Apparently it’s a suspended sentence and they are not in custody, so no prison time will happen. Just business as usual for the exploiters.

I don’t understand how people get these ideas, except that they live on a diet of propaganda. Conservatives never help anyone except themselves.

It’ll make the sea nice and thick.

Poilievre’s Conservatives are an awful option and will only further harm the country. But they are winning the propaganda war at the moment, with many people somehow convinced they have something to offer. It’s the usual right-wing fearmongering and scapegoating as a distraction from real issues they have no plan or intention to address. But once the right wing media machine starts to do its work it’s hard to see others catching back up again.

KDE Plasma is so much more snappy and functional than Windows. Linux has lots of good options.

I wouldn’t expect it to benchmark well, but it’s good that they’re making this available so developers can explore RISC-V on a good quality platform.

They’re letting one run for President too.

Why compromise? Use 1-bit IP addresses.

It is the first time that no money will be allocated for arts and culture programs by the state.

Republicans are well on the way to building their dream theocratic wasteland.

It says something about the modern world that some of us read the headline and thought, “Oh, have the Nazis reached that stage already?”

I agree, reducing meat consumption is all heading in a helpful direction. But I do get a bit irritated by how every mention of the word “vegan” triggers someone to pop up saying “Here’s why I’m not a vegan.” It seems defensive, irrelevant, and a bit self-centred. So I wouldn’t assume all the downvotes reflect vegan purism.

It’s surprising how often “pro-life” people turn out to be pro-choice when pressed a little on the realities of people’s lives. They seem to maintain the pro-life stance only through a refusal to think about difficult situations - which makes no sense since the whole debate is precisely about difficult situations.

And they commonly just don’t seem to understand what pro-choice means. They think it means being someone who just loves abortions and thinks they’re great and unproblematic and everyone should get one. They don’t realize there are no such people, because they’ve never actually asked and listened, or given it any thought.

The last Windows that had any MS-DOS in it was Windows ME, a quarter of a century ago. Everything since then has run on the NT kernel.

“We will not tolerate individuals using masks to evade responsibility for criminal or threatening behavior,” Hochul said on Thursday, adding that “on a subway, people should not be able to hide behind a mask to commit crimes”.

Maybe she should consider addressing the committing crimes part instead of the wearing masks part.

A Nantucket home listed last summer for just over $2 million sold early this year for just $600,000. A barely remarkable Nor’easter in the fall wiped away an astounding 70 feet of the beach it sits on, thanks to sea level rise and unusually intense rainfall.

The buyer told The Boston Globe, “the price mitigates the risk to a good degree.”

I guess these houses are not insurable, so there are people for whom losing a $600,000 house is just “oh well, it was fun while it lasted.” Or maybe when the sea reaches the back door this guy will be able to sell it to someone with the same attitude and $200,000.

That’s unfair. Conservatism is also about personal selfishness.

My favorite Windows drag-and-drop feature is that if ever I drag a file over the left pane of Explorer on its way to another window, the whole thing freezes up for a minute or so. I think it’s polling all the network drives just in case I might decide to drop it there, and since my NAS is turned off (it broke) it just waits until the connection times out. Of course in traditional Microsoft style this locks up the UI thread. I have to remember to drag everything off to the right and then go around.

Naming different things identically is a thing Microsoft loves to do. I still keep opening Teams or Teams instead of Teams. And I think there are at least three things on my PC called Copilot, and they haven’t even released Copilot yet.

The only moral abortion is my abortion

I guess they say it each time they’re caught not prioritizing security. Then back to management as usual, prioritizing bullshit new features and marketing over security and bug fixes.