Seriously though, a stable API is not the GTK/GNOME developers' agenda here. Nobody wanting a stable API should write software with this toolkit. That said, if you're a true front end aficionado and you're looking to make your software look awesome every six months, GNOME has got you so covered like the chocolate on a peanut M&M.
For those wanting to write software that won't magically kerslode without yet another recompile (or heavily relying on your distro to do that dirty work) stick with KDE/Qt group. They tend to be less breaky each release.
For those not reading the story, which appears to be many, the company that services the implant went bankrupt. The implant was experimental. There exists no one to service it any longer. It will pose a health risk down the road without someone servicing it.
The only thing that forced her to have the implant removed is the fact that it would eventually lead to her untimely death if it remained in with no one to take care of the device.
I was there OP, I was there 3000 years ago before the great renaming, long before the eternal September. Fuck those bitches, defederate and be done with them. Assholes are eternally assholes and giving them an inch is just inviting them to take a mile.
Here's a philosophical topic called emergence. Every "one" thing said by an idiot is one thing, but when pretty much every other comment becomes some asshole saying ignorant things it suddenly is something entirely different.
I saw the very early Internet (mid-80s) and what happened when you gave people benefit of the doubt. There's been no demonstration that anyone has changed. So fuck those stupid assholes, the Internet is vast they can go carve out their own thing. That's the nice thing, they have every tool to make their own LOLverse. But they don't because they don't want to suck each other's dick, they want to be an ass to everyone else. Just as it was the case with talk.*
Same as it was, same as it ever will be. I for one am glad this time around people are being proactive. It shows that some have actually learned something.
See that's just small thinking. DEA gets tons of money to bust folks so that they can be arrested and made to work for free. That's why there's so much pumping drugs into communities either via the CIA or the more recent vogue method of making heroin a prescription drug that some family can profit off of.
The entire point of NOT helping drug abusers is so that we can maintain a steady stream of slave labor. Because we still haven't figured out how to do this whole society thing without a bunch of people in forced labor, or as some lawmakers like to say to make sound nicer, penal labor.
That's the entire point of the Prison-Industries Act of 1979. It's explicitly to create a legal slave labor under the 13th amendment so that states can have various industries be mostly worked by slave labor. When you make something that is a chemical addiction illegal, you create assurances for prisoners that will be in your slave labor. When you deny help for that chemical addiction and put the onus onto the users ("Well I guess you shouldn't have gotten addicted to a drug your doctor prescribed to you!") you've basically created a system that absolutely assures people will be finding their way back under your whip.
I cannot stress this enough, the United States is NOT interested in actually stopping drug abuse because we've woven that deeply into our very way of life. There are too many core things of modern society that rely on slave labor in this country. Anyone trying to "fix it" would unravel all of that. I mean SHIT, some rich white guy MIGHT not be able to buy their second yacht! Is this the society we want?
But seriously for a second, the US has a very messed up take on how to handle those who need help for drug addiction. And it is in ways that if we all had a better perspective on it, we'd be ashamed that we're still living like we're in the 1700s. The whole Sackler family, they didn't get away with it for so long just because the Government was sleeping at the wheel. They got away with it for so long because it was beneficial for a lot of people, one of them the prison industry. This country will look the other way on some serious shady shit as long as it drives a profit. The Housing market crash, opioid epidemic, climate change, and so on. Anyone want to count on one hand how many people have faced prison for those things? Our country is way more fucked up than just some law enforcement budget, but yeah, 100% and more what you said.
I mean that's a Thursday pretty much in today's world. And the whole cost of labor thing, I mean it's not like we don't have prisoners who we can force to do labor for people. Or like we don't have Arkansas that's making child labor cool again. We don't really have to worry about insurance or crap like that anymore because we've create FSAs so now if you don't have enough money to cover your heart attack, well that's your fault. And we've got 401(k) so if you can't retire, that's also your fault.
And I kid about that. But not really. The only reason the cost would jump up is because the whole shifting production to the US is a great excuse for the CEOs to jack the price up and buy their third yacht. But seriously we can totally move production to the US and it actually cost less, the "Oh it'll cost more!" is some bullshit that's pandered around by rich white assholes and some folks buy into it. People like to say we have to pay people $100/hr or whatever BS, but we have to pay them that because we jacked up the price of food and housing. And we jacked those things up because fuckers like to speculate in those things and make massive profit off of the paper at the expense of your average person having to pay more.
