 15 years of music television.
Everything after is just noise.
:change my mind meme:
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Dutch truck driver takes part in "tea bag challenge":
YT copy of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cge1zClOrs
Seems they have spare time for the moment...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
MTV turns 40
Looking back at 15 years of music television.
Everything after is just noise.
:change my mind meme:
I was more thinking if timeless hit shows like Dismiss my mom, or Date the Kardashians.
But..
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Twitter CEO is getting into the loan shark game. Being named and shamed on twitter for defaulting on loan repayments is worth a shot.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/0/perseid-meteor-shower-2021-when-visible-uk-peak-time-watch/
Soon!
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Sanderson's already driven a stake through the heart of this. No need to raise it and suject it to more indignities.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Dutch truck driver takes part in "tea bag challenge":
I remember years ago, I stumbled upon an show on Italian TV that was dedicated to people accomplishing this kind of challenges (although usually within the confines of the TV studio).
One such challenge was managing to hold an egg between two locomotives. The egg was held at the right height by a support, next to a stopped wagon, and the locomotive inched up until the egg was held between the bumpers of the locomotive and wagon.
On the "live" challenge for TV, they failed to do it, but they showed a video of an earlier try where they had succeeded.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Sanderson's already driven a stake through the heart of this. No need to raise it and suject it to more indignities.
Obviously 11 (13? 15? who counts anymore?) 1000-pages books isn't long-enough to make a proper series of films. I mean, look at the Hobbit, they barely managed to turn 300 pages into 9 measly hours, so clearly they needed to create some material to make the Wheel of Time a worthwhile investment.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/0/perseid-meteor-shower-2021-when-visible-uk-peak-time-watch/
Soon!
IDGI but, I am in favor of rule-by-giant-sentient-dueling-snapdragon-dyad.
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I love that the fix is usually upgrade to the latest version. Is the security problem fixed? Don't know! Veracode hasn't being run on it yet.
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This is the main Prenda Law dude, and, well...
The U.S. Attorneys’ office further notes that the lawyer hasn’t stopped his controversial activity. He continues to sue alleged pirates from prison.
“Specifically, Mr. Hansmeier has continued, while incarcerated, to sue individuals for copyright infringement for downloading pornographic content that Mr. Hansmeier seeds on websites to attract downloaders,” the U.S. Attorney writes.