Seems like a bit of a waste to launch an intercontinental missile at a country next door, on the same continent. Isn’t Russia supposed to have plenty of short and mid range ballistic missiles? I guess they must be running low.

I was under the impression that ICBMs weren’t all that great for conventional warheads. Their payload capacity isn’t enormous and their accuracy tends to be relatively low- which matters not a jot if you’re firing nukes (which do a lot of bang per kilo, and where a few hundred metres either way isn’t likely to be critical), but not so great for dropping normal munitions.

and/or EU

I can’t see the EU revoking access to Galileo just because Trump says so.

A plastic nob is cheaper than a touchscreen, yes. But if you’ve already got a touchscreen as part of the design anyway (for things like satnav or car maintenance data), it’s cheaper to not include any other buttons or inputs and to bundle them all up into one interface.

I looked at Dino and another one mentioned here and they look dated. Windows 95 feel with better anti-aliasing, rounder corners, but same colors? Gtk 2 or something?

Looks like a standard GTK4 app to me. Whether or not that is to someone’s tastes is obviously subjective, but it uses the same design language as every other GTK app under the sun.

GTK apps always look out of place on Windows though. Looks far more sensible in its native environment (i.e. *nix running GNOME).

Having data means nothing if you can’t monetize it.

As you say, AI can already access it all completely for free with nothing more complicated than a web crawler. Long term, charging AI firms for access is not a viable strategy unless the law changes.

And they’ve been trying for years to monetize visitors through advertising and other schemes, and so far come up consistently short.

What a bizarre coincidence; that’s exactly what I came on to post!

Finished Red Mars a few weeks ago, started Green Mars a couple of days ago. I’d never read any Kim Stanley Robinson before, and I’m enjoying it so far.

Any other recommendations from your award-winners reading list?

To be fair, there are (or were) lots of distros downstream of RHEL marketing themselves as drop-in replacements, not just Oracle. And this move isn’t likely to stop Oracle (and the rest), only make the transition experience less smooth for clients (ultimately all the downstream distros can just rebase off of CentOS Stream instead; they lose “bug for bug” compatibility, but will still largely be drop-in replacements).

I also find it hard to muster any sympathy for IBM of all people, even when their opponent is Oracle (who are the lowest of the low).

We can’t immediately convert all cars to EV, we don’t have the grid capacity or enough charging stations, yet.

Well sure, but there’s no suggestion of converting “all cars” to EVs “immediately”. Even if ICE cars were banned for new sales tomorrow, it’d still take a decade and more for the existing rolling stock to gradually be replaced by new vehicles.

A 10 year period for utility companies to gradually upgrade their infrastructure doesn’t sound desperately unrealistic.

They started selling them in the UK this year, and I’ve already started to see them on the road. They claim to be on track for around 30,000 sales per year in the country, which would put them at about half of the number of Teslas sold (about 60,000).

Why are people buying them? Well, the same reason people buy any car. They’re sold with a relatively high trim for a relatively affordable price, and they’re reviewing well with the auto press. It’s not like there’s any magic to it. China’s a cheap manufacturing country, and they’re undoubtedly willing to throw profit margins to the wolves to boost market share.

Slaps ocean; this baby practically desalinates itself!

If it’s something I think I’m going to reread, sure. If it’s something to complete a collection where I already own volumes, maybe.

I read a lot of books from my local library. But like all underfunded local libraries, the selection is rather hit and miss; there are quite a few examples of series where they don’t have the complete set. If I continue the series past what they have, I need to buy them. On a few occasions, I’ve gone back to buy the ones that I’ve already read just because it pains me to own a partial series.

But in general, I buy fewer books than I used to. Partly because money isn’t as free and easy as it used to be, partly because my house is already full of books and I can’t just keep buying them until I’m buried alive.

It’s all a bit chicken-and-egg. The more people that use a public transport network, the more economic it becomes to put on more frequent services and additional routes. A town of 100k people is more than enough to sustain a pretty comprehensive public transport network, if most of them are using it. But obviously if most people don’t use it, those that do are stuck with whatever can be made to work.

I have no problem running PWAs for things, but I’m not an enormous fan of the Lemmy default browser interface either. It’s not terrible, but currently I think Jerboa is better than it (just), and I’m keen to see other developers improve further on it. Some of the Reddit third party apps were very polished and feature-rich (compared to both Reddit’s first party apps, Lemmy’s first party interface, and Jerboa), so something of that calibre would be gratefully received.

There’s an argument to be made that (because of the structure of Lemmy) new interfaces could and should be integrated with the main codebase as themes rather than as genuine third party API consumers, but from an end-user perspective that doesn’t really make a difference either way.

Somebody’s also forking/resurrecting Lemmur. I believe they’re currently settled on “Lemmynade” as the new name.

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/3026

https://github.com/zachatrocity/lemmynade