Like whatever you've got as the justification for why we need to pay more in the US, all of those reasons end with "because some rich asshole wanted to become richer" and if we got rid of the asshole we wouldn't have nearly the cost we've got already.
A federal judge in Texas has stopped the state’s ban on drag performances, which was scheduled to go into place Friday, enforcing a temporary injunction on the measure in a win for LGBTQ rights advocates....
Protecting minors must come with it protections for fundamental rights. This is what these legislators consistently forget.
It’s not enough in law to just say “you cannot do something vulgar in front of kids.” Law requires more explicit language. I get a “particular group” tends to dislike 100 page bills, but that is what is required.
Broad language allows interpretation in ways that actually violate free speech. And when one attempts to promote protection at the expense of freedom courts see that as a pretextual basis for just robbing people of their rights.
The conservative groups that so want to “protect children” if they actually sought that as a goal, then their proposals for that protection would actually contain language that took effort to write. Instead they weakly pitch these two or three page laws that are easily dismissed as gross violations of basic rights.
And ultimately that’s how you can see that those who are truly conservative and those who represent them are vastly different. The ones getting elected don’t even try to make comprehensive law, they put out a paltry effort, collect their check, and complain about judges. These representatives are pathetic at doing the job they indicate they so passionately advocate.
That said, plenty wrong with conservatism in general but that’s been covered to death by others before me. But if I was a conservative I would be pissed at SB12’s weak language and that this outcome from the courts was a forgone conclusion for such a shoddy piece of legislation.
German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia....
I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?
This is one of those in general vs in particular things.
In general, yes coal is way more expensive versus renewable energy. In this particular instance, they’re just expanding the site, all of the really expensive stuff like logistics and transportation are already paid.
This is the same reason just keeping old nuclear plants running is cheaper than building a new one. Each industry has expensive parts and cheap parts. If you’re doing something that only expands the cheap parts then you’ll be able to beat out competitors.
Former president tells Glenn Beck he would have ‘no choice’ but to lock up opponents ‘because they’re doing it to us’
Do you think… Do you think there’s even a light bulb in there any more? Clearly the lights are not on but I think someone has just run off with the copper in the walls at this point.
Right?! I’m like, if the workers actually get fair pay at the end of the day, then it’s easily worth 1000x more damage to the economy.
I’m tired of this fucking thing we’ve all collectively worked on to build called the US economy only producing a handful of billionaires and shitting on everyone else. It’s high time the bottom rung on these ladders gets something other than the nonexistent trickle down.
Tainted kernels are not supported. Kernel devs aren't spending time to fix bugs that come from a taint (uses blobs of code that are not open sourced) driver. Because the closed drivers can wreck all kinds of havoc and the kernel devs are helpless to fix the actual "source" of the problem.
There's been all kinds of ways for the kernel to detect tainted binaries. nVidia is notorious for trying to circumvent that detection so that engineers can sit there and blame the kernel for failures.
nVidia has been a massively shit company to the open source community. If I had a list of most anti FOSS companies to ever exist, nVidia would be right behind SCO, with like TiVo behind nVidia. I know it's hard but people who enjoy open source projects shouldn't do business with the company. But if you got to have a nVidia card so be it, but I cannot NOT recommend nVidia enough.
Previous studies have suggested that GFAP expression might decrease in early stages of some neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or in younger patients with depression disorders.
So Alzheimer’s or depression, eh? So if I have chronic depression am I safe from Alzheimer’s or am I going to be depressed and constantly forgetting my medication?
Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich. He's best known as the creator of JavaScript from his days at Netscape Communications
Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich. He's best known as the creator of JavaScript from his days at Netscape Communications
I mean, JS is his baby that's all there needs to be said about the person's motivations.
A lot of lawyering is done automatically at this point. 30,000 emails at a page each email can be digested and have relevant information produced within a half hour.
Packages like Litify, Lawmatics, and Clio exist to move terabytes of data into five page summaries in about two to three hours if you have the right analyst working it.
Law offices complain like this to see if the judge will give them some extra time because extra time is extra time, but something like 10TB for complex business cases is pretty normal run of the mill stuff for some of the top tier analysis software.
Millions of pages just sounds big if you try doing by hand, but no law office at this level has some paralegal or team of paralegals trying to run through millions of Excel spreadsheets or emails. Law offices have long since left that whole error prone approach.
Given what’s been said about the data so far, even in the most complex situation, two weeks tops for any software product worth its salt to chew through all of it and have a solid foundation to what’s being presented.
Shit like this has been automated for like the last fifteen almost twenty years now. So many people think automation coming to kill all the jobs, man most people don’t even realize how many it’s already killed.
In the end Samsung would owe Apple around $500 million in US courts and Apple lost (a value I'm not even going to sit here and add up) in international courts.
The whole US snafu was largely seen around the world as American protectionism. As for Apple and Google, Apple saw their case wasn't as slam dunk internationally and decided to settle with Google in 2014.
Really though, once Steve Jobs died, the momentum for litigation dropped precipitously. Only Jobs was willing to go thermonuclear.
"Quite often, you come up with great ideas, but when we are all on Zoom, it's really hard," Yuan said, according to Insider. "We cannot have a great conversation. We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call."
This is what I keep telling everyone about with my regimen of Lexapro and whiskey but oh no, something, something substance abuse, something, something liver failure.
Just 48 hours before the first day of school, the Arkansas Department of Education announced that Advanced Placement African American Studies wouldn’t count towards graduation. They said they’re reviewing the course for possible indoctrination....
So you don’t have to fear “IF” this is evil, evil indoctrination because you can read it for yourself and come to a conclusion. ALL. ON. YOUR. OWN! Shocker! Something, apparently, the governor cannot be bothered with.
Like I get the sentiment here but the height of the pandemic was wild. There were some folk "just talking" trying to make a quick dime hawking things and thoughts that were getting folks killed.
Locally to me, we had Phil Valentine who was big in the "I'm just saying this whole thing is a big hoax" all the way up till he drowned in his own fluid filling up his lungs. How embarrassing. And you know if you call the local talk radio now and mention his name, they just hang up on you, because they want to act like Mr. Valentine didn't happen.
So yeah, there were a few social networks a little too eager to please the government. But at the same time, we had some folks "just talking" about something that went from nothing to the third leading cause of death in less than a year.
So I think it's worthwhile to mention those "free speech" folks like Herman Cain and Phil Valentine that some like to conveniently skip over.
One of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in a wide-ranging election-fraud case in Georgia remained behind bars on Friday, after he told a judge that he could not afford a private attorney to represent him and was denied bond....
State of Georgia: Qualifications for a public defender are based on personal income. A public defender is typically reserved for those having an income of 125% the poverty line or less in the State of Georgia.
The notion that he requires "out-of-state" representation is likely because his crew (Trump et al.) are trying to railroad a particular counsel for him. The reasons for that can vary, but the rationale aside, the crew seems unwilling to finance representation for him.
The Judge in this case seems unsympathetic to the development, which I would say good. These cretins have routinely abused the judicial system with their unfounded election fraud cases, none of them should be given benefit of the doubt. The more prosecutors splinter the crew, the more likely they'll have someone turning State's evidence.
After reading out some statistics from the deadly Hawaii wildfires, they played a clip from a member of the Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative youth activist organisation, who said climate was the number one issue for young people....
Actually 127 years ago. Svante Arrhenius published a paper indicating that creating so much CO2 could potentially alter the Earth’s surface temperature to such a degree that it may affect life.
That was in 1896 about 130 years after the start of the industrial revolution. So by that point we had a pretty significant amount of CO2 in the air already.
Human beings have been dumping CO2 into the atmosphere hard for the last quarter of a millennia. I usually bring this up because people need to understand, even if we stop today 100%, we’ve got at least five centuries of a problem on our hands. Because it’s going to take at least twice as long to clean things up as it did making the mess.
And that should help people understand how difficult a problem we have because we need a solution that can work for us for 500 years at least. I mean we’re doing nothing right now which is just making the problem worse, but solutions aren’t ever going to be a one and done thing. Just swapping over to solar or just driving EVs aren’t going to cut it. It’s a good start but we must reinvent all of human society on this planet for the next half millennia to actually solve the problem. That is the actual task that lies before humanity. There has never been a more complex challenge put before mankind ever in the history of all existence for Homo Sapiens.
Just FYI for semantics. Generics is a term usually for small molecular weight compounds, usually under 900 daltons. Biosimilars is the term for higher molecular weight.
Doing generics is a lot simpler than biosimilars, in both you must wait for the patient to run out. But biosimilars are less likely to be made using an alternative process than the original trade secret process. This is due in part to the higher molecular weight which means a more complex compound.
Correction. Excel DOES NOT HAVE PYTHON. Your python is sent to Microsoft's cloud instance of Python and the result there is sent back to your Excel sheet. No actual python is being executed on your machine.
It’s not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes....
This sounds no different than the static analysis tools we’ve had for COBOL for some time now.
The problem isn’t a conversion of what may or may not be complex code, it’s taking the time to prove out a new solution.
I can take any old service program on one of our IBM i machines and convert it out to Java no problem. The issue arises if some other subsystem that relies on that gets stalled out because the activation group is transient and spin up of the JVM is the stalling part.
Now suddenly, I need named activation and that means I need to take lifetimes into account. Static values are now suddenly living between requests when procedures don’t initial them. And all of that is a great way to start leaking data all over the place. And when you suddenly start putting other people’s phone numbers on 15 year contracts that have serious legal ramifications, legal doesn’t tend to like that.
It isn’t just enough to convert COBOL 1:1 to Java. You have to have an understanding of what the program is trying to get done. And just looking at the code isn’t going to make that obvious. Another example, this module locks a data area down because we need this other module to hit an error condition. The restart condition for the module reloads it into a different mode that’s appropriate for the process which sends a message to the guest module to unlock the data area.
Yes, I shit you not. There is a program out there doing critical work where the expected execution path is to on purpose cause an error so that some part of code in the recovery gets ran. How many of you think an AI is going to pick up that context?
The tools back then were limited and so programmers did all kinds of hacky things to get particular things done. We’ve got tools now to fix that, just that so much has already been layered on top of the way things work right now. Pair with the whole, we cannot buy a second machine to build a new system and any new program must work 99.999% right out of the gate.
COBOL is just a language, it’s not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is the expectation. These systems run absolutely critical functions that just simply cannot fail. Trying to foray into Java or whatever language means we have to build a system that doesn’t have 45 years worth of testing that runs perfectly. It’s just not a realistic expectation.
IBM hawks new conversion tools all the time. None of them are amazing sliver bullets, all of them require humans to comb over the resulting output. And every single one I’ve ever used chokes on any weird case.
From the RPG fixed form to free form, DDS to DDL conversion, and so on all of them are usually more trouble to use than to not use.
IBM does this kind of stuff all the time. And for some folks it’ll work some of the times. But at this point, I just skip any WS tool they put out and have a snippet on RDi and RDz that does all the required plugging away to call web services from the COBOL module.
For those who have never worked on legacy systems. Any one who suggests “we’ll fix it in post” is asking you to do something that just CANNOT happen.
The systems I code for, if something breaks, we’re going to court over it. Not, oh no let’s patch it real quick, it’s your ass is going to be cross examined on why the eff your system just wrote thousands of legal contracts that cannot be upheld as valid.
Yeah, that fix it in post shit any article, especially this one that’s linked, suggests should be considered trash that has no remote idea how deep in shit one can be if you start getting wild hairs up your ass for changing out parts of a critical system.
Several aftershocks greater than magnitude-3.0 followed earthquake near Ojai, about 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles on the same day a tropical storm hit Southern California for the first time in decades.
Anecdote: The local high school I see nearly no one using the built in text messaging system. WhatsApp is the thing I see most often. Quite a few use Signal.
I have even heard once that, "You use iMessage to text your parents or your FBI agent."
So you may be on to something. But obvious YMMV in general.
They could break the system from the bottom but for whatever reason aren't.
Comfort. The system as it is, is predictable. Not just the voting public but members of Congress too. Good example the FED rate. At any point Congress could have put forth fiscal policy to address the looming monetary situation that quantitative easing was very clearly bringing. But they didn't because no one wanted to be the group that ended the party. Because what would happen if they implemented policy and then poof, slow down of the economy or inflation?
But of course we know what happened. No fiscal policy got implemented and basically we kept riding that gravy train till it was completely untenable. Then monetary policy had to be implemented. Then came a massive spike in inflation. Congress was so scared to implement any kind of policy that they basically ensured the thing they didn't want happening.
Then you've got folks like Senator Elizabeth Warren trying to blame the FED chairman and it is like, "No, you're inaction Senator is why the FED chairman must do the things he must do. All 100 of you are culpable in this, you all sat there and did nothing."
But of course one brings this up and some folks want to try and hijack it like "See both sides!" Or you get "No the other team is much worse!" And the reality is, most members of Congress are just too sheepish to implement any kind of bold policy. Because what if it doesn't work? There's the obvious bunch that are seen most often in the news, but there's way more members than the ones that seek out face time on the TV. And those are the majority.
The majority of Congress just wants to push the button they're told to push, collect their paycheck, and move on. And that is why we see no motion. The polarization is the visible figureheads battling it out, but the real culprit is indifference and a desire to maintain the comfortable world that has known qualities. Very rarely is actual original thought obtained in the US Congress.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Roblox Corporation, accusing the developer of facilitating "an illegal gambling ecosystem" and violating a federal law.
The complaint was signed by Chief Inspector Slowpoke
Extensions in GNOME 45 - New import system is not backwards compatible (blogs.gnome.org)
By now it is probably no longer news to many: GNOME Shell moved from GJS’ own custom imports system to standard JavaScript modules (ESM)....
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will (futurism.com)
Defediverse (lemmy.ml)
EDIT: no, I don’t sympathize with nazis (neither I sympathize with those who call everyone nazi when they’re losing an argument ;)
Mexico says, ‘No way,’ as Trump, others vow to send U.S. military to fight cartels (www.spokesman.com)
Texas federal judge halts state’s drag ban (thehill.com)
A federal judge in Texas has stopped the state’s ban on drag performances, which was scheduled to go into place Friday, enforcing a temporary injunction on the measure in a win for LGBTQ rights advocates....
I'm a walking stereotype. (lemmy.ml)
Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com)
German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia....
Alabama lawmaker arrested on voter fraud charge (abcnews.go.com)
An Alabama legislator was arrested Tuesday on felony voter fraud charges accusing him of voting in a district where he did not live....
Donald Trump vows to lock up political enemies if he returns to White House (www.theguardian.com)
Former president tells Glenn Beck he would have ‘no choice’ but to lock up opponents ‘because they’re doing it to us’
Hollywood strikes to cost US economy $5 billion-plus amid lost wages, film delays (finance.yahoo.com)
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)
what do we live for? (sh.itjust.works)
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour (www.sustainableplastics.com)
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
U.S. government hits Bankman-Fried and attorneys with 4 million pages of discovery. His lawyers argue that the government is overwhelming their client, without allowing him to prepare for court. (cryptoslate.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2935925...
Zoom CEO says workers can't build trust or unite... on Zoom (www.theregister.com)
Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'bring back Twitter' (www.pcgamer.com)
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from (lemm.ee)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/5636484...
Zoom CEO says Zoom meetings hinder innovation and debate, wants employees back in the office (www.zdnet.com)
The irony is not lost on us.
Happiness (i.imgur.com)
Here smell my armpit (lemmy.ml)
Arkansas drops AP African American Studies course (www.ualrpublicradio.org)
Just 48 hours before the first day of school, the Arkansas Department of Education announced that Advanced Placement African American Studies wouldn’t count towards graduation. They said they’re reviewing the course for possible indoctrination....
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Trump co-defendant remains in jail after telling judge he cannot afford private lawyer (www.reuters.com)
One of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in a wide-ranging election-fraud case in Georgia remained behind bars on Friday, after he told a judge that he could not afford a private attorney to represent him and was denied bond....
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Republican debate: What they said (and didn't say) about climate (www.bbc.com)
After reading out some statistics from the deadly Hawaii wildfires, they played a clip from a member of the Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative youth activist organisation, who said climate was the number one issue for young people....
CVS pushes into making cheaper versions of complex drugs with new discount Humira (www.cnbc.com)
CVS Health is partnering with drugmaker Sandoz to produce a near identical version of the blockbuster arthritis treatment Humira....
Microsoft Brings Python Programming To Excel, Enabling Advanced Data Analysis (www.benzinga.com)
My wife didn’t understand why I got so excited reading this article.
The New Moon-Landing Club (lemmy.world)
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin feared dead after Russia plane crash (www.bbc.co.uk)
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia’s civil aviation authority has said....
[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java (techcrunch.com)
It’s not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes....
Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel (www.theverge.com)
Top tier medical advice. (feddit.uk)
🤓🤓🤓 rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Magnitude-5.1 earthquake in Ventura County shakes parts of Southern California (www.nbclosangeles.com)
Several aftershocks greater than magnitude-3.0 followed earthquake near Ojai, about 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles on the same day a tropical storm hit Southern California for the first time in decades.
‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones (www.wsj.com)
(unpaywalled version on archive.today: archive.ph/03cwZ)...
Joe Biden’s DOJ Is Claiming “There Is No Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate” (jacobin.com)
Rule (lemmy.world)
Roblox accused of facilitating "illegal gambling ring" for minors (www.gamesindustry.biz